Since the Second World War, several radical future proposals have been made for Southampton, Portsmouth and the areas in between.
The South Hampshire Study laid out a visiom of an extended, intergrated, grid-pattern urban continuum connecting the area, Alcan Corporation proposed a ‘linear circuit city’, these and other related proposals are sometimes referred to as ‘Solent City’.
Despite and in contrast to these planned and systematic utopian visions development continued apace.
These images explore the results of these processes.