By Riba
In October 1910 the Royal Institute of British Architects hosted the 1st ever foreign convention on city making plans. The Transactions of this serious occasion within the improvement of making plans as a occupation and as a self-discipline have been released a yr later in 1911. lengthy out of print and extremely tough to procure, this new facsimile version of the Transactions of the 1910 Conference now makes available – for planners and historians alike – this useful fundamental source.
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