Lessons from the British and French New Towns

David Fée is a Professor of British Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle and head of CREC, the Sorbonne Nouvelle research centre on contemporary Britain. He specialises in the study of housing policies in the UK.Bob Colenutt is an Associate Lecturer at the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He is a researcher on commercial property development and the impact this has on communities.Sabine Coady Schäbitz is Associate Professor for Architecture at Coventry University. Her research and professional engagement focuses on cultural heritage and architectural and urban history.

• Part 1- The New Towns and Policy Makers Chapter 1. Reinventing the Healthy Garden City: Ebbsfleet’s learning from the New Towns; Elanor WarwickChapter 2. Loss and Longing: Whatever happened to the Egalitarian Ethos of the UK New Towns; Bob ColenuttChapter 3. Unpacking the Official View: Four Myths on British New Towns; Helena Rivera Chapter 4. Beyond your Wildest Dreams? Building New Towns in France Today; David Fée Part 2- The New Towns and their Residents Chapter 5. Ways of knowing the Landscape of the New Towns: A Lefebvrian Analysis; Susan Fitzpatrick Chapter 6. The Suburbanity Urbanity of New Towns: Everyday Life in Milton Keynes and Cergy Pontoise; Ivan Nio Chapter 7. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: Lessons learned from the Years 1965-2019; Danièle Gardrat and Frédéric Theulé Part 3- The New Towns in their Wider Regional and International Context Chapter 8. The London New Towns in their Changing Regional Context; Tony Champion Chapter 9. Planning the World’s New Towns- A Tale of Two Countries, 1975-2013; Clément Orillard and Stephen Ward Chapter 10. Learning from the Contrasting Histories and Trajectories of Harlow and Thamesmead; Julia Deltoro-Soto, Stephen MarshallPart 4- The New Towns and Heritage  Chapter 11. Public Art in British New Towns: The Past, Present and Future; Alina Congreve Chapter 12. Public Art in French New Towns: From Experiments to Heritage; Loic Vadelorge Chapter 13. A Tangible Utopia: Genesis of and Experiments in the French New Towns; Catherine Blain Chapter 14. A controversial Heritage: New Towns and the problematic legacy of Modernism; Sabine Coady Schäbitz