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The Garden City Utopia:
a critical biography of Ebenezer Howard
London, Macmillan. 1988
xii + 206pp illustrated with b/w grainy photographs and illustrations. Very good copy with dust wrapper.
Stock ID: 21239More details Price: £45.00 -
The Next War:
The British Industries Fair
London Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, 1916
66pp Red paper boards, titles in black lettering. Worn and dusty binding.
Stock ID: 22165More details Price: £35.00 -
The Pioneer Co-Partnership Suburb
A record of Progress issued as a souvenir of the visit T R H The Duke and Duchess of Connaught to declare open the Brentham Club and Institute of the Ealing Tenants Limited and published by Co-Partnership Publishers Limited 1912
Letchworth Garden City Press undated [1990]
Facsimile reprint. 33pp illustrated with b/w plates + [c8]pp period ads. Decorated wrappers. Includes colour and folded map of Brentham Garden Suburb. This garden suburb, near Pitshanger in Ealing, was the first garden suburb in London to be built in cooperative principles, predating the larger and better-known Hampstead Garden Suburb by some years. It was mostly built between 1901 and 1915. Reprint of original documentaion.
Stock ID: 21253More details Price: £28.00 -
Towers for the Welfare State:
An architectural history of the British Multi Storey Housing 1945-1970
Edinburgh The Scottish Centre for Building Conservation Studies 2017
274pp illustrated. Wrappers. New. An account of the vision and sense of mission in building tower blocks as a way of providing mass housing.
Stock ID: 22091More details Price: £25.00 -
Town-Building in History: an outline review of conditions, influences, ideas and methods affecting planned towns throughfive thousand years
George G Harrap and Co Limited 1956
with over 500 plans and illustrations.4to. Good in sl. worn and chipped dust wrapper. Beautifully illustrated and a major study on city building.
Stock ID: 2260More details Price: £50.00 -
Welwyn, Hertfordshire
Stock ID: 21425More details Price: £170.00
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Where the Great City Stands: a study in the new civics
London The Essex House Press 1917
xii + 165 + (3)pp + 80 plates. 4to. Decorative boards, cloth spine. Good copy but blank front end paper removed. 4to A plea by Ashbee to incorporate the ideals of the Arts and Crafts Movement into city planning and urban life. Ownership inscription on half title of William Porter. FRSA.
Stock ID: 21551More details Price: £265.00 -
Your inheritance - uncomic strip
Architectural Press nd c1941
Unpaginated c80pp. Small 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Detached and a little faded. Also advertises a competition (1940) run by the Housing Centre for ideas on improving the state of the environment in Britain. Attractive item from the authors of the Architectural Review although none are named directly. The subject of the uncomic strip is a piece of land.
Stock ID: 22603More details Price: £16.00