Main entry:

Osborn, Frederic J. (Frederic James), 1885-1978, author.

Title & Author:

New towns : their origins, achievements, and progress / Frederic J. Osborn and Arnold Whittick ; introd. by Lewis Mumford.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication:

London : Leonard Hill ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.

Description:

xvii, 505 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-494) and index.
PART ONE -- New Towns in Modern Times -- The Functions and Failings of Towns -- The Experimental New Towns -- Town Growth and Government Intervention -- Evolution of New Towns Policy -- Legislation for New Towns -- The Finance of New Towns -- The Town and Country Pattern -- Antagonisms to New Towns -- New Towns in Regional Plans -- Achievement, Challenge and Prognostic -- International Influence of the New Towns Movement -- The Human Environment: The People's Awakening -- PART TWO -- NEW TOWNS IN THE LONDON REGION -- Stevenage -- Crawley -- Hemel Hempstead -- Harlow -- Welwyn Garden City -- Hatfield -- Basildon -- Bracknell -- Three Later South-East Region Towns -- Milton Keynes -- Peterborough -- Northampton -- NEW TOWNS IN THE NORTH-EAST -- Newton Aycliffe -- Peterlee -- Washington -- NEW TOWNS IN THE NORTH-WEST -- Skelmersdale -- Runcorn -- Warrington -- Central Lancashire -- NEW TOWNS IN THE MIDLANDS -- Corby -- Telford -- Redditch -- NEW TOWNS IN WALES -- Cwmbran -- Newtown and Mid-Whales -- NEW TOWNS IN SCOTLAND -- East Kilbride -- Glenrothes -- Cumbernauld -- Livingston -- Irvine -- Changes in Planning New Towns.

ISBN:

0249441403
9780249441406

Subject:

New towns Great Britain.
City planning Great Britain.
Villes nouvelles Grande-Bretagne.
City planning.
New towns.
New Towns.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Great Britain.
New towns Great Britain, to 1977

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Whittick, Arnold, 1898-1986, author.
Whittick, Arnold, 1898-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 37069
Call No.: W7582; ID:88-B8121
Status: Available