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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: 20827More details Price: £60.00 -
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 -
Welwyn, Hertfordshire
Stock ID: 21425More details Price: £170.00 -
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