The Landscape Institute archive and library is actually held at the Museum of English Rural Life - https://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/collections/Archives_A_to_Z/merl-SR_LI.aspx rather than the University Library.
Judith
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Judith Fox
Map Librarian/Liaison Librarian for Meteorology
University of Reading Library, Whiteknights
PO Box 223, Reading, RG6 6AE
(0118) 378 6578
http://libguides.reading.ac.uk/maps
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From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amanda Davey
Sent: 28 January 2017 08:20
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Subject: Re: [lis-maps] Abercrombie: London a functional analysis
It's fairly likely that the Landscape Institute archive at Reading University library will have the map and other Abercrombie material.
All the best
Amanda
Sent from my mobile because I am not at my desk at the moment
> On 27 Jan 2017, at 21:15, martin dodge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Farrell, William J.B. (Dr.) wrote:
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> Ollie O'Brien has a useful blog post on this map,
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> http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2012/map-of-london-social-and-functional-an
> alysis-1943/
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> cheers
> martin
>
>> Dear all,
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>> I wonder if anyone can help. We have a student who is looking for a map by Patrick Abercrombie that they have seen on Pinterest:
>> https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/633387418866870/. It is titled ?London: a functional analysis?.
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>> The brief description there implies that it is should be in the Greater London Plan 1944. However, we can?t find it in either of our copies.
>> We wondered if it should be among the loose maps in the pocket at the
>> back. Or is Pinterest totally misleading here? We looked in County of London Plan 1943 and couldn?t find it there either. Any thoughts gratefully received.
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>> Regards,
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>> William
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>> Dr William Farrell
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