Forty, FJ

Ring roads, building-height zones and a proposed Thames embankment set out wartime plans to rebuild the City of London in th...

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Ring roads, building-height zones and a proposed Thames embankment set out wartime plans to rebuild the City of London in these maps by F. J. Forty. Forty, the City Engineer, drew them for Reconstruction in the City of London, published by B. T. Batsford in 1944 on Ordnance Survey bases and printed by Charles Skipper & East. They record the 1939 street layout, railways and major subways, traffic flows surveyed in 1904 and 1935, pedestrian movement, sewers, narrow streets, existing building heights and surface use in 1936. A 1943 survey of redevelopment opportunities and plans for land acquisition and traffic circulation show what the City proposed to build.

Ring roads, building-height zones and a proposed Thames embankment set out wartime plans to rebuild the City of London in these maps by F. J. Forty. Forty, the City Engineer, drew them for Reconstruction in the City of London, published by B. T. Batsford in 1944 on Ordnance Survey bases and printed by Charles Skipper & East. They record the 1939 street layout, railways and major subways, traffic flows surveyed in 1904 and 1935, pedestrian movement, sewers, narrow streets, existing building heights and surface use in 1936. A 1943 survey of redevelopment opportunities and plans for land acquisition and traffic circulation show what the City proposed to build.

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