An anthology of regulations that have shaped urban form
Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847 PDF Author: Parliament Date: 1847 Source: The United Kingdom National Archives: http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&Yea… Description: Regulations for: Sewers, House Drains, Paving, New Streets, Naming Streets, Ruinous or Dangerous Buildings, Cleansing Streets, Fire, Ventilation, Lodging Houses, Lighting, Water, Slaughter-houses. Continue reading Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847
The Ten Books on Architecture PDF Author: Vitruvius Date: 1st Century BC Publisher: Harvard University Press Translation: Morris Hicky Morgan Source: The Project Gutenberg Selections: Book I: Chapters IV, The Site of a City Chapter VI, The Directions of the Streets; with Remarks on the Winds Chapter VII, The Sites for Public Buildings Description: This chapter … Continue reading The Ten Books on Architecture
Link to: The London Building Acts Author: Fletcher, Banister Date: 1894-1914 Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford Source:Available Online http://www.archive.org/details/londonbuildingac00fletrich Description: The London building acts, including the London building act, 1894; the amendment acts of 1898 and 1905; L.C.C. general power acts, 1908 and 1909; the Cinematograph act, 1909; Town planning act, etc.; a tect-book on the … Continue reading The London Building Acts
Settled Land Act 1882 PDF Author: Parliament Date: 1882 Source: The United Kingdom Statute Law Database: http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&Year=1… Description: The purpose of this act was to promote development and maintenance of privately owned land (much of which was neglected). The act enumerated several improvements that could be financed with Capital Trust Money including transportation, infrastructure, residential, commons, … Continue reading Settled Land Act 1882 (Ireland)
PDF for: Report from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain Author: Edwin Chadwick Date: 1842 Source: Chadwick’s Report on Sanitary Conditions Copyright: Craig Thornber, England, United Kingdom Selections: pp. 369-372 Description: This famous report of health conditions of the poor in London helped the passage of … Continue reading Report from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain
Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 Author: Governmental documents Date: 1907 Publisher: the U.K. Government Translation: Source: public domain; available here Selections: Introduction, and Part II, Streets and buildings Description: Numerous acts dealing with public health were passed from 1849 to 1874; This one includes regulations on streets and buildings. Assessment: The 1907 Public Health Act Amendments … Continue reading Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907
Public Health Acts 1875 PDF Author: William Cunningham Glen and Alexander Glen Date: 1875 Publisher: Butterworths, Knight, & Co., Fleet Street, London Translation: Source: The United Kingdom Statute Law Database: http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&Yea… Selections: Table of contents, introduction/explanations, and relevant sections of the 1875 Public Health Act and the 1849 Town Improvements Clauses. Note that Glen and Glen include … Continue reading Public Health Acts 1875
Link to: Plato’s Laws Author: Plato Date: 360 BC Source: Public domain, available here Selections: Book VI Description: Laws governing the construction of new cities Continue reading Plato’s Laws
Plan for Laying Out Towns and Townships PDF Author: Granville Sharp Date: 1794 Source: Eighteenth century collections online; uiuc library Selections: complete reference, 23 pages Description: From John Reps: “Sharp (1735-1813) was a native of Durham, England, the grandson of the archbishop of York…In 1783 he broached the idea of founding a colony for freed slaves in … Continue reading Plan for Laying Out Towns and Townships
Author: James Craig Date: 1765-1850 Description: A city extension, designed on a basic grid pattern with numerous squares, crescents, and terminal vistas, built on high ground on the opposite side of a polluted loch, which was drained and developed as a large public garden. Specifies building materials and building heights and roof pitches. Continue reading New Town Map