The vision for Milton Keynes

By Zoë Blackler Zoë Blackler Zoë Blackler 2007-07-30T11:21:00

Aerial perspective of how Central Milton Keynes would look by the year 1990

Forty years ago, with the country facing a growing housing crisis, plans began to build a new forest city in rural Buckinghamshire. As the utopian vision for Milton Keynes took shape, the German artist Helmut Jacoby produced a series of beautiful renderings of how the new city would look.

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