Chrisp Street, fifties architecture
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Chrisp Street, fifties architecture
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 26 Jun 2008
The 1951 redevelopment of Chrisp Street involved a then-innovative combination of shopping precinct and residential accommodation: so-called Living Architecture. This was all part of the Lansbury Estate experiment in social housing that paved the way for the New Town developments, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2001/jul/11/communities.urbandesign (The sign on the lamp post warns that cars parked illegally may be clamped or towed away.)
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