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SALTAIRE: THE MAKING OF A MODEL TOWN

Written by Neil Jackson, Jo Lintonbon, Bryony Staples
Published by Spire Books Ltd in 2010
ISBN: 9781904965213

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SALTAIRE: THE MAKING OF A MODEL TOWN
Written by Neil Jackson, Jo Lintonbon, Bryony Staples.
Stock no. 2138775
1st. 2010. Hardback. Large format. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown boards with gilt title to spine. Colour photos. Some plans. ISBN: 9781904965213. Light fading marks along cover edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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Cover of SALTAIRE: THE MAKING OF A MODEL TOWN by Neil Jackson; Jo Lintonbon; Bryony Staples

Contents

  • Introduction and Acknowledgements
  • 1 From the Derwent Valley to Saltaire
  • Factory villages
  • Urban development
  • House types
  • Moral guidance
  • Planned towns
  • 2 Making Saltaire
  • Mr Salt's village
  • The making of a village
  • The street layout
  • Lockwood and Mawson
  • The building contracts
  • 3 Social hierarchy
  • Value judgements
  • Overlookers' houses and workmen's cottages
  • William Henry Street and Herbert Street comparted
  • Albert Road
  • Housing mobility
  • Lockwood and Mawson's overlooker's houses
  • 4 Building Saltaire: 1853-58
  • Laying out the village
  • The axial plan
  • Planning phases 1 and 2
  • Planning phases 5 and 6
  • The first building contract
  • The third building contract
  • The Italian Villa style
  • The fifth building contract
  • The lodging-houses
  • The second and fourth building contracts
  • The sixth, seventh and eighth building contracts
  • The ninth building contract
  • 5 Building Saltaire: 1860-75
  • The non-axial plan
  • Planning phases 3,4 and 7
  • The tenth building contract
  • The eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth building contracts
  • The Ruskinian Gothic style
  • The fourteenth building contractg
  • The fifteenth building contract
  • The sixteenth building contract
  • 6 From model town to World Heritage Site
  • Aftermath
  • The Paris Exhibition
  • Survival in the Twentieth Century
  • World Heritage Site
  • Endnotes
  • Appendix:Saltaire in 1867
  • Tables
  • Plans
  • Bibliography
  • French and German summaries
  • Index