Ian Nairn looks at the changing face of Britain

Eventually one in ten Scotsmen will be living in a new town. The pattern of the urban living in the future is taking shape in Scotland now. Ian Nairn takes a critical look at Scotland's most famous new town-Cumbernauld.
Once he praised it as 'large-scale and passionate,' but now he has changed his mind and illustrates the mistakes he believes the planners have made by looking at an older tradition of new town building in Scotland-the nineteenth-century communities of Fochabers, Findochty, and Dufftown.
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