000 01221 a2200169 4500
020 _a9781147190939
082 _a711.4
_bUNW
100 _aUnwin, Sir Raymond
_946098
245 _aTown planning in practice :
_ban introduction to the art of designing cities and suburbs
260 _aLondon
_bT. Fisher Unwin
_c1909
300 _a416,xivp.
505 _aCONTENTS Preface ix I.Of Civic Art as the Expression of Civic Life 1 II.Of the Individuality of Towns, with a Slight Sketch of the Ancjent Art of Town Planning . 15 III.Of Formal and Informal Beauty 115 IV.Of the City Survey 140 V. Of Boundaries and Approaches 154 VI. Or Centres and Enclosed Places 175 VII.Of the Arrangement of Main Roads, their Treat- ment and Planting 235 VIII.Of Site Planning and Residential Roads 289 IX.Of Plots and the Spacing and Placing of Buildings and Fences. 319 X.Of Buildings, and how the variety of Each must be dominated by the harmony of the whole 360 XI.Of Co-operation in Site Planning, and how Common Enjoyment benefits the Individual 375 XII. Of Building Bye-laws 386 Bibliography 405 Index 411
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