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Patrick Abercrombie

Patrick Abercrombie.jpg

Born 6 June 1879

Ashton upon Mersey

Died 23 March 1957 (aged 77)

Aston Tirrold

Nationality British

Occupation City planner

Patrick AbercrombieFromWikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie(/brkrmb/;[1]6 June

1879, Ashton upon Mersey 23 March 1957, Aston

Tirrold, Didcot, Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire)) was an

English town planner. Educated at Uppingham School,

Rutland; brother of Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary

critic.

Contents

1 Career

2 Buildings

3 Publications

4 References5 External links

Career

Sir Patricktrained as an architect before becoming the

Professor of Civic Design at the Liverpool University School

of Architecture in 1915, and later Professor of Town

Planning atUniversity College London. Afterwards, he madeaward-winning designs for Dublin city centre and gradually

asserted his dominance as an architect of international

renown, which came about through the replanning of Plymouth,[2]Hull, Bath, Edinburgh andBournemouth, among

others.

Sir Patrickwas closely involved in the founding of the Councilfor the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE). Afte

its formation in December1926,he servedas its Honorary Secretary.

He is best known for the post-Second World War replanning of London. He created the County of London Plan

(1943) and the Greater London Plan (1944) which are commonly referred to as theAbercrombie Plan. The lattedocument was an extended and more thorough product than the 1943 publication, and for Abercrombie it was an

accumulation of nearly 50 years of experience and knowledge in the field of planning and architecture.

In 1945 he publishedA Plan for the City & County of Kingston upon Hull, with the assistance of Sir Edwin

Lutyens. Lutyens had died the year before publication whilst much of the plan was being finalised, and the plan wa

ultimately rejected by the Councillors of Hull.

From theAbercrombie Planplan came the New Towns movement which included the building of Harlow and

Crawley and the largest 'out-county' estate, Harold Hill in north-east London. He produced the Clyde Valley

Regional Plan in 1946 with Robert H Matthews that proposed the new towns of East Kilbride and Cumbernauld.
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In 1949 he published with Richard Nickson a plan for the redevelopment of Warwick, which proposed demolition

of almost all the town's Victorian housing stock and construction of a large inner ring road. [4]

During the postwar years, Sir Patrick was commissioned by the British government to redesign Hong Kong. In

1956 he was commissioned by Haile Selassie to draw up plans for the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

Patrick Abercrombie was knighted in 1945.[5]In 1948 he became the first president of the newly formed group th

International Union of Architects, or the UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes). The group now annually

awards the Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize, for excellence in town planning. In 1950 he received the AIA Gold

Medal.

The Abercrombie Building at Oxford Brookes University is home to the Faculty of Technology, Design and

Environment.[6]

He died in 1957.

Buildings

North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI) in Wrexham.

Publications

Patrick Abercrombie, Sydney Kelly and Arthur Kelly,Dublin of the future : the new town plan, being

the scheme awarded first prize in the international competition, University Press of Liverpool,

Liverpool, 1922.

Sir Patrick Abercrombie, The Preservation of Rural England, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London,

1926.[7]The book that lead to the foundation of the CPRE.

Patrick Abercrombie and John Archibald,East Kent Regional Planning Scheme Survey, Kent County

Council, Maidstone, 1925.

The Earl of Mayo, S. D, Adshead and Patrick Abercrombie, The Thames Valley from Cricklade to

Staines: A survey of its existing state and some suggestions for its future preservation , University of

London Press, London, 1929

Patrick Abercrombie and Sydney A. Kelly,East Suffolk Regional Scheme, University of Liverpool,

Liverpool and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1935 (prepared for the East Suffolk Joint Regional Planning

Committee).

Patrick Abercrombie (ed), The Book of the Modern House: A Panoramic Survey of Contemporary

Domestic Design, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1939J. H. Forshaw and Patrick Abercrombie, County of London Plan, Macmillan & Co. 1943.

J. Paton Watson and Patrick Abercrombie,A Plan for Plymouth, Underhill, (Plymouth). Ltd., 1943.

Edwin Lutyens & Patrick Abercrombie,A Plan for the City & County of Kingston upon Hull, Brown

(London & Hull), 1945.

Sir Patrick Abercrombie, John Owens & H Anthony Mealand,A Plan for Bath, Sir Isaac Pitman (London

1945

Sir Patrick Abercrombie & R. H. Matthew, Clyde Valley Regional Plan, His Majestys Stationery Office

Edinburgh, 1946.

Patrick Abercrombie and Richard Nickson, Warwick: Its preservation and redevelopment, Architectura
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Press, 1949.

Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Revised by D. Rigby Childs, "Town and Country Planning", Third Edition, Oxford

University Press, 1959, Reprinted 1961 and 1967.

References

1. ^G.M. Miller,BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names(Oxford UP, 1971), p. 1.

2. ^"RIBA Journal" (http://www.ribajournal.com/story.asp?storyType=16&sectioncode=83&storyCode=3032295) Retrieved 2008-04-05.

3. ^Patrick Abercrombie and Robert H. Matthew, The Clyde Valley Regional Plan 1946, a report prepared for the

Clyde Valley Regional Planning Committee, Edinburgh, H M S 0, 1949

4. ^Patrick Abercrombie and Richard Nickson, WARWICK: Its preservation and redevelopment, Architectural Pres

1949.

5. ^Chambers Biographical Dictionary, ISBN 0-550-18022-2, page 4

6. ^http://www.brookes.ac.uk/spacetothink/media/building-photos/abercrombiecomplete

7. ^"Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE)" (http://www.cpre.org.uk/about/achievements/1920s)

Retrieved 2008-04-05.

External links

Portraits of Patrick Abercrombie (http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp50040

at the National Portrait Gallery, London

RIBA: Royal Inst. of British Architects (http://www.riba.org)

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Patrick Abercrombie (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9000479/Sir-Patrick

Abercrombie)

Department of Civic Design, Liverpool (http://liv.ac.uk/civdes)

Warwick Town History, including description of Abercrombie's 1949 redevelopment plan

(http://www.buildinghistory.org.uk/index.php?q=town&gid=2634725)

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Knights Bachelor 1879 births 1957 deaths Presidents of the Royal Town Planning Institute

People educated at Uppingham School Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal

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