Urban Renewal
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Coventry housing - opening of the Canley Estate houses, 18 December 1941
Programme for the opening of the houses on the Canley Estate, Coventry on 18 December 1941 which was attended by the City of Coventry Housing Committee and the City Architect Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, representing the Coventry City Architect's Department.
Coventry housing - panoramic view of Coventry, c1940
1 copy of 3 small panoramic views of Coventry city centre showing proposed new buildings: police and law courts, chapter house and civic buildings. These are shown in relation to existing buildings and in particular the Cathedral.
Coventry housing - photographs of the Canley Estate houses, c1941
This file contains a set of 8 labelled black and white photographic prints (15.5cm x 18.5cm) of the housing scheme at Canley Estate, Coventry, and some of the associated negatives on one sheet. There is also a photograph (11.5cm x 12cm) of a planning drawing, probably of the Canley Estate, and 2 black and white photographic print (16cm x 21cm) showing a block of flats under construction.
Coventry housing - plans, c1940
Coventry housing - plans consists of:
- house type plans, c1940
- proposed nursery plans,4 June 1940
- panoramic view of Coventry,c1940
Coventry housing - press clippings, 1940-1944
This file contains press clippings and journal articles by Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson concerning Coventry City Council's experimental pre-fabricated housing and other new housing developments.
Coventry housing - proposed nursery plans, 4 June 1940
2 manuscript plans in pencil on tracing paper by WGC Bell showing complete plans for a proposed nursery building for Coventry. The plans include an integral air-raid shelter in the basement of the pram-shed.
"Coventry of tomorrow" exhibition, 1940
"Coventry of Tomorrow" series consists of:
- flyers, programmes, black and white photographic prints (some mounted), press clippings and administrative details, 1940
- visitor's book for the exhibition, 1940
- administrative correspondence concerning the organisation of the exhibition, 1940
Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department, 1939-1944
Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department consists of:
- general papers, photographs, press-clippings and plans, 1939-1945
- photographs, press-clippings and plans concerning housing development in Coventry, c1940-1944
- personal material concerning Percy Johnson-Marshall's employment, 15 March 1941
Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates, 1962-1985
Reconstruction: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1944
File containing an article by Percy Johnson-Marshall entitled "Reconstruction and the Services" submitted to the editor of the United Services Institute Journal 22 November 1943, a copy of Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction Progress Sheet no 145, drawing of a spider and press clippings relating to reconstruction.