The Abercrombie Plan 1944

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21126


http://www.gardenvisit.com/landscape_architecture/london_landscape_architecture/landscape_planning_pos_public_open_space/1943-44_abercrombie_plan


http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/X20L/Themes/1337/1075/


http://www.gardenvisit.com/landscape_architecture/london_landscape_architecture/landscape_planning_pos_public_open_space/abercrombie_plan_chapter_open_space

Land used for allotments during the war and bomb-damaged areas presented a post-war opportunity for a network of open spaces that Abercrombie hoped would contribute to the improvement of people’s health and wellbeing.

‘Standards of Open Space’ recommended that, for every thousand city inhabitants, there should be at least four acres of open space available.

Abercrombie proposed a network of ‘parkways’ to run along existing roads and footpaths to provide connections ‘from garden to park, from park to parkway, from parkway to green wedge and from green wedge to Green Belt’.

Most of Abercrombie’s plan was never implemented in its totality; some parts were, though. The most developed part is the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, created by a special Act of Parliament in 1968 and today still funded by a tax on all of London – apparently despite the fact that the park is mainly used by locals.