https://www.guyortolano.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/8ced7a26-2172-47e4-bd94-a2c43efeee7b/IMG_0909+%281%29.jpeg home https://www.guyortolano.com/home/articles-and-reviews monthly 0.5 2026-01-29 https://www.guyortolano.com/home/most-recent monthly 0.5 2026-01-20 https://www.guyortolano.com/home/mk monthly 0.5 2020-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659119653-JSSIHMHCZQASA2EOVV39/E91A32EC-482F-4A46-90C9-FB891F6F13AE_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659129175-HQ3EZJLKKWDCH6HEY4FW/03533398-471B-4451-B903-F81F8EE4E917_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Youth Hostel, Bradwell Village. The only place I could find to stay on the (whoops) weekend of the Grand Prix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659140667-FR1WR6PDINQNG01HSGTO/047B8F67-AF7B-4A6C-8E62-41F91F003A10_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes My trusty bike for a weekend, with thanks to Seth S., Janet M., and Sam W. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659150512-DKHOIQCNLOJ5ITKFN4KY/C6837036-1647-43B2-A2FE-8BF4A73D639F_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Fred Roche Gardens, in memory of the general manager (1931-1992). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659175019-EW0RU0CO17Z41XTQYDJJ/10732242-73C6-46C9-8464-FDF5EEE8DA14_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Porte-cochère leading to the shopping building, typical of the city's meticulously designed street furniture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659184505-JV9QGNRE6VXD2E6SR55T/D89FC390-B5C5-4BDF-8473-C99BDDB1E376_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Shopping building, formally opened by the Prime Minister on 25 September 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659193820-ITIFE6PK7CPPR6ROI8E8/48CB55E3-6330-4564-A625-F48D74786716_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Italian marble inside the shopping center, Europe's largest covered shopping building when it opened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659217470-CWZ1B6MDSEBX1MBHBCM3/83CC8F6F-1E4B-4C39-9C15-C5025D61FE89_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Redways, a cycling network offering nearly complete coverage of the city, independent from roads and cars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659233808-OC5RFASRD06UA73526RX/05BA123A-8E05-44D0-856B-F2981CBA087E_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Fishermead, dense housing near the center, designed to offer a sense of urbanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659241672-0PNBFTBNM0MX48JUTI5M/16E86559-207C-42DE-8A83-EAF8D133AD78_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes A Fishermead courtyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659274990-OS7XBIBB4O1WIC3XGVBE/11.+Figure+9.png home - milton keynes Helmut Jacoby's rendering of a Fishermead courtyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659349845-DG8OI2LHEOZEKX662MOM/B4C4FAEF-C836-4831-82CF-624B86CEEBF2_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Ralph Erskine's Eaglestone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659371062-S0K84HJ23YK6E190EBIQ/67DBE63E-BA83-4238-BBD1-02F95C426896_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Griffin, by Lesley Bonner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659409867-NTFUMF9X3H5JQQSQAQ1U/12.+Figure+10+copy.jpg home - milton keynes Netherfield I. In accord with the policy that no building in Milton Keynes rise higher than the tallest tree, Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones lay these "towers on their sides" to create the new town's most arresting housing design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659432938-XH7DDK22WBJO6EGOD6I3/E8A7FA4C-4F43-480C-8288-9E30C5D69424_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Netherfield II. To ensure a continuous roofline, the architects dug into the rolling landscape. The result achieved visual continuity across the site, while producing units in seventeen different floorplans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659447057-WC4D63MKVT4DQJFHZBKF/5861D784-8254-44C1-BEAA-AB60AFDBEFFD_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Netherfield III. The density of the housing preserved ample green space across the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659465059-0XEVY2LQD5SA98COKZ0A/FA0F43D5-E9FA-48BB-A82F-571BE244949E_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Tin Man, by Liz Leyh. Leyh's many community arts projects from the late 1970s, including the more famous concrete cows, involved the entire community in creating shared experiences and spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659481085-9LJKFO0DKXQDKH0D9F8U/0B619162-430A-4750-B9C9-599428F0F34A_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Norman Foster's Beanhill, later the subject of contentious litigation when the roofs sprang leaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659534810-OGPGAN42734PO939Y8I1/9.+Figure+7+copy.jpg home - milton keynes Norman Foster's Beanhill. A sleek, modern rendering of that universal form, the bungalow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659637206-6KJ78R01K0NBEAWUM162/B0D7CCE3-307C-4241-B51B-A6EF12064CF2_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Wayland Tunley's Neath Hill, vernacular housing in traditional materials, built at about the same time as the modernist Netherfield and Beanhill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659673122-1I69IY0NH81LNQ19GS11/6AE9C530-1EFA-4C73-971E-5ADC12AF71BB_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Cricket near Bradwell Abbey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659693267-324T6Q5MF770QQR4N2T4/BB5D5A16-A5D9-451B-8952-653B0B7B7D93_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Milton Keynes Village, enclosed within Milton Keynes new town. The socialist chairman of the development corporation joked that, if designated in the early 1980s, the new town would have been called Milton Friedman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659693582-44PFB1HBBDIMS97GI1YE/7C5A7969-20F3-4018-A719-ADE479AC9B9A_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Advance Factory Unit, a public sector project facilitating private sector enterprise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659730807-OOTBENAI2FFOVTQK0CSW/C0933A67-A2BE-42D2-8A06-5ACB2B696938_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Galley Hill Workshop, one of four workshops for building, among other things, community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659766179-Q2L98A8R2N9YH70OPA58/65608042-E3A6-4F83-9607-1FE890CE53A1_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes Private housing at Calverton End, where flat roofs signify not failure but status. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659794893-P6KE2U54RQSWNUP12T1K/20C0DF84-DB05-47FC-84F4-A2A265A3ABF0_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes The development corporation promised each of the three existing towns within the new city a signature development. Here, Cofferidge Close in Stony Stratford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659829750-WIEH5FUZGNDDO6VVIP1R/345B4B31-87EB-41C6-9771-651499FD1244_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes The Agora, a leisure center in and for Wolverton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607662076220-5H7AX7XIE4WCS1PJ43AD/24E626C0-F43F-4734-8E47-7AB444F75715_1_201_a.jpeg home - milton keynes A Miesian black box for Bletchley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1607659866135-U7B4I8CIPVCCNTG6KEBB/3A2E1942-479A-4ACE-B581-8E36CF0C8E2D_1_105_c.jpeg home - milton keynes MK Station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/a9e85fb2-a575-4483-a5a7-7e6cfee584fc/Thatcher%27s+Progress_Cover+copy.jpg home - milton keynes If you've made it this far . . . click on the image for a link to the book's amazon.co.uk page. https://www.guyortolano.com/home/thatchers-progress monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1589159910285-QTJBPOFWNU4ZY294S8RZ/IMG_8558.jpg home - thatcher's progress London launch | 10 July 2019 | King’s College London | with Otto Saumarez Smith and Simon Gunn | Photo by Sarah Hanck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1589160015935-F2XRSNT753CUR4ABC6X8/2019+Heyman-page-001.jpg home - thatcher's progress New York launch | 18 September 2019 | Heyman Center for the Humanities | Columbia University https://www.guyortolano.com/home/two-cultures-controversy monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/1605734977899-GO3REV9NGYBFNLLZUDIY/41KShnncnIL._SX348_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg home - two cultures https://www.guyortolano.com/home/cv monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://www.guyortolano.com/home/new-portfolio-item monthly 0.5 2026-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb37ffa421ba53e177cfd53/4b5c9368-5f50-4d12-85d3-92479e245382/IMG_8299.jpeg home - bio He received his PhD from Northwestern University, where he studied with T. W. Heyck, Ken Alder, and Alex Owen. He then taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Virginia, before arriving to NYU in 2009. In 2018 he was Astor Visiting Lecturer at Oxford, and in 2022-2023 he is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London. Ortolano has written about the history of science, urban history, and intellectual history. His first book, The Two Cultures Controversy, recasts a debate about the sciences and humanities as a contest between rival forms of liberalism. His second book, Thatcher’s Progress, argues that the thirty-two “new towns” Britain built after 1945 represented the spatial dimension of its welfare state. His current project, Supernational, looks at scales of historical writing in the century after Darwin. Ortolano teaches surveys of British history since the neolithic revolution, in addition to courses on modern Europe, urban modernism, the Darwinian revolution, and historical methodologies. In recognition of his teaching, the College of Arts and Science awarded him a Golden Dozen Teaching Prize. Originally from Stone Mountain, Georgia, he graduated from the University of Georgia, where he made his way to British history through courses by Kirk Willis. 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