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This chapter is dealing with the situation of Town Planning in Britain during the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. A summary of the socio-economic context following the Great Depression , of the ideas of the pioneering planners, and of the procedure of the “Planning Acts” as it had developed by 1939 are examined. The absence of planning schemes resulted in an entirely piecemeal development leading to growing concern about the quality of the British townscape. Another issue was the “compensation and betterment” question, perceived to be most difficult where the central values were at their highest.
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In particular, this term was used to describe a scheme covering a large area of land whereon a multiplicity of land uses were integrated into a unified scheme of development, comprising roads, traffic planning and car parking, land use, buildings, aesthetics and landscaping.
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Marmaras, E.V. (2015). British Town Planning on the Eve of the Second World War. In: Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07647-8_2
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