London Nicholson & Watson 1945

156pp illustrated with line ills and b/w photographs. End papers show diagrammatic plans for a satellite town of 14000 inhabitants near Birkenhead. Foreword by Charles Reilly. The whole book is on the conception of Town Planning as exemplified in Sir Charles Reilly's Plan for a Suburb of Birkenhead. Reilly had been appointed to prepare a plan for Birkenhead the year before this book appeared. Fascinating insight into planning issues and how to meet the everyday life style needs of residents who would occupy the satellite town. Reilly proposed he proposed houses arranged around mini-"village greens", with many communal facilities, to foster a new community spirit. The plan was rejected by the Council of Birkenhead and although the idea was tried elsewhere this approach largely disappeared in post war planning of new suburban developments.