Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previous lectures Professor Plrenne has discussed the growth of the "suburbis" or suburb around the walled towns and has explained how the growth of the merchant class effected the government of the cities. Today he will continue the history of the rise of the cities and will bring the account down to the present day problems...
...time," he continued, "the inhabitants of the merchant class around the town became known as the 'forisburgus' or the 'suburbium' which latter name has given rise to your English word 'suburb'. Gradually the old town element became absorbed...
...School of Landscape Architecture has secured Mr. Raymond Unwin of Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England, for a lecture on "Garden Cities" in Robinson Hall Tuesday evening, October 10, at eight o'clock...
...Boston Society of Landscape Architects and Tuesday evening at the University. Mr. Unwin needs no introduction to students of city planning. His book "Town Planning in Theory and Practice" is a standard authority. He was one of the designers of Letchworth, the first Garden City, of Hampstead Garden Suburb, and is one of the leading exponents of the garden city principle. During the war he was Chief Town Planner to the Ministry of Munitions, which was responsible for the war housing developments. Since the war, he has been Chief Town Plan Inspector to the Ministry of Health, in charge...