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City Planning

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Comprehensive Development Areas: Elephant and Castle, 1951-1956

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Elephant and Castle consists of:


  1. assorted photographs and reports, (1955-1956)
  2. plans, (1951-c1955)
Dates: 1951-1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas

Comprehensive Development Areas: general comprehensive development areas files, 1950s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive Development Areas: general comprehensive development areas files consists of:


  1. general files, (1950s)
  2. plans - Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951: areas of comprehensive development, (1951)
  3. plans - Research Group Area plans, (c1950)
Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas

Development plan: "Transport planning and neighbourhood rationalization", 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/1.1.3
Scope and Contents Hand-made folder entitled "Transport planning and neighbourhood rationalization" of mixed manuscript and printed maps (31cm x 42cm) concerning transport planning. The manuscript plans are drawn on transparency in ink and coloured pencil. Some are overlaid on Ordnance Survey plans. The plans cover the geographical process of transport planning and analyses London and neighbourhoods within London in terms of theoretical geographical models and the ...
Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951 / Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951: development plan

Elephant and Castle: assorted photographs and reports, 1955-1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5.1
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous material related to London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 5: Elephant and Castle. The file contains: a draft report on the area, with accompanying correspondence; 4 black and white photographic prints (21cm x 30cm) of an architectural model of the area; a redevelopment brochure and an article published in the Municipal Journal concerning the proposed development.

Dates: 1955-1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Elephant and Castle

Elephant and Castle: drawings, 1955-1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5.2.5
Scope and Contents

5 copy perspective drawings (24cm x 37cm) of the proposed development at London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 5: Elephant and Castle. The drawings show the pedestrianised shopping areas and the multi-purpose office, shopping and entertainment development. The drawings are hand coloured. 2 are the same copy with differing hand colouring.

Dates: 1955-1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Elephant and Castle / Elephant and Castle: plans

Exhibitions: exhibition papers and photographs, 1951-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/5.1
Scope and Contents File of preparation notes, papers and photographs relating to exhibitions which the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's department either organised or participated in. Exhibitions include: "Stepney Housing Progress" by the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, 13-30 April 1959 "Construction and Reconstruction of Towns, 1945-1957" at the International Union of...
Dates: 1951-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: exhibitions

Festival of Britain Exhibition: papers, 1951

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.2a
Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the "Live Architecture" exhibition in the Lansbury Neighbourhood of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar which was staged by London County Council Architect's Department as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. The exhibition showed the newly reconstructed neighbourhood and allowed public access to a number of the buildings. The file consists of: plans of the exhibition, some annotated with route plans for the walking tour;...
Dates: 1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood / Lansbury Neighbourhood: Festival of Britain Exhibition

General comprehensive development areas files: general files, 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9.1
Scope and Contents Set of Percy Johnson-Marshall's working files relating to the London County Council Comprehensive Development Areas. The files comprise: file with a report on actions taken to comply with the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947; notes of planning methods and staffing requirements for individual Comprehensive Development Areas; a report of outstanding planning work for "inner areas" of London, 1950s ...
Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: general comprehensive development areas files

General papers: lectures concerning the reconstruction of Stepney, c1950-1954

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.3
Scope and Contents

File of typescript and manuscript drafts for talks and articles concerning the redevelopment of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. Most are authored by Percy Johnson-Marshall, but other authors are represented including the Architect to the Council, Sir Robert Hogg Matthew.

Dates: c1950-1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: general papers and photographs

General papers: photographs of Stepney / Poplar, 1940-1961

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4
Scope and Contents Photographs of London County Council Comprehensive development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar: east end 1940s, (1940s) east end after reconstruction, (c1955-1961) aerial views, (1937-1951) basic house layouts, (1956) London County Council Housing Department visit, (c1958) historic map of the area, (1950s) ...
Dates: 1940-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: general papers and photographs

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