Architecture, Town Planning and Community: Selected Writings and Public Talks by Cecil Burgess, 1909-1946

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University of Alberta, 2005 - 338 sidor
This collection of Burgess's public talks and writings offers a unique insight into the social and intellectual dimensions of architecture and town planning during the first half of the twentieth century. Architectural history, the impact of the Arts and Crafts and Modernist movements, the meaning of domestic architecture, and the connection of architecture and town planning to everyday life figure prominently in this collection. A contemporary of Cecil Burgess said that no one in Canada was superior in architectural scholarship. Cecil Burgess was professor of architecture and resident architect at the University of Alberta between 1913 and 1940. A similar collection of writings and talks has not been published about Canadian architecture for this period. Foreword by Hon. Jim Edwards PC.

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Abbreviations
ix
University of Alberta Centennial Series
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Cecil Burgesss Architectural Career and Writings
xvii
Editors Notes on The Burgess Papers
xcix
19091920
1
DOCUMENT 1 Old Buildings of the Province of Quebec 1909
3
DOCUMENT 10 Architecture as a Profession 1931
141
DOCUMENT 11 Appreciation of Architecture Lecture
153
DOCUMENT 12 Appreciation of Architecture Lecture
177
DOCUMENT 13 Recent Domestic Architecture 1932
217
DOCUMENT 14 City Improvement 1935
227
DOCUMENT 15 Garden Cities 193940
249
19401946
259
DOCUMENT 16 Home Building Exhibition 1940
261

DOCUMENT 2 Applications of the Lessons of History 190912
15
DOCUMENT 3 Architecture 1913
31
DOCUMENT 4 The Old House and the New 1913
51
DOCUMENT 5 Hygiene in Architecture 1920
71
19211939
87
DOCUMENT 6 Modern Architecture 1925
89
DOCUMENT 7 The Town 1928
105
DOCUMENT 8 Civic Pride 1929
117
DOCUMENT 9 Relation of Architecture to Town Planning 1930
126
DOCUMENT 17 The New Town Planning 1941
269
DOCUMENT 18 Housing Present and Prospective 1941
273
DOCUMENT 19 What Zoning Does for Edmonton 1943
285
DOCUMENT 20 Improvement of Business Street Fronts 1946
293
DOCUMENT 21 Recollections of a Half Century 1957
317
Bibliography
325
Index
331
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Don Wetherell received his PhD History from Queens and has operated a consulting practice for over 20 years with Irene Kmet in historical resource and museum planning and research. He is the author and co-author of six books and numerous articles, reviews, and reports on Alberta and prairie history. He is Associate Professor and Program Co-ordinator, Museum and Heritage Studies, at the University of Calgary.

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