Item #107941 Town Planning in Practice. An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs. Raymond UNWIN.
Town Planning in Practice. An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs

Town Planning in Practice. An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1909.

Quarto, xxii, 416 pages with 300 illustrations (including photographs, drawings and maps) plus a frontispiece and 7 large folding maps.

Gilt-decorated buckram a little marked, rubbed, bumped, and sunned on the spine; top edge gilt; top corner of the text block a little bumped throughout; endpapers offset, with ownership details on the front one; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy.

The folding maps include those of the cities of Nuremburg, Rothenburg, Karlsruhe and Cologne, all of which were extensively damaged during the Second World War. Provenance: Dr Alan Hutchings (1936-2015), a South Australian town planner, not least the Director of Town Planning for the Monarto Development Commission from 1974 to 1978. He 'published widely in urban design, planning policy and history' (biographical notes to the Alan Hutchings Collection, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia).

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