The Potteries Thinkbelt Study 1964

Here is a link to some information on "The Potteries Thinkbelt Study" done in 1964 by Cedric Price. 

Cedric Price Master Diagram for the project.

This is what Studio 9, at Sheffield School of Architecture, had to say about the project in 2007/08:

"In 1964 The Architect Cedric Price created 'The Potteries Thinkbelt Study'. This theoretical project was a reaction against the elitist university institutions (which Price believed kept education separate from the masses) and the loss of skilled manufacturing workers/developers through the ‘Brain Drain’ and de-industrialisation of the post-war UK.Price proposed a new type of science and technology teaching institution. The ‘Potteries thinkbelt’ was a series of interconnected faculties and student housing which was linked through the existing road and rail networks (which were underused at the time). The Rail connections not only acted as a link between sites but also acted a teaching rooms, labs and workshops. This was achieved by having container styled teaching units which could be lifted by cranes at ‘transfer’ area onto or o a train depending on the requirements of the institution. Price believed that the creation of such an institution would create employment and innovation in the area and thus aid a better quality of life in the North Stafordshire Area."