Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became alarmed by the destructive forces of Post-war reconstruction. Between the 1950s and the 1970s he was in the forefront of the movement to save the city, becoming an acclaimed author sympathetic to preservation.

Ironically it was the Modernist ethos that he had so fervently advocated before the war that was the justification for the dismemberment of great cities by officials, engineers and planners. This was not the first...

Before the Second World War, Christopher Tunnard was a landscape architect who championed the cause of Modernism. After the war however, he became alarmed by the destructive forces of post-war reconstruction and, between the 1950s and the 1970s, became a a vociferous advocate for civic preservation. and conservation.