{"title":"Harvey, John Dean Monroe","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"plymouth-shopping-precinct-from-guildhall-tower-reconstruction-plan-harvey-1944-p-7-028575","title":"Plymouth Shopping Precinct from Guildhall Tower—reconstruction plan—Harvey 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The Shopping Precinct looking north from the existing Guildhall Tower'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlags fly, fountains play and shoppers stroll in J. D. M. Harvey's sunny vision of Plymouth's new shopping precinct, seen from the Guildhall tower looking north up the great axis towards North Road station. Long, flag-topped stores line the planned avenues around a garden roundabout, capturing all the optimism of the wartime Plan for Plymouth. The axis was built as Armada Way, with Royal Parade crossing it, and the rebuilt centre is admired today as a coherent post-war townscape, although its buildings turned out plainer than Harvey's. Armada Way's recent redesign has renewed public debate about this central space. A colourful, decorative perspective, drawn in 1943 and printed in the second edition of the plan.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371669901659,"sku":"P-7-028575","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028575a_4bf933f3-9f4a-4860-b51b-13e9fdab789e.jpg?v=1792148893"},{"product_id":"plymouth-traffic-centre-north-road-cobourg-st-reconstruction-plan-harvey-1944-p-7-028576","title":"Plymouth Traffic Centre—North Road \u0026 Cobourg St—reconstruction plan—Harvey 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The Traffic Centre at North Road and Coburg Street'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalm trees, gardens and a stately new station hotel turn a traffic junction into a grand civic gateway in J. D. M. Harvey's bird's-eye view of the proposed traffic centre at North Road and Cobourg Street, Plymouth. Buses and cars circle a landscaped square below flag-topped towers, with North Road, Sherwell and the Cobourg Street Schools labelled beyond and the inner ring road running out of the foreground. Reality was very different: the station was rebuilt with an office block in 1962, and the North Cross roundabout of the early 1970s cut it off from the city centre. A colourful and appealing perspective from A Plan for Plymouth, showing the gateway the city never got.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371670229339,"sku":"P-7-028576","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028576a_0fc61aed-07d7-49a1-9c11-ecce505edf4a.jpg?v=1792148894"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/harvey-john-dean-monroe.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}