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Open City Audio

Weekly programmes by Open City. Making architecture and cities more open, accessible and equitable. This week: Deconstructed. Marlborough Road - Planning and People. Matthew Lloyd Roberts is joined by Calvin Po, Strategic Lead at Dark Matter Labs, Unit Master at the Architectural Association and architecture critic at The Spectator. They discuss 159 Marlborough Road, a house on a typical suburban street in Romford, which was the scene in 1954 of a tragic death resulting from Compulsory Purchase powers created by the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act. [Repeats Tuesday 2.30am.]

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