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Redevelopment of Coventry - general material consists of:

Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the redevelopment of Coventry. Includes an application under section I of the Town and Country Planning Act ( 1944) for the redevelopment of Coventry city centre, proceedings of the local public enquiry concerning this application for 25 June 1945 and captions to some missing photographs. There are also 2 pamphlets concerning Coventry's redevelopment and a contemporary street...

Scope and Contents Redevelopment of Coventry - general photographs consists of: 22 black and white photographic prints (9cm x 11.5cm) showing the first architectural model for the proposed redevelopment of the city centre. It was built by members of the Coventry City Architect's Department, under the direction of the City Architect Donald Gibson, during their spare time in, 1939 4 black and white...

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Collection of press clippings and articles concerning the redevelopment of Coventry. These appeared in a number of newspapers and journals including the Indian Forces newspaper "Contact", the "Coventry Herald" and "Illustrated". Authors include Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson and Frank Tilsley

Scope and Contents Redevelopment of Coventry - proposed redevelopment plans consists of a set of 16 copy plans of the proposed redevelopment of Coventry. These cover a number of alternatives for the proposed redevelopment scheme: 5 plans (68cm x 70cm) at 1:2500 scale and are by the city architect, Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson. Each of these plans differs slightly and one is hand-coloured to match the integral...

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4 sketch plans on manuscript pre-prepared base (48cm x 58cm), probably by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates. Themes are hand coloured using felt-tip pens . These show schematic ideas studies for the proposed St James Square Comprehensive Development Area in Edinburgh. Subjects covered are pedestrian circulation, levels, zoning and relative heights of major and distributor roads.

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3 copy large scale Ordnance Survey base plans (76cm x 124cm), with local additions to the detail. A pink hand coloured boundary of the Edinburgh St James Square - Leith Street Comprehensive Development Area is overlaid. The plans show utilities in the area overlaid, one plan each for telephone cables, gas pipes, and sewers and manholes. Depth of the utilities is also shown.

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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.

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2 printed black and white thematic maps of Coventry and Central Coventry (98cm x 128cm), one at 1:2500 scale and 1 at 6 inches to 1 mile scale. These maps have no title, legend or provenance information.

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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.