Single folded sheet formed as a brochure/flyer for the Bay Ridge Park Improvement Company operating in the field of property development, containing: a color folding map of Brooklyn sourced from the Brooklyn Eagle Almanac, showing ward numbers, rail lines, "steam roads", and municipal buildings; a smaller two-color map highlighting the..... More
Altogether 147 issues, comprised of 7 early issues (Year I, Nos. 5 and 6, and Year II, Nos. 2, 3, 8, 21, and 23) and a large sequential run of 140 issues (Year III, No. 1 through Year XX, No. 139/140, lacking nos. 66 through 69) of the long-running Italian..... More
A sequential run of 60 issues in 49 fascicules of the long-running Italian journal founded originally in 1932 by the Piemontese division of the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, under the initial editorial direction of Adriano Olivetti and later Giovanni Astengo, with the aim of promoting and spreading urban studies and..... More
2 vols., XII, 644, VIII, 731 pp. exhaustive review of all the notable architecture and commercial construction in Hamburg, including public buildings, civic institutions, housing, parks, port facilities, shipbuilding, urban infrastructure and ground transportation, bibliography, index, 2566 text illustrations from photos and plans, 22 folding plates from maps and plans..... More
117 pp. text comprising the comprehensive report regarding "the rectification of the present plan and the development and extension of the city of Hartford on comprehensive lines of order and harmony with recommendations", prepared by the important New York City-based Beaux-Arts architectural firm of Carrére & Hastings, including discussions of..... More
461 pp. report by the regional banking system on the distribution of funds for social benefit, including child care, public health, elder care, agriculture, education and relief of the poor with a section on building projects for hospitals, sanitoriums, orphanages, libraries, schools, universities, museums, transient shelters, work houses and soup..... More
16 pp. anonymous booklet containing proposed architectural principles for reconstruction announced at the Architectural Council in May 1946, addressing topics such as insufficient sunlight, residential areas too close to factories, traffic, transportation, and other factors, using some Corbusian principles. Illustrated. Oblong 8vo. Original side-staple wrpps., small pen mark to inside..... More
At head of title-page: Economia-Urbanistica, Ricerche Piani e Programmi. 63 pp. text of a conference paper discussing the problems surrounding the development of the area for commercial purposes, with special emphasis on agrarian needs, illustrated throughout with maps and plans. Tall 4to. Wrpps., covers lightly stained. Luglio (Municipio di Palmanova)..... More
185 pp. study of the urban form of Regensburg and proposals for rational development presented at a seminar there in 1966, illustrated including photos, drawings, charts, plans and maps, some folding, many in color. Large oblong 4to. Cloth, d.j. Dusseldorf (Econ Verlag) ca. 1967. More