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Paris: birds eye view from the north of Isle de la Cite, c 1914
Bird's eye view of Paris from the North. Depicts a possible scheme that was never implemented. Cartouche on bottom left hand side with Geddesian diagram. Signature illegible on bottom right hand side. Text written in blue chalk reads "Paris Sociological Interpretation". Appears in Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition, exhibit number 674.
The medieval city of Nûrnberg, c.1910
Hand drawn map of the walled medieval city of Nuremberg. Undated and unattributed.
Drawings and plans of Nûrnberg, c.1910
The abbey dissolved and transformed in later times, c.1914
An aerial oblique view derived and transformed from a typical abbey of the Middle Ages (Ref: Coll-1167/A/4/5)
Oblique view of Turin from the south, 1833, c.1914
Lithograph, oblique aerial view from the south, by Alfred Guesdon and lithographed by Springer. This plan is of the Renaissance city, before the coming of the railway, demonstrating the retention of the Roman grid layout. Coll-1167/A/5/2 and A/5/4 are on one sheet.
Map of Turin, c.1903
Printed map, most likely to have been cut from Baedeker's Northern Italy Handbook for Travellers. The Geographical Institution of Wagner & Debes, Leipzig, provided many of the maps for the Baedeker publications.
Plan and views of Turin, 1833, c.1914
Plan and general views of Turin
Forest rides in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1870, c.1914
Photograph of a plan of the Bois de Boulogne park reduced from a larger map. Shows the sets of radiating forest rides. Extract from Geddes, P., Cities in Evolution (1946) reads "What now of the radiating plan so dear to modern French architects?. Note here the obvious illustration of its origin in the forest rides laid out for the safety, convenience & pleasure of the hunt."
Plan de la ville d'Ypres, c.1910
Plan de la ville d'Ypres with inscription 'conservation du noyau de la ville,- Amenagement des extensions extra muros'. 2 signatures.
Map of Freudenstadt and its environs, 19th Century
Map of Freudenstadt and environs. Photolithograph by Carl Eber, Stuttgart. Property of R. Unwin. Freudenstadt in Germany in the 19th century. A city of Protestant Refugees.