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"Farewell Squalor" A design for a New Town and proposals for the Re-development of the Easington Rural District. Peterlee. CLARKE C W (Prepared by) [27279]


Published: Easington, Easington RDC, (1946),
Date: 2nd ed 1947.
Description: 87pp, inc 7 plans & c24 b&w photos (of sub-standard housing etc.). Foreword by George Pepler, intro by Arthur Bates. Gilt lettered library cloth. 25x20. Ministry lib copy in very handy library binding, good thus.
Notes: An historic document. Peterlee New Town was set in a depressed mining area. The far-sighted local authority pressured for it as a way of rejuvenating the district. Some of the early housing was designed by Berthold Lubetkin.
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Price: £65.00