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    Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie FRIBA (/ˈæbərkrʌmbi, -krɒmbi/ AB-ər-krum-bee, -⁠krom-bee; 6 June 1879 – 23 March 1957) was an English regional and town...
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  • Abercrombie Plan may refer to any one of a number of urban planning proposals written or co-written by Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie, including: County...
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    Iran Patrick Abercrombie, English town planner Patrick Bokanowski, a French filmmaker Patrick Tracy Burris (1967–2009), American spree killer Patrick Carr...
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  • England with over 40,000 members and supporters. Formed in 1926 by Patrick Abercrombie to limit urban sprawl and ribbon development, the CPRE claims to...
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    alternative boundary for Greater London. In the 1944 Greater London Plan, Patrick Abercrombie proposed an orbital motorway around London. This evolved into the...
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  • Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". After the First World...
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    it.” 1992 Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University 1993 Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize – for exemplary contributions to Town Planning and Territorial...
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  • (1909–1984), British zoologist Neil Abercrombie (born 1938), American politician and Governor of Hawaii Patrick Abercrombie (1879–1957), British town-planner...
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  • July: The County of London Plan, prepared by J. H. Forshaw and Patrick Abercrombie to guide the London County Council in postwar reconstruction, is...
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    growth. After their occupation, the British consultant, first by Sir Patrick Abercrombie in 1946 and French consultant team led by architect Luis De Marien...
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  • General, the Treasurer, and a Vice-President from each Region Sir Patrick Abercrombie, United Kingdom (1948–1953) Jean Tschumi, Switzerland (1953–1957)...
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    otherwise be a series of online improvements to existing roads. Sir Patrick Abercrombie was frustrated by the lack of progress, and in 1933 said "There is...
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  • Patrick Abercrombie (1879–1957). The plan was directly related to the County of London Plan written by John Henry Forshaw (1895–1973) and Abercrombie...
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    miles (64–80 km). Plans for an Inner Ring Road were put forward by Patrick Abercrombie in the 1940s, in the County of London Plan. The route is signed as...
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    during World War II. The redevelopment of the city was planned by Sir Patrick Abercrombie in his 1943 Plan for Plymouth whilst simultaneously working on the...
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    Lutyens worked on the plan with Sir Patrick Abercrombie and they are credited as its co-authors. Abercrombie's introduction in the plan makes special...
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    School is located in the area. Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), poet and professor of English Sir Patrick Abercrombie (1879–1957), architect, noted for the...
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  • Council in 1943 by John Henry Forshaw (1895–1973) and Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie (1879–1957). Its main purpose was to point out the main directions...
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    that in the autumn of 1941, the City Council appointed Professor Patrick Abercrombie, an eminent town planner, to prepare a plan for the city's reconstruction...
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    Sir Patrick Abercrombie with goals of modelling and beautifying the city to become the capital for Africa. By this organizing model, Abercrombie launched...
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  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Victor-Auguste Blavette June 6 – Patrick Abercrombie, English town planner (died 1957) July 1 – H. Craig Severance, American...
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  • Bartlett Professors of Planning at UCL including Stanley Adshead, Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Lord William Holford, Lord Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Gerald Smart...
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  • 1923 Thomas Hayton Mawson 1924 William Thomas Lancashire 1925 Sir Patrick Abercrombie 1926 William Robert Davidge 1927 George Montagu Harris 1928 Edward...
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    was again included in an advisory Greater London Plan prepared by Patrick Abercrombie in 1944. The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 expressly incorporated...
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    with the Jewish National Fund. In 1928, the company commissioned Patrick Abercrombie to draw up a development plan. In 1934, the Phoenicia glass factory...
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  • Grange-over-Sands. His uncle was the famed British town planner, Patrick Abercrombie. Abercrombie went to school at Liverpool College and then Leeds Grammar...
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    Auguste Perret (France) 1951: Bernard Ralph Maybeck (U.S.) 1950: Sir Patrick Abercrombie (UK) 1949: Frank Lloyd Wright (U.S.) 1948: Charles Donagh Maginnis...
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    in the 1943 County of London Plan and 1944 Greater London Plan by Patrick Abercrombie. These led to a specialist investigation by the Railway (London Plan)...
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  • Cadbury family, and architects such as Raymond Unwin, PRIBA, and Patrick Abercrombie. The Housing and Town Planning Act 1909, the Housing and Town Planning...
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    the Domesday Book of 1086. It had been proposed by town planner Patrick Abercrombie as part of the Greater London Plan in the mid-1940s to build a new...
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