Other Collections and Projects on Planning and Architectural
Collections
- The Percy John-Marshall Collection
http://www.johnson-marshall.lib.ed.ac.uk/
- Percy Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993) was an urban designer, regional planner and
educator. The collection comprises a wide range of material connected with architecture and planning.
- The Sir Basil Spence Archive Project
http://www.basilspence.org.uk/
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/research/basil_spence/
- This project is
examining the work of Sir Basil Spence, drawing on the extensive archive of drawings, designs, office papers,
press-cuttings and photographs
- Archive of Lord Holford
http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/index.html
- The archive comprises photocopies of letters and
original letters, resumi of contents of Holford's letters to
his family 1925-27, and correspondence 1977-79 regarding the
deposit of the papers of Holford at the University of Liverpool
- The Max Lock Centre
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/builtenv/maxlock/MLArchive.htm
- The Centre is based on the archive of papers, letters, notebooks and publications of Max Lock and the Max Lock Group.
- Sir Patrick Geddes Archives
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/geddesmenu.htm
http://www.strath.ac.uk/archives/ua/pg/
- Geddes held the Chair of Botany
at University College Dundee between 1888 and 1919. During his
time as Professor of Botany at University College Dundee, he
travelled extensively in America lecturing at many
universities and published widely on town planning and urban studies.
- The M R G Conzen Collection
http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/umrg/mrgc.htm
- MRG Conzen (1907-2000) came to
England as an emigré in 1933 and began a career that created
the Anglo-German school of urban morphology. Working in the
Geography Department of what would become the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, Conzen produced a series of ground
breaking studies, perhaps the most important of which, Alnwick, Northumberland was published in 1960.
- Sir George Pepler Papers
http://www.strath.ac.uk/archives/ua/sirgeorgelpeplerpapers/
- Sir George Pepler (1882-1959) trained as a surveyor but was
drawn to housing and town planning. In 1913 he was
instrumental in founding the Town Planning Institute for which
he remained both Honorary Secretary and Treasurer , and was
twice President from 1919-1920 and 1949-1950.
- Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Papers
http://www.strath.ac.uk/archives/ua/thepapersofjaquelinetyrwhitt/
- Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a pioneer in the field of
modern town planning. She devoted most of her life to teaching
and research, and spent the latter part of her life
disseminating town planning research through her editorship of
the international journal Ekistics.
