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	Podcast:		Avon Stories
	Episode:		15: Exploring the unloved Sylvia Crowe landscapes, with Wendy Tippett
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:57:08
	Publish Date:		2017-12-14 03:52:19
	Description:		The Cumberland Basin to Ashton Gate road system is this confusing tangle of roads passing above and below each other. It's generally seen as a brutalist concrete nightmare, but back in the 1960s, when it was built, it was seen utopian and futuristic, full of exciting new ways to live in a city, with vibrant spaces and an urban park,, all designed by Sylvia Crowe. Wendy Tippett took me walking through here, and told me about how the spaces would have looked in the 1960s, the design elements that are taken for granted these days, and why, ultimately, it failed. Photos, a plan and links to historic photos on my website https://avonstories.com/2017/12/14/podcast-13-sylvia-crowe-wendy-tippett/ Image credit: Sylvia Crowe Cumberland Basin Bridges, Landscape Plan. Coloured up by Wendy Tippett, with our Avon Stories walk marked up in red line. Ref. Landscape Report, Cumberland Basin Bridges & Ashton Gate Junction, April 1964, University of Bristol Library.
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