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Collection of books on Welwyn Garden City

The New Towns - Their Origins, Achievements and Progress

Author: Frederick J. Osborne & Arnold Whittick

First published:

1963 by McGraw-Hill Book Company as "The New Towns - The Answer to Megalopolis"
This expanded, updated and retitled edition published in 1977 jointly by Leonard Hill (London) and Routledge & Kegan Paul (Boston)

Format: Hardback 10" by 7½" with 505 pages

The New Towns

I bought this book by mistake not realising it was the retitled third edition of the 1963 book (described on another web page). The chapter on Welwyn Garden City is revised but still only 12 pages long. The 9 photographs in the original edition are gone. There are just 2 from the town in this edition - one of the Campus West buildings and one of the multi-story carpark. As with the 1963 book, the book is great for town planning students but not much good for WGC nostalgics.