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Motopia

Author
Ewan Cameron
Published
Mon 12 May 2025
Episode Link
https://shows.acast.com/brave-new-worlds/episodes/6821d76227cd622638c2d2d4

In 1959, a British landscape designer, town planner and architect named Geoffrey Jellicoe dreamed up a town of tomorrow. He called it Motopia.


It imagined a radically different version of the British town. His big idea: a city built of glass where roads travelled across the tops of buildings.


Artist, writer, curator and educator Will Jennings joins to discuss Jellicoe's design. We talk about why it was never built, the New Towns Movement and whether Britain has lost the ability to think creatively about town planning.


head to www.recessed.space, a really great project edited by Will.


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