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| | Arts Unlimited | Arts news | Rebirth for decaying 1950s new town |
 | | The £500m project, hailed by the Prince of Wales as one of the country's most ambitious rebuilding projects, is being watched by councils running Britain's 28 other new towns, where planners say some centres are reaching the point of no return. |
 | | Bracknell's centre is a ghost town in parts: cracking pavements and crumbling concrete, empty shops or charity outlets, and vacant office blocks. |
 | | He believed that later new towns, such as Bracknell, Stevenage (just six miles from Letchworth), and Harlow in Essex, had been unable to regenerate because they no longer controlled the assets, once owned by development corporations. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1002614,00.html (724 words) |
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