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The Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects Town Planning Conference, London, 10-15 October 1910 The Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects Town Planning Conference, London, 10-15 October 1910 Introduction by William Whyte Routledge R Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK CONTENTS. Portraits : Hon. President, President, Secretary-General—Frontispiece Preface [John W. Simpson] ....... iii PART I. RECORD OF THE CONFERENCE. PAGE Portraits of Chief Officials of Sub-Committees, &c. plate Organisation—Membership—Designs for Conference Badge, Poster, Handbook cover, Banquet Card—Railway Facilities—Receptions—Exhibitions—Professor Geddes' Exhibit—Order of Procedure at Meetings—Programme— Letter from the American Civic Association I Committee of Patronage . .12 Executive Committee . .13 Committees of the Executive . 14 Honorary Interpreters . .14 Representatives of Corporations, Councils, and Societies . 16 List of Members . -3° INAUGURAL MEETING ........ 58 Address by the President, Mr. Leonard Stokes . - 59 Inaugural Address by the Hon. President, the Right Hon. John Burns, M.P. .62 Telegram fromthe King .......75 Vote of Thanks to Mr. Burns [Sir Aston Webb] . 76 VISITS AND EXCURSIONS : Reports— Letchworth Garden City [Courtenay Crickmer] . 77 Hatfield House [J. Alfred Gotch and Harold I. Merriman] 77 Hampton Court Palace [H. P. G. Maule] ...80 Bedford Park, Chiswick [Maurice B. Adams] ...80 L.C.C. Housing Estate, White Hart Lane [W. E. Riley] 82 St'. Paul's, The Tower, St. Bartholomew the Great [Percy W.Lovell] ........82 Greenwich Hospital [F. Dare Clapham] .... 83 Hampstead Garden Suburb [Raymond Unwin] . 83 Bridgewater House and Dorchester House [Septimus War­ wick] 84 Regent's Park and Avenue Road Estate [H. A. Hall] . 84 Houses of Parliament and Westminster Hall [G. J. T. Reavell] 85 Westminster Abbey 85 Inns of Court [C. Harrison TOwnserid] . .86 Bournville . ' . .86 vi Transactions of the Town Planning Conference, Oct. 1910. PAGE VISITS (continued) : Bath [Mowbray Green] ....... 87 Port Sunlight [George Hornblower]..... 88- Oxford [Edward Warren] . 89, Cambridge [Maurice E. Webb] ..... 91 BANQUET : Speeches— The Right Hon. John Burns 94 . The President 99 Lord Redesdale ........ 99 • • Sir L. Alma-Tadema ....... 101 Mr. Sidney Colvin ........ 101 Professor Eberstadt 103: Sir Aston Webb ........ 105 Mr. Daniel H. Burnham ....... 106 M. Louis Bonnier ........ 107 Mr. Leslie Vigers ........ 108 Portraits of some of the Readers of Papers .... plate PART II. PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS. SECTION I.—CITIES OF THE PAST. THE PLANNING OF HELLENISTIC CITIES [Professor Percy Gardner] IN Illustrations. Plan of Priene 112 Restoration of Priene ....... plate Agora of Priene 116 Market Building at JEgae 117 House of Assembly: Reconstruction . .118. House at Delos ........ 120 TOWN PLANNING IN THE ROMAN WORLD [Professor F. Haver- field] 123 Illustrations. A Chinese Colony in Central Asia . .124 Florence: The Centro . .125, Timgad (Roman Africa) . .126 Silchest'er: General Outline . .127 Detailed Plan of Part of Silchester . , .128 Plan of Caerwent . plate Augusta Treverorum, Trier . .131 ROME [Dr. Thomas Ashby] 133 Illustrations. Hydrography and Chorography of Ancient Rome . 134 The Wall of " Roma Quadrata," Palatine . 135 The Cloaca Maxima 135 Contents. vii PAGE Servian Wall on the S.W. Side of the Aventine 136 Ponte S. Angelo before completion of Modern. Embankment 139 Column of Trajan and Basilica Ulpia .... 140 Temple of Venus and Rome on the Velia 141 Arch of Aqua Marcia, built by .Augustus, incorporated in the Aurelian Wall as the Porta Tiburtina 142 TheCuria .........143 Basilica of Constantine from the Palatine 144 Plan of Rome (Harris and Senex) ..... plate ENTWICKLUNG DES STADTEBAU-IDEALS SEIT DER RENAISSANCE (THE EVOLUTION OF THE IDEAL IN TOWN PLANNING SINCE THE RENAISSANCE) [Dr. A. E. Brinckmann] . Illustrations. Piazza della Signoria, Florence Piazza in Livorno ...... Scamozzi's Ideal Town Plan .... Plan showing position of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome Carlo Fontana's Design for the Piazza of St. Peter's at Rome ...... Portici degli Uffizi, Florence Perret de Chamb^ry's Ideal Town Plan Place Roy ale, Nancy . Rousset's Scheme for Place Louis XV. Roland Levirloy's Ideal Town Plan . Design for the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin by Bourdet Plan showing grouping of Buildings round Qpera House Berlin ...... Ludwigstrasse, Munich Translation of Dr. Brinckmann's Paper . THE FOUNDATION OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH GOTHIC TOWNS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE [Dr. A. E. Brinckmann] Illustrations. Carcassonne Plan of Carcassonne Albi Plan of Cordes A- View of Cordes . Sainte-Foy la Grande Sauveterre-de-Guienne : Plan Mons^gur: Plan .... " Villes-neuves " in the Garonne Basin Market-Place of Libourne Aigues-Mortes .... Montauban, showing its Gothic Bridge Discussion. Professor Reginald Blomfield r 77, 180 Professor Lanciani 177, 179 T. C. Horsfall .... • 179 Colonel Plunkett .... • 179 Professor Gardner .... • viii Transactions of the Town Planning Conference, Oct. lgio. PAGE John Mitchell ......... 179 John S. Brodie ........ 180 Professor D. Reid Keys . 181 Matt. Garbutt' . • . i8r Councillor R. M. Cameron . ; • .182 Councillor John S. Galbraith . .182 SECTION II.—CITIES OF THE PRESENT. TOWN PLANNING AND THE PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT FEATURES [Professor G. Baldwin Brown] ..... 187 CITIES OF THE PRESENT AS REPRESENTATIVE OF A TRANSITION PERIOD IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT.—THE EVIDENCE OF STANDARDISED STREETS [Charles Mulford Robinson] . 200 NOTICE SUR LES ARCHITECTURES OBLIC.ATOIRES DANS LA VILLE DE PARIS (NOTES ON THE REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PLANNING AND DESIGN OF BUILDINGS WITHIN THE CITY OF PARIS) [M. Louis Bonnier] ...... 208 Illustrations. Place des Vosges . .212 Place Vendfime . 213 Place Saint-Sulpice . 215 Rue de Rivoli . 215. Place de la Concorde ...... 216, 217 Translation of M. Bonnier's Paper ....... 222 CAUSE AND EFFECT IN THE MODERN CITY [H. V. Lanchester] . 232 Illustrative Diagram . .234 Discussion. John A. Brodie 237 Thomas Adams 238 Dr. Hegemann ........ 239 Colonel G. T. Plunkett ....... 240 Benjamin Hall Blyth ....... 241 Edward Warren ........ 241 Arthur E. Collins ....... 241 F.S. Baker .........242 Sir Aston Webb . 242 James A. Morris . 243 SECTION III.—CITY DEVELOPMENT AND EXTENSION. THE CITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN [Raymond Unwin] • 247 Illustrations. Model of Extension for Gotenburg • 249 Combination of Site and Architecture • • 251 Heath Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb . • 255 The Parkway, Philadelphia . 258 Contents. ix PAGE Chicago : Plan . • . 260 Portion of the Fairmount Parkway..... 261 View looking down Proposed Madison Avenue Extension to. Union Square, New York ...... 262 Diagonal Approach to Blackwell's Island Bridge at Fifty- ninth Street . ... 263 The Great Gallery of Palmyra . 264 Ditto, General Plan . 264 DU DEVELOPPEMENT ET DE L'EXTENSION DES VILLES (THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TOWNS) [A. Augustin Rey] ..........266 Translation of M. Rey's Paper ...... 274 Discussion. Thomas C. Horsfall . ... 282 Councillor the Rev. Dr. Walter Walsh .... 282 F. R. Durham ........284 Peter Macnaughton . • . 284 Sir Richard Surtees Paget . 285 Councillor May ........ 285 H. G. Ibberson ........286 Dr. Sidney Cameron Lawrence 286 Mr. Justice Neville ........ 288 CITY DEVELOPMENT [W. E. Riley] ...... 291 Illustrations. Sir Christopher Wren's Plan for rebuilding the City of London, and the Holborn-Strand Improvement . ( . 293 Aldwych Entrance of the Holborn to Strand Improvement . 294 View of Tower Garden from Terrace..... 295 White Hart Lane Estate: Plan . 297 View from Tower Garden looking East . 299 Five-Room Cottages, Corner of Awlfield Avenue . 301 D'Arcy Buildings, Hackney ..... 303 Caledonian Road Buildings : Courtyard Gardens . 304 NEUKE FORTSCHRITTE IM DEUTSCHEN STADTEBAU (RECENT PRO­ GRESS IN GERMAN TOWN PLANNING) [Dr. H. J. Stubben] . 306 Translation of Dr. Stiibben's Paper ...... 309 Illustrations. Rue des Pierres, Bruges . 312a Anger-Strasse in Erfurt . 312b Maximilian-Strasse in Augsburg . .312b Alstadt-Strasse in Landshut . .312c Arnulf-Strasse in Munich . 312d The Fishery Quarter in Briinn . -312s Konigsberg : North Western Extension . .312/ Landshut : New Station Quarter . 312^ Landshut: The Station Square .....312k Landshut: New Market Place . • 3121 Scheme for a New Quarter in Berlin . : '312k x Transactions of the Town Planning Conference, Oct. 1910. PAGE New Suburb at Pozen . • . • • • • 312' • Neustrelitz : Design by Dr. Stubben ..... 312m Louvain : Reconstruction Scheme by Dr. Stiibben . 312*1 : Louvain : Bird's-Eye View....... 3120 Louvain : Place du Parvis ....... 312p Proposed New Town of St. Anne on the Schelde . 312q Colony of Hellerau, near Dresden . .' . • 312r Garden City near Niirnberg- ...... 3125 Artisans' Settlement, Merck, near Darmstadt . .3121 Darmstadt: The Herdweg Quarter, the Mathild Hill, and the Garden City of the " Hohlen Weg " . 312U Essen: New Districts: . • • • • . • 31210 Margarethe Krupp-Stiftung for Convalescents . 312# Bernewaldchen, Essen . • 3I2y Charlottenburg, near Berlin . -312s TOWN PLANNING IN GERMANY : THE. GREATER BERLIN COM­ PETITION [Professor Rud. Eberstadt] . • 3r3 Illustrations. • Plan of Berlin . • • • plate Jansen's Scheme . • . ... 314 Ditto, Suggested Embankment 315 .Ditto, Planning of New Suburb ..... 316 Ditto, showing " Sally Street " for fast Motor-Traffic between Town and Country . 317 Scheme of Professors Brix and Genzmer and the Hochbahn- Gesellschafte : Improvement of the Kdnigsplatz . 318 Ditto, Main Street approaching Railway Station . 319 Ditto, Improvement of a Square . 320 Ditto, Bird's-eye view of Garden Suburb . ' . 321 Ditto, connecting principal
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