Martin John Callanan, Milton Keynes, 2003

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Twenty-two new towns were built between the 1940s and the 1970s, intended to improve housing conditions for those living in the inner cities by creating Utopian communities for people to live and work in. (BBC News)

The Designated Area was almost 9,000 hectares (22,000 acres) in north Buckinghamshire. It included the existing towns of Bletchley, Stony Stratford, Wolverton and New Bradwell, together with 13 villages and the brickfields to the south west of Bletchley. The population within the area at designation was approximately 40,000.

Milton Keynes in Situ, BIAD, Martin John Callanan
Installation, Birmingham, 2003

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