Plymouth bomb damage & proposed central layout—Abercrombie & Watson 1944 map
£45
SKU: P-7-028578
'Proposed central layout—Showing properties existing 1943'
The planners' new city centre is drawn in bold red over the old street plan of Plymouth in this dramatic map, so that you can see exactly which streets the reconstruction would sweep away. Orange marks the property destroyed or damaged in the Blitz of 1941, and a lighter mid-grey the older property judged obsolete; the printed key groups the two together as sites available for reconstruction, and the distinction follows the report's discussion of war-damaged and obsolete areas and the matching red and blue of its companion Derelict Areas map. Darker greys show the buildings still standing in 1943, and the palest tone sites already cleared. Across them run the new axis of Armada Way, Royal Parade and the ring roads, in formal geometric lines that ignore the medieval pattern beneath. It is the clearest single image of the scale of Plymouth's post-war rebuilding, and one of the most striking maps in Abercrombie and Paton Watson's Plan for Plymouth.
Size 30 x 23 cm | 12.0 x 9.0 inches
Date Published: Second edition 1944
Type: Vintage colour-printed bomb damage and reconstruction map with proposed street layout superimposed in red
Author: Abercrombie, Patrick & Watson, James Paton
Publication: A Plan for Plymouth
Condition: Good |
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