1. Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie was an English architect, urban designer and town planner.
16 Facts About Patrick Abercrombie
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Patrick Abercrombie came to prominence in the 1940s for his urban plans of the cities of Plymouth, Hull, Bath, Bournemouth, Hong Kong, Addis Ababa, Cyprus, Edinburgh, Clyde Valley and Greater London.
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Patrick Abercrombie was born in Ashton-upon-Mersey, seventh of nine children of Sarah and William Abercrombie, a stockbroker and businessman who had wide artistic interests, particularly of the Arts and Crafts school.
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Patrick Abercrombie spent a year at the Realschule in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Patrick Abercrombie was later appointed as Professor of Town Planning at University College London, and gradually asserted his dominance as an architect of international renown, which came about through the replanning of Plymouth, Hull, Bath, Edinburgh and Bournemouth, among others.
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Patrick Abercrombie was a founding member of the Town Planning Institute formed in 1914 and became its president in 1925.
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Patrick Abercrombie became chairman of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England in 1926, and was on the Council of the Town and Country Planning Association.
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Patrick Abercrombie is best known for the post-Second World War replanning of London.
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Patrick Abercrombie conceived the Ringways scheme of London in 1944, proposing four ringroads around Greater London.
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Patrick Abercrombie produced the Clyde Valley Regional Plan in 1946 with Robert Matthew that proposed the new towns of East Kilbride and Cumbernauld.
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Patrick Abercrombie was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1945 New Year Honours.
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Patrick Abercrombie was the most celebrated British planner of his generation.
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The Patrick Abercrombie Building at Oxford Brookes University is home to the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.
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Patrick Abercrombie appears in the film The Proud City presenting his plan to the public.
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Patrick Abercrombie was the architect of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham.
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Patrick Abercrombie married Emily Maud Gordon in 1908; they had one son and one daughter.