Britain's New Towns. An Experiment in Living

To those living in the little towns and villages where a new town is sited, it is the end of the pleasant surround­ings they love. To the pioneer residents of a new town, it is little more than a sea of mud in which they live in surroundings devoid of all amenities. To those trying to bring up a young family in a crowded nineteenth-century tenement with their in-laws, it is a dream. To youngsters being brought up in a new town with green fields always in sight or just round the corner, it is a wide horizon. To business men looking for new premises, it is a proposi­tion. To those charged with the building of it, it is a challenge.
There are so many ways of looking at new towns that it is not surprising that there has been-and is-so much controversy about them. Not only are there many opinions: individuals' opinions change with circum­stances. What was once a sea of mud looks ten years later `like a documentary'.