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THE publication of this handsome quarto volume with fine type and good paper, admirably illustrated and well provided with specially prepared maps, will serve to mark an epoch in the history of landscape planning. Before the Industrial Revolution, the wealthy landowner planned the environment of his mansion so that garden, open pasture of the park, woodland, and arable, combined economic efficiency with pictorial grouping. The time has now come when the nation should take control of the countryside and plan its development so as to combine the conditions of economy and beauty.
The Thames Valley from Cricklade to Staines: a Survey of its Existing State and some Suggestions for its Future Preservation.
Prepared by the Earl of Mayo, S. D. Adshead and Patrick Abercrombie., with the assistance of W. Harding Thompson, for the Thames Valley Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. Pp. xvi + 106 + 34 plates + 6 maps. (London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1929.) Limp cloth, 15s. net; cloth boards, 21s. net.
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CORNISH, V. The Thames Valley from Cricklade to Staines: a Survey of its Existing State and some Suggestions for its Future Preservation . Nature 125, 737–738 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125737a0
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