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The Worlds of Patrick Geddes:
Chapel Hill The University of Carolina Press 1944
Frontis portrait of Patrick Geddes, xv + 504pp, b/w illustrations and figures including fold out plan. Large 8vo. Boards. Foreword by Lewis Mumford. A thorough and insightful biography and study of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) life as well as his innovative ideas and action which have shaped town planning and urban sociology ever since. Hard to find.
Stock ID: 22114More details Price: £60.00 -
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 and Country Planning (Development Plans) Regulations 1948
Circular No.59. Statement on the preparation of development plans with an appendix containing notiations for the prescribed maps.
London, His Majesty's Stationary Office 1948
12pp with 3 loose folded pages (252 x 432mm) and 3 loose pages (140 x 210mm) offering notations to maps slotted into place at back of pamphlet. 8vo. Very Good.
Stock ID: 14593More details Price: £20.00 -
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