week 5

Question 1

Walter Gropius

Answer 1

founder of the bauhaus school who is responsible for modernism

Question 2

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 2

health minister and later prime minister responsible for cleaning up and reforming slums in London. Would later consolidate all the LCC under local government control and combine public sectors together

Question 3

Harold Macmillen

Answer 3

“Harold Macmillan, declared his ambition to ‘set the people free… to help those who do things; the developers, the people who create wealth, whether they are humble or exalted’. Few were by now humble. In 1953 and 1954 all building licences were ended, as was the defunct Uthwatt levy and controls on building supplies.”

Question 4

Patrick Abercrombie

Answer 4

the architect responsible for rebuilding London after the Blizts attacks

Question 5

Richard Seifort

Answer 5

brutalist architect known for his sky rises and

Question 6

Ebenezer Howard

Question 7

George Galster

Question 8

dagenham

Answer 8

location where Ford Compnay introduced a manufacturing factory, bringing thousands of jobs to London

Question 9

Golders Green

Answer 9

area known for its affluent jewish community. Jews who fled Nazi persecution settled here. had a large underground station and hippodrome-large auditorium

Question 10

town and country planning act

Answer 10

The Act contains the main provisions in relation to town and country planning. It contains provisions regarding several aspects of planning, but perhaps most importantly, it sets out details about control over development, enforcement and special controls.Mar 8, 2022