Milton Keynes: The making of a suburban dream

Before development: the site for the new city was 10,000 hectares of rural Buckinghamshire

From a stretch of rural Buckinghamshire to a 250,000-strong city, Zoë Blackler charts the history of an extraordinary building project

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