This 1945 plan clearly indicates the projected "necklace" of totally futile, functionless green islands on the urban periphery. There were to be at least 10 of these bizarre pieces of empty turf. Was the creation of these oversize roundabouts an attempt to create public parks but parks with no access? Or were they intended to create visual breaks in the urban sprawl; a sort of pastoral splay? Or were they seen as a contemporary use of abstract shapes that looked good from the modeller's point of view? Were they a piece of Urban Modernism? Were they to be the focus of contemporary sculpture,yet to be commissioned? The legacy of this planning seems to be the vast amount of unusable turf and planting in the area indicated in my previous post.
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