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unusual facts about town planning



John Widgery, Baron Widgery

He gathered a reputation for being a fast talker, and eventually came to specialise in disputes over rating and town planning, where his methodical approach and self-control were useful attributes.

Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin

He chaired the LCC Town Planning and the Housing and Public Health Committees and was a member of the Central Housing Advisory Committee.

Ohio State Route 91

The State Route 91 corridor includes views of some of the best examples of Connecticut Western Reserve town planning, particularly the quaint public squares of Hudson, Tallmadge, and Mayfield.


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Edward Prentice Mawson

Large-scale town planning schemes include London County Council's St Helier Estate (1934), and for Ulster Garden Villages Limited in Northern Ireland, Merville Garden Village, Abbots Cross, Fernagh, Princes Park, Kings Park, Whitehead and Muckamore Garden Villages, all in County Antrim.

Equestrian statue of George IV, Trafalgar Square

Journalist Janice Turner questioned the need for a George IV statue in Trafalgar Square in 2005, which was rebutted by Lord Baker of Dorking who argued that the monarch still deserved the statue due to his town planning legacy which remained in London.

Ernst Plischke

From 1943–47 he worked for the Department of Town Planning producing work in areas including: Naenae, Trentham, Tamaki and Mangakino.

Fredrick Kúmókụn Adédeji Haastrup

He is credited with using his Town Planning skills for improving the layout of the town which is today characterized by a grid like road formation and introducing Methodism to Ijéṣaland in 1896.

Henry Tang

Tang has also served extensively on various government boards and public bodies, including the Trade Development Council, Town Planning Board, University Grants Committee, and Council of the City University of Hong Kong.

Jacob Gil

Later on, he worked in Lufenfeld-Gemerman's office (of architects Moshe Lufenfeld & Giora Gemerman) and Yaski-Alexandroni's office, a period during which he focused mainly on the planning of dwellings, town planning and hospitals.

Jim Clemes

Clemes was also associated with the design of the futuristic waterpark Les Thermes in Bertrange, Luxembourg, and is involved in a town planning project for Differdange, Luxembourg.

Joseph Maiden

He was an active office-bearer in the Royal and Linnean societies of New South Wales, the (Royal) Australian Historical Society, the Wattle Day League, the Horticultural Society and Horticultural Association, the Field Naturalists’ Society, the Town Planning Association of New South Wales, and the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta

Soesilo is a student of Thomas Karsten, a Dutch engineer who gave major contributions to architecture and town planning in Indonesia during the colonial era.

PINS

The Planning Inspectorate for England and Wales, a government agency responsible for determining final outcomes of town planning and enforcement appeals

Raglan Squire

His other foreign work included a town planning scheme for Mosul in Iraq, and a report for Baghdad airport, both in 1955.

Richard Barry Parker

Parker continued his town planning practice, advising on Porto, Portugal in 1915 and São Paulo, Brazil in 1917-1919.

St Helier, London

Landscaping on the large-scale town planning scheme was by landscape architect Edward Prentice Mawson.

Surat Metropolitan Region

The entire area is overseen by the Surat Urban Development Authority(SUDA), a Gujarat state government organisation in charge of town planning, development, transport and housing.

Thomas Karsten

He was a town planning consultant for Semarang (1916–20, 1936), Buitenzorg (now 'Bogor') (1920–23), Madiun (1929), Malang (1930–35), Batavia (Jakarta) (1936–37), Magelang (1937–38), Bandung (1941), as well as Cirebon, Meester Cornelis (part of Jakarta which is known as Jatinegara), Yogyakarta, Surakarta, Purwokerto, Padang, Medan and Banjarmasin.

William Robert Davidge

In both New Zealand and Australia Davidge gave a series of public lectures with Charles Reade (1880 - 1933), another enthusiast of town planning, to promote the new planning paradigms.