Artists, poets and philosophers have not paid much attention to Milton Keynes …although comedians have. This urban experiment has been mocked by lazy satirists who find ambition derisory and concrete cows hilarious.
Milton Keynes is 50 this year and it has an honourable place in the history of that ancient chimera, the Ideal City.
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