Author: George J. H. NorthcroftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Garden Cities and Town Planning Magazine
Author: George J. H. NorthcroftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Garden Cities and Town Planning
Author: Industrial Letchworth
Author: Letchworth Local History Research GroupPublisher: Hertfordshire Publications
ISBN: 9781912260287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
In spite of being named the first 'Garden City', Letchworth was conceived as a model industrial town built on enterprise and employment. Never intended to be merely a pleasant place to live, it needed to be large enough to encourage the mass movement of manufacturers and their employees from overcrowded cities and to function as a self-supporting new town. In this richly illustrated account, Letchworth Local History Research Group look in detail at the town's foundation in the early 1900s and the energetic organisation and administration that enabled it to get off the ground quickly and successfully. Based on new research into a wealth of source material, the book puts to rest some of the enduring myths about the garden city, revealing a nuanced picture of the founding of a working community. The collaborative efforts of First Garden City Ltd (FGC), the development company for the new town, are a key focus. Extremely well-connected, experienced and highly influential, the senior management of FGC (including Ebenezer Howard), together with a team of engineers as well as architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, were able to provide key infrastructure and sites for development in keeping with a clear strategy. Naturally there were challenges and the need for capital to maintain momentum posed considerable difficulties. But strong leadership saw the fledgling town through some tough periods, including the first world war. The second part of the book comprises a detailed gazetteer of the industries that established themselves in Letchworth in its early years, with rare archive photographs showing both premises and workers. From printing and publishing, to motor manufacture, foundries, clothing and pioneering cinematic companies, the story of Letchworth's early industry is lively and unique.
The Commercial Motor
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Housing Betterment #Apr. 1921#-1927
Author: Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: The Municipal Review of Canada
Author: Building the Workingman's Paradise
Author: Margaret CrawfordPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860914211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site. By 1930 more than two million people lived in such towns, dotted across an industrial frontier which stretched from Lowell, Massachusetts, through Torrance, California to Norris, Tennessee. Margaret Crawford focuses on the transformation of company town construction from the vernacular settlements of the late eighteenth century to the professional designs of architects and planners one hundred and fifty years later. Eschewing a static architectural approach which reads politics, history, and economics through the appearance of buildings, Crawford portrays the successive forms of company towns as the product of a dynamic process, shaped by industrial transformation, class struggle, and reformers' efforts to control and direct these forces.
Housing
Author: Council Housing and Culture
Author: Alison RavetzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134553749
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Council Housing and Culture makes clear the importance of council housing to twentieth-century life and culture. A major thread through the work is the interaction of council housing with evolving working-class patterns and aspirations.