The British love of landscape (rather than architecture) merged with the gadgetry and electricity of late 20th-century consumer culture to invent new forms of habitation. Reyner Banham's Gizmo and David Greene's LogPlug both dreamt of techno-pastoral possibilities. In Milton Keynes, however, the idea became central to the last of the new towns. Here, chief architect Derek Walker proposed a city greener than the surrounding countryside, where cars, electronic communication and nature reinvented the idea of the town-country for the 1970s, and merged the landscape traditions of Stowe with Buckminster Fuller futurism.
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