Author: UNWIN Raymond
Title: Grundlagen des Städtebaues: Eine Anleitung zum Entwerfen Städtebaulicher Anlagen.
Description: Berlin, Otto Baumgärtel, German edition (translated by L. MacLean) 1910. Frontis, xiv, 275pp incl 342 plans, drawings, photos, many hors-texte plus seven fold-out plans of Köln, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Letchworth, Rothenburg, Karlsruhe and Nürnberg. Cloth, 25x19. Owner's signature, dated 1918, top spine little pulled else very nice copy. Small stains to four sheets towards the end. Unwin's famous work was translated very quickly into German. ("Town Planning in Practice" had first appeared only in 1909). The book, which is beautifully produced, naturally included many examples of good townscape practice from Germany, and this translation was in turn influential amongst German planners. The translator, L McLean, was Regierungsbaumeister of Berlin. The superior hardback edition.

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