Author: WOOD H Trueman (preface), WESTGARTH William (introductory remarks)
Title: Essays on the Street Re-Alignment, Reconstruction, and Sanitation of Central London and on the Re-Housing of the Poorer Classes. To which prizes offered by William Westgarth were awarded by the Society of Arts, 1885.
Description: London, George Bell, 1886. vi, 276pp, 2 very large folding coloured maps, plans & elevations (some on fold-outs). NB - there is some ambiguity about one plan showing a proposed two level bridge at the Tower, referred to in the second essay - on page 160 it appears to be called for, but in the table of contents for the essay it is not. It seems likely that the publisher omitted deliberately, but failed to edit the text. 23x14, maroon cloth Pages uncut, binding professionally repaired and a little dusty and faded, couple of closed tears where the maps are bound in, good thus. The three papers are;(i) The Sanitation and Reconstruction of Central London, by William Woodward.(ii) Street Re-Alignment and Re-Construction of Central London, by Henry Hewitt Bridgman(iii) On the Re-housing of the Poorer Classes of Central London, by J Corbett.Outstanding survey of housing and planning problems in mid-Victorian London. Unusually for a work of this period, it combines major civic design street proposals with analysis of slum housing problems. Rare.

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