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The architectural critic and writer Jonathan Glancey guides us through the language we use to talk about New Towns. How to Read Towns and Cities is published by Bloomsbury.

The writer and teacher Ian Seed writes prose poems that are informed by the architecture and experience of modern urban life. Ian Seed’s latest collection of poetry is 'Identity Papers' (Shearsman).

Christopher Smith is the director and producer of ‘New Town Utopia’, a documentary inspired by the town Basildon.ÌýTheÌýfilm uses music and poetry toÌýtrace the fortunes of the town over the past half century and asks whether the cultural plans for all the UK’s New Towns ever came to fruition.

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The Magnetic North are Erland Cooper, Hannah Peel and Simon Tong. Their new album is ‘Prospect of Skelmersdale’ (Full Time Hobby), an album that aims to celebrate an oft-overlooked town.

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