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Total number of records: 60

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items56
Archives4

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive35
Brotherton Collection17
Herbert Read Collection8
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
city planning60
architecture38
building28
architecture - periodicals13
cities and towns3
houses3
housing3
photographs3
regional planning3
architecture, modern2

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Moscow (Russia)15
Genoa, Italy3
London (England)2
Russia (Federation)2
France1
Krasnodar (Russia)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Moskovskii Gorodskoi Sovet Deputatov Trud︠I︡Ashchikhs︠Ia. IspolnitelʹNyi Komitet15
Moskovskii Gorodskoi Sovet Narodnykh Deputatov. IspolnitelʹNyi Komitet15
Akademi︠I︡A StroitelʹStva I Arkhitektury Sssr13
Russian S.F.S.R. Upravlenie Po Delam Arkhitektury13
So︠I︡Uz Arkhitektorov Sssr13
Mumford, Lewis (1895-1990)2
Abercrombie, Patrick1
Abercrombie, Sir Patrick (1879-1957)1
Academie Royale Des Sciences, Des Lettres Et Des Beaux-Arts De Belgique1
Atkinson, Charles (Of Sheffield)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18003
From 190026
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18992
Up to 199926
Up to latest2

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Villa Novello

c. 1860-1913

Photographs, cartes de visite and the visitors' book of Villa Novello in Genoa, in the Italian region of Liguria. Mary Cowden Clarke, her husband Charles Cowden Clarke and her brother (Joseph) Alfred ...

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Photographs of Villa Novello and Rotunda via Corsica

c. 1913

Two black and white photographs of the exterior of Villa Novello, with Rotunda via Corsica in the foreground, along with a stamped card and envelope. Inscriptions in later hands note that the photogra...

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Photographs of Villa Novello exterior

c. 1870

Three undated photographs of the exterior of Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, including a distant view with the surrounding landscape and two closer views of the front and side of the house. All inscrib...

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Urban dwelling environments : an elementary survey of settlements for the study of design determinants

Caminos, Horacio (1914-); Turner, John F C; Steffian, John A

[1969]

Looseleaf, in box.

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The future of London's past : a survey of the archaeological implications of planning and development in the nation's capital

Biddle, Martin; Hudson, Daphne M (1947-); Heighway, Carolyn M (1943-)

1973

Booklet (xi, 83, [3]pages (1 fold)) and 8 folded maps (5 colour) in portfolio.

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City development : a study of parks, gardens and culture-institutes : A report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust

Geddes, Sir Patrick (1854-1932)

1904

Half-title reads: A study in city development.

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Sheffield as it was : Sheffield as it is. Sheffield as it should be

Atkinson, Charles (of Sheffield)

1875

With folding plan showing new main route and site for public buildings referred to in pamphlet.

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Urban construction in the Soviet Union

Markov, George; East European Fund. Research Program on the U.S.S.R

1953

Text in Russian; summary in English.

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From the ground up : observations on contemporary architecture, housing, highway building, and civic design

Mumford, Lewis (1895-1990)

c1956

"All of the [26] essays in this book originally appeared in 'The New Yorker'" - t.p. verso.

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Living in cities

Tubbs, Ralph (1912-1996); De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

1942

At head of title: A sequel to the exhibition "Living in cities" which the author designed for the 1940 Council and the British Institute of Adult Education...

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