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A Town Called Alcan, 4 Circuit Linear Towns, Alcan The Scanner and Notation: The Observant Layman's Code for his Environment
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Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise.
Stock ID: 22580More details Price: £320.00
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Britain by Mass-Observation
Harmondsworth Penguin Books 1939
Penguin 1st Printing . Printed Wrappers. Penguin original,1939, No S19 with touch of wear at corners. Spine and page edges are a little browned. No dust wrapper. Good copy.
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County Development Plan 1951
Written Analysis prepared for the County Council of Durham
Durham County Council Press 1951
320pp illustrated with b/w photographs, plans, including some fold outs and diagrams. Red cloth as issued. Signature of Jonathan Wager on front end paper. Good copy. The plan initiated the concept of "Category D" villages that basically identified settlements Durham County Council would no longer invest in. A concept that led depressingly to the decline of much of West Durham as the designation stigmatised the old mining areas of the County.
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F. J. O. Practical Idealist: a biography of Sir Frederic Osborn
London, Town and Country Planning Association 1987
xii + 164pp illustrated with 31 plates. Good in dust wrapper. His efforts led to the New Towns Act of 1946. He was a devotee of Ebenezer Howard. If Howard was the driving force behind the Garden Cities and Suburbs, it was Osborn who was the driving force behind the New Towns. A very informative book.
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Fallowfield Residential Development Master Plan Report November 1959
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Harlow New Town
Short History of the Area which it will embrace
The Harlow Development Corporation, 1951
Illustrated with colour b/w plates and fold out map showing the old settlements which were to be embraced by the new town. Card covers, printed title on upper wrapper. Good copy. The original Harlow New Town was built after World War II along with places such as Basildon, Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead a result of the New Towns Act of 1946, with the master plan for Harlow drawn up in 1947 by Sir Frederick Gibberd. A particular approach to the development of Harlow New Town was to respect the existing landscape and so this publication is useful if assessing the area's traditional architecture and landscape to be incorporated into the New Town area.
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Industry And Prudence: A Plan For Accrington
Borough Of Accrington 1950
186pp illustrated with maps, plans and diagrams and b/w photographs. Small 4to. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Plan for post war reconstruction. Very good and interesting text by Allen and Mattocks.
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International Health Exhibition: Official Catalogue
London William Clowes & Sons 1884
160 + xIpp illustrated with fold out plan of the exhibition site and a second one showing the position of electric lighting. Many period ads. Wrapps worn and dusty and colour plan damaged on fold. Wrappers in poor condition. Useful content. Intended as a celebration – to show-off to the rest of the world – the great technological strides made by the Victorians in improving disease control, especially through better sanitation and water purification, for the improvement of the health of the nation, the Exhibition was held in South Kensington, on a site between the Royal Albert Hall and the newly-opened Natural History Museum. Four million people visited the Exhibition between 8 May and 30 October 1884.
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Jane Jacobs Urban Visionary
New Jersey Rutgers University Press 2006
The first major biography of the woman who changed the way we view and live in cities. wrote for Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses' proposed expressway through the heart of Greenwich Village.
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Knight's Guide to the Arrangement and Construction of Workhouse Buildings
with notes and diagrams on the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board in regard to the erection of Poor Law Institutions
London Knight and Co. 1889
115pp + diagrams of work house layouts etc. Also c 12pp period ads printed on contrasting grey paper and including yellow end paper with adverts. Cloth with gilt titles. Very slightly rubbed at head and base of spine and corners else very good copy. Royal 8vo. Fascinating on the design of the buildings written at a time where approaches to the poor and under privileged were being addressed by the new class of professional architects in association with those in local government who were involved in the planning and regulation of housing and cities.
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Miss Helewell's Estate: Plans & Details of the house for you
Bradford Published by the firm nd c1930
Promotional booklet for Miss Helewell's Estate, Triangle Odsal, Bradford. 8pp including plan of the layout of the estate which was for a series of semi detached houses. Green decorated wrappers. Fascinating period piece with plans of the houses. One of the few such publications I have seen where the developer was a woman.
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New Ideal Estate at Formby - Promotional Brochure
London Ideal Building Corporation/New Ideal Homesteads Ltd undated c1960
8pp brochure for a new estate called Victoria Park located between Freshfield and Formy on the Southport to Lliverpool Railway line. Promoting a new commuter suburban estate of Metroland type with cottage homes.
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Outline Plan for the County Borough of Birkenhead
County Borough of Birkenhead 1947
181pp, with superb colour plans including the plan itself in rear pocket. Black and white photographs and useful analytical texts. Large 4to. Yellow cloth. Very good copy. Ambitious post war reconstruction plan for Birkenhead. This was the culmination of Reilly's long career in civic design and planning which focused on Liverpool where he was chair of Architecture up until 1933. One or two additional paper cuttings slipped in to the publications.
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Planning Pamphlets:
1. Overture to Planning by F J Osborn, w. Britain's Town and Country Pattern: A summary of the Barlow, Scott and Uthwatt Reports with intro by G D H Cole by Nuffield Reconstruction Survey, 3. The War and the Planning Outlook by W A Robson, 4. Planning for Living by Clough Williams Ellis, 5. Industry and Town Planning by Roland Pumphrey, 6. The Land and Planning by F J Osborn, 7. Planning and the Countryside by the Town and Country PLaning Association, 8. The Social Foundation of Post-War Building by Lewis Mumford and 9. Civic Design and the Home by Arnold Whittock.
Stock ID: 20898More details Price: £65.00
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Problems of Reconstruction Lectures and Addresses, Delivered at the Summer Meeting at the Hampstead Garden Suburb, August, 1917
London. T Fisher Unwin Ltd 1918
315pp. Cloth. Slightly faded on the spine. Arranged in four sections. I First Principles of Reconstruction 2 Reconstruction and Education 3 Social and Industrial Reconstruction 4 Arts and Crafts in relation to Reconstruction. Contributors included many luminaries of the day including J H B Masterman, Henrietta Barnett, Sidney Webb, Henry Clausen, C A Voysey, May Morris and many others. Fascinating assembly of liberal minds of the day. Faint stamp of Guildford Labour Party Bookshop probably contemporary with issue of the book.
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Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population Report
London HMSO Cmd 6153 1938
320pp Ownership name of George Whipp on upper wrapper. In 1938 Chamberlain, as the new Prime Minister, assigned a Royal Commission chaired by Sir Anderson Barlow into the urban concentration of population and industry. The resulting report raised the problem of large towns as a public issue for the first time and concluded that 'planned decentralisation' was favourable. However, owing to the outbreak of war in 1939 the Barlow Report, published in 1940. Within the document it reported on the potential of New Towns and Garden Cities as sites for decentralisation and was indeed a turning point in considering post war New Town developments as part of a National Plan for post war reconstruction.
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Sir Raymond Unwin: Architect, Planner and Visionary
Zwemmer Ltd 1985. Series editor Peter Willis 1985
192pp illustrated with b/w line ills and photos. Wraps. Fine. Account of Unwin's life and career setting his life and work in the context of the radical thinkers and social philosphers of the end of the 19th century. Armorial bookplate on inside front cover.
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Site Planning in Practice at Welwyn Garden City
London Ernest Benn 1927
5pp + 102 b/w full page plates. 4to. Red cloth. Good copy of this scarce title on the planning of Welwyn. Contributions by Charles Benjamin Purdom. Hard to find. Louis de Soissons was involved with the establishment of the master plan for Welwyn Garden City and was appointed architect for the town in 1920. It was the first major commission for the practice and it remained significantly involved in its development over the next 60 years. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Hard to find.
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The Building of Satellite Towns.
London J. M. Dent, 1925.
368pp, 63 b/w plates plus diagrams. 4to. Vg copy in orig. green cloth. 4to. ' A Contribution to the Study of Town Development and Regional Planning'. A discussion on the possibilities of building satellite towns, using Welwyn and Letchworth as examples, around large cities in an attempt to counter the suburban growth.
Stock ID: 21008More details Price: £140.00