A Look to the Future (1963)
Here's an extract from one of Michael Calthrop's 1963 BBC schools programmes on town planning, A Look to the Future. This extract focusses on the building of Route 11 and the pedway in the City of London, and the very early stages of the Barbican.
The programme focussed on York, Edinburgh, Oldham and London, and featured planner Percy Johnson-Marshall (who oversaw the Lansbury Estate for the LCC for the Festival of Britain) and critic Lewis Mumford (author of The City in History), neither of whom, sadly, are in this clip.
What we have here is short and sweet. A dashingly handsome presenter, some glass curtain walls in pristine condition, and some streets in the sky in their radical heyday.
The programme focussed on York, Edinburgh, Oldham and London, and featured planner Percy Johnson-Marshall (who oversaw the Lansbury Estate for the LCC for the Festival of Britain) and critic Lewis Mumford (author of The City in History), neither of whom, sadly, are in this clip.
What we have here is short and sweet. A dashingly handsome presenter, some glass curtain walls in pristine condition, and some streets in the sky in their radical heyday.
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