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County of London Plan

Plan of the proposal for the formation of rings A, Road B and Plan C
LONDON COUNTY PLAN
Patrick Abercrombie y J.H. Forshaw

London, Great Bretaña.1943

This plan opens the stage where urban planning and extends to the territory begins to be large scale. Hygienist movement would result British and ideas of planners like Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin Abercrombie preceding.
His proposed Green Belt would be designed as a tool to contain urban growth indiscriminate around London, posed the idea of ​​preserving the open land and rural landscapes for agricultural use. At the same time, raise the idea of ​​large road rings around the metropolis as a mechanism to structure and prioritize growth, what would lead external development by calls New Towns.
References

The city proud, film made for the dissemination of the London County Plan

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