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[hirez]

(Via the Viable Paradise mail-list)

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/11/11.001j/f01/lectureimages/6/image5.html

'Garden cities of to-morrow.' Featuring children's cottage homes the far side of the allotments, a farm for epileptics, more allotments and industrial schools for industrial people the wrong side of the railway tracks.

A lovely idea, and no more mad than Le Corbusier's Radiant City that I was looking at this time last week.

They had a crack at the idea with places like Letchworth and Welwyn, and I think on a smaller scale with Hampstead Garden Suburb. It still seems to me that they don't quite work as places (I shall start waving 'The geography of nowhere' and demanding an updated edition), if only because they've become dormitories for London where all the good gigs and strange shops are to be found.

(Oh and: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/11/11.001j/f01/lectureimages/6/image14.html is certainly not July '01. I'd guess an October afternoon in 1973, myself.)

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Farm for Epileptics. featuring the eco-friendly threshing machine - Corn in one end, strobe light in the other and epis in the middle.