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Wholesome Dwellings
This study by Malcolm Graham, a leading Oxford local historian for many years, provides a fascinating insight into post-war housing needs in Oxford, and how the modern city evolved away from the university buildings and college quadrangles for which the city is internationally renowned.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Archaeopress,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents Page
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- Figure 1. Plan of St Thomas's prepared in 1867 by the Oxford architect, E. G. Bruton, illustrating an ambitious programme for building new housing on the Christ Church estate. Newly-built model dwellings are shown on the corner of The Hamel and Kite Lane,
- Figure 2. Christ Church Old Buildings in Osney Lane in 1971. The three storeyed tenement block of red and cream brick, designed by E. G. Bruton and built between 1866 and 1868, provided a mix of one, two and three bedroomed flats around a central drying g
- Figure 3. Plan of a proposed extension to Trinity Street in St Ebbe's, 1890. Blackfriars Road and Friars Street had been laid out as two parallel roads in the early 1820s, and the formation of an interconnecting street to bring light and air to a densely
- Figure 4. A dilapidated Dover's Row in St Clement's before it was reconditioned by the Oxford Cottage Improvement Company in 1909. Trees in the Morrell family's adjacent park are visible over the wall at the end of the street.
- Figure 5. The Oxford Cottage Improvement Company renamed the row Wingfield Street after the Revd Charles Wingfield, founder of the company in 1866. This photograph was taken in 1972, shortly before the row was demolished.
- Figure 6. Map of Oxford's inter-war council estates derived from a map in the Oxford Municipal Tenants' Handbook published in 1947.
- Figure 7. Proposed layout of the Cowley Road estate submitted by the Oxford architect, G. T. Gardner, as his entry for the City Council's architectural competition for its housing estates in 1919. He later became a member of the Oxford Panel of Architects
- Figure 8. Unrealised scheme for redeveloping the east side of a widened St Aldate's below Christ Church in 1919. Sixty-five architects entered the City Council's competition for cottage housing on part of the site and this plan is probably the winning ent