[Reposted] Dreams and nightmares

Brent Cross plan:
"A 'free-flowing' junction of the M1 with
the North Circular was considered."
(Above is a 1960s Glasgow plan:
"the Townhead Interchange (built) and
Eastern Flank [unbuilt] which would have severed
Glasgow Cathedral from the the rest of the city")

Brent Cross's Hammerson:
"We'll have some of this!"

Part of the collapsed car-based
Brent Cross scheme

"Dead in the Water" - Mayor Boris Johnson,
a month after saying: "It has great potential"