Patrick Abercrombie
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Leslie Patrick Abercrombie (born June 6, 1879 in Ashton-upon-Mersey , † March 23, 1957 in Aston Tirrold , Oxfordshire ) was a British town planner . He drafted the County of London Plan in 1943 and the Greater London Plan in 1944 , which laid the foundation for the rebuilding of London after the Second World War.
Patrick Abercrombie is the brother of Lascelles Abercrombie . In 1910 he founded the Town Planning Review magazine and in 1915 he was appointed professor of civil engineering at the University of Liverpool . In 1935 he received the second professorship for urban planning in Great Britain (after Stanley Davenport Adshead ) at University College London . In the 1920s and 1930s he wrote several descriptive studies on the cities of Paris, Vienna, Brussels and Berlin.
Abercrombie gave an early warning of urban sprawl :
“The biggest challenge will be to withstand the pressure throughout the world to suburbanize the country as well as the towns ... with modern systems of mass production and distribution it is all too easy to proliferate man's modern technical products; but, if the countryside is not to be overrun, the need to maintain nature reserves of wilderness and plain, coastal belt and sea, is all-important ... it is essential to create both urban and rural aesthetic standards to avoid the universal spread of subtopia. "
In 1950 he was awarded the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects .
Works (selection)
- Patrick Abercrombie: The English Countryside . In: The Political Quarterly . tape 1 , no. 2 , April 1930, p. 207-225 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-923X.1930.tb01480.x .
- Some Notes on German Garden Villages , 1910, JSTOR 40100045
- Paris: Some Influences That Have Shaped Its Growth , 1911, JSTOR 40100766
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Patrick Abercrombie . In: Nature . tape 135 , no. 3422 , 1935, pp. 923-923 , doi : 10.1038 / 135923a0 .
- ^ William Holford : Leslie Patrick Abercrombie 1879-1957 . In: The Town Planning Review . July 1957, p. 81-84 , doi : 10.2307 / 40101586 .
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| SURNAME | Abercrombie, Patrick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abercrombie, Leslie Patrick (full name); Plan, County of London |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British town planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ashton-upon-Mersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1957 |
| Place of death | Aston Tirrold , Oxfordshire |