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 most significantly at Hampstead Garden Suburb, where the 'artisans' quarter' 1907-9 was probably his masterwork of spatial design.
In his 1912 pamphlet for the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association 'Nothing Gained by Overcrowding', Raymond Unwin set out in detail the lessons...
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, or countries that had recently won their independence. Fry & Drew s book, written on the threshold of the end of the British Empire, was one of the first publications to offer practical advice to architects working in the tropics, based on the empirical studies they conducted whilst based in British...
Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to s...
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 culminated in "Town Planning, " first published in 1940 and reputed to have sold over 250,000 copies. Subsequently the plans he produced for historic towns in the1940s, such as Oxford, were very well known and were influential in developing ideas of townscape. "
Anatomy of the Village" originated...
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 polem...
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 of a series of events which helped to form the world of town planning at the start of the twentieth century.
Ghent illustrates three key themes for the history of town planning. First, the transactions of the congress include papers from some of the most significant theorists and practitioners...
The Ghent congress on town planning was the first genuinely international conference to address all aspects of civic life and design. Attended by r...
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 deserves to be made more widely available for scholars of planning and urban history, and especially all interested in African urban development.
The planning of Lusaka was a prestige project for British indirect rule administration in Africa during the 1930s, in the recovery from the Great...
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 c...
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 modern town planning that had been laid out by Abercrombie in particular in his County of London Plan.
The project was named after George Lansbury, the Labour MP, London County Council (LCC) member and Poplar councillor. It was an effective demonstration of planning ideas adopted...
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...
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 explicitly on British, or occasionally German, ideas. The most complete of these studies was the Richards Report on Calcutta, prepared for the Calcutta Improvement Trust and published in 1914. Its major concerns included the building and widening of roads, slum clearance and improvement, legislation,...
By 1900 the British had undertaken various types of urban planning in their colonial territories, but the early twentieth century brought new ideas an...
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 Learning from Las Vegas were published the previous year. In planning terms, modernism had become associated with comprehensive redevelopment and forms of urban organisation that ignored context, history and any sense of tradition. De Arce considered the essential nature of buildings and the richness of...
Rodrigo Perez de Arce's essay Urban Transformations and Architectural Additions was published during the formative stages of Post Modernism, at the po...
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 1920s to advise in the professional and academic domains, marking a shift from the so-called Ecole Francaise d Urbanisme (EFU) of Haussmannesque descent towards the Austrian-German "Stadtebau,"
While coordinating the municipal office and plan for Bogota, Brunner translated his "Manual de...
Unlike European countries where the consolidation of town planning was based on legislative reforms, Latin America s "urbanismo" mainly stemmed fro...
