Raymond Unwin : garden cities and town planning
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Raymond Unwin : garden cities and town planning
Leicester University Press, 1992
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Raymond Unwin : garden cities & town planning
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Bibliography: p. [272]-288
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sir Raymond Unwin (1863-1940) was one of the best-known pioneers of town planning. Inspired by Willian Morris and Fabianism he designed new prototypes for working class housing. The design of 20th-century housing, new suburbs and new towns perhaps owes more to Unwin, and to the works in Letchworth, New Earswick and Hampstead Garden Suburb than to any other individual. This biography is both an appreciation of his life and a critical study of his works. Though centred on his British planning activities, it also deals with his role in international planning, particularly in North America, and his place at the foundations of the town Planning Institute and the heart of the architectural profession.
Table of Contents
- To speak of planning is to speak of Unwin
- 'prentice period
- New Earswick - prototype for community design
- the first Garden City - vision and reality
- Hampstead, the unique garden suburb
- the theory of housing and town planning 1901-14
- nothing gained by overcrowding
- foundations for a public career
- housing for heroes
- the green background - shaping the Greater London region
- the natural order of planning
- the patriarch of planning
- the man and the planning.
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