City Planning

  • LUTYENS, Edwin. and ABERCROMBIE, Patrick.
    A Plan for the City and County of Kingston upon Hull

    Hull A. Brown and Sons Ltd 1945

    92pp text, 13 folded maps in colour, full page visionary sketches of the future city and 48 b/w plates documenting the city buildings and townscape. Large 4to. Vg copy in slightly worn dust wrapper. Hull was one of the most bomb-damaged cities in the North of England during WW2. Superb publication of the scheme to reconstruct the city and improve the Region. This copy supplied with its original posting box, this worn and split on the corners.

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  • A Study of the Work of Seebohm Rowntree: by [ROWNTREE] BRIGGS, Asa
    [ROWNTREE] BRIGGS, Asa
    A Study of the Work of Seebohm Rowntree: 1871-1954: Social thought and social action.

    London Longmans 1961

    x +371pp illustrated with frontispiece. Very good with slightly chipped dust wrapper.

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  • Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise. by (Deutsche Gartennstadt-Gesellschaft, [German Garden City Soceity])
    (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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    Stock ID: 22580
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  • Signed copy HALPRIN, Lawrence
    Cities

    New York Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963

    224pp. with many black and white photographic illustrations. Long 4to. Open weave cloth. Black spine lettering. An analysis of urban forms and functions by this notable post-modern landscape designer. Signed by Lawrence Halprin on half title in a bold hand.

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  • LEVER, W. H.
    Co-Partnership: An address by Sir William H Lever Bart. To members of the Agricultural and Horticultural Association at the "One and All" Club London Thursday 13th June 1912

    Port Sunlight Printed by Lever Brothers Ltd., no date

    24pp. Paper wrappers. Very good. Considers the nature of co-partnership or profit sharing. June 1912 The Hon. H.A. Stanhope residing. Lecture stating the principles of co-partnership by Lever who was a commitment advocate of this approach to business at Port Sunlight. Ownership stamp of D Burpee on upper wrapper.

    Stock ID: 19074
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  • HMSO: Ministry of Town and Country Planning
    Conservation of Nature in England and Wales Report of the Wild Life Conservation Special Committee (England and Wales) Cmd. 7122

    London, His Majesty's Stationary Office 1947

    [TANSLEY REPORT] v + 139pp. 8vo. Pamphlet. Previous owner's name, date and location in ink on front cover. Pocket on back cover missing items and reverse cover stained with rust marks from staples. Good copy otherwise of this important report.

    Stock ID: 14598
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  • Devon - A Survey of its Coast, Moors, and Rivers with some Suggestions for their Preservation by THOMPSON, Harding W.
    THOMPSON, Harding W.
    Devon - A Survey of its Coast, Moors, and Rivers with some Suggestions for their Preservation For the Devon Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. With a Preface by THE HON. SIR JOHN FORTESCUE.

    London University of London 1932

    xx, + 144pp. Frontispiece, 6 folding maps, 44 plates, 3 text plans. Large 4to. Cloth. In unclipped and fine dust wrapper.

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  • Dramatisations of History by GEDDES, Patrick.
    GEDDES, Patrick.
    Dramatisations of History The Masque of Ancient Learning and Its Many Meanings and II the Masque of Medieval and Modern Learning and Its Many Meanings

    London Sociological Publications Ltd, Edinburgh Patrick Geddes and Colleagues Bombay, The Modern Publishing Company 1923

    6th edition. 198pp Paper decorated wrappers. Very good although small tear at base of the spine. Printed at the Huxley Press, Madras.

    Stock ID: 23224
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  • (IFHTP) The International Federation for Housing and Town Planning
    Final Report of the 18th Congress of the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning Hastings 1946

    London, published by the organisation 1946

    234pp. Stiff card wraps. Small 4to. Very good copy. Congress held 7-12 October 1946. Focus was on post war reconstruction. Papers were read relating to Exeter, London, Rotterdam,Liege, Warsaw and France in general. Contributors included Patrick Abercrombie, Thomas Sharp, Sir George Pepler,Catherine Bauer, Baston Bardet, Uno Ahren,H G van Beusekom, Netherlands and many others. The findings represent a great gathering of minds in the immediate post-war period where post war reconstruction and planning issues were discussed. A major group of papers were given over to the approaches to implementation.

    Stock ID: 22918
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  • MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PLANNING
    Housing for Special Purposes: Supplement to the Housing Manual 1949

    HMSO 1951

    43pp, illustrated with bw photographs and detailed miniature floor plans. Paper wrappers. Very good. Reports on student housing, hostels, housing for the elderly and disabled, and the housing needs of district nurses.

    Stock ID: 13475
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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.

    Stock ID: 22309
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  • [LETCHWORTH]
    Letchworth: A Town in the Country

    Letchworth First Garden City Ltd., nd c1930

    88pp, illustrated with b/w plates and with a large fold out plan at the end. Decorated wrappers in colour illustrating Letchworth on upper wrapper and advertising land for sale on verso. Illustrated wrappers by Fardon. Very good. Illustrations include elevations and plans of houses constructed as well as the major buildings of Letchworth including the shopping centre, Spirella factory, museum and St Christopher's School. Hard to find in this condition and reveals the effort made in the interwar period to promote Letchworth as a garden city.

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  • [LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY]
    Letchworth: A town in the country. A description of its advantages

    Letchworth Office of the First Garden City Ltd. [1937] no date

    24pp, 13 sepia illustrations, 10 of which are tipped in. Long 4to. Ribbon tied. Paper wrappers illustrated with woodcut of Letchworth in colour. Wrappers slightly worn. Some annotations in pen, possibly corrections to the text made by the Estate Office. Hard to find. Interwar promotion for Lethworth.

    Stock ID: 23346
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  • RAWCLIFFE, Carole & WILSON, Richard (Ed.)
    Medieval Norwich

    London Hambledon & London 2004

    440 pp. 29 plates, 30 text illustrations, 15 maps, 4 tables. 8vo. Good, although small tear in dust jacket. For several hundred years Norwich ranked as England's second city. This multi-authored, extended book is the first for many years and includes the richness of the city's history and archaeology.

    Stock ID: 23374
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  • [NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE] BURNS, Wilfred.
    Newcastle 1961 - Central Area Redevelopment Proposals First Report of the City Planning Officer

    Newcastle City and Council of Newcastle Upon Tyne 24th March 1961

    46pp. B/w photographs, maps, diagrams and line drawings throughout. 4to Cloth-backed laminate boards. Very slight wear at spine edges else very good. Detailed report of redevelopment proposals for the Newcastle Central Area, supported by fold-out maps and diagrams. Brief introduction and background to history and character of the area. Written by then-City Planning Officer.

    Stock ID: 16433
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  • Our Scottish Towns by [WOMENS WELFARE SCOTLAND]JOHNSON, Thomas. [Foreword]
    [WOMENS WELFARE SCOTLAND]JOHNSON, Thomas. [Foreword]
    Our Scottish Towns Evacuation and Social Future: A report by the Scottish Women's Group on Public Welfare

    Edinburgh William Hodge & Co Ltd for the Scottish Women's Group on Public Welfare 1944

    45pp. Wrappers slightly worn else good.

    Stock ID: 23269
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  • TECTON
    Planned A.R.P.

    Architectural Press 1939

    138pp illus. with b/w ills and plates. Small 4to. Red lettered cloth, sl. sunned and worn at top of spine and some foxing sporadically found throughout and on book block. A good copy otherwise, of this key text on air raid attacks and methods for countering these. Based on the investigation of structural protection against air raid attack in the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. Bookplate on front paste down: "The Final Examination, Qualifying for Candidature as Associate. RIBA. The Ashpitel Prize, 1938 awarded to George Gaze Pace."

    Stock ID: 22717
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  • ROWNTREE, B. Seebohm.
    Portrait of a City's Housing: being the results of a detailed Survey in the City of York 1935-9

    London, Faber and Faber Ltd 1945

    54pp. Wrappers. 8vo. Edited with an introduction and comments by R. L. Reiss. Drawn from work related to Rowntrees' studies first published in Poverty and Town Life and other publications, which Reiss suggests were not well enough circulated because of the outbreak of World War II. Hard to find.

    Stock ID: 23207
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  • Poverty: A Study of Town Life. by [ROWNTREE] ROWNTREE, Seebohm
    [ROWNTREE] ROWNTREE, Seebohm
    Poverty: A Study of Town Life.

    Nelson Nelson Pocket edition no date c1912-13

    2nd edition. Good with slightly worn dust wrapper. xx + 496pp. Includes tables in the text. 16mo. Decorated end papers. Nelson shilling library series thus making accessible the findings of the original study.

    Stock ID: 23389
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  • [CONSETT] HARDY-SYMS. R.
    Preliminary Report on Internal Improvement Scheme Consett Urban District Council

    London Published by the author 1925

    57pp, 14 plates and diagrams and a fold out plan. Large 4to. Wrappers. A little worn on spine else good copy. Aimed at improving housing conditions and facilities for the large mining population of Consett. Hard to find. Useful inter-war planning approach for the area revealled.

    Stock ID: 21982
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