Town Planning In Great Britain, by Thomas Adams, 1913

Town Planning In Great Britain, by Thomas Adams, 1913

Author: Thomas Adams

Year: 1913

Paper read at the international convention held in Berlin, Germany, by Mr. Adams, who is a member of the Government Board of England for the administration of the Town P lanning Act. Reprinted in the January 1913 issue of Construction: A Journal for the Architectural, Engineering and Contracting Interests iof Canada. Toronto. ------------------------------- Thomas Adams, town planner, born near Edinburgh, 10 Sept 1871; died in Sussex, England, 24 Mar 1940. A leading British planning pioneer, Adams subsequently became one of the founders of the Canadian urban planning movement. Adams became acquainted with Patrick Geddes and the Garden City movement headed by Ebenezer Howard and was one of the founders and first president of the British Town Planning Institute. In 1914 he became planning adviser to the Commission of Conservation, established in Canada in 1909. Adams provided great impetus to Canadian planning and promoted the creation of comprehensive legislative, institutional and professional structures. He wrote extensively in Town Planning and Conservation of Life and in 1917 published Rural Planning and Development in Canada. He founded the Civic Improvement League in 1915 and