Tiny Bang Theories: Scott of Milton Keynes

Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Everest and the planet's last remaining unchartered territories at the Poles. All that was left to explore, in fact, except for one location - Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes eluded Hillary mostly because it didn't exist until 1967, long after he had hung up his parka. Hillary had grown up with fantastical stories of far-away, mythical, unattainable places like the gold-haemorrhaging El Dorado and Utopian Shangri-La. Similarly, he could but dream of the multi-storey car parks, the ease of road navigation on Milton Keynes' grid system and the mini-roundabouts. These were exotic, futuristic town-planning schemes... (Continued at http://www.tinybangtheories.com/2012/02/scott-of-milton-keynes.html).

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