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Sorry about the late response, delayed by the holidays. I hope it still comes in time to be of use. On Dec 24, Michaela Zonnenshain asked: > the city of Hook in England was planned ca. 1960 but was never built - Why? The proposed development of a "new town" designed for 100,000 residents at Hook, Hampshire, was a scheme to resettle Londoners in a rustic valley 50 km southeast of London. Planning for the new town of Hook never progressed past the conceptual stage. After the scheme met local opposition and Britain's Ministry of Housing and Local Government reversed its original support, in the summer of 1960 the London County Council agreed to develop the existing sites in the towns of Basingstoke, Andover, and Tadley instead. However, the stillborn "new town" project at Hook gained immortality of sorts because, after the project had been shelved, the Greater London Council decided to publish the plans. The book on the plans for Hook, which embodied principles of urban design that were viewed as "cutting-edge" at the time, enjoyed considerable influence among architectural students: _The Planning of a New Town: A Study For a New Town of 100000 at Hook, Hampshire_, [by Graeme Shankland et al.] (London: Greater London Council, County Hall, 1961). Half a century later the vision of the city of the future embodied in Shankland's 1959 plans for Hook are more of interest to cultural historians, and some say it may be a good thing that the proposed new town of 100,000 was never built. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=877666&page=5 After the building of the M3 motorway linking London with Basingstoke (1970s-1980s), Hook lost some of its rural isolation. It has grown considerably in recent years and is now a largish village with an estimated 8,000 residents, many of them commuters. I hope this helps. András Riedlmayer Fine Arts Library Harvard University ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~