Ultra Town Part 2 Project 2024 Joe Franklin Kingston University Kingston | UK Ultra Town reimagines the aborted HS2 Phase 02 site, between Birmingham and Manchester, as a forested new town. A 120km piece of social and ecological infrastructure, eventually home to more than 250,000 people. The project is drawn over a period of 50 years and across a number of phases, from enabling services, to forms of industry, pieces of social infrastructure and housing. Thus, proposing a method of responsible development and new build construction embedded with cycles of support, maintenance and care. The language of the proposal learns from the history of woodland as a space for protest and counterculture. Drawing from my own experience of living in temporary, transient communities to propose an ultra-urban condition that responds to our housing and ecological crises. Joe Franklin Tutor(s) Nicholas Lobo Brennan Astrid Smitham