City Planning

  • A Town Called Alcan, 4 Circuit Linear Towns, Alcan The Scanner and Notation: The Observant Layman's Code for his Environment by ALCAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED
    ALCAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED
    A Town Called Alcan, 4 Circuit Linear Towns, Alcan The Scanner and Notation: The Observant Layman's Code for his Environment

    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…

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    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.

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  • (Deutsche Gartennstadt-Gesellschaft, [German Garden City Soceity])
    Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise.

    Berlin Berlin, Deustsche Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft and Renaissance Publishing, Robert Ferdern 1910

    188pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Cloth backed and illustrated boards. Front end paper detached and frayed, last four pages have scattered foxing else very good. Documents a study trip by the German Garden City Society. Their tour took in New Earswick (the Joseph Rowntree garden village on the outskirts of York), Port Sunlight, Bournville, Letchworth Garden City and Hampstead Garden Suburb. It included visits to study public housing schemes in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and London. Efforts were made to make the German delegation welcome. The little touches included a floral reception gate at New Earswick with a German inscription "A Warm welcome our German cousins" and a lunch…

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    Berlin Berlin, Deustsche Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft and Renaissance Publishing, Robert Ferdern 1910

    188pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Cloth backed and illustrated boards. Front end paper detached and frayed, last four pages have scattered foxing else very good. Documents a study trip by the German Garden City Society. Their tour took in New Earswick (the Joseph Rowntree garden village on the outskirts of York), Port Sunlight, Bournville, Letchworth Garden City and Hampstead Garden Suburb. It included visits to study public housing schemes in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and London. Efforts were made to make the German delegation welcome. The little touches included a floral reception gate at New Earswick with a German inscription "A Warm welcome our German cousins" and a lunch at Port Sunlight. The publication includes a list of members and guests in the auditorium at Port Sunlight who attended the lunch. This was a large delegation of visitors including a number of well known architects of the day active in Germany. (Includes Luwig Mies - aka Mies van der Rohe) as a young man.

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  • Britain by Mass-Observation by [MASS OBSERVATION] MADGE, Charls and HARRISON, Tom
    [MASS OBSERVATION] MADGE, Charls and HARRISON, Tom
    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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  • [DURHAM COUNTY] GEENTY, William A.
    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: by [OSBORN] WHITTICK, Arnold.
    [OSBORN] WHITTICK, Arnold.
    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 by GRENFELL BAINES, George.
    GRENFELL BAINES, George.
    Fallowfield Residential Development Master Plan Report November 1959

    Preston Grenfell Baines and Hargreaves Chartered Architects 1959

    74pp typescript + dyeline reproductions of the architectural drawings illustrating the scheme. Bound with brass binder screws and with green leather binding, title in gilt lettering on upper board. The report describes the though processes which led to the development of Fallowfield to serve Manchester University's community by designing a University Student Settlement. The plan introduction notes "The general idea is that the University should develop the site as a university residential community…. the idea is social as well as residential…" Following the production of the master plan, Building Design Partnership implemented the project incorporating Ashburne and Woolton Halls with the new scheme at Owens Park based around a high-rise block…

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    Preston Grenfell Baines and Hargreaves Chartered Architects 1959

    74pp typescript + dyeline reproductions of the architectural drawings illustrating the scheme. Bound with brass binder screws and with green leather binding, title in gilt lettering on upper board. The report describes the though processes which led to the development of Fallowfield to serve Manchester University's community by designing a University Student Settlement. The plan introduction notes "The general idea is that the University should develop the site as a university residential community…. the idea is social as well as residential…" Following the production of the master plan, Building Design Partnership implemented the project incorporating Ashburne and Woolton Halls with the new scheme at Owens Park based around a high-rise block constructed in 1964. Owens Park is currently the subject of a new masterplan. A fascinating period document which sought solution to issues faced by Manchester University in the post war period to house its expanding student population and which has contemporary relevance in considering tackling the upgrade of post war student accommodation.

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  • [HARLOW] FISHER, John.
    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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  • [ACCRINGTON] ALLEN, J. S. and MATTOCKS, R. H.
    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 by [LONDON HEALTH EXHIBITION 1884]
    [LONDON HEALTH EXHIBITION 1884]
    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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  • [JACOBS] ALEXIOU, Alice Sparberg
    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]
    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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  • [ODSAL]
    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 by NEW IDEAL HOMESTEADS LTD
    NEW IDEAL HOMESTEADS LTD
    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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  • Collected pamphlets on post war reconstruction OSBORN. F J et al...
    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.

    London Faber and Faber 1941

    Collected pamphlets on aspects of planning particularly relating to post war reconstruction. Pagination separate for each title: Each of these titles were produced as individual titles in wrapper and this is a collected edition: Pagination is no 1 29pp, no 2 111pp no 3 28pp no 4 36pp no 5 36pp no 6 56pp no 7 40pp no 8 40pp no 9 39pp. Wrappers no bound in. Bookplate of R W Paterson on front paste down and on the half title of some of the pamphlets. Front end paper has hand written list of items which make up the whole publication which is useful for navigating between the nine items bound together. Blue cloth,…

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    London Faber and Faber 1941

    Collected pamphlets on aspects of planning particularly relating to post war reconstruction. Pagination separate for each title: Each of these titles were produced as individual titles in wrapper and this is a collected edition: Pagination is no 1 29pp, no 2 111pp no 3 28pp no 4 36pp no 5 36pp no 6 56pp no 7 40pp no 8 40pp no 9 39pp. Wrappers no bound in. Bookplate of R W Paterson on front paste down and on the half title of some of the pamphlets. Front end paper has hand written list of items which make up the whole publication which is useful for navigating between the nine items bound together. Blue cloth, this a bit shabby else a good and very useful collection of material which together addresses most of the contemporary planning issues relating to post-war reconstruction.

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  • [HAMPSTEAD] CREWE, Marquess of [ introduction ]
    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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  • [BARLOW REPORT]
    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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  • JACKSON Frank
    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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  • DE SOISSONS. Louis and KENYON. Arthur, William.,
    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. by PURDOM, C. B.
    PURDOM, C. B.
    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: 21008
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  • The City: its grown, its decay, its future by SAARINEN Eliel.
    SAARINEN Eliel.
    The City: its grown, its decay, its future

    New York, Reinhold Publishing Company 1943

    First edition. 380pp illustrated with 50 figures including 2 fold outs in colour, b/w line illustrations and maps. Cloth with red lettered titles on spine and upper board. A very good copy. One fold out has been badly folded into the book. Key book distilling Saarinen's ideas on the design written towards the end of his eventful career which began in Helsinki and ended in Michigan, Ohio. He combined planning, architecture and industrial design in his output.

    Stock ID: 20827
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