What's on the Front

A selection of Covers of Books and Magazines with information about their origins. Enjoy and reblog.

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Front Cover of Inside the Inner City. Life under the Cutting Edge by Paul Harrison. Published by Penguin Books, Middlesex in 1983. The Cover Photo is by Rogue Images.

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Front Cover of Abitare 389, 1999. The front cover is the new Media Centre designed by Future Systems at Lord's Cricket Ground in London

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Front Cover of Policy Planning and Local Government by Robin Hambleton. Published by Hutchinson & Co, London in 1978. The cover was designed by Brian Denyer.

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Front Cover of Housing Policy. The totally revised and updated version of David Donnison's famous The Government of Housing. The Book was published by Penguin Books, London in 1982. The cover photography is by Richard Davies.

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Front Cover of Planning Region. Czechoslovakia. It was published by Federal Ministry for Technical and Economic Development in 1976. It was issued for the United Nations Conference on Human Settlemets - Habitat to be held in Vancouver, Canada. The jacket was designed by Jiri Rathousky.

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Front Cover of Urban Sociology: Critical Essays edited by C.G. Pickvance. The book was published by Tavistock Publications, London in 1976. The cover illustration is a picture of thousands of demonstrators marching through downtown Paris during a huge demonstration in support of French studentsin 1968. Photograph by courtessy of Popperfoto.

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Front Cover of Berømte opfindelser by Samuel Epstein and Beryl Williams. It was translated to Danish by Grethe Norvang and published by Grafisk Forlag in 1956. The American title was The Real Book about Inventions. The drawing on the front cover is by Erling Gadmar.

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Front Cover of Face of the Metropolis - The building developments that are reshaping our cities and suburbs by Martin Meyerson. The book was sponsored by ACTION, The National Council for Good Cities and published by Random House. New York in 1963.

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Front Cover of The Urban Environment by Samuel E. Wallace. It was published byThe Dorsey Press, Homewwod in 1980. The cover phot was taken by Harold M. Lambert.

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Front Cover of The Regional Problem by Stuart Holland, The book was published by The Macmillan Press Ltd., London in 1976 and reprinted in 1978. The cover was designed by Paul Turner

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Front Cover of The Politics of Planning by Francis Gladstone. The Book was published by Maurice Temple Smith Ltd, London in 1976. The cover was designed by Craig Dodd.

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Front Cover of Housing for People or for Profit? by John Cowley. Published by Stage 1, London in 1979. The cover was designed by Ian Escott and the illustration made by Paul F. Downtown.

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Front Cover of Patterns of urban life by R.E. Pahl. It was published by Longman Group Limited, London in 1970. This is the fifth impression from 1976.

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Front Cover of New Lives, New Landscapes by Nan Fairbrother. Published  by Pelican Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, 1970. This issue is a Reprint from 1977. It was first published by The Architectural Press in 1970. Cover photography by Nelson Christmas.

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The Front Cover of Casabella No 377, May 1973. The Cover is a picture of the group who founded Global Tools at a meeting in the editorial offices of Casabella on the 12 th. January, 1973. The picture was taken by Carlo Bachi and the Cover was designed by Adolfo Natalini.

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Front Cover of Progressive Architecture July 1965. The photo on the Cover is H.H. Richardson, an influential 19th-century American architect.

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Front Cover of Managing the Post-Industrial City by Ken Young and Liz Mills. It was published in 1983 by Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. The Cover was designed by Roger Huddle.