Graeme Shankland’s radical urban redevelopment plan for Liverpool in 1965 aimed to demolish extensive areas of the city to create a new metropolis, highlighting the era's disregard for existing neighborhoods.
The demolition project in Liverpool resembled the unsettling experience we witnessed in Manchester's Hulme. Residents were forcibly relocated, leaving behind their homes, experiencing a loss akin to wartime refugees.
Corbusier’s architectural vision of vast buildings as ‘machines for living’ had a profound influence on young architects. However, it raised critical questions about the human cost of such modernization.
Cities across the UK, including Glasgow and Birmingham, underwent similar radical transformations, prioritizing urban motorways and council flats over historical buildings, reflecting a troubling trend of urban renewal.
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