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Patrick Abercrombie
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{{dablink|This article is about the town planner. For the similarly-named Scottish physician, see
Patrick Abercromby.}}
Sir '''Leslie Patrick Abercrombie''' (
June 6,
1879—
March 23,
1957) was a
United Kingdom British town planner. He trained as an
architect before becoming the Professor of Civic Design at the
Liverpool School of Architecture in
1915. Afterwards, he made award-winning designs for
Dublin city centre and gradually asserted his dominance as an architect of international renown, which came about through the replanning of
Kingston upon Hull Hull,
Bath,
Edinburgh and
Bournemouth, among others.
He is best known for the post-
World War II replanning of
London. He created the
County of London Plan (
1943) and the Greater London Regional Plan (
1944) which are commonly referred to as the ''Abercrombie Plan''. The latter document was an extended and more thorough product than the 1943 publication, and for Abercrombie it was an accumulation of nearly 50 years of experience and knowledge in the field of planning and architecture.
From the ''Abercrombie Plan'' plan came the
New Towns movement which included the building of
Harlow and
Crawley and the largest 'out-county' estate,
Harold Hill in north-east London.
Patrick Abercrombie, knighted in
1945, passed away in 1957 but not before, at the invitation of the British government, redesigning
Hong Kong; while in
1956, at the invitation of Emperor
Haile Selassie, he drew up plans for the capital of
Ethiopia,
Addis Ababa.
He is the brother of
Lascelles Abercrombie.
External links
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Biography from RIBA
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On the 1943/4 Abercrombie plans
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Now We Must Rebuild: The Greater London Plan, 1944
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Department of Civic Design, Liverpool
Category:1879 births Abercrombie, Patrick
Category:1957 deaths Abercrombie, Patrick
Category:British architects Abercrombie, Patrick
See also: RAMGAD, the Rob Abercrombie Memorial Global Authorisations Database
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