Abercrombie, Patrick

Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie (1879 – 1957) was an influential English urban planner. In the 1920s and 1930s, Abercrombie developed a specialty in regional planning, became chairman of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England in 1926, and was on the Council of the Town and Country Planning Association. He came to national prominence in the 1930s and 1940s for his urban planning of the cities of Plymouth, Hull, Bath, Edinburgh and Bournemouth, and later for his radical plan to redevelop post-war London, for which he is best known.

We stock maps from his Thames Valley Survey (1929) and his Oxfordshire Regional Planning Report (1931), and his post-Second World War redevelopment plans for the capital from the 1943 County of London Plan and the 1944 Greater London Plan (together commonly known as the Abercrombie Plan). The Greater London Plan proposed that physical growth of London should be limited by a green belt, and that in excess of a million people should move out to expanded and new towns beyond it.

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Abercrombie, Patrick

LONDON. East End Post War Reconstruction Areas. A Social Framework 1943 map

LONDON. County of London plan development and Zoning 1943 old vintage map

LONDON. Proposed postwar development/new satellite towns. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON MASTERPLAN. Population density. Wall map. ABERCROMBIE 1944

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Motorways arterial ringways roads M25.ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Railways electrification airports. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Airports & road/rail connections. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Water. Areas of supply. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old vintage map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Electricity. Areas of supply. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Areas of main Sewerage schemes. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

WEST HAM. Proposed postwar neighbourhood structure. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

CANNING TOWN. Proposed post war redevelopment. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

WEST HAM PLAISTOW UPTON PARK.Planned postwar redevelopment.ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

HATFIELD. Proposed town extension & airport. London Plan. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

CHIPPING ONGAR. Development proposals. Greater London Plan.ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

LONDON GROWTH. Urban sprawl 1840-1929.Greater London Plan. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON. Private & public housing built 1918-1939. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. England & Wales road traffic density. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON. Road traffic densities in 1938. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

GREATER LONDON. Proposed area to ban additional industry. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON. Proposed motorways arterial ring roads M25.ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

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