I'm in Milton Keynes for workshop at KMI these days. When John an me arrived, we naively took a bus to the city centre. We drove and drove, it all looked like endless suburbs: an indoor skiing facility (see picture), garden center, huge shopping centers, etc.
Finally the bus arrived at some ugly, lonesome park-and-ride place, final station: We had been driving all through the inner city - which is nothing but a stand-alone suburb.
You see, it's one of those experimental "new towns", a sixties' utopian artificial city.
In fact it feels rather dead indeed. Where's the townsfolk?