Nairn at Large — Season 1, Episode 5: The Poetry of Town Planning
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
Ian Nairn believes that when new towns go wrong it's usually because they have been planned without flair or imagination. For him the planner is more important than the architect, and he looks at Gordon Cullen's plans for the Welsh hill town of Llantrisant.
About Nairn at Large
In these six programmes Ian Nairn looks at industrial landscape; considers the unique appeal of Liverpool; tries to analyse the attraction of a summer Bank Holiday county like Cornwall; asks if in new towns like Cumbernauld people have been given enough say in their environment; sees the potential in a plan for a Welsh hill-town; and finally takes a look at a uniquely British institution - the public house.