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The City provides copies of building floor plans for property in the City. Call 311 to request a copy of a building floor plan.

Floor plan manual housing / edited by Oliver Heckmann and Friederike Schneider

Here you can download a set of fascinating figure grounds of Berlin, starting in 1940. Due to the war and the reunification, the differences between the plans are impressive...

Plans for Park Hill began in the 1940's when Sheffield was desperately in need of housing after the war, but construction did not commence until 1957 and was not completed until 1961. Plans for Park Hill began in the 1940s when Sheffield was desperately in need of housing after the war, but construction did not commence until 1957 and was not completed until 1961.

Anecdotal account of the history of Chicago's "Plan for Transformation" and it's effect on former public housing (Cabrini Green) residents

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Database offering a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. Accessible to NYU-affiliated researchers from this link.

The New York Real Estate Brochure Collection was donated to Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library by Yale Robbins, Henry Robbins, and David Magier in 1986. The collection consists of over 9,200 advertising brochures, floor plans, price lists, and related materials that document residential and commercial real estate development in the five boroughs of New York and outlying vicinities from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Transformation of an apartment building, Saint-Nazaire, La ChesnaieHousing transformation, Saint-Nazaire, La Chesnaie place / location: Saint-Nazaire, France> show on map The block of 3 rue Gorse is apart of a highrise estate, Chesnaie, characteristic of the urban planning of the 70s, based on the massive development of modern housing in the context of Providing for all apartments and an optimistic vision of the future.