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Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise.
Stock ID: 22580More details Price: £320.00 -
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 -
Problems of Reconstruction Lectures and Addresses, Delivered at the Summer Meeting at the Hampstead Garden Suburb, August, 1917
London. T Fisher Unwin Ltd 1918
315pp. Cloth. Slightly faded on the spine. Arranged in four sections. I First Principles of Reconstruction 2 Reconstruction and Education 3 Social and Industrial Reconstruction 4 Arts and Crafts in relation to Reconstruction. Contributors included many luminaries of the day including J H B Masterman, Henrietta Barnett, Sidney Webb, Henry Clausen, C A Voysey, May Morris and many others. Fascinating assembly of liberal minds of the day. Faint stamp of Guildford Labour Party Bookshop probably contemporary with issue of the book.
Stock ID: 22119More details Price: £85.00 -
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: 21982More details Price: £45.00 -
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. Ownership stamp on front end paper. Hard to find.
Stock ID: 22114More details Price: £60.00 -
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 -
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 -
Rebuilding Britain Series no 1-9
1. Overture to Planning by F J Osborn, w. Britain's Town and Country Pattern: A summary of the Barlow, Scott and Uthwatt Reports with intro by G D H Cole by Nuffield Reconstruction Survey, 3. The War and the Planning Outlook by W A Robson, 4. Planning for Living by Clough Williams Ellis, 5. Industry and Town Planning by Roland Pumphrey, 6. The Land and Planning by F J Osborn, 7. Planning and the Countryside by the Town and Country PLaning Association, 8. The Social Foundation of Post-War Building by Lewis Mumford and 9. Civic Design and the Home by Arnold Whittock.
Stock ID: 20898More details Price: £65.00
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The Building of Satellite Towns.
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. First edition
Stock ID: 21008More details Price: £140.00 -
Urban Structuring, Studies of Alison and Peter Smithson.
London Studio Vista, 1967.
96pp, illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and drawings. Small 4to. Decorated wrappers. Thes are slightly browned else very good. Catalogue showing the town planning and architectural design practices of Alison and Peter Smithson.
Stock ID: 20286More details Price: £25.00 -
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: 16433More details Price: £45.00 -
Rural Housing
Third Report of the Rural Housing Sub-Commit tee of the Central Housing Advisory Committee
London, His Majesty's Stationery Office 1944
67pp. 8vo. Pamphlet with contrasting paper covers. Very good copy of this report.
Stock ID: 14605More details Price: £12.00 -
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: 14598More details Price: £24.00 -
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 -
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: 13475More details Price: £14.00