Plymouth neighbourhood social idealism bubble/potato map—Abercrombie/Watson 1944
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'Community // Diagram illustrating the group system applied to Plymouth'
Plymouth 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.
Size 30 x 24 cm | 12.0 x 9.5 inches
Date Published: Second edition 1944
Type: Vintage community planning bubble or potato map printed in orange and black
Author: Abercrombie, Patrick & Watson, James Paton
Publication: A Plan for Plymouth
Condition: Good |
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