City of Towers

Tonight Christopher Booker tells the story of what he calls ' the greatest social disaster in Britain since the war'. City of Towers. Few things have aroused more violent feelings in Britain in the past 20 years than the pulling down of vast areas of our cities to make way for the planners' brave new world of tower blocks, motorways, shopping precincts and faceless housing. For the first time one film tells how it all came about, from the birth of the modern movement in Britain to the disillusion of the 70s, when planners, politicians and property developers finally launched Britain's cities on the greatest tidal wave of change in their history. The film shows how the people of Britain began to fight back against 'the concrete jungle'.