These incredible drawings show an artist's impression of how Britain's second city would have looked in 2002.
The futuristic sketches appeared in a 1952 book called 'Birmingham – Fifty years on' by Paul S. Cadbury.
Pedestrians wander along the clean and relatively quiet city streets which are dotted with imposing modernist buildings.
It features a dual carriageway on Colmore Row with with angular, space-age looking cars and buses, Birmingham Live reported .
In the radical plans, Snow Hill Station was to be transformed into a sister station to the iconic Grand Central Station in New York.
Additionally, radical concept designs for a tunnel running underneath the city were also included.
Annotations in the book note how part of the wall to St Philip's Cathedral could have been knocked down to make extra space for the road extensions.
It also shows a high-rise office building in the background and what looks to be shop awnings in front of the Grand Hotel – which isn't too different from the shop fronts which occupy the ground floor space today.
An idea for Snow Hill to be a sister station to the Grand Central Station in New York is another eye-catching entry.
Although it is just a sketch in the book, the famous US station is superimposed over the 1952 Snow Hill station, imagining it as one of the biggest buildings in the city.
For perspective, Colmore Row and a number of other streets are highlighted, showing how grand Snow Hill could have been.
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