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Town planning in practice : an introduction to the art of designing cities and suburbs

First published in 1909, Raymond Unwin's Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs is an extraordinary compendium of images and theories on urban design. As a member of the generation of planners following Camillo Sitte and preceding the emergence of the modern planners of the 1920s, Unwin considered planning a design-based discipline rather than a purely technical one. He believed that artistic and practical criteria were mutually supportive and carried this out in his work by creating plans that represented a unity of art, science, and technology. Unwin is perhaps the greatest figure of the Garden City movement, which has had a tremendous impact on planning in both Europe and the United States. Although Town Planning has become the bible of neo-traditionalist planners, this book is not a nostalgic view of past planning ideas; rather, it is a useful, forward-looking book that holds valuable lessons for today's planners.

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  • "First published in 1909, Raymond Unwin's Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs is an extraordinary compendium of images and theories on urban design. As a member of the generation of planners following Camillo Sitte and preceding the emergence of the modern planners of the 1920s, Unwin considered planning a design-based discipline rather than a purely technical one. He believed that artistic and practical criteria were mutually supportive and carried this out in his work by creating plans that represented a unity of art, science, and technology. Unwin is perhaps the greatest figure of the Garden City movement, which has had a tremendous impact on planning in both Europe and the United States. Although Town Planning has become the bible of neo-traditionalist planners, this book is not a nostalgic view of past planning ideas; rather, it is a useful, forward-looking book that holds valuable lessons for today's planners."@en
  • "First published in 1909, Raymond Unwin's Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs is an extraordinary compendium of images and theories on urban design. As a member of the generation of planners following Camillo Sitte and preceding the emergence of the modern planners of the 1920s, Unwin considered planning a design-based discipline rather than a purely technical one. He believed that artistic and practical criteria were mutually supportive and carried this out in his work by creating plans that represented a unity of art, science, and technology. Unwin is perhaps the greatest figure of the Garden City movement, which has had a tremendous impact on planning in both Europe and the United States. Although Town Planning has become the bible of neo-traditionalist planners, this book is not a nostalgic view of past planning ideas; rather, it is a useful, forward-looking book that holds valuable lessons for today's planners."
  • "This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...to represent those which purpose to cross from one side street into the other. A reference to the illustrations will make this clear. German town planners now constantly break the direction of their cross roads as shown in Illus. 174 partly in order to secure this Illus. 173.--Relative number of collision points at different road junctions. A and B diagrams as given by Camilla Sitte; C and D as given by Dr. Stiibben. imagined immunity from collision, but also to secure the closing of the street vistas. In Illus. 1740 the view up the two cross streets is indefinitely prolonged, while in Illus. 174 the view is in each case definitely closed by the buildings opposite; moreover (Illus. 174c), the arrangement affords an opportunity for creating a small place with one of its angles closed, and the view into it from two of the streets, a closed view. There is, however, much to be said in favour of the theory upon which the French school of town planners have acted, that it is in every way advantageous for traffic that a number of streets should meet at one point, and that ample provision should here be made for its circulation. Where the traffic is sufficiently dense to be necessarily controlled by a police officer it would seem wise to reduce the number of points requiring this control, and wherever the traffic is sufficiently dense for Camillo Sitte's collision points to represent even approximately the truth, it will also be dense enough to require police regulation. On the other hand, in cases where the traffic is comparatively sparse, the chances of collision would be but slightly greater at a point where many roads meet than at the point where one road joins another. Danger arises, and delay is caused to traffic, by every change of direction of the vehicle, ..."

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  • "Town Planning and Modern Architecture at the Hampstead Garden Suburb"
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