{"title":"Plymouth Sound","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"plymouth-regional-planning-scheme-zoning-proposals-map-abercrombie-watson-1944-p-7-028568","title":"Plymouth Regional Planning Scheme— Zoning Proposals map—Abercrombie\/Watson 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'City of Plymouth Regional Planning Scheme—Zoning Proposals'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlymouth's future is planned across a wide sweep of Devon and Cornwall on this large regional zoning map, which embraces Saltash and Torpoint across the Tamar, Plympton, Plymstock and the edge of Dartmoor. Orange land capable of development marks the planned growth of the city, set within a hatched rural zone and green land reserved to maintain amenity, while the Dartmoor fringe is labelled a 'Suggested National Reservation', years before Dartmoor became a National Park in 1951. The key also covers proposed roads and bridges, cycle ways, pedestrian trails and even a holiday huts site. Printed in November 1944 for the pocket of the second edition of A Plan for Plymouth, it is a broad and remarkably forward-looking regional vision.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371667706203,"sku":"P-7-028568","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028568a_6d205574-1100-4254-bc2a-c51779a32150.jpg?v=1792148882"},{"product_id":"plymouth-blitz-bomb-damage-reconstruction-sites-map-abercrombie-watson-1944-p-7-028569","title":"Plymouth Blitz bomb damage \u0026 reconstruction sites map—Abercrombie \u0026 Watson 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Derelict Areas'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlymouth's Blitz damage is mapped in stark red on this arresting 1943 survey of the city's 'derelict areas'. Red picks out the property destroyed or damaged in the bombing raids of 1941, concentrated in the shattered city centre and in Devonport, while blue marks older property the planners judged obsolete and ripe for replacement. The printed key groups both colours together as property sites available for reconstruction; the distinction between them comes from the report's accompanying discussion of war-damaged and obsolete areas, which refers directly to this map, and is borne out by the matching colours of its Proposed Central Layout. Together they show how much of the old centre, Devonport and Stonehouse was to be cleared and rebuilt. Government property is hatched and open spaces are stippled, framed by the Sound and the Hamoaze, under bold capital lettering. From A Plan for Plymouth by Patrick Abercrombie and James Paton Watson, it is one of the most powerful images of how wartime destruction became an opportunity to rebuild a whole city.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371668263259,"sku":"P-7-028569","price":59.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028569a_59becd57-a5ef-4a83-b907-8a8ab88f5155.jpg?v=1792148883"},{"product_id":"city-of-plymouth-zoning-proposals-relief-overlay-abercrombie-watson-1944-map-p-7-028570","title":"City of Plymouth Zoning Proposals—relief overlay—Abercrombie \u0026 Watson 1944 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'City of Plymouth—Zoning Proposals'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn ingenious transparent overlay printed with red contour lines lies over this colourful zoning map of Plymouth, so that the planners' land uses can be read against the hills and valleys beneath them. The map itself, from A Plan for Plymouth, divides the city into land for development, rural zone, public and private open space, allotments, government land and industry, and marks new and redundant school sites, neighbourhood centres, children's playgrounds, new roads and bridges and a grouped hospitals site, together with permitted population densities of 25 to 100 people per acre. The overlay folds back to reveal the map unobstructed. An unusual and engaging piece of planning presentation, illustrated both with the overlay opened and in place.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371668328795,"sku":"P-7-028570","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028570a_13ef943e-7f6e-492c-9da2-9011a3c99efc.jpg?v=1792148886"},{"product_id":"plymouth-neighbourhood-social-idealism-bubble-potato-map-abercrombie-watson-1944-p-7-028571","title":"Plymouth neighbourhood social idealism bubble\/potato map—Abercrombie\/Watson 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Community \/\/ Diagram illustrating the group system applied to Plymouth'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlymouth is reimagined as a cluster of bold orange bubbles in this delightful 'potato map', the planners' diagram of the neighbourhood groups into which the post-war city would be organised. Each bubble is a neighbourhood with its own centre, grouped around community centres and a single cultural centre, with open spaces and rural reservations wrapping the whole. The text beneath, which candidly presents the scheme 'in cartoon form', argues that the spirit of neighbourliness must be regained if civic consciousness is to be preserved, and suggests the groups might even form a new ward map. From Abercrombie and Paton Watson's Plan for Plymouth, it is a classic of the bubble-map genre and of wartime social idealism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371668820315,"sku":"P-7-028571","price":41.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028571a_3a1e2260-d961-4296-b30b-5d929596e642.jpg?v=1792148889"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/collections\/plymouth-sound.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}