Scotland's New Towns (1969)

Made as the final Scottish new town of Irvine was getting underway, here's a film from 1969 showing the development of East Kilbride, Cumbernauld, Glenrothes and Livingston.

The film itself is your average trot through the history of postwar new towns, showing different aspects of the developments, from roads, houses and shopping centres to industry, leisure facilities and schools. But it contains glorious footage of the modern designs when they were new, including Cumbernauld's famous central area.

Well worth a watch if you have 20 minutes, it's a fascinating and sunny glimpse of the kind of modern world that planners, architects and politicians were hoping to build in the sixties.

 You can see the film here.

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