TOWN OF FUTURE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 460, 18 June 1937, Page 2

TOWN OF FUTURE

SCALE MODEL BUILT Raised Motor Roads (By Air Mail.) Donclon, May 25. A -town of the future where children eLn walk to school without, crossing a road has been planned by eighteen senior students of the Architectural Association S.chool of Planning and Research in London. A model has been built to scale of a -town wi-.h 50,000 inhabitants. The centre strip of the town is occupied by adininiis’ji'ative buildings, one big store, a commercial building housing all banks and insurance oftices, a civic -theatre, cinemas, and two concert hal'i. Every has flower beds and green i* <ches. On either side of the centre slirip are ten or fourteen-st:orey blocks of flats with balconies. Underneath raised roads are pedesJ trian footpaths and cycle tracks. A n.ijn could walk .from one end of the town to the other wkhout crossing a busy ijoad. Flanking the flats on either side I and further out towards the country i are housing centres, aceominodating ' mostly families of four to six people. There are some de belied houses. Each row of forty4.wo houses has a service road for cars, a communal playing field besides their own gardens. | Industries are kept apart, n.Rar to ’ the residential centres. A main road runs ' round the town —’bjuiu not through it—on which all heavy transport for the factories is carried. There are comparlatively few roads in this town. Pedestrians never walk across a motor road, only an occasional cycle track. Mr. A. E. Rows?, principal of the school, said: “I think -there niay be such towns as this one in 1950, or at any rate work in (that direction should have been started by then.”