Rebuilding Nottingham

Here's a couple of news reports that show the rebuilding of Nottingham city centre in the 1960s and 70s.



The first is a fascinating interview with the architect of the Victoria Centre, Arthur Swift, from 1962. Here the scale of his ambition and that of the council of the day is revealed in the huge model of the new city centre and in the grand sweep of his words. He's particularly obsessed with the recently published Buchanan report, Traffic in Towns, and presses home how the design was an att...