Town Planning in Practice

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Town Planning in Practice is a seminal early 20th-century book on urban planning that helped shape modern town planning principles and the garden city movement.

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instanceOf book
non-fiction book
urban planning book
author Raymond Unwin
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
describes approaches to improving existing cities
methods for planning new towns
principles of the garden city
focusesOn aesthetic principles in town planning
housing design and layout
open spaces and parks
street layout and circulation
suburban development
the relationship between town planning and social welfare
zoning and land use
genre professional literature
technical manual
hasAuthorRole Raymond Unwin as leading garden city planner
hasPart case studies of towns and cities
illustrations
plans and diagrams
historicalContext industrialization and urban crowding in late 19th and early 20th centuries
rise of statutory town planning in the United Kingdom
influenced British town planning legislation
Garden city movement
surface form: garden city movement

modern town planning principles
planning education in the United Kingdom
influencedBy Ebenezer Howard’s garden city ideas
Letchworth Garden City
early 20th-century social reform movements
language English
notableFor influence on early British town planning practice
role in shaping the garden city movement
systematic exposition of town planning principles
publicationYear 1909
publisher T. Fisher Unwin
relatedWork Garden city movement
surface form: Garden Cities of To-morrow
subject city planning
garden city movement
housing and urban development
town planning
urban design
urban planning
timePeriod early 20th century
usedAs reference work for planners
textbook in planning education

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