Motopia – what are we waiting for?

'Designer Geoffrey Jellicoe (in glasses)...' – click the pic below for a video.



Here's a great Pathe News clip of Jellicoe proudly showing off his Pilkington Glass model of Motopoia, 50s experimental town design, where the roads are on the roofs of a grid of buildings, each overlooking park quads. His book, Motopia, is brilliant and quite bizarre, jumping around through history making lots of not terribly joined-up points but illustrating them with beautiful illustrations. Here's one by Gordon Cullen of Motopia's residents.

Pilkington sponsored many other experimental design concepts in the postwar period too, such as High Market, a million square ft shopping platform connecting hills near Dudley. Incredible stuff.