A New Jerusalem: from a Tonic to the Nation to New Towns
Post-war gardens series by Gardens Trust. As part of the New Jerusalem, Clement Attlee's post-war government planned a series of 'new towns of the future with blocks of flats, American-style highways and flyovers and a strict separation of the new city into different zones for housing. leisure and industry'. As Maxwell Fry declared 'The new Britain must be Planned'. But where were the landscape architects and garden designers in all this? The contributions of these professionals, first intimated in the Festival of Britain of 1951, and the influences they absorbed from the United States and Europe will be considered in this talk by garden historian Kate Harwood.
Time: 10:00 GMT
