Urban Renewal
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Redevelopment of Coventry - general material, 1939-1945
Redevelopment of Coventry - general material consists of:
- general papers, c1945
- general photographs, 1939
- press clippings and articles, 1940-1944
- plans,c1941-1943
Redevelopment of Coventry - general papers, c1945
Redevelopment of Coventry - general photographs, 1939
Redevelopment of Coventry - press clippings and articles, 1940-1944
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
Redevelopment of Coventry - proposed redevelopment plans, c1941-1943
St James Square CDA, c1963
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.
St James Square - Leith Street Comprehensive Development Area, 1963
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.
The Coventry No 1 Town Planning Scheme, Map No 2, 1931
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.
Thematic maps of central Coventry, unknown
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.
University of Edinburgh Central Area, c1962
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.