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The Ambitious Plan to Concrete over the River Tyne

Jordan Reeve 33,047 2 months ago
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Become a patron to support the channel and gain access to exclusive videos idea polls and support the creation of topics: https://www.patreon.com/JordanReeve Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:11 The Rise and Fall of the River Tyne 02:29 The Plan to Save the River Tyne 05:38 The Tyne Deck 06:47 The Reality After the Vision This video covers the history of the Ryder and Yates Tyne Deck, an ambitious plan in the 1960s to construct a concrete deck over the River Tyne. This would have been a symbol for combining Newcastle and Gateshead into a new city of Tyneside. The plan as a thought piece set to rethink how the industrial quayside was used, which has remarkable resemblance to the city's layout today. Follow Jordan Reeve 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordanconnorreeve/?hl=en-gb Twitter: https://twitter.com/JordanCReeve Music: Epidemic Sound Would you like to advertise with us, direct business inquiries to: [email protected] ABOUT JORDAN REEVE A full-time planner, Jordan Reeve specialises in creating videos about the built environment to tell its stories. The topics cover the historical development of cities alongside psychogeography-style walks, which aims to uncover the urban environment as well as pose questions about the space and place in which we live, work, and play. He lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne and attempts to showcase the modern face of a former industrial city, which is still finding its way in regeneration. #newcastle #architecture #megastructures

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