New town centers also are great place for senior citizens to sit and rest for a spell.

This makes downtown Stevenage readily accessible to mass transit patrons.

Note the public dance hall on the other side of the bus station.

The front yard gardens, however, help to relieve the dull repetitiveness of the housing design.

This final scene in our tour of British new towns reminds us of the purpose of new towns.

They are constructed to provide inexpensive housing for young families, as symbolized by this happy statue of mother-and-child.