Town Planning Lectures

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1966/1/1/6
• Dates of Creation:1948-1958
• Physical Description:
  1 folder

• Scope and Content

  Consists of handwritten notes by John Spencer for the following lectures delivered at the London School of Economics and The Polytechnic School of Architecture, Surveying and Building: The Ways and means of encouraging community life in newly formed settlements; The theory of the neighbourhood unit and the balanced community; the spirit of community and the problem of balance; application of sociology to social research; social surveys and the town planner. the file also includes correspondence from Bill Ogden relating to lectures on sociology for town planning students and hanwritten notes on publicatoins including Tom Burns' "Social Development in New Neighbourhoods". Printed material: Polytechnic School of Architecture, Surveying and Building Planning Syllabus Sessions 1947-1950; newspaper cutting about Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement; London County Council, County of London Plan; article from The Listener by Charles Madge entitled "The Social Pattern of a New Town".