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Chapter 3 – Part four: A central metropolitan block

The second study: partial redevelopment: 336

 Novermber 1963    The Buchanan Report    Chapter 3iv  
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We wanted to make this a more realistic exercise, with redevelopment of a kind that might be possible given full co-operation from owners and developers

Introduction to second study

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We next decided to see what the consequences would be of a stipulation that the buildings of architectural and historic interest should be preserved, and that the redevelopment should be capable of being carried out by different developers in stages as a phased operation. We wanted to make this a more realistic exercise, with redevelopment of a kind that might be possible given full co-operation from owners and developers. We decided, however, to go back ten years in time for our starting date, in order to avoid the embarrassment of the various new buildings in the area. These, all examples of piecemeal redevelopment, do in truth, effectively ruin the real chances of comprehensive rebuilding in the study area, and hence of dealing adequately with traffic (Figure 188).

Fig. 187 Buildings proposed for retention in the partial redevelopment study.
Fig. 187 Buildings proposed for retention in the partial redevelopment study.
Fig. 188 Sites which were available after the war and which could have been used to enable a start to be made on comprehensive redevelopment. Most have now been redeveloped piecemeal fashion, and the chances for radical change have largely gone.
Fig. 188 Sites which were available after the war and which could have been used to enable a start to be made on comprehensive redevelopment. Most have now been redeveloped piecemeal fashion, and the chances for radical change have largely gone.
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