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All the aspects of the redevelopment of central areas, in conjunction with the accumulated problems, are examined. Especially, the issues of war damages and the needed urban centres’ reconstruction in conjunction with the traffic problems, car parking and shopping needs are considered. Apart from the problem of war damage, redevelopment was necessary in most town centres also for a variety of other reasons since buildings had become outworn and outdated, the town centre had become unable to cope with modern traffic conditions, and it was necessary to provide a new environment for a changed way of living. To these three main reasons, two more were to be added, the movement of functions out of bombed city centres during the war, and the fact that the value of sites in central commercial areas had risen to a high level.
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Colin Buchanan was Professor of Transport at Imperial College, University of London.
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Marmaras, E.V. (2015). The War Damages and the Problems of Central Areas. In: Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07647-8_3
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