![]() Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.A motorway – the M1 –would end at Marble Arch. ![]() Five orbital motorways would be served by radials and “expressways”, dividing the metropolis into precincts, lined by blocks of flats and workplaces. ![]() This was for a completely new city, one fit above all for the age of the motor car. He sought the goal that had defied the hero of modernism, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, in rebuilding Paris. It should be born afresh, cleansed of the horrors of its Blitz-strewn present.Ībercrombie had been a countryside campaigner with little feel for London’s life and history. Above all it was cursed with “uncorrelated road systems” and “dismal journeys to work”. The entire metropolis, he declared, was “obsolete”, “unsuitable” and “inchoate”. It began in 1942 when the wartime government commissioned a planning academic, Patrick Abercrombie, to chart a future for the nation’s capital. The battle for Covent Garden signalled the end of a 30-year struggle over London’s fate. ![]() Fifty years ago, in 1973, it saw victory. The result was that rarest of British events, a street rebellion. A city was not a drawing on a planner’s desk but its citizens’ flesh and blood. ![]() Just for once the stones of London seemed to rise in protest. We lobbied politicians, crowded airwaves, summoned meetings and wrote diatribes. ![]()
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