Nothing Gained by Overcrowding

Raymond Unwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• In his 1912 pamphlet for the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association Nothing Gained by Overcrowding , Raymond Unwin set out in detail the lessons ... Lees meer

Moscow in the Making

Ernest Simon, Shena Simon, W a Robson, J Jewkes

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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... Lees meer

The Condition, Improvement and Town Planning of the City of Calcutta and Contiguous Areas

E P Richards

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• By 1900 the British had undertaken various types of urban planning in their colonial territories, but the early twentieth century brought new ideas an... Lees meer

Lusaka: The New Capital of Northern Rhodesia

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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 cele... Lees meer

Principles of Planology/Grondslagen Der Planologie

Jm De Casseres

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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 influenti... Lees meer

The Plan for Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes Development Corporation

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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 ge... Lees meer

Town Planning for Australia

George Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ide... Lees meer

Traffic in Towns

Colin Buchanan

• Hardcover | Studies in International Planning History
• Originally published in 1963 in London by H. M. Stationery Office. Lees meer

Town Planning for Australia

George Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ide... Lees meer

Moscow in the Making

Ernest Simon, Shena Simon, W a Robson, J Jewkes

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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... Lees meer

Village Housing in the Tropics

Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry, Harry L Ford

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to s... Lees meer

When We Build Again

Bournville Village Trust

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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 ... Lees meer

Ghent Planning Congress 1913

• Hardcover | Engels, Frans, Duits | Studies in International Planning History
• The Ghent congress on town planning was the first genuinely international conference to address all aspects of civic life and design. Attended by repr... Lees meer

The Garden City Movement Up-To-Date

Ewart Gladstone Culpin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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 concep... Lees meer

The Planning of a New Town

London County Council

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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 Cou... Lees meer

Europe Rehoused

Elizabeth Denby

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• Europe Rehoused was one of the most influential housing texts of the 1930s, and is still widely cited. Written by the housing consultant Elizabeth Den... Lees meer

Manual de Urbanismo (Bogota, 1939)

Karl Brunner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• Unlike European countries where the consolidation of town planning was based on legislative reforms, Latin America's urbanismo mainly stemmed from urb... Lees meer

People and Planning

The Skeffington Committee

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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 w... Lees meer

1951 Exhibition of Architecture

Harding McGregor Dunnett

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• 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 mo... Lees meer

The Boston Contest of 1944

Jeffry M Diefendorf

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in International Planning History
• During World War II, many European government authorities and planners believed that the damage caused by bombing constituted a great opportunity to t... Lees meer