Friday 24 August 2012

Alton's constrained loops

Alton Towers may be Britain's leading amusement park, but its landscaping is quite different to that of somewhere like, say, Blackpool Pleasure Beach or Six Flags in Texas.  For a start, Alton Towers has lots of trees and is also contained in smaller spaces - because it was of course designed, 150 years ago, as the pleasure gardens of a very rich artistocrat.

So the lines and loops of its rides seem more constrained to me than the ones of the big, brash parks.

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