BBC Town Planning Programme circa 1961

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Uploaded by on Sep 5, 2007

The BBC look at the development of The Barbican area in London and the future of housing and town planning. This film print is currently for sale on ebay.

I collect old television and radio material, so if you'd like to see more of this, get in touch.

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  • This is back in the days when planning had some honor, some duty. Nowdays its just facilitating the whims of developers. I was a town planner for 10 years. I hated every single day of it. They teach you great theory but when you're out there its a load of shit. You're a punching bag for developers. Shit profession.

  • And the mistakes of the past were made.And are being made yet again.

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  • @oclandestin When these were being constructed people hated the outdated victorian housing and structures. Maybe these 60s development will come full structure? Park Hill flats in Sheffield for example.

  • @Stealthkeys77 I know exactly what you mean, the prime example being a the white shed's of Tesco being flung up mindlessly in the middle of town centre's everywhere now with absolutely appalling aesthetics and even worse planning for how they fit into the surroundings.

  • @Rydo182 .... you may laugh but its true. Town planners the world over are being "conned" into a profession which is marketed as one thing and turns out to be the exact oposite. Universities MUST come clean and teach the field of urban planning in a way that is not pressured by development consortiums in order to merely "entice" apsiring graduates to the profession when really they should teach students about he VALUE of community and the VALUE of balancing environment with development.

  • @sebbbo77

    really? naww im studying an undergrad in planning. baahhhrrr.

  • @sebbbo77 I pissed myself laughing at this so much. Just the last sentence. LMAO!

  • I love the 'psychedelic music'

  • What an interesting clip. Thanks for sharing it. Designers/ planners so full of certainty about their visions for future urban living. It must be gutting for them to look back at how negative all these concrete 1960s developments have been. I guess the Barbican has managed to be a success, but even then, who would want a city full of Barbicans today?

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