London Simkins Marshall [October 1933] November 1934

Revised and enlarged edition. 72pp Illustrated with colour and b/w line drawings, plans and diagrams showing variant layouts for towns and housing blocks in differing geographic locations. Thin card wrappers, blue lettering on greenish card. Perfect bound. Small folio. This publication advocates a 100 new towns to solve the housing crisis in the inter war period. "Edwards had been an early and persistent critic of the Garden City-inspired orthodoxy of housing development in the first half of the twentieth century and of the powerful Idealist and Socialist 'Ruskinian tradition' in architectural thought carried forward by Unwin and his circle". The project was critiqued by N E Shasore in a lengthy assessment of the career of Edwards and who concluded the plan for a hundred new towns was "a deliberate and sustained propaganda campaign, based on fastidiously worked out and ardently held principles of civic design intended to steer policy". NE Shasore, Architectural History, Volume 61 2018 , pp. 175-203. Wrappers aged leaving uneven tone on both upper and lower wrappers. Internally good copy. Hard to find.

Edinburgh The Ballantyne Press 1904

Presentation copy from W H Lever on the occasion of the opening of Lever Park, Rivington, May 18th 1904. (xvii) + 211pp. Illustrated with b/w plates and including a fold out map of the area proposed for the park beside the reservoir. Large paper edition Tall quarto, brown buckram. From the Hayhurst library. William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme presented the area adjacent to the reservoir to be used as a public park just belowthe Bungalow and associated Japanese gardens which he constructed and lived in occasionally. The gardensare currently being restored but after a chequered history, the bungalow has been now demolished. Soon after it was built, Suffragette Edith Rigby claimed to have set fire to it on 7 July 1913. It was rebuilt but was demolished after the war finally. The park area was a philanthropic gesture for the people of Lancashire. His scheme included a scaled down version of Liverpool Castle which is beside the reservoir. He renovated a series of old barns on the site to be used as public halls for tea dances etc. The park remains open today.

London Alcan Industries Limited. 1964-1968

Four volumes produced over a four year period. Alcan, producers and sheet aluminium produced these ground breaking publications. The first booklet " A Town called Alcan" was devoted to the theory of the Circuit Linear Town. The second booklet showed the application of Gordon Cullen's theory to four very different areas of Britain: The Solway, Solent, Redrose and London, The next publication "The Scanner" introduced human, social and physical matters which needed to be considered in any planning operation. The final booklet Notation is Gordon Cullen's last publication and appeared in the architectural press in 1967. Hard to find all together. These are a fascinating series of publications which form the corner stone along with Cullen's Townscape book on approaches to planning urban space. All in very good condition. The first volume includes a typed letter from the Company Marketing manager, E W O'Loughlin, introducing the booklet series on Alcan Industries Headed notepaper.

The City of Sydney 1998

32pp sepia photographic illustrations with plans/line drawings etc. Long 4to illustrated wrappers, a very good copy. Bookplate of Winston Barnett architect. East circular key, Sydney was the site where the first European settlers landed in Australia. This publication provides a historical overview of the site by this highly regarded urban historian. It also examines the contemporary issues that surround the planning and development of East Circular Key. Major redevelopment of East Circular Quay occurred in the 1950s. Wool stores were demolished and replaced by a number of modernist commercial buildings lining the eastern side of Circular Quay. The height limit was increased from 150 feet to 915 feet in 1959, and Circular Quay soon became dominated by skyscrapers. The current publication investigates policy to ameliorate the first post war phase of development seeking urban design solutions.

London Swan Sonnenschein (1902) 1922

3rd edition second issue. This edition of Howard's highly important and influential work on Garden Cities was reissued by George Allen & Unwin Ltd using sheets from the 1902 edition together with insertion of a forward new forward by Sir Theodore Chambers dated June 1922. [viii], [8], 2, [9]-167pp; half-tone frontispiece portrait and three plates; original red publisher's cloth, spine lettered in upper board in lettered in black, foot of spine lettered 'George Allen & Unwin Ltd.' Slightly rubbed else very good. See Printing and the Mind of Man 387. Early edition of this key text on the Garden City principles. Howard (1850-1928) deplored the stream of people, during the nineteenth century, into the already overcrowded cities and, thus, the further depletion of the country districts. As early as 1888 he had derived garden city plans after reading Bellamy's Looking Backward. He determined that the most practical way to realize Bellamy's ideas in England was "to build a private enterprise pervaded by public spirit an entirely new town, industrial, residential and agricultural". This was the idea upon which he enlarged in the present work and which he carried forward nine months later by the formation of a Garden City Association. This copy from the printer Arthur Wiliam Brunt, signed on the front paste down by him and who was closely connected with Letchworth Garden City and wrote the Pageant of Letchworth 1903-4. Marked up with some red underlining identifying the key principles of Howard. Extra folded maps pasted onto the front and rear boards; In front, layout of Letchworth shown in colour with the names of Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker printed. Rear map comprises a key plan showing the relationship of Letchworth to Kings Cross and the wider estate and proposed town and was produced by the First Garden City Limited 1904. Both these maps have some tears along folds but significantly add to the volume in translating Howard's principles into a reality.

New York Free Press 1964-1968

vol 1. Urban development in central Europe. vol. 2. Urban development in the Alpine and Scandinavian countries. vol. 3. Urban development in southern Europe: Spain and Portugal. vol. 4. Urban development in southern Europe: Italy and Greece. vol. 5. Urban development in western Europe : France and Belgium. vol. 6. Urban development in western Europe: the Netherlands an Great Britain. vol. 7. Urban development in east-central Europe: Poland Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. vol. 8. Urban development in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Romania and the U.S.S.R. Large 4to. All very good with slightly worn dust wrappers. Each of the books covers an area of Europe and thus the volumes provide a coherent view of the urbanism in Europe. The intention was to continue the series but after a very long life, Gutkind died.

Jerusalem Government Printer, Survey of Israel Press, Kfar Monash Printing, 1951

79p. of text interleaved with 47 (XLVII) pages of plates and colour maps. Includes a fold out panorama of Jerusalem, & many colour plans showing development projects in the "Abercrombie" style. 4to. Open weave cloth. Printed in Hebrew. English Language text slipped into the end of the book in an envelope. [as issued; the item is printed closely on India paper, runs 31 double-column pages, size is 9. 5 x 6.5 inches] Signed dedicated copy to Sir Patrick Abercrombie from Sharon. Covers scheme for Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv etc within a national planning framework. He trained at the Bauhaus in Germany in the inter war period before moving joining other émigré Jewish architects who settled in Tel Aviv and was instrumental in developing the International Modern Movement Style there but moved into planning in the post war period only to return to architecture as his main occupation in a period after the publication of this key book which shaped post war construction in Israel.