Zine - Tunnel Tourists

A coronation companion for urban extension enthusiasts, community comrades & architectural masterplan fans.

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Two colour risograph-printed zine
28 pages
Approx A5 sized
Printed by Jordan at Pagemasters

Tunnel Tourists 2: A Coronation Special by Chloe Cooper and Nicky Sutton was inspired by living in Thamesmead, South East London, in the run up to the Coronation. Whilst Thamesmead was designed to be a modernist utopia, Poundbury was designed according to the traditionalist principles of Prince Charles. As a younger man, he was super-critical of places like Thamesmead – invented in the 1960s – calling post-war housing “a victory of ideology and arrogance over humanity and common sense”. So, Nicky and I travelled to Poundbury – the place he invented in the 1990s – to check out his alternative. Once we’d recovered, we began drawing, writing and designing to produce this zine. It compares the two places, while touching on nostalgia, taste, inequity and hate. IT’S A CORONATION SPECIAL!