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Nothing Gained by Overcrowding
Inbunden, 2013
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In his 1912 pamphlet for the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association Nothing Gained by Overcrowding, Raymond Unwin set out in detail the lessons learnt from his formidable practical experience in the design and layout of housing: at New Earswick from 1902, Letchworth Garden City from 1905, and …
Anatomy of the Village
Av Thomas Sharp
Inbunden, 2013
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Thomas Sharp was a key figure in mid-C20 British planning whose renown stems from two periods in his career. First, he came to attention as a polemical writer in the 1930s on planning issues, including as a virulent opponent of garden cities. His prose tempered over time and this phase perhaps …
Plan for Milton Keynes
Av Milton Keynes Development Corporation
Inbunden, 2013
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The UK's largest new town, Milton Keynes, is the product of a Transatlantic planning culture and a plan for a relatively low-density motorised city generously endowed with roads, parklands, and the infrastructure of cabling for communications technology. At its heart was the charismatic and …
Village Housing in the Tropics
With Special Reference to West Africa
Av Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
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Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to suit the climatic and sometimes cultural context of hot countries. These hot countries were labelled `the tropics’ and were often European colonies, …
Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects Town Planning Conference, London, 10-15 October 1910
Av Riba
Inbunden, 2011
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In October 1910 the Royal Institute of British Architects hosted the first ever international conference on Town Planning. The Transactions of this critical event in the development of planning as a profession and as a discipline were published a year later in 1911. Long out of print and very …
Society and Environment: A Historical Review
Inbunden, 2015
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Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a British town planner, editor, and educator. This book includes four of Tyrwhitt’s key texts to illustrate how she forged and promoted a synthesis of Patrick Geddes’ bioregionalism and the utopian ideals of European Modernist urbanism, which influenced post-war …
Condition, Improvement and Town Planning of the City of Calcutta and Contiguous Areas
The Richards Report
Inbunden, 2014
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By 1900 the British had undertaken various types of urban planning in their colonial territories, but the early twentieth century brought new ideas and the birth of the modern planning movement. In India these new planning ideas inspired several specialized reports after 1900, most of which drew …
Principles of Planology
Grondslagen der planologie
Inbunden, 2014
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Between the World Wars the talent of Dutch town planner J.M. de Casseres (1902-1990) found expression in two visionary books and a clutch of influential articles. In an in-depth article published in February 1929 in the magazine De Gids under the title 'Grondslagen der planologie' (Principles of …
Moscow in the Making
Av Ernest Simon, Shena Simon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
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This book, published in 1937, reported on a four week visit to Moscow in 1936 to study the making of Moscow as a showpiece Soviet capital. At its core was the 1935 General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow but the book was a study of planning in the Soviet rather than the Western sense. Thus it …
Garden City Movement Up-To-Date
Inbunden, 2015
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This work was written and compiled by the then Secretary of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association in 1913. It shows just how much the conception of the garden city had been broadened from Howard’s original texts. Indeed the Association’s own name had been broadened to add the newly …
When We Build Again
Inbunden, 2013
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Like many UK cities Birmingham was heavily bombed during the Second World War and as with so many bombed British cities, and many un-bombed ones that jumped on to the re-planning bandwagon, there was a clear imperative to reconstruct. But Birmingham was atypical in how it went about this. The city …
Ghent Planning Congress 1913
Premier Congrès international et exposition comparée des villes
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The Ghent congress on town planning was the first genuinely international conference to address all aspects of civic life and design. Attended by representatives of 22 governments and 150 cities, as well as by hundreds of architects, planners, politicians, and scientists, it marked the culmination …
People and Planning
Report of the Committee on Public Participation in Planning (The Skeffington Committee Report)
Inbunden, 2013
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The Skeffington Committee was appointed in 1968 to look at ways of involving the wider public in the formative stages of local development plans. It was the first concerted effort to encourage a systematic approach to resident participation in planning and the decision-making process, in contrast …
Lusaka: The New Capital of Northern Rhodesia
Av Robert Home
Inbunden, 2013
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This short account of the planning of Lusaka as the new capital of Northern Rhodesia, written for its official opening in 1935 as part of jubilee celebrations for King George V, was printed in a limited edition specifically for that event, and is now very scarce and difficult to obtain, but …
Urban Transformations and the Architecture of Additions
Inbunden, 2014
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Rodrigo Perez de Arce's essay Urban Transformations and Architectural Additions was published during the formative stages of Post Modernism, at the point where theory was becoming seriously established. Jencks' first essays formalising the term Post Modernism in architecture and the revised …
Town Planning for Australia
Inbunden, 2014
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George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ideological in style, it sets out a robust vision for a specifically Australian approach to planning and development of towns in a young country. Taylor …
New Ideals in the Planning of Cities, Towns and Villages
Av John Nolen
Inbunden, 2014
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John Nolen’s New Ideals in the Planning of Cities, Towns, and Villages is the most thorough assessment of city planning written by an American practitioner before 1920. It records the interplay of urban reform in Europe and the United States, the rise of the planning expert, the design of new …
Planning of a New Town
Inbunden, 2015
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The publication of The Planning of a New Town in 1961 aroused remarkable interest. Its pages described a private new town, sponsored by the London County Council (LCC), to be built at Hook in Hampshire; a scheme that innovatively combined Garden City/New Town traditions with sensitivity to modern …
Town Planning for Australia
Häftad, 2018
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George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ideological in style, it sets out a robust vision for a specifically Australian approach to planning and development of towns in a young country. Taylor …
Moscow in the Making
Av Ernest Simon, Shena Simon m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
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This book, published in 1937, reported on a four week visit to Moscow in 1936 to study the making of Moscow as a showpiece Soviet capital. At its core was the 1935 General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow but the book was a study of planning in the Soviet rather than the Western sense. Thus it …
1951 Exhibition of Architecture
Guide to the Exhibition of Architecture, Town Planning and Building Research
Inbunden, 2017
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The Festival of Britain is perhaps best known for its South Bank Exhibition promoting British science and art to the post-war world, but one of the most important elements was the Architecture Exhibition, based in Poplar in East London. This exhibition was used to demonstrate the principles of …
Traffic in Towns
A Study of the Long Term Problems of Traffic in Urban Areas
Inbunden, 2015
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Traffic in Towns, also known as the Buchanan Report, is regarded as one of the most influential planning documents of the twentieth century. The report reflected mounting concern about the impact on Britain’s towns and cities of rapid growth in the ownership and use of motor vehicles. Its purpose …
Manual de Urbanismo (Bogota, 1939)
Volume 1
Av Karl Brunner
Inbunden, 2015
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Unlike European countries where the consolidation of town planning was based on legislative reforms, Latin America’s urbanismo mainly stemmed from urban plans for national capitals and metropolises. Austrian academic and planner Karl Brunner was hired in Chile, Colombia and Panama from the late …
Boston Contest of 1944
Prize Winning Programs
Inbunden, 2015
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During World War II, many European government authorities and planners believed that the damage caused by bombing constituted a great opportunity to transform their cities. Even as the fighting continued, a great many plans were drawn up, and this has been the subject of much scholarship. However, …
Town Planning towards City Development
A Report to the Durbar of Indore
Av Patrick Geddes, Ray Bromley
Inbunden, 2017
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Patrick Geddes is one of the most important figures in planning history, variously presented as an inspiration to regional planning, environmental planning and sustainability, grass-roots planning, citizen democracy, historic preservation, neighbourhood upgrading, university–community partnership, …
Reflections on Urban, Regional and National Space
Three Essays
Inbunden, 2017
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Nishiyama Uzō, educated as an architect between 1930 and 1933, was a key figure in Japanese urban planning. He was a prolific writer who influenced a whole generation of Japanese urban planners and his interpretations of foreign planning and local practice still influence Japanese planning theory …
