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City Planning

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 311 Collections and/or Records:

City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh Development Plan: St James Square (Leith Street etc) Comprehensive Development Area - Programme map for Comprehensive Development Area map no 5 (amended), c1963

 Item
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.15
Scope and Contents

Linen backed copy of 1:1250 Ordnance Survey Plan (65cm x 70cm), with local amendments, overlaid with phasing boundaries for the St James Square (Leith Street etc) Comprehensive Development Area. These were to take place over 20 years. The plan is hand-coloured and plot acreages are given. The hand coloured legend includes total acreages per phase.

Dates: c1963

City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh development plan: University: Nicolson Street Comprehensive Development Area, 1972

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.4
Scope and Contents

Set of 4 coloured manuscript themed plans by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh overlaid on an Ordnance Survey 1:1250 scale mosaic base map (90cm x 120cm). One is a zoning map with coloured areas indicated for phases 1-4, each phase taking 5 years. One shows the levels of surveys required in certain areas, one shows electoral ward boundaries and one shows compulsory purchase designations in the area, with total acreages.

Dates: 1972

City of Edinburgh Planning and Transport Study - reports, 1971

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A/1.2
Scope and Contents

3 reports commissioned for the City of Edinburgh Planning and Transport Study by the Corporation of the City of Edinburgh. These give proposals for managing traffic in Edinburgh, including provision for cars and pedestrians. The reports were collected by Percy Johnson-Marshall as part of his work for the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning.

Dates: 1971

City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning: minutes, reports and correspondence, 1964-1976

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/A/1.1
Scope and Contents

Mixed file of papers relating to Percy Johnson-Marshall's work for the City of Edinburgh Working Party on Major Highway Planning. The papers document details of various schemes for a new road infrastructure for Edinburgh and include: feasibility reports, committee minutes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs of models, related articles and plans. Many of these papers document proposals for an inner ring motorway for Edinburgh.

Dates: 1964-1976

City of London: general, 1947-1958

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.1
Scope and Contents

City of London: general consists of material relating to the London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London:


  1. notes of meetings, (1947-1958)
  2. general development proposals plan, (31 December 1951)
Dates: 1947-1958

City of London: New Barbican, c1953-1959

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2
Scope and Contents Photographs, plans and reports, collected by Percy Johnson-Marshall while in charge of the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. These concern the redevelopment of the Barbican area of London's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London reports and the public enquiry, (1953-1959) redevelopment plans,...
Dates: c1953-1959

City of London: notes of meetings, 1947-1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.1.1
Scope and Contents General file of papers relating to London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London. The file includes correspondence and meeting notes for a London County Council Architect's Department / Corporation of London City Planning Office liaison meeting. There is also an appendix of notes for a plan, correspondence relating to the Corporation of London Improvements and Town Planning Committee and two serials with articles relevant to the redevelopment of the City of...
Dates: 1947-1958

City of London: Saint Paul's Cathedral Precinct, c1950-1959

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.3
Scope and Contents

Plans and papers relating to the the St Paul's Precinct area in London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London:


  1. papers and photographs, (1956-1959)
  2. plans, (c1950-1956)
Dates: c1950-1959

City of London: Tower of London Precinct, c1957-c1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.4
Scope and Contents

File of papers relating to London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 4: Tower of London Precinct. The file contains a planning brochure for the planned precinct, a layout plan by the Corporation of London City Planning Office overdrawn on an Ordnance Survey plan at 1:1250 scale (possibly reduced in size), and some typescript notes concerning the area.

Dates: c1957-c1959

Collected reports and plansregarding Coventry's redevelopment, 1931-1959

 Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/B
Scope and Contents

Research regarding Coventry series consists of:


  1. reports from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department, 1955-1959
  2. City Centre development plans from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department, 1931-1956
Dates: 1931-1959