A Guide to Port Sunlight Village, Including Two Tours of the Village

Hubbard, Edward; Shippobottom, Michael

ISBN 10: 0853231168 / ISBN 13: 9780853231165

Published by Liverpool University Press, 1988

About this Item

This guide provides historical and practical information about Port Sunlight Village, including details of two guided tours of the area. The publication is part of the Liverpool University Press catalog, offering insights into the village's design and community layout. The book is available in a standard hardcover edition, published in recent years. From the library of John Russell Taylor.

Seller Inventory # PL-4330-114_3

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Guide to Port Sunlight Village, Including Two Tours of the Village
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853231168
• ISBN 13: 9780853231165
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 by the industrialist Lord Leverhulme to house the workers from his prospering business—which would evolve into Unilever. Acclaimed for its planning and house design, Port Sunlight greatly influenced subsequent planned developments, as well as the garden city movement.This fully revised version of A Guide to Port Sunlight marries the practical details of a guidebook with historical information about Port Sunlight’s design and architecture, its place in the history of urban planning, and Leverhulme's role in the town’s creation. A wealth of illustrations helps make this the perfect book for armchair and actual travelers to this jewel of nineteenth-century town planning.

About the Author

Edward Hubbard (1937–89) was an architectural historian and active conservationist. Michael Shippobottom is an architect and a director of Donald Insall Associates.
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