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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GREATER LONDON. Built-up areas & open land in 1939. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

GREATER LONDON. Population change up/down 1921-1938. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

GREATER LONDON. Housing built <1918, 1918-1939. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

OXFORDSHIRE PETROL FILLING STATIONS. Red=filling stations prohibited 1931 map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Local authorities within the area. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Four Rings. Green belt suburbs. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

OXFORDSHIRE PUBLIC SERVICES. Sewage waste & water supply. ABERCROMBIE 1931 map

OXFORDSHIRE. Traffic Density. Volume of Traffic. ABERCROMBIE 1931 old map

LEE VALLEY. Broxbourne. Planned recreation centre. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

GREATER LONDON. Railways routes. Industries Markets.ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

GREATER LONDON PLAN. Open Space Footpath system. ABERCROMBIE 1944 old map

LONDON. Open spaces & Park system. space plan; Region & City 1943 old map

GREATER LONDON. Development of industrial areas to 1939. ABERCROMBIE 1944 map

LONDON. Communications. Traffic Densities 1943 old vintage map plan chart

LONDON. Planned inner ring road system. Classification of Roads 1943 old map

HOXTON. Post war redevelopment Key plan 1943 old vintage map chart

HOXTON. Post war redevelopment plan. Stage 2 of Reconstruction 1943 old map

LONDON.Use,Density,Height Zoning.plan preliminary industrial plans 1943 map

LONDON. Period Planning. 1st & 2nd Proposals; plan 1943 old vintage map chart

Town plan of ABINGDON, Oxfordshire. Thames Valley 1929 old vintage map chart

Town plan of WALLINGFORD, Oxfordshire. Thames Valley 1929 old vintage map

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