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Title Old Towns and New Needs; also the Town Extension Plan
Author Paul Waterhouse and Raymond Unwin
Year 1912
Publisher University of Manchester
Location Manchester
Source djvu
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Contents.
page
Note iv

List of Illustrations.
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Old Towns and New Needs.
By Paul Waterhouse, M.A., F.R.I.B.A. 1–30

The Town Extension Plan.
By Raymond Unwin, F.R.I.B.A. 33–62
List of Illustrations.

Fig. 1. Wren's Plan for rebuilding the City of London after the Fire, placed among the present surroundings of the City.
To face page 10
Fig. 2. An "over-and-under" or viaduct crossing. A proposed treatment for the intersection of the main avenues, advocated by the Royal Commission on London Traffic.
To face page 17
Fig. 3. A suggested "gyratory crossing" round All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, in connection with one of the Avenues proposed by the London Traffic Commission. The arrows indicate the course of the traffic.
To face page 19
Fig. 4. Plan of a City on a river approached by eight main roads. Each road is bifurcated before entering the centre of the town.
page 22
Fig. 5. Diagram illustrating a town developed on a definite plan.
Between pages 48 and 49
Fig. 6. Diagram showing similar areas each of 10 acres, developed with a larger or smaller number of houses to the acre, together with the cost of development.
Between pages 52 and 53
Fig. 7. Diagram illustrating the increased area of land required for building purposes if the whole of the population, in a town having an annual increase of 17,000 people, were provided for (I.) at the rate of 34 houses per acre, and (II.) 15 houses per acre.
page 55
Fig. 8. Diagram showing how to reduce the pressure of population in the centre of London by one third its present inhabitants.
To face page 60
Fig. 9. Diagram illustrating how the population which can be accommodated in a town increases much more rapidly than the average distance of the dwellings from the centre of the town.
To face page 60
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