D147/LA18 - Lectures and Articles - T - 1961

Comprises:

The Tavistock Lecture:

  • The Built Environment : Its Creation, Motivations and Control, (33pp) delivered by WGH at UCL, 24 Nov 1964 (1 typescript);
  • Two printed booklets (Tavistock Pamphlet No.11), 1965 (2 booklets);
  • Typescript copy with alterations b...

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Comprises:

The Tavistock Lecture:

  • The Built Environment : Its Creation, Motivations and Control, (33pp) delivered by WGH at UCL, 24 Nov 1964 (1 typescript);
  • Two printed booklets (Tavistock Pamphlet No.11), 1965 (2 booklets);
  • Typescript copy with alterations by WGH, n.d. (1 typescript);
  • Two manuscript drafts, n.d. (2 manuscript);
  • Two summaries and extracts from the lecture, n.d. (2 typescripts; 5pp and 9pp);
  • Plans used in printed booklet as illustrations, n.d. (1 bundle);
  • Correspondence with Mr John Harvard-Watts (Managing Director of Tavistock Publications) about printing of booklet, 1965 (2 letters);
  • Correspondence concerning circulation of printed booklet, including list of recipients, 1964-65 (1 bundle);
  • Press Cutting about Lecture, Manchester Guardian, 25 Nov 1964 (1 cutting);
  • Correspondence with Mr Sidney Gray (Secretary of Tavistock Institute of Human Relations) concerning arrangements for the occasion of and the title of the Tavistock Lecture, 1964 (14 letters).

 

The Times:

  • The British Contribution to Architecture since the War for The Times - Special Supplement on Architecture on occasion of IUA Congress, 3 July 1961 (10pp typescript);
  • Correspondence with Mr P J R Harding (Editor Special Supplements, 1961 (8 letters);
  • List of articles to appear in The Times Architecture Supplement, and synopsis (prepared by RIBA) of articles in the Supplement, n.d. (2 items).

 

Times Weekly Review:

  • Correspondence with Mr W R A Easthope (Editor) about article by WGH on Architecture and building in South Africa for Survey on the Union of South Africa, 1957 (3 letters).

 

Town and Country Planning Association:

  • Notes and correspondence relating to talk by WGH The Public Places at the Planning Centre, 28 King Street, Covent Garden, London WC2. [April meeting of the Planning Forum of the Town and Country Planning Association], 11 April 1960 (11 items).

 

Town Planning Institute:

  • Towards a Plan for the Tugela Basin E Thorrington-Smith, Natal Town and Regional Planning Reports, vol.5 [PO Box 347, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), 1960, R.3.00 - review by WGH, June 1961 (2pp typescript + 3pp draft manuscript);
  • Correspondence with Mr E Thorrington-Smith and Mr E F Peeler (Editor of the Journal of the Town Planning Institute) about publication of review, 1961 (15 letters);
  • The Tall Building in the Town - given at a General Meeting of the Town Planning Institute with slides, with Mr U Alymer Coates (President) in the chair, 4 Feb 1959 (24pp manuscript);
  • Printed in Journal of the Town Planning Institute vol.XLV No.4 pp.78-83. (Also one advance proof), 1961 (1 periodical);
  • Correspondence with Mr U Alymer Coates to arrange talk, 1957-58 (8 letters);
  • London County Council Press Release : High Buildings Exhibition: Guide, n.d. (4pp typescript);
  • Planning in the Commonwealth, a postcript by WGH, April 1959 (4pp typescript + 6pp manuscript);
  • Notes for speech at Dorchester Hotel Dinner for proposing toast of HM Government, to be replied to by Lord Mancroft, [WGH President TPI], 4 March 1954 (5pp manuscript).

 

Town Planning Review:

  • Rebuilding at the Centre (Chapter 8 of book British Town Planning, 1961 (21pp typescript; 1 galley proof);
  • Correspondence with David Crompton (Town Planning Review, Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool) about proofs, 1961 (2 letters).

 

Traffic Engineering Control:

  • Private Car Parks in Central London, Traffic Engineering and Control, pp.33-34, May 1965 (3 offprints);
  • Drafts of above article, n.d. (8pp typescript + 9pp manuscript);
  • Summary of article for French translation, n.d. (1p typescript + 1p manuscript);
  • A Question of Priorities, Traffic Engineering and Control, pp.30-32, May 1961 (3 offprints);
  • Thoughts provoked by Recent Events, for Traffic Engineering and Control, May 1963 (6pp manuscript);
  • A Question of Priorities for Traffic Engineering and Control, May 1961, (6pp typescript; 10pp manuscript);
  • Correspondence with Mr Ernest Davies (Editor of Traffic Engineering and Control), Dec 1959 - April 1965 (36 letters);
  • Traffic and Land Use for Traffic Engineering and Control No. 2, to be accompanied by complimentary article by Professor J H Napper of School of Architecture, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (University of Durham) on Town Planning and Road Traffic, Apr 1960 (9pp typescript);
  • Land Use and Road Use, synopsis for Traffic Engineering and Control article to be accompanied by Professor Napper's article on problem of town development and road traffic, n.d. (1p typescript 1p manuscript);
  • Editorial Advisory Board of Traffic Engineering and Control - note for lunchtime discussion at Savoy Hotel, London, Thursday, 25 April [1966] (1p typescript);
  • Correspondence with Mr H L Parry (Advertisement Manager of the Journal of the Institution of Municipal Engineers), March 1960 (2 letters);
  • Letter from WGH to Miss Rosemary Norris (his Secretary) about Traffic and Engineering Control article, 24 March 1960 (1 letter);
  • Correspondence with Professor J H Napper, Feb - July 1960 (9 letters);
  • Case for Regional Development Agencies Traffic Engineering and Control, pp36-38, May 1964 (10 offprints).
Date:1961
Reference Number:D147/LA18