Studies in International Planning History

The Garden City Movement Up-To-Date

By Ewart Gladstone Culpin

Series: 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 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...

Published March 8th 2015 by Routledge

The Planning of a New Town

By London County Council

Series: 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 County Council (LCC), to be built at Hook in Hampshire; a scheme that innovatively combined Garden City/New Town traditions with sensitivity to modern...

Published March 8th 2015 by Routledge

The Boston Contest of 1944

Prize Winning Programs

By Jeffry M. Diefendorf

Series: 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 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,...

Published March 8th 2015 by Routledge

1951 Exhibition of Architecture

Guide to the Exhibition of Architecture, Town Planning and Building Research

Edited by Harding McGregor Dunnett

Series: 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 most important elements was the Architecture Exhibition, based in Poplar in East London. This exhibition was used to demonstrate the principles of...

Published December 31st 2014 by Routledge

Urban Transformations and the Architecture of Additions

By Rodrigo Perez de Arce

Series: Studies in International Planning History

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 ...

Published August 28th 2014 by Routledge

Town Planning for Australia

By George Taylor

Series: 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 ideological in style, it sets out a robust vision for a specifically Australian approach to planning and development of towns in a young country.&...

Published August 28th 2014 by Routledge

New Ideals in the Planning of Cities, Towns and Villages

By John Nolen

Series: Studies in International Planning History

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 towns...

Published August 28th 2014 by Routledge

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

The Richards Report

By E. P. Richards

Series: 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 and the birth of the modern planning movement. In India these new planning ideas inspired several specialized reports after 1900, most of which drew...

Published August 28th 2014 by Routledge

Principles of Planology

Grondslagen der planologie

By JM de Casseres

Series: 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 influential articles. In an in-depth article published in February 1929 in the magazine De Gids under the title 'Grondslagen der planologie' (...

Published August 28th 2014 by Routledge

Moscow in the Making

By Ernest Simon, Shena Simon, W. A. Robson, J. Jewkes

Series: 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 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...

Published August 28th 2014 by Routledge