Research Catalog

Title

Raymond Unwin : garden cities and town planning / Mervyn Miller.

Author

Miller, Mervyn.

Publication

Leicester [England] ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1992.

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Details

Description

x, 299 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"The environmental consequences of the industrial revolution caused mounting concern in the late 19th century. Public health and housing reform were followed by controls over the use and development of land, characterised as 'town-planning' in the early 1900s. The best-known pioneer of planning was Sir Raymond Unwin (1863-1940). Inspired by Morris and Fabianism he designed new prototypes for working class housing. The design of twentieth century housing, new suburbs and new towns perhaps owes more to Unwin, and to his great works in New Earswick, Letchworth and Hampstead Garden Suburb than to any other individual."--BOOK JACKET. "The biography is both an appreciation of his life and a definitive critical study of his works. Though centred on his British planning activities, it deals at length with his critical 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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Unwin, Raymond, Sir, 1863-1940
• Unwin, Raymond, Sir, 1863-1940
• Unwin, Raymond 1863-1940
• Unwin, Raymond, Sir, 1863-1940 > Criticism and interpretation
• Unwin, Raymond
• Architects > England > Biography
• Architects
• Gartenstadt
• Geschichte
• Stadtplanung
• Städtebau
• Tuinsteden
• Stadsplanning
• Garden cities > Great Britain
• City planning > Great Britain
• Architects > Great Britain > 20th century
• City planners > Great Britain > 20th century
• Relations villes-campagnes
• Architecture > Angleterre (GB)
• England
• London > Region

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 To Speak of Planning is to Speak of Unwin (starting p. l) -- 2 'Prentice Period (starting p. 10) -- 3 New Earswick -- Prototype for Community Design (starting p. 35) -- 4 The First Garden City -- Vision and Reality (starting p. 49) -- 5 Hampstead, the Unique Garden Suburb (starting p. 78) -- 6 The Theory of Housing and Town-planning, 1901-14 (starting p. 104) -- 7 Nothing Gained by Overcrowding (starting p. 126) -- 8 Foundations for a Public Career (starting p. 139) -- 9 Housing for Heroes (starting p. 161) -- 10 The Green Background -- Shaping the Greater London Region (starting p. 189) -- 11 The Natural Order of Planning (starting p. 210) -- 12 The Patriarch of Planning (starting p. 223) -- 13 The Man and the Planner (starting p. 238) -- Notes (starting p. 253) -- References (starting p. 272) -- Index (starting p. 289)

ISBN

• 0718513630
• 9780718513634

LCCN

91044165

OCLC

• ocm25008191
• 25008191
• SCSB-1953220

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library