Letchworth First Garden City Limited 1911

88pp illustrated with b/w plates. Each plate has a caption providing the location. From page 75 to the end are period adverts mainly for fixtures and fittings for houses and facilities for the new garden city. Long 8vo. Paper covered boards with paste down label on upper board. Boards darkened and papr label rather soiled. Internally a good copy. Excellent visual resource for the garden city and particularly the contributions of Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Hard to find.

London, Faber and Faber Ltd 1941

Foreword by Frederick Osborn. 36pp Stamp of Housing Trust on title page and page following in faint ink.

London Croom Helm 1980

376pp. Wraps. Good copy. From the collection of Gerald Dix with his signature on front end paper.

London Royal Institute of British Architects 1939

79pp lxi advertisements. b/w plates. Small 4to. Illustrated paper wrappers Some shelf-wear otherwise good. Small chip missing from upper wrapper. Exhibition handbook number 9. A well illustrated overview of early road planning.

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.

London P S King and Son Ltd 1932

94 + [2]pp. Wraps. Upper wrapper has titles printed. Spine lettered in manuscript with title. Foreword by S D Adshead. Curious publication on subjects including "The Streamside Walk" and "Building Line" and "Cul-de-sac". Uncommon. Beaufoy was based at Liverpool and in his preface mentions Raymond Unwin's famous study of Town Planning in Practice.

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.

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.

1976

Volume 1. 49pp with full page maps and perspective drawings. This is a survey report providing background data on the area and results of hydraulic texts, etc and provides the development argument. Vol 2 Housing Scheme 15pp, line ills, plans and elevations of proposed scheme designed by Manasseh. Long large 4to. Spiral bound titles. Volume 1 has air view of the area on upper wrapper and Volume 2 had notional housing scheme in b/w on upper wrapper. Fascinating report which preceded the development of this part of Eastbourne formerly a wild life reserve and area of sand dunes etc. From the library of the late Leonard Manasseh, without signature.

London, Macmillan. 1988

xii + 206pp illustrated with b/w grainy photographs and illustrations. Very good copy with dust wrapper.

Chicago Theobald 1949

195 pages, including 121 b&w plates, 4to. Very good indeed in sl. worn dust wrapper which is chipped at head and base of spine.. Useful text by this key architect, urban planner and educator. Hard to find. In the book Hilberseimer aspired to construct an agrarian urbanism which again seems to be a topical subject. , Along side other planners he saw agrarianism as a kind of bridge between the rural practice of subsistence farming and the increasingly vulnerable urban workforce imagining that workers might rotate between factory jobs and collective farm work. Fascinating period item. His unbuilt scheme advocated in this text runs parallel to Frank Lloyd Wright's "Broadacre City" (1934–35),and Andrea Branzi's "Agronica" (1993–94.)

HMSO 1963

Reports of the Steering Group and Working Group Appointed By the Minister of Transport. 223pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white and duotone illustations. Well produced maps, some fold outs, diagrams and splendid townscape illustrations by Kenneth Browne. Large 4to. Very good with slightly worn and rubbed dust wrapper which is chipped at the head and base of the spine. From the collection of Gerald Dix with his ownership signature.

London Civic Trust 1988

49 pp. B/w photographs, drawings and diagrams throughout. 4to. Decorated firm card covers. Vg. Civic Trust report considering the impact of urban wastelands throughout England, and how the problem can be addressed. With detailed statistical content and proposed plans. Content includes the Trust's previous 1977 report, the 1987 survey, and topics 'Why Wasteland is a Problem' and 'What Should Be Done Now?'. Appendix for 'Government Action' and 'Any Lessons from Europe?'. For anyone concerned with the quality and sustainability of the environment.