Potteries Thinkbelt study: Further ongoing research
• Map of the PTb showing main routes, transfer, faculty and housing areas—Reproduced from GitHub
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[edit] FOREWORDOn 16 June 2024 I wrote to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) asking:—
On 26 June 2024, I received a reply from the CCA offering to send me a PDF document containing reference images of the report by the end of July. In the event, the file was shared with me on 8 August 2024. Thus this article is able to take as its starting point the content of the report, an unpublished manuscript completed in February 1966, and compare it with the content of the article published in Architectural Design in October 1966. It assumes:—
For the purposes of this article I have provided facsimiles of both the report and the article together with extracts from research notes picking out the main points. |
[edit] FACSIMILES OF THE KEY DOCUMENTS
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[edit] ANALYSIS OF THE UNPUBLISHED REPORT
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[edit] ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLISHED ARTICLE
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[edit] ALTERNATIVE ICONOGRAPHY
On 5 November 2003, speaking at the first Supercrit event, Roger Zogolovitch said:
- "... the POTTERIES THINKBELT demonstrates an effective instance of sustainability etc. etc. — while we know that the strength of the idea still stands in front of us as such a beacon of intelligence: it comes from the way we want to see how society could work with a logical investment, yet we still have to defend it, we have to defend the notion of the imagination and clarity of that thinking against the kind of stupidity, the dull perpetuation of iconography that displaced it."
- Roger Zogolovitch in Hardingham and Rattenbury (2007) 'Supercrit #1: Cedric Price POTTERIES THINKBELT', p.85
The images below enable one to make comparisons between the sites as they were before the Potteries Thinkbelt study and as they are in 2024.
Thus this article hypothesises:—
- ... that the Potteries Thinkbelt represents a default position with which alternative development can be compared.
This is evidenced in the satellite images provided by the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in the Map images below.
[edit] • OVERALL PLAN
[edit] • FACULTY AREAS
[edit] • TRANSFER AREAS
[edit] • HOUSING AREAS
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[edit] FURTHER ONGOING RESEARCH
- ATOM: A generating system designed by Cedric Price
- Beeching cuts: The railway network in Nottinghamshire
- Disaster Planning: North Staffs
- Disaster Planning: Notts
- DOMESTIKIT: World-Wide Dwelling Service
- Dukeries Thinkbelt
- EDUKIT: World Educational System
- Housing Research by Cedric Price
- Miners' Strike: The coal industry in Nottinghamshire
- QGIS "What about Learning More?"
- The Commons
- Varsity Line
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