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Dan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future.

New Generation Thinker Dan Taylor's essay takes us to the site of the Dagenham Ford factory, and shares the insights he's gained about planning from interviews with local residents.

The A13 runs from the City of London past Tilbury Docks and the site of the Dagenham Ford factory to Benfleet and the Wat Tyler Country Park.  As he travels along it, talking to residents about their ideas of community and change, New Generation Thinker Dan Taylor reflects on the history of the area and different versions of hopes for the future.  

Dr Dan Taylor lectures in social and political thought at the Open University and is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to share insights from academic research on radio. You can hear him in Free Thinking discussions about Essex, and discussing medieval bestiaries in Beast and Animals.  He is also the author of a book Island Story: Journeys Through Unfamiliar Britain and you can hear him in a Free Thinking episode discussing the county Essex. 

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

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The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings.

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