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Urban Renewal

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

City and Borough of Coventry, Development Plan 1951 - town map, 1951

 Item
Identifier: PJM/CCC/B/2/2
Scope and Contents

Brown and black overprinted Ordnance Survey map (102cm x 145cm), at a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile, by city architect and planning officer Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson. The map is shows land use and accompanies the Coventry Development Plan 1952.

This plan is very fragile.

Dates: 1951

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

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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

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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

The Coventry No 1 Town Planning Scheme, Map No 2, 1931

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Identifier: PJM/CCC/B/2/1
Scope and Contents

Colour overprinted Ordnance Survey map (102cm x 132cm), at a scale of 4 inches to 1 mile, by city engineer HE Ford. The map is colour coded to show housing density, reserved land and building type along with proposed communications improvements.

Dates: 1931

University of Edinburgh Central Area, c1962

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.12
Scope and Contents

2 manuscript 1:500 transparencies, probably by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates, one of the Potter Row / Nicolson Street area of the University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area (50cm x 50cm) and one of the future Bristo Square area (71cm x 87cm). These plans are probably traced from Ordnance Survey plans and intended as base maps for future plans.

Dates: c1962