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Catalogue of the Conzen Collection MS864

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PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE CONZEN COLLECTION MS864

1933-2000

Description

The Conzen Collection is the professional collection of Professor M. R. G. Conzen (Berlin, 21 January

1907 – Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 February 2000), a Geographer and founder of the Anglo-German

school of Urban Morphology. Urban Morphology is the study of the form of human settlements and

the process of their formation and transformation. The study seeks to understand the spatial

structure and character of a metropolitan area, city, town or village by examining the patterns of its

component parts and the process of its development. This can involve the analysis of physical

structures at different scales as well as patterns of movement, land use, ownership or control and

occupation. Typically, analysis of physical form focuses on street pattern, lot (or, in the UK, plot)

pattern and building pattern, sometimes referred to collectively as urban grain. Analysis of specific

settlements is usually undertaken using cartographic sources and the process of development is

deduced from comparison of historic maps.

Special attention is given to how the physical form of a city changes over time and to how different

cities compare to each other. Another significant part of this subfield deals with the study of the

social forms which are expressed in the physical layout of a city, and, conversely, how physical form

produces or reproduces various social forms.

Professor Conzen’s collection represents his academic work from his early years as a student

studying Town Planning through to the culmination of his academic career. The Conzen Collection,

which is provisionally listed in the attached pdf file, contains professional correspondence, lecture

materials, publications by Conzen, his students and other colleagues. It contains research material

including handwritten annotations, and notes together with annotated plans and maps. The

collection is particularly strong in his principal research areas – detailed morphological studies of the

English market towns of Alnwick, Whitby, Newcastle, and Ludlow. Conzen was particularly noted for

the development of the micro-scale study of the evolution of plots. The collection also includes a

significant amount of material relating to Japanese Urban Morphology including publications relating

to Japanese castle towns.

Professor Conzen collected a large quantity of town and city guides relating to the UK, Europe and

North American, he also collected postcards and photographs of those areas of interest to his

research and this material, which date back to the 1930’s, is particularly interesting in showing pre-

World War Two Europe and other areas which have substantially changed and developed since the

photograph or postcard was produced. The collection also includes a significant quantity of books,

those which are considered to be appropriate have been included in the section of the collection

within the Cadbury Research Library, more recent publications have been placed with Library

Services at the University of Birmingham. A substantial quantity of maps and plans, separate from



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those contained in the Conzen Collection at the Cadbury Research Library, have been retained by the

School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at University of Birmingham.where they form part

of the Map Library. Enquiries relating to this material should be addressed to Library Services and

the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham respectively.

Access Conditions

The vast majority of this collection is open to all registered researchers. Some files contain

information relating to living individuals e.g. PhD assessments. Access and use of this information is

covered by our 'Access to Archives and Manuscripts' declaration in order to comply with the Data

Protection Act 1998. Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must

be sought in advance in writing from the Director of Special Collections (email: special-

[email protected]). Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often

difficult. Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but

responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material

Administrative Conditions

Professor M.R.G. Conzen, F.R.G.S., A.M.R.T.P.I. (Berlin, 21 January 1907 - Newcastle upon Tyne, 4

February 2000) was a geographer, and founder of the Anglo-German school of urban morphology.

Conzen's most influential work is a detailed morphological study of the English market town of

Alnwick. His work is noted among others for the micro-scale study of the evolution of plots.

Conzen was born on the 21st January 1907 in Berlin, Germany. From 1912 until 1926 he undertook

primary and secondary education in Berlin before progressing to the University of Berlin in 1926 to

study Geography, History and Philosophy, completing his studies in 1932. His academic teachers in

Geography at the University of Berlin were Albrecht Penck, Norbert Krebs, Carl Troll, Herbert Louis,

Alfred Rühl, Wolfgang Panzer, and Walther Vogel who can be seen to have influenced his later work

in various ways. In 1933 Conzen emigrated to the United Kingdom and between 1934 and 1936 he

proceeded to study Town and Country Planning at the Victoria University of Manchester where his

tutors included Prof. R. A. Cordingley. He gained a Diploma in Town & Country Planning, (with

distinction) in June 1936 with a thesis titled "Town Planning in Nantwich, Cheshire". Following this

he them undertook Postgraduate research in Historical Geography from 1937 to 1942 at the Victoria

University of Manchester where his supervisor was Prof. Herbert J. Fleure. In 1942, July he gained an

M. A., Victoria University of Manchester (by dissertation) with a dissertation titled "The Early

Historical Geography of Chester". In July 1963he was awarded a Dr. Phil. From the University of

Giessen, West Germany (magna cum laude) with a thesis titled "Alnwick: A Study in Town Plan

Analysis".

Between 1936-1940 he was employed as Senior Assistant to W. Dobson Chapman, Consultant in

Regional and Town Planning, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK. In 1940 he gained the position of Assistant

Lecturer in Geography at the University of Manchester where he remained until 1946 when he

moved to take up the post of Lecturer in Geography, University of Durham (King's College,



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Newcastle upon Tyne). In 1956 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Geography. In 1961 he moved

to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne to take up the position of Reader in Human Geography

being promoted to Professor in 1965 and finally becoming Professor Emeritus at the University of

Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972.

Throughout his academic career he pursued research interests in the areas of urban geography,

historical geography, applied geography, Other aspects of human geography, Regional geography of

the British Isles, Scandinavia and Denmark, Germany, Low Countries, Switzerland, Austria, Poland,

Southeast and East Asia. He was particularly interested in the philosophical and methodological

aspects of Geography.

During his academic career he held the following visiting appointments;

1948, July Lecturer at the Universities of Münster and Bonn, under the Foreign Office (German

Section) Scheme

1948, August Lecturer at the Universities of Bergen and Oslo, Norway

1955, Mar-Apr Lecturer to the Geographical Societies of Hanover, Cologne, Bonn, Erlangen, and

Munich, West Germany

1962, June-July Guest Professor, University of Kiel, West Germany

1963, July Guest Professor, University of Giessen, West Germany

1966, Winter Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, England

1968, Mar-Oct Visiting Professor, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

1971, Summer Distinguished Visiting Professor, tour of major universities in Japan (by invitation of

the Japanese Government, via the British Foreign Office)

He held professional membership of the following organisations;

1935-2000 Member of the Geographical Association

1937-2000 Associate Member of the Town Planning Institute (later Royal Town Planning Institute),

A.M.T.P.I. (M.R.T.P.I.)

1946-2000 Member of the Institute of British Geographers (later Fellow of the Royal Geographical

Society)

1997-2000 Member, International Seminar on Urban Form (I.S.U.F.)



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Throughout his career Professor Conzen attended a large number of conferences ans symposiums,

many of which are convered in his collection. He is known to have attended, and presented at where

indicated, the following;

Participant, Town Planning Institute Summer Schools, Manchester 1937 and Exeter 1938.

Participant, International Congress for Housing and Town Planning, Stockholm 1939.

Participant, Garden Cities and Town Planning Association Conference, Oxford, 1941.

Presented paper, Le Play Society Conference on "The Demography of Europe" at Oxford, January

1942.

Local Secretary, Section E (Geography), British Association for the Advancement of Science,

Newcastle Meeting, September 1949.

Member, British Association Subcommittee on Urban Geography, 1947-49.

Member of Council, Institute of British Geographers, 1952-54.

Presented paper, Section E (Geography), British Association for the Advancement of Science, Oxford,

September 1954.

Member, Anglo-Polish Seminar on Applied Geography, & Lecturer at Nieborow, Poland, Sept. 1959.

Presented paper, Lund Symposium on Urban Geography, International Geographical Congress,

Stockholm, 1960.

Member of Editorial Committee, British Historic Towns Atlas, since 1964.

Presented paper and conducted Field Excursion (Newcastle/Edinburgh), International Geographical

Congress, London, 1964.

Presented paper, International Geographical Congress, New Delhi, 1968.

Presented paper, 1st Anglo-German Symposium on Applied Geography, Gießen-Würzburg-München,

West Germany, April 1973.

Presented paper, Section 9: Historical Geography, Internat. Geographical Congress, Tokyo, 1980.

Participant, 900th Anniversary Conference on the Domesday Book, Winchester, November, 1986.

Honored participant, 4th International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) Conf., Birmingham, 1997.

Professor Conzen was honoured by his peers in a variety of reviews and interviews, below is a small

selection of these;



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"Appointments," Geography, vol. 50, no. 2 (April 1965), p. 186. Notice of personal professorship at

the University of Newcastle. "Mr. Conzen is one of the most scholarly of British students of the

geography of towns and this recognition of the quality of his work gives great satisfaction."

"Happy Birthday," Urban Morphology Newsletter, no. 1 (Autumn 1987), p. 1. MRGC's 80th birthday

notice

Video Interview: "M. R. G. Conzen," interviewed by Jeremy W. R. Whitehand and Terry R. Slater

(Birmingham: University of Birmingham Department of Geography, VHS tape, 1988).

"Conversations with Con," by Terry Slater, in Area, vol. 20, no. 4 (1988), pp. 200-202.

"Starting Again: Recollections of an Urban Morphologist," by Terry R. Slater in The Built Form of

Western Cities: Essays for M. R. G. Conzen on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday edited by Terry

R. Slater (Leicester and London: Leicester University Press, 1990), pp. 23-36.

How I Made the World: Shaping a View of Landscape by Jay Appleton (Hull: University of Hull Press,

1994), pp. 180-182. Describes MRGC's influence on the geographical education of the author

"Conzen, Michael Robert Gunter," Geographisches Taschenbuch 1999/2000 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner

Verlag, 1999), p. 278.

For details of Professor Conzen's publications please see the pdf attached to the CALM record which

includes a comprehensive list of his books and monographs, Festschriften, book chapters, articles

and reviews, unpublished papers and other scholarly works, invited research presentations, public

service, students, influence in the public sphere and obituary notices.

Custodial History

Professor Conzen's son, Professor Michael P Conzen working with Professor Jeremy Whitehand

from the University of Birmingham, kindly gifted his father's extensive archive to the then School of

Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham in 2000. The archive

collection together with a limited amount of printed material passed to the care of the Cadbury

Research Library in April 2012 when the School decided it was no longer able to care for the

collection. The majority of the printed library associated with the collection passed to Library

Services and approximately 50,000 maps were taken in by the maps department of the School of

Geography and Environmental Sciences at University of Birmingham.

Related Material

Related personal material regarding Professor Conzen is held by his son Professor Michael P. Conzen

who can be contacted via the University of Chicago, USA. This material includes;



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DIARIES (1926-1998)

ADDRESS BOOKS

CORRESPONDENCE (personal)

EXCURSION NOTEBOOKS (March 1930 - Jan. 1958)

FIELD BOOKS (1944-1958)

SKETCH BOOKS (1944)

DRAWINGS (landscapes, still lifes, persons - especially cartoons)

MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS

PHOTOGRAPHS (personal, family)

CARTOGRAPHICAL EQUIPMENT (1940s-1970s)

FINANCIAL/HOUSEHOLD RECORDS

Arrangement

The collection has been sorted and provisionally organised into a number of sections so as to allow access and retrieval. The numbers assigned to the materials together with the accompanying descriptions, should be regarded as a temporary measure. A preliminary hand list for the collection is attached as a PDF. This is a preliminary hand list which will be amended and updated over time.

Professor Conzen appears to have originally filed everything into box files which were kept as sequences. These sequences are listed in the preliminary hand list as Section 1 with each entry being an individual box file and all box files listed with a running number. Sequences are arranged according to the number placed on the box file presumably by Conzen where this is obvious. The number on a sticker on the spine of the box has been used in preference to any pencil numbers. Where a number is not obvious the box folder has been fitted into the relevant sequence as appears to be appropriate.

There is also a large quantity of unsorted material which did not arrive as part of the sequences shown in Section 1. A large majority of the material in Section 2 - Unprocessed Archive Boxes was obviously intended to be slotted into the sequences in Section 1 at some future date but this did not happen. It is unclear how much of this material was collected by Conzen and how much was collected subsequent to the collections deposit with the Geography Department at the University of Birmingham. Over time following initial box listing the material in Section 2 will be slotted into Section 1 where this is obviously in line with Conzen's original sequence structure.



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Series 1 – Box folders labelled by Conzen in sequences

1. Geog. General. Biog/Div. Countr. Institute./Practice 2. Nature o Geog, Hist of Geog 3. Region Landschaft 4. Cartog. Phys. Geog. 5. Hum. Geog. I 6. Hum. Geog II 7. Hist. Geog., Settlemt. Geog., Rur. Settls 8. 1 Urban Geog. Bib/Gen/Transp/Pop and Soc G 9. 2 Urban Geog. Funct.U. G. 10. 3 Urban Geog. Morphology 11. 4 Urban Geog. Hist. Urb. Geo I 12. 5 Urban Geog. H. U. G. III 13. Hist. Urban. Geog. II, MA Erenaiss etc 14. Urban Conservatn., Town Planning 15. GT Britain, Gen. E. Cartog., Econ. E. Pop. G. Urb. Geog. 16. Gt Britain, Hist. Geog. 17. Scotland, Gen./Phys./Hum., S. Uplands 18. Scotland, C. Lowlands, Highlands 19. England and Wales 20. Engl. & wal. Hist. Geog. 21. N. E. Engld, General 22. Northumb. (Exc. Tyneside ) 23. Northumbld. (Exc. Tyneside) III, Loc. Hist/ Excurs 24. Tyneside and Newcastle 25. Co. Durham 26. Lake Dist. 27. Lancashire 28. Yorkshire 29. Cheshire 30. Wales 31. C-Welsh Border 32. C-Welsh Bord: Towns 33. W-Midlands 34. E-Midlands, Lics, Fens, E-Anglia 35. S.E. Engld. 36. London 37. Cent. S-Engl., S. W. Engld. 38. Ireland 39. Europe General 40. France Benelux (exc. Netherls) 41. Netherlds. General, Low-lying Areas 42. Netherlds. Gen. settlement Geog, Small Towns I 43. Netherlds, Small Towns II, Large Towns: Gen, Rotterdam, Amsterdam I 44. Netherlds. Amsterdam II



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45. Sweden, Gen., Econ., Hist., Pop. 46. Sweden, Urban Settlt. Geog., Finland, Baltic Countries 47. Scandinav., General, Denmark, Iceld., Faroese 48. Norway, Gen., Phys. Transp. and Econ., Applied Geog. 49. C-Europe, Germany, General 50. N. Germany, General 51. N. Germany, Towns 52. C. Germany 53. S.Germany 54. Alps, Switzerl. 55. Austria, Czechosl., Hungary 56. Balkans, Italy, Iber. Penins. 57. Poland, General 58. Poland, Towns 59. E. Europe, Russia 60. Asia, General Sov and C. Asia Turk., Levant 61. Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanist. 62. SE. Asia 63. US Regions, Latin America 64. Canada, USA General 65. India 66. India, Gen. 67. India, Urb. Geog I, General, W. Bengal, Bihar 68. India, Urb II (UP) 69. India, Urb III, (except General), U.P., W. BEng., Bih. 70. India, Reg., Pakistan, Ceylon 71. Malaysia 72. New Zealand, General, North Island, excl. Auckland and Well. 73. New Zealand, Auckland, Nelson (House type surveys) 74. New Zealand, Wellington 75. New Zealand, South Island (except Nelson) 76. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 58 (1972) - 59 (1973); also

Report of Proceeding of the Town and Country Planning Summer School 1972 and 1973 77. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 60 (1974) - 61 (1975) 78. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 62 (1976) - 63 (1977) 79. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 64 (1978) - 67 (1981) 80. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 68 (1982) - 70 (1984) 81. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 71 (1985) - 72 (1986) 82. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 73 (1987) - 74 (1988) 83. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 75 (1989) 84. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 76 (1990 Jan - Sept) 85. The Planner; Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, 76 (1990 Oct - Dec) - 77 (1991 Jan) 86. Whitby Material 87. Whitby Material 88. The Geographical Teacher 2(1904) - 11 (1921) 89. The Geographical Teacher 12 (1922) - 13 (1926) 90. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 11 (1946) - 16 (1950)



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91. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 17 (1951) - 21 (1955) 92. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 22 (1956) - 26 (1959)

(includes index 1935-56) 93. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 27 (1960) - 31 (1962) 94. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 32 (1963) - 35 (1964) 95. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 36 (1965) - 39 (1966) 96. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 40 (1966) - 42 (1967)

(includes index 1935-67) 97. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 43 - 45 (1968) 98. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 46 (1969) - 49 (3.

1970) 99. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 50 (7. 1970) - 54 (11.



1975) 102. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) New Series 1, 1 (1976)

- 2, 4 (1977) 103. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 3, 1 (1978) - 4, 4

(1979) 104. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 5, 1 (1980) - 6, 4

(1981) 105. The Institute of British Geographers Transactions and Papers (T.I.B.G) 1982 - 1983 106. Journal of the Town Planning Institute 54, 1-10 (1968) - 55, 1-10 (1969) (no 2 1969 missing) 107. Journal of the Town Planning Institute 56, 1-10 (1970) - 57, 1-10 (1971) 108. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 14 (1927) - 15, 2 (1929) 109. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 15,3 (1929) - 16, 3 (1932) 110. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 17 (1932) - 19 (1934) 111. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 20 (1935) - 22 (1937) 112. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 23 (1938) - 25 (1940) 113. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 26 (1941) - 30 (1945) 114. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 31 (1946) - 34 (1949) 115. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 35 (1950) - 37 (1952) 116. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 38 (1953) - 39 (1954) 117. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 40 (1955) - 42 (1957) 118. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 43 (1958) - 45 (1960) 119. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 46 (1961) - 47 (1962) 120. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 48 (1963) - 49 (1964) 121. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 50 (1965) - 51 (1966) 122. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 14 52 (1967) - 53 (1968) 1, 2 123. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 53 (1968)3, 4 - 54 (1969) 124. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 55 (1970) - 56, 3 (1971) 125. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 56, 4 (1971) - 58, 2 (1973) 126. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 58, 3 (1973) - 60, 1 (1975) 127. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 60, 2 (1975) - 62, 2 (1977) 128. Journal of the Geographical Association (Geography) 62,3 (1977)



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129. Geographical Helvetica 3 (1948) - 5 (1950) 130. Geographical Helvetica 6 (1951) - 8 (1953) 131. Geographical Helvetica 9 (1954) - 11 (1956) 132. Geographical Helvetica 12 (1957) - 15 (1960) 133. Geographical Helvetica 16 (1961) - 19 (1964) 134. Geographical Helvetica 20 (1965) - 23 (1968) 135. Geographical Helvetica 24 (1969) - 27 (1972) 136. Scient. Corresp., Pol Corresp. 1960-61, Ang-Pol Sem. Keele 1962, Kiel Lect Visit 1962,

Giessen Lect Visit 1963, IGU Cong Stockh and Symp 1960, IGU Cong London and Symp 1964 137. Scient. Corresp., Aln Plan Anal 1959-61, C. Newc Plan Anal 1960-63, Urb. Hist. Conf. Lek.

1966, Urb Core Conf Amst 1966, Misc Corresp 1964-75 138. Scient. Corresp., Fleure 1944-64, Misc British 1942-64, North America 1950-64, Misc

Countries 1951-64, Scandinavia 1942-64, Low Countries 1949-64, Switzerland 1948-64 139. The Globe (Mugs) 21 (Apr 1942) - 24 (Dec 1944), J.K.C.G.S. 1 (Apr 1948) - 8 (1956), Raumf.

and Raumord. I. 6/7 - 9-10-13 (1937), II 4/5 -9 (1938) 140. Lausanne Fold Plans 141. Urb. Hist., News Letter 1 (Dec1963) - 20 (Dec 1973) 142. Urban History Yearbook 1974-1977 143. T. P. I. Yearbook 144. Div. Period, Geoforum 145. Erdkunde 1 (1947), 1/3, 4/6; 2 (1948), 1/3, 4/6; 3 (1949), 1, 2/3, 4; 14, 3, (Aug 1960) 146. Guides - Northumberland, Durham 147. Guides - Solway, Lake District, Yorkshire (excl. Pennines) 148. Guides - Welsh Border (incl. Ches/Sal/Heref), Wales, SW England 149. Guides - Pennines, Midlands, Lincolnshire, Fens, East Anglia 150. Guides - Scotland, Isle of Man, Ireland 151. Guides - W. Germany 152. Guides - E. Germany, Low Countries, France 153. Guides - India 154. RTPI News 1973-79, Plan News 1980-89, PL Mid Month supplements 1986-89 155. Div. RTPI Docs, Conservation Lit (c. 1975 ff.) 156. Kropf PhD 157. Postcards - Scandinavia 1946, 1960 158. Excursion Photos II, Britain and Ireland 1938-51 159. Postcards- 1946-60 160. Postcards France 1958 161. Postcards/Photos Scand. 1960 162. Postcards W Germany 1955, 1961 163. Postcards 1950-63 164. Postcards/Photos England /Germany 1950's - 1980's 165. Postcards/Photos 1949-58 166. Excursion Photos Germany 1932-53, Britain 1933-38 167. Postcards 1949 -1965 168. Postcards / Photos Belg. Germany 1950's 169. Postcards / Photos Flensbg. /Lubek 1962 170. Excursion Photos III and postcards, Britain misc. 171. Excursion Photos IV Britain Misc



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172. Area, Institute of British Geographers, 1 (1969) - 3 (1971) 173. Area, Institute of British Geographers, 4 (1972) - 6 (1974) 174. Area, Institute of British Geographers, 7 (1975) - 9 (1977) 175. Area, Institute of British Geographers, 10 (1978) - 12 (1980) 176. Area, Institute of British Geographers, 13 (1981) - 15 (1983) 177. Area, Institute of British Geographers, 16 (1984) - 17 (1985) 178. Area, Institute of British Geographers, 18 (1986) - 19 (1987) 179. The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Recent Geographical Literature, 1 (June 1918) - 17

(Oct 1925) 180. The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Recent Geographical Literature, 18 (Feb 1926) - 33

(Nov 1930) 181. The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Recent Geographical Literature, 34 (Feb 1931) - 51

(Dec 1935) 182. The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Recent Geographical Literature, 52 (Mar 1936) - 64

(Jan 1941) – 1956 183-184.Scient. Corresp. Series 2 - Unprocessed Archive Boxes

Box 1

1. Folder labelled ‘Glossary of Technical Terms for Alnwick 2nd Edition, extra copies’

2. Folder of miscellaneous city guides, antiquarian dealers catalogues, journal off prints etc.

labelled on folder by Conzen as ‘Bibliographical material check for card making and

discard!’. Variety of items are briefly annotated presumably by Conzen.

Box 2

1. Folder labelled ‘Munster’ containing various tourist and city guides for Munster

2. Folder labelled ‘Prof. correspondence Germany 1964 – 1981’. Contains correspondence

between Conzen and various in German, handwritten and typescript. The index within the

folder indicates that it covers the following locations;

Bentheim

Bertelsmeier

Bluthgen

Bogelein

Bullinger

Denecke

Dollen

Ehbrecht

Endriss

Grees

Hartke

Hoh



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Hohl

Jerger

Junk

Karger

Klein

Kleinn

Korn

Kuchler

Lauer

Lienau

Louis

Manshard

Meynen

Monheil

Muller-wille

Overhagebock

Quirin

Schlattmann

Schlesinger

Scholler

Schreiber

Schulte

Schultze

Schweizer

Schwind

Stockmann

Stoob

Tietze

Troll, C

Troll, Chr

Uhlig

Vogelsand

Wiese-Schron

3. Folder labelled ‘Guides VI Overseas’ containing various tourist and city guides

Box 3

1. Folder containing papers and proceedings from the ‘Conference of the Institute of British

Geographers Urban Geography Study Group, July 1982, Birmingham, UK



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2. Folder containing multiple copies of the Seminar Paper by M. R. G. Conzen ‘The purpose and

contents of Geography’ for the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Department of

Geography Seminar Papers Series, June 1970

3. Envelope labelled ‘G. C. Slide Collection: Film and Photo Coll: Lists’, contents includes lists

presumably by Conzen of various series of slides and films in his possession.

4. Envelope containing various city plans of;

Goppingen

Paderborn

Gotha

Gladbeck

Box 4

1. Folder labelled ’Town plans to be filed in boxes…’ contains various tourist and city guides

and maps

2. Handwritten catalogue, presumably by Conzen, to his library collection

3. Folder containing excerpts from ‘The Spatial Development of the City of London in the Later

Middle Age’ by Frank Edward Brown, Dip Arch., M. Sc., R.I.B.A., Thesis submitted for the

degree of Doctor pf Philosophy in Design Discipline, Faculty of Technology, the Open

University, December 1982

Box 5

1. Box labelled ‘Ludlow’ containing maps, plans, photos, leaflets etc relating to Ludlow,

Shropshire, UK

2. Section of a Japanese newspaper

3. Box labelled ‘Sewing odds and end’ containing travel guides, maps, plans and itinerary

presumably written by Conzen. Appears to be related to a trip in 1982 through Austria and

into Yugoslavia and Slovenia

Box 6

1. Folder labelled ‘Glossary of Technical Terms for Alnwick 2nd Edition, extra copies’

2. Folder labelled ‘Bibliog. Material, check for card making and discard’

Box 7

1. Folder labelled ‘N’d [Northumberland] and D’m [Durham] Misc. Urb, Geog’ containing

folders of maps covering Northumberland and Durham areas

2. Photocopy of a typescript titled ‘Gunter Conzen Die Havelstadte Sommer 1932’ with

accompanying city plans for German towns drawn by Conzen 1932



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Box 8

1. Set of National Grid Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One-Inch Map of Scotland series

covering map numbers 28, 29, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, 55, 56, 57, 62

(missing cover), 63, 66, 74, 75, 81, 82, 83, 87, 90, 91. Majority marked as belonging to

Conzen in pencil

Box 9

1. Folder containing various tourist and city guides, articles and typed correspondence relating

to Berlin

2. Folder containing various tourist and city guides, articles and typed correspondence relating

to Lubeck

3. Folder containing individual envelopes of reference cards. The folder is labelled ‘Bibl. Ref.

Cards Human Hist etc Regional Geog and Urban Geog’

Box 10

1. Hand written business card (presumably written by Conzen) for Nakai Omihisa, Lecturer in

French, Teikyo University, Tokyo

2. Three black and white photographs of an unidentified church

3. Three black and white aerial photographs from Aerofilms Library, Herts, UK with captions on

the back presumably by Conzen;

No A2151 - main part of the old town of York on both sides of the river Ouse

A23375 – harbor and town centre of Liverpool

A17826 – Preston in Lancashire

57751 – Victorian Edwardian residential area in the shoe manufacturing city

Northampton east of the old town

4. Page taken from a book or journal showing a black and white aerial view of shipyards on the

River Tyne

5. Black and white aerial photograph possibly showing Zurich, unlabelled

6. Framed black and white photograph of M. R. G. Conzen dated ‘Alsfeld 27th July 1963’

7. Framed black and white photograph of M. R. G. Conzen dated ‘18th July 1967’

8. Folder containing course notes written presumably by Conzen for his courses at the

University of Durham;

Lecture Course: IH/2G Practical (Pop. Settlement)

Lecture Course: History of Cartography

Lecture Course: Practical (Map Projections)

Lecture Course: 3G/2H Practical (Pictorial Methods)

Lecture Course: Practical (Old Notes)

Lecture Course 3G/2H Practical (Distribution mapping)

Lecture Course: 2H Application of Cartographic Techniques



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Box 11

1. Black and white photographs from Aerofilms as part of their Educational Series. 24 images

forming part of the ‘Habitation – Urban and Modern’ series. Each individual photograph is

captioned.

2. Publication giving maps of Iraq with hand drawn transfer overlays giving roman script

translation of Arabic. Includes hand written notes possibly by Conzen but more likely by

another hand

3. Folder containing booklets , papers, timetable etc. relating to Conzen’s visti to Japan in 1980

to the 24th International Geographical Congress in Hiroshima, Japan

4. Black and white photographs from Aerofilms as part of their Educational Series. 24 images

forming part of the ‘Habitation – Rural, Ancient and Strategic’ series. Each individual

photograph is captioned.

5. Folder captioned ‘Japan Fieldwork 1980 – Takamatsu [1980]’ containing aerial photographs

and maps and plans

6. Folder captioned ‘Omi-Hachiman [1980]’ containing maps and plans

7. Folder captioned ‘Okayama [1980]’ containing maps and plans

8. Folder captioned ‘Sabae [1980]’ containing maps and plans and labelled ‘Sabae City for M.

R. G. Conzen 1/2500 2 sheets, 1/10000 one sheet, 1/10000 map for urban planning’

9. Folder captioned ‘Sakura [1980]’ containing maps and plans, booklets and leaflets

10. Folder captioned ‘Osaka [1980]’ containing maps and plans, booklets and leaflets

11. Selection of black and white photocopies of sections of historic plans for French towns and

villages annotated in some cases with a caption by presumably Conzen

Box 12

1. Box labelled ‘Conway’ containing presumably Conzen’s notes, index cards, some maps and

leaflets relating to Conway, Wales, UK

2. Box labelled ‘Frodsham – Pickering’ containing presumably Conzen’s notes, index cards,

some maps and leaflets relating to the towns of Frodsham and Pickering, UK

3. Folder labelled ’12 - British Market Towns outline maps 1/5000 –

Alnwick/Conway/Frodsham/Whithorn/, 1/10500 Frodsham’ containing maps and plans

Box 13

1. Folder labelled ’19 – Hist Towns Atlas/Hist Towns Trust File I/II’ Contains 2 folders of

correspondence, committee papers, hand written notes etc. relating to the Historical Towns

Trust.1964 – 1975



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2. Folder labelled ’12 – Alnwick (Morphol): Bldg Plans’, contains historic images of Alnwick with

building plans for a variety of housing types and more modern photographs

3. Envelope labelled ‘Hannover’ containing a photocopy of a booklet in German titled ‘30 years

of rebuilding the city of Hanover’ from 1982, with a photocopy of a booklet in German titled

‘Hanover information city planning office’ 1982

4. Folder labelled ‘Alnwick Misc’ containing envelopes labelled;

Alnwick Pictures Ground photos

Alnwick Monograph : Corrections and Additions for re-issue

Alnwick Plan Analysis: work in hand (field wk and libraries)

Alnwick Plan Analysis: Map and Photo Pulls and Originals

Alnwick: Pictures; oblique air photos

Alnwick Misc incl mapping prep

Alnwick: current material on townscape conservation and management

‘Something about Alnwick’ Xerox copy of MS of 28 foolscap pages signed ‘Robt.

Dawson Ferguson… 1863’

5. Folder labelled ‘Jedburgh Survey (J. A. Barnes, 1951’ containing maps, plans and

photographs

Box 14

1. Selection of brochures relating to Ludlow

2. Folder labelled ‘Urban morphology research group (U o Birmingham) Urban Geography

study group (I B G) National Seminar: Recent Developments in Urban Morphology University

of Birmingham 1990’

3. A variety of formats of material apparently sent to Conzen for his appreciation/comment/

submission for publication from Jeremy Whitehand, Nigel Baker E. Cassirer, David Smith etc

4. Folder of personal correspondence (with Sylvain Malfroy) and working notes relating to the

transcription of the correspondence of Eduard Lanz from Germany to his family in

Switzerland 1918-1919 by Conzen and Freda Conzen c. 1991

5. Folder containing hand written notes presumably by Conzen labelled’ Current research:

Princ of Urb Morph’ c. 1951-1961

Box 15

1. Folder labelled ’8 – Papers and unfinished work in Urban Morphology in the Industrial

Revolution’

2. Folder labelled ’19 – Hist Towns Atlas/Hist Towns Trust File III’ Contains folder of

correspondence, committee papers, hand written notes etc. relating to the Historical Towns

Trust.1976 – 1980

3. Envelope containing a variety of book lists of material for sale from book dealers

4. Folder labelled ‘Newcastle – Central Area (collected material)’ containing handwritten notes,

maps and plans



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Box 16

1. Variety of off prints, booklets and seminar papers and notes mainly from Jeremy Whitehand

Box 17

1. Folder labelled ‘L.N. Hum. Geog I, II and Misc, Philos of Geog’, containing individual folders of

course notes written presumably by Conzen for his courses at the University of Durham

2. Folder labelled ‘L.N S.A. Hist Geog, S.A. Urb. Geog’, containing individual folders of course

notes written presumably by Conzen for his courses at the University of Durham

Box 18

1. Enveloped labelled ‘Jeremy’s MRGC volume. Plan of Contents. Gen Corresp with Jeremy (inc

Tel calls), Preface’. Text from Jeremy Whitehand 1983 .

2. Enveloped labelled ‘Jeremy CR 1 and my amendments (original versions uncondensed)’. Text

from Jeremy Whitehand 1983.

3. Enveloped labelled ’Munster paper (Ch. 5), Text Translation ( incl Captions and Notes)’. Text

from Jeremy Whitehand 1981`.

4. Enveloped labelled ’Munster paper (Ch. 5),(Maps and Figs)’. Text from Jeremy Whitehand

1981`.

5. Enveloped labelled ‘Jeremy : Ch 6, his original draft has gone with my marginal pencil notes

temporarily to his (on 11.3.81). Returned’’. Text from Jeremy Whitehand 1981`.

6. Envelope labelled ‘Sasayama Maps not to be Xeroxed’ contains original maps with some

annotation presumably by Conzen

7. Variety of journal off prints mainly in German

Box 19

1. Folder labelled ‘7 - Urban Archaeology and History: CBA Conferences’ . Contains the

following envelopes;

Working Party on town Plans and Topography (urban research committee, Council

for British Archaeology) Leamington Spa 2-3/11/1974

CBA Internat (EAHY) Conference, Oxford 6-12 April 1975. The Archaeology and

history of the European town

CBA Urban Research Committee Working Party on the Continuity and Origin of

English Town, Birmingham 21-23 May 1976

Div CBA Publications (other than books)

2. Envelope labelled ‘Duplicate Town Plans (for disposal) Germany’

3. Folder containing a variety of copies of area and town plans for Germany, unmarked

4. Envelope labelled ‘Facs. Copies of Plans of Towns, German Synpos Excursion April 1973, and

Regensburg and Landshut’ Contains copies of city plans for Germany



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Box 20

1. Large envelope unlabelled containing a mix of copies of images, photographs, journal off

prints, copies of maps and sections from magazines. May be related to folder also in

envelope labelled ‘Natural Conditions Mode of Life Civilisation’ which contains two

annotated maps showing ‘Introduction of Potato into Europe’ and ‘Dispersal of certain

cultivated plants’.

Box 21

1. Folder labelled ‘L. N. W-Eur. Brit. Isl.’, containing individual folders of course notes written

presumably by Conzen for his courses at the University of Durham

2. Folder labelled ‘L.N. Hum. Geog I, II and Misc, N- America’, containing individual folders of


3. Individual sheet of paper labelled presumably by Conzen ‘The Urban Landscape…. Papers by

M. R. G. Conzen (ed. Whitehand), I. B. G. Spec Publ No. 13 (1981). Record of distribution of

authors copies for personal complimentary distribution’.

Box 22

1. Box labelled ‘Galloway Towns’ containing presumably Conzen’s notes, index cards, some

maps relating to Galloway area

2. Box labelled ‘Alnwick’ containing presumably Conzen’s notes, index cards, some maps

relating to Alnwick Town

3. Unlabelled box containing maps and plans relating to Central Newcastle

Box 23

1. Folder labelled ‘Central Newcastle Excursion Summer 1965’ contoaing maps and plans and

multiple copies of a brief typescript paper titled ‘Central Newcastle upon Tyne (Summer

1965)’

2. Folder labelled ‘Historical Geography of European Towns, Bibliog I, II, III; Urban Geography

Dr Stewig, [General Bibliog}, {Bibliog of German Work c1850 – 1930]

3. Small envelope containing index cards labelled ‘Urban Geog: 3 Town Constellations and

Urban Hierarchy’

4. Small envelope containing index cards labelled @Urban Geog: 6 General Morphology and

Town Plans’

Box 24

1. Folder labelled ‘Central Newcastle Excursion Summer 1965’ containing maps and plans and

multiple copies of a brief typescript paper titled ‘Central Newcastle upon Tyne (Summer

1965)’ **as in Box 23**



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2. Envelope labelled ‘Geschichtel Atlas Der Pfalz 1970 Excerpts’

3. Folder labelled ‘Old Professional Research and Membership Correspondence’ containing

correspondence 1940-1972 between Conzen and various bodies and individuals

Box 25

1. Box labelled ‘Urb Morph Misc Inform’ containing presumably Conzen’s notes and index

cards

2. Box labelled ‘Newcastle Upon Tyne’ containing presumably Conzen’s notes, index cards,

some maps relating to Newcastle Upon Tyne

3. Box labelled ‘Whitby’ containing presumably Conzen’s notes, index cards, some maps and

photographs relating to Whitby Town

Box 26

1. Folder labelled ‘Misc. Publ. and Unpubl. Material relevant to the theory of Urb Morph’

containing maps and plans, off prints from journals and leaflets

2. Folder labelled ‘L.N. Mons. Asia SE-Asian S. A. Geomor’, containing individual folders of


Box 27

Box file labelled ’13 Lectures and Publ. Articles in Urb. Morphol.’

1. Envelope labelled ‘The Use of Town Plans in the Study of Urban History, Typescripts: 1st – 4th

Version (Sept 1966-Nov 1967’)

2. Envelope labelled ‘Correspondence re Past Articles – includes 2 envelopes labelled ‘ Anglo-

German Symposium, Giessen 1973: Publication Corresp’ and ‘Hist Townscapes in Brit (1966)

Corresp and accessory material (incl Newsp Cutt)’’

3. Envelope labelled ‘Cambridge Lectures (Jan/Feb 1966), The Historical Geography of

European Towns, Text, Bibliographies, Prep Material’

4. Envelope labelled ‘Historical Townscapes in Britain, A Problem in Applied Geography 1966.

1st version TS, 2nd version TS’

5. Envelope labelled ‘Munster Paper 1974-8 Publication preparation – includes 3 envelopes

labelled ‘Zur Morphologies der englischen Stadt in Industriezeit alter, Correspondence’ and

‘Zur Morphologies der englischen Stadt in Industriezeit alter, Correspondence, Final MS’ and

‘Zur Morphologies der englischen Stadt in Industriezeit alter, Correspondence, Illustrations’’

Box 28

Box file labelled ‘9 Hist Urb Morph in Europe’

1. Envelope labelled ‘Bibliog References for Hist Geog of Europ Towns’



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2. Envelope labelled ‘I. B. G. – Hist Geog Res Group Spring Conference , May 29-31, 1974,

Cumberland Lodge Windsor Great Park, Windsor, Berks…’

3. Envelope labelled ‘Fleure’s last lecture on The Historic City in Western Europe, 10/11/1965’

containing text of the lecture and related correspondence

4. Envelope labelled ‘W. Trzebinski, Town Planning Activity by Magnates and Nobility in 18th c

Poland, 1962, Excerpts of Illustrations, Tables and complete bibliography’

5. Folder labelled ‘Hist Geog of Eur Towns’ including bibliographies, correspondence and

photographs

6. Photocopy of publication ‘Piante E Vedute Della Lombardia Conservate Nella Raccolta Delle

Stampe E Dei Disegni’ by Paolo Arrigo and Achiile Bertarello. Hand written text indicates that

this is from journal ‘Tipografia Del Popolo D’Italia, 1931’

7. Envelope labelled ‘Sympos. ‘The Aesthetics of Landscape’ Hull Univ (Thwaite Hall) 17-19 Sept

1976’ containing papers relating to the symposium

8. Envelope labelled ‘Vernacular Architecture, Bibliogrpahy lists 1-7 (1956-64) compiled by

Vernac Archit Group, and other Bibliogs on Hist Bldg Types’

9. Handwritten sheet presumably by Conzen titled ‘Memo on the Theory of Morphological

Regionalisation in Towns (Townscape Regions) 30/6/1974’

10. Copy of a single page typed sheet titled ‘Geography and Townscape Conservation by M. R. G.

Conzen’

Box 29

1. Envelope labelled ’16 - New Zealand: Air and other photos’ containing a variety of original

and copy black and white photographs

2. Envelope labelled ’16 – New Zealand Urban Bldg Types’ containing newspaper cuttings,

photos, leaflets etc.

3. Envelope labelled ’16 – Duplicate Town Plans (Spare)’

4. Envelope labelled ’19 – Crete 2, Crete Fieldwork (Jan 1978 – March 1979), Libr. Prep, Lit

Excerpts, Field Notes, Pract Inform’

5. Envelope labelled ’19 – Crete: Settlement Archaeology Field Work (incl. Libr prep) Dec/Jan

1977/8’

Box 30

1. Contains box labelled ‘11 – Alnwick Monograph, Prelim MS version’. Included in the box are

2 box files labelled ‘Alnwick, Northumberland A Study in Town- Plan Analysis by M. R. G.

Conzen, 2nd (Long) Version (2nd TS)’ and ‘Alnwick, Northumberland A Study in Town- Plan

Analysis by M. R. G. Conzen, 3rd (short) Version (Final TS)’

Box 31

1. Envelope labelled ‘Der Englische Stadteatlas von M. R. G. Conzen completed 20/4/75…’

containing 2 copies of the typescript



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2. Envelope labelled ’19 - Crete 3. K Davaras, Guide to Cretan Antiquities, Excerpts’ copy of

journal article

3. Envelope containing multiple copies of a paper titled ‘Anglo-German Symposium in Applied

Geography, Giessen-Wurzburg-Munich, 13-19 April, 1973 ‘Geography and Townscape

Conservation’ by M. R. G. Conzen’

4. Folder labelled ’16 - Nelson, N.Z. Misc Incl. Survey Prep’ containing maps and plans,

brochures and guides etc

Box 32

1. Report ‘Conservation in Towns and Villages; A Report on the operation of Part 1 of the Civic

Amenities Act 1967 & Part V of the Town and Country Planning Act 1968 by the County

Planning Officers Society, April 1969’

2. Report ‘The Eastern Lowland Sub-Regional Study; Section II – The Existing Situation, by

Kesteven County Planning Department, County Offices, Sleaford, July 1971’

3. Report ‘The Eastern Lowland Sub-Regional Study; Section III –Aims, Objectives and Policy, by

Kesteven County Planning Department, County Offices, Sleaford, April 1972’

4. Report ‘The Eastern Lowland Sub-Regional Study; Maps and Diagrams, by Kesteven County

Planning Department, County Offices, Sleaford, June 1971’

5. Report ‘The Eastern Lowland Sub-Regional Study; A synoptic view as at June 1971, by K. R.

Fennell – Director of the Study, Kesteven County Planning Department, County Offices,

Sleaford’

6. Paper titled ‘Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, Aberdeen 4-8 January

1972. Symposium F – The Scottish Urban Area : Form and Function, Morphogenesis and

Urban-Rent Theory: Towards a Synthesis, J. W. R. Whitehand, University of Birmingham’

7. Envelope containing off prints of journal articles

8. Salop County Council Planning Department Publication ‘Towards a Plan for Ludlow’ 1972

Box 33

1. Envelope containing wide variety of journal off prints sent to Conzen by the journal authors

as complimentary copies

Box 34

1. Box containing a variety of unsorted postcards from a wide variety of locations

Box 35

Box file labelled ‘Postgrad supervision examination’ ***These files include academic records,

personal correspondence and HR related material***

1. Envelope labelled ‘Ph.D. K Al-Ashab 1972’

2. Envelope labelled ‘Ph.D. R. I. Fennell’



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3. Folder labelled ‘Testimonials’ i.e. letters of reference for various individuals

4. Folder labelled ‘Postgrad Exs: Completed’ containing individual files relating to students

Conzen appears to have acted as an external examiner for;

R. Parsons, M. A. University of Wales 1955

M. F. Huq, Ph. D. University of Edinburgh, 1960

W. H. Clark, M.A. University of Durham, 1961

Harris, D. Litt., Hull, 1962

Alam, Ph. D. Edinburgh, 1962

Witherick, Ph. D. Birmingham, 1963

P. N. Jones, Ph. D. Birmingham, 1965

Wagstaff, Ph. D. Durham, 1966

F. I. Straw, M. A., Nottingham, 1967

C. A. Forester, Ph. D. Hull, 1969

R. Tyagi, Ph. D. Rajasthan, 1970

I. P. Carlyle, Ph. D. Edinburgh. 1976

F. Brown, Ph. D. The Open University, 1982

5. Correspondence between Conzen and the School of Environmental Studies, University

College London, 1977

Box 36

Box file labelled ‘8 – Current GC Work’

1. Envelope labelled ‘European Towns: Div Fieldwork’

2. Envelope labelled ‘8 – Newcastle upon Tyne (For Hist. Towns Atlas)’

3. Envelope labelled ‘Townscape Conservation’

4. Envelope labelled ‘Prelim work on Urb Morphology originally proposed for Geopedia (1969)

5. Envelope labelled ‘Research Houses Types, Building Materials’

6. Envelope labelled ‘Gottingen Memo (April 1983): Uber Kurzfrist intensive Formen D.

Wissenschaftl, Kontaktes etc’

7. Envelope labelled ‘review article on Rescue Archaeology, Corresp’

8. Envelope labelled ‘Article of Urban Geography’

9. Envelope labelled ‘Morphol Glossary 1st Ed 1959 (obsolete)’

10. Envelope labelled ‘9 - Theory of Urban Morphology’

11. Envelope labelled ‘C Newcastle (Plan Analysis)’

Box 37

1. Envelope containing a variety of bibliographic lists, publications and catalogues

2. Flyer for publication ‘Houses of the Welsh Countryside’

3. Publication ‘The Beauty of Butterflies’ with an introduction by Julian Huxley, nd



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4. Three pictures, black background with small strips of wood/bamboo to create landscape

image, with caption ‘Malaysia’

Box 38

Box folder labelled ‘GC Publications Copies for Distrib. Alnwick (2nd ed 1969). [Actually contains

variety of off prints of articles by Conzen]

1. Copy of paper ‘Geography and Townscape Conservation by M. R. G. Conzen’

2. Copy of paper ‘Zur Morphologie Der Englischen Stadt im Industriezeitalter by M. R. G.

Conzen’

3. Copy of paper ‘Modern Settlement by M. R. G. Conzen’ from Scientific Study of North –

Eastern England (British Association, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1949)

4. Copy of paper ‘Historical townscapes in Britain: a problem in applied geography by M. R. G.

Conzen’ c. 1966

5. Copy of paper ‘A note on The Historic Town Atlas by M. R. G. Conzen’ from Journal of

Historical Geography, 2, 4 (1976) 361-362

6. Copy of paper ‘Beitrage zur vergleichenden Stadtegeschichte – Der englische Stadteatlas by

M. R. G. Conzen’ from Weiner Geschichtsblatter, 31. Jahrgang, 1976, Heft 4

7. Single page hand written sheet presumably by Conzen titled ‘Conzen, Alnwick (2nd ed 1969)

record of Spare Copies available for distribution’

8. Envelope labelled ‘I. B. G. Publication No 27, Conzen, Alnwick (2nd ed 1069) Errata’

containing single sheet with errata detailed

Box 39

Box folder labelled ‘7 – Inst Fur Vergleich Stadtegeschichte, Kolloguia, Arbeitstagungen 1971-78’

1. Envelope labelled ‘ Munster Colloq. ‘Stadkernforschung’ 14-17/3/1983’

2. Papers labelled ‘Zentralitat Als Problem Der Mittelalterlichen Stadtgeschichtsforschung, 6.

Kolloquium fur vergleichende stadtegeschichte, Munster 12-15 Marz 1975’

3. Papers labelled ‘Sozialtopographie und Stadtplanung im 19 Jahrhundert am Modell des

Stadtebuchs, Arbeitstagung vom 15 bis 17 November 1974…’

4. Papers labelled ‘Funftes Kolloquium vergleichende Stadtegeschichte ‘Probleme des

Stadtewesens im industriellen Zeitalter’ vom 8-11 April 1974…’

5. Papers labelled ‘Arbeitstagung ‘Fruhneuzeitliche Bischofs und Kathedralstadte’ 16-18

September 1973…’

6. Envelope labelled ‘Viertes kolloquim fur vergleichende Stadtegeschichte ‘Markt und Stadt’,

vom 2-5 April 1973…’Envelope labelled ’13. Kolloqu F. Vergleich Stadtegesch (Stadt Um

Hinterland in Vorindustr Zeit) 22-25/3/1982, Papers/notes etc’

7. Conference flyer ‘Zehnten Kolloquium fur vergleichende Stadtegeschichte, See-und

Fluzhafen Mitteleuropas vom Hochmittelalter bis zur Industrialisierung, 26-29 Marz 1979’

marked presumably by Conzen in pencil ‘Unable to take part(in Crete 15-31/3/79)’



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8. Conference flyer ‘Zwolften Kolloquium des Kuratoriums fur vergleichende Stadtegeschichte

‘Haus und Familie in der Spatmittelalterlichen Stadt’ 31. 3.-2 4. 1981’

9. Envelope labelled ‘9 Kolloqu f. Vergleich Stadtegesch (Stadtewesen & Merkanthusmus in

Mittel Europa) 7-12/3/1978: Programme, Papers, Excursions’

10. Envelope labelled ‘5. Kolloq Fur Vergl Stadtegesch Munster 8-11 April 1974… Kolloq Thema:

Probleme des Stadtewesens im Industriellen Zeitalter’

Box 40

1. Envelope labelled ‘4. Kolloquium F. Vergleich Stadtegesch, Munster (April 1973)…. Kolloq

Thema: Markt & Stadt’

2. Envelope labelled ‘3. Kolloquium F. Vergleich Stadtegesch, Munster (Marz 1974)…. Kolloq

Thema: Stadtewesen im Sudostl Europa’

3. Envelope labelled ‘First Munster Visit (Inst F Vergl Stadtegesch) 26/10-11/11/1971’

Box 41

1. Variety of Town Conservation Plans covering the period 1970-73 for the following;

Holbeach

Stamford

Long Sutton

Crowland

Grantham

Sleaford

Heckington Settlement

Fulbeck

Brant Broughton

Wellingore

Box 42

1. Variety of Town Conservation Plans for the following;

Much Wenlock

Ludlow

County of Lincoln, Parts of Kesteven

Market Deeping

Spalding

Boston

2. Selection of County Structure Plan Working Papers for Salop County Council, 1973

Box 43



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1. Envelope labelled ’12 – Elsdon’ containing maps, plans, copies of typescript MS articles

presumably by Conzen, multiple copies

2. Envelope labelled ’12 – Plan Analysis of Medieval Conway and Ludlow (as used in Leicester

paper ‘The Use of Town Plans in the Study of Urban history’) Spare Plans’

Box 44

Box folder labelled ’18 – GC Publications Misc Copies for Distribution’

1. Handwritten list presumably by Conzen titled ‘G. C. Publications: Miscellaneous, Copies for

Distribution (Box E18)’

2. Typescript titled ‘M. R. G. Conzen: Japanese and English Castle-Towns an historico-

geographical comparison of their morphology’

3. Off print of ‘The Use of Town Plans in the Study of Urban Planning by M. R. G. Conzen’

4. Offprint multiple copies of ‘A note of The Historic Towns Atlas by M. R. G. Conzen’

5. Typescript titled ‘The Purpose and Contents of Geography by M. R. G. Conzen’

6. Multiple copies of seminar paper titled ‘Seminar Papers June 1970, Number 14, The Purpose

and Contents of Geography, by M. R. G. Conzen’

7. Multiple copies of a book review by M. R. G. Conzen for the Australian Geographer XII, 5

(March 1974, of ‘Allegemeine Stadtgeographie edited by P Scholler, 1969’

8. Offprint of ‘Geographical Setting of Newcastle by M.R.G. Conzen’ from Scientific Survey of

North-Eastern England (British Association for the Advancement of Science, Newcastle on

Tyne, 1949)

9. Offprint multiple copies of ‘The Scandinavian Approach to Urban Geography by M. R. G.

Conzen’ Reprint from Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift Vol XII, Nr 2, 1949

10. Offprint of ‘Chapter 8 - Elsdon by M. R. G. Conzen’ from Northumberland National Park

Guide No 7 (ed J. Philipson) London 1969

11. Offprint multiple copies ‘Japanese and English Castle-Towns, an Historico-geographical

Comparison of their Morphology by M. R. G. Conzen’, in Proceedings of the 24th

International Geographical Congress Section 9: Historical Geography edited by T. Tanioka

and T. Ukita (Tokyo, 1981 ), pp. 89–92.

Box 45

Box folder labelled ’17 – Geography and Townscape Giessen 1973, copies for distribution’

1. Offprint multiple copies “Geography and Townscape Conservation,” in First German-English

Symposium on Applied Geography, Gießen-Würzburg-München 1973 edited by Harald Uhlig

and Cay Lienau (Gießen: Lenz Verlag, Gießener Geographische Schriften, vol. 35, 1975), pp.

95–102. Includes Correction copy, corrected presumably by Conzen

Box 46



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Box folder labelled ‘Urban Geography Illustrations’

1. Urban Settlements: SE and EC Europe (Baltic Countries, Finland, Poland, Hungary)

2. Urban Settlements : Portugal

3. Urban Settlements: Spain

4. Urban Settlements: Italy

5. Urban Settlements: Balkans and Greece (incl Aegean Islands and Crete)

6. Urban Settlements: W and SW Asia (Asia Minor/Near East incl Arabia and Iran)

7. Urban Settlements: C and N Asia

8. Urban Settlements: India/Se and E Asia

9. Urban Settlements: Africa

10. Urban Settlements: Mexico

11. Urban Settlements: Anglo N America

12. Urban Settlements: C America

13. Urban Settlements: S America

14. Urban Settlements: Australia and Oceania

15. Urban Settlements: Germany

16. Urban Settlements: Switzerland

17. Urban Settlements: Austria

18. Urban Settlements: Poland

19. Urban Settlements: Czechoslovakia

20. Urban Settlements: Denmark/Iceland

21. Urban Settlements: Norway

22. Urban Settlements: Sweden

23. Urban Settlements: Soviet Russia

24. Urban Settlements: Ireland

25. Urban Settlements: France

26. Urban Settlements: Netherlands

27. Urban Settlements: Belgium/ Luxemburg

28. Urban Settlements: Wessex and SW England

29. Urban Settlements: E Anglia and Fens (Incl Cambridge)

30. Urban Settlements: London

31. Urban Settlements: SE England (Excl London)

32. Urban Settlements: E and C Midlands

33. Urban Settlements: W Midlands and Welsh Borders

34. Urban Settlements: Wales

35. Urban Settlements: Cheshire and Lancashire

36. Urban Settlements: Yorkshire

37. Urban Settlements: Lake District and Cumberland

38. Urban Settlements: Co Durham (Excl Tynside)

39. Urban Settlements: Tyneside



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40. Urban Settlements: Northumberland (Excl Tyneside)

41. Urban Settlements: Scotland

42. Urban Settlements: History of Town Planning

43. Urban Settlements: Urban House Types

Boxes 47-51: numbers not used

Box 52

1. Envelope labelled ‘Anglo-German Symposium in Applied Geography, Giessen-Wurzburg,

Munich 12-19/04/1973, Papers and Excursions’

2. Folder labelled ‘University of Amsterdam Sociographical Department, Urban Core and Inner

City, Proceedings of the International Study Week, Amsterdam, 11-17 September 1966’

3. Copies of offprints labelled ‘India’

4. Copies of offprints labelled ‘SE Asia/Hong Kong’

Box 53

1. Copies of offprints labelled ‘Japan: General and non-urban’

2. Copies of offprints labelled ‘Hungary/Italy’

3. Copies of offprints labelled ‘Austria: Wein’

4. Copies of offprints labelled ‘Extra Eurasian Areas’

Box 54

1. Copies of offprints labelled ‘ General Human Geog.’

2. Copies of offprints labelled’ Hist Geog’

3. Copies of offprints labelled ‘ Rural Settel Geog’

4. Copies of offprints labelled ‘England’

5. Copies of offprints labelled ‘Germany’

6. Copies of various publicity leaflets advertising journals and publications and book sales

Box 55

1. Box folder labelled ‘Chester Excerpt Notes’

Box 56

1. Boxes of slides and negatives cannisters

2. Selection of papers labelled ‘Conference Amsterdam 1966: Urban Core and Inner City,

Papers collected at Conference’

Box 57



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1. Selection of papers which appear to be a continuation of sequence in Box 56 ‘Conference

Amsterdam 1966: Urban Core and Inner City, Papers collected at Conference’

2. 2 boxes of slides

3. Plastic bag containing various city guides, pamphlets etc. some annotated presumably by

Conzen

4. Notebook labelled ‘Field Book 1’ containing field notes by Conzen


6. Notebook labelled ‘Field Book 3A’ containing field notes by Conzen


8. Sketch book containing line drawings by Conzen

9. Small notebook labelled ‘Swiss Town Plans (After Hofer, 1963) containing notes by Conzen

Box 58

Box of slides linked in same series as Boxes 58-63

1. Drawer 1 – labelled ‘Germany March 1955 I’

2. Drawer 2 – labelled ‘Germany 1955 II’

3. Drawer 3 – unlabelled

4. Drawer 4 – labelled ‘Germany 1955 IV’

Box 59


1. Drawer 1 – labelled ‘W Germany 1955 V’

2. Drawer 2 – labelled ‘Brittany 1958 I’

3. Drawer 3 – labelled ‘Switzerland 1958, Poland 1959 I’

4. Drawer 4 – labelled ‘Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland 1961 I’

Box 60


1. Drawer 1 – labelled ‘Switzerland 1958’

2. Drawer 2 – labelled ‘Poland 1959 III’

3. Drawer 3 – labelled ‘Poland 1959 II’


Box 61


1. Drawer 1 – labelled ‘Poland 1959 IV’

2. Drawer 2 – labelled ‘Poland 1959 V/Berlin 1959 I’



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3. Drawer 3 –un labelled


Box 62


1. Drawer 1 – labelled ‘Netherlands 1960 II’

2. Drawer 2 – labelled ‘Netherlands 1960/Scandinavia 1960 I’

3. Drawer 3 – labelled ‘Germany 1955 III’

4. Drawer 4 – labelled ‘Scandinavia 1960 III’

Box 63


1. Drawer 1 – labelled ‘Scandinavia 1960 IV/C Sweden’

2. Drawer 2 – labelled ‘Scandinavia 1960 V/S E Norway’

3. Drawer 3 – labelled ‘Scandinavia 1960 VI/C Norway Fjords’


Box 64

1. Box of slides and negatives cannisters

Box 65

1. Envelope labelled ’15 - Elsdon Maps’ containing main glossy copy of map labelled ‘Elsdon

Building Types (M R G Conzen, 1965’ and two printed tracings of the map as printed

2. Envelope labelled ’15 – C Nelson , N. Z. Morpholog Survey, July 1968, 5 maps and keys of

symbols’, containing 5 large maps

3. Box folder labelled ’15 – Drawing Aids’ containing diagrams of hatching patterns, text size,

type faces, letraset packs, keys to map symbols, copies of maps to varying scales of Alnwick

etc

4. Envelope labelled ‘Research: Current Time Sheets’ containing break down of tasks

presumably by Conzen from submitting revisions to filing papers

5. Presentation box of loose bound colour maps labelled in Japanese script with title

translation into English by Conzen as ‘Selected Maps of Japan - A Complete Set of Sectional

Maps of EDO from Kaei to Keio Times [1850-1865]. With a supplement [of two maps]

comprising a smaller plan of Edo printed in the Tempo Period [1843] and a complete map of

the Eastern Capital [Edo] and environs printed in the Koka period [1844], Copyright: Cultural

Society 1966’ [To note EDO is the former name of Tokyo]

Box 66



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1. Framed black and white photograph of the historic city of Naarden in North Holland in the

Netherlands.

2. Framed colour image of Lubeck, Germany with location diagram pasted on to back labelled

‘city map of Hanseatic Lubeck (downtown)’

3. Issue of ‘Geographie und Landesplanung in England’ by M. R. G. Conzen, published in

‘Colloquium Geographicum’, Band 2, 1952 (added to collection in February 2020,

Acc.2020/22).

Box 67

1. To go onto book list when titles come back

Series 2a – Slides

24 slide boxes labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13a, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20a, 21,

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Series 3 - Books

1. Baedeker's Southern France 1891 2. Baedeker's Belgium and Holland 1910 3. Baedeker's United States 1893 4. Baedeker's Palestine and Syria 1912 5. Baedeker's Canada 1907 6. Baedeker's London and it's Environs 1905 7. Baedeker's Eastern Alps 1899 8. Baedeker's Austria-Hungary 1905 9. Baedeker's Lower Egypt 1885 10. Baedeker's Paris and Environs 1911 11. Baedeker's Schweiz 1927 12. Baedeker's Suede et Norvege 1911 13. Baedeker's Ostseekuste 1922 14. Baedeker's Sud-Ouest de la France 1912 15. Baedeker's Unter-Italien und Sizilien 1936 16. Baedeker's Berlin 1936 17. An Official Guide to Eastern Asia Trans-Continental Connections between Europe and

Asia Vol I Manchuria and Chosen, prepared by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo, Japan 1913

18. An Official Guide to Eastern Asia Trans-Continental Connections between Europe and Asia Vol II South-Western Japan, prepared by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo, Japan 1914

19. An Official Guide to Eastern Asia Trans-Continental Connections between Europe and Asia Vol IV China, prepared by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo, Japan 1915

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Holland

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20. Collection des Guides-Joanne (Les Guides Bleus), Algerie et Tunisie Tanger - Malte (Touring Club de France) 1916

21. Collection des Guides-Joanne (Les Guides Bleus), Bords de la Loire Bains de Mer de L'Ocean et Sud-Ouest, (Touring Club de France) no date c. 1916

22. The Blue Guides, Muirhead's Northern Italy from the Alps to Rome (Rome excepted) (Italian Touring Club) 1927

23. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Italian Centrale Vol I 1924 24. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Italian Centrale VolI Firenze-Siena-Perugia-

Assisi 1922 25. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Le Tre Venezie Vol I 1920 26. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Le Tre Venezie Vol II 1920 27. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, L'Arte in Italia Dai Secoli Piu Remoti Ai Tempi

Nostri Sguardo D'Insieme Al Piemonte Alla Lombardia E Al Canton Ticino Torino, Milano Vol I 1914

28. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Piemonte, Lombardia Canton Ticino Vol II 1923 29. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Italia Meridionale Vol I Abruzzo, Molise E Puglia

1926 30. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Italia Meridionale Vol II Napoli E Dintorni 1927 31. Guida D'Italia del Touring Club Italiano, Italia Meridionale Vol III Campania, Basilicata E

Calabria 1928 32. Guides Pratiques Conty, Algerie Tunisie, Routes Pour Automobiles, 1914 33. Merians Anmuthige Stadte-Chronif Zwenter Deil, Holland-Elsafz-Schweiz-Tyrol-

Oesterreich-Bohmen-Pommerellen-Livland 1937 34. Merians Anmuthige Stadte-Chronif das ist historische und wahrhaste beschreibung und

zugleich funstliche ..... 1935 35. Die Germania des Conrnelius Tacitus, no date c. 1913 36. Kleines Lateinisch-Deutches Handworterbuch von Karl Ernst Georges 1909 37. Sachs-Villatte Encyklopadisches Worterbuch der Franzosischen und Deutchen Sprache,

no dat c. 1895 38. A Junior Playbook Wonders of the World Picture-Stamp Book 1966 39. Illustrations of Useful Arts, Manufactures and Trades by Charles Tomlinson Esq.

Published under the direction of the Committee for General Literature and Education, Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c. 1858

40. Scientific Survey of North-Eastern England, prepared for the Meeting held in Newcastle upon Tyne 31st August to 7th September 1949. Published for the British Association by The Local Executive Committee 1949

41. Scientific Survey of North-Eastern England, prepared for the Meeting held in Newcastle upon Tyne 31st August to 7th September 1949. Published for the British Association by The Local Executive Committee 1949. Duplicate copy to (40).

42. Greenwoods Map of Northumberland, 1828

1. 中部の市街古図 / 原田伴彦, 西川幸治, 矢守一彦編.

Chūbu no shigai kozu /Harada Tomohiko, Nishikawa Kōji, Yamori Kazuhiko hen. (Ancient city/town map of Central Region – Harada Tomohiko, Nishikawa Kōji, Yamori Kazuhiko, editors )

東京 : 鹿島出版会 Tōkyō : Kajima Shuppankai (Tokyo : Kajima publishing house)



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Editors:

原田伴彥, Harada, Tomohiko, 1917-1983

西川幸治 Nishikawa, Kōji, 1930-

矢守一彥 Yamori, Kazuhiko.

2. 近畿の市街古図 / 原田伴彦, 西川幸治, 矢守一彦編 Kinki no shigai kozu /[edited by Tomohiko Harada, Nishikawa Koji, Kazuhiko Yamuri]. (Ancient city/town map of Kinki Region – Harada Tomohiko, Nishikawa Kōji, Yamori Kazuhiko, editors )

東京 :鹿島出版会, Tōkyō : Kajima Shuppankai (Tokyo : Kajima publishing house)

Edtiors:

原田伴彥, Harada, Tomohiko, 1917-1983

西川幸治 Nishikawa, Kōji, 1930-

矢守一彥 Yamori, Kazuhiko.

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Curriculum Vitae

Professor M.R.G. Conzen, F.R.G.S., A.M.R.T.P.I. (Berlin, 21

January 1907 - Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 February 2000)*

Please note that this CV (pp33-47) is included here as a reference source. The

publications listed are not necessarily located within the Conzen Archive

PUBLICATIONS

1. BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Geographie und Landesplanung in England [Geography and Planning in Britain] (Bonn, W.

Germany: Ferdinand Dümmlers Verlag, Colloquium Geographicum, no. 2, 1952). 63 pp.

REVIEWED IN:

Geografica Helvetica, vol. 7, no. 4 (November 1952), pp. 379–380, by Ernst Winkler.

Die Erde, vol. 6, no. 1 (1954), pp. 126–128, by Hermann Overbeck.

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, vol. 12, no. 1 (1954), pp. 47–49, by Hermann Overbeck.

Erdkunde, vol. 8, no. 2 (April 1954), pp. 164–165, by Kurt Brüning.

Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, vol. 98, no. 2 (1954), p. 211, by J. H. Schultze.

Alnwick, Northumberland: A Study in Town Plan Analysis (London: Institute of British

Geographers, Publication no. 27, 1960). xi+122 pp. (2nd revised edition, 1969), 131 pp.

Times Educational Supplement, Friday, 12 May, 1961, p. 948.

Newcastle Journal, 23rd March, 1961: “New light on an old town.”

Town and Country Planning, vol. 29, no. 8 (August 1961), pp. 343–344, by P. D. McGovern.

Journal of the Town Planning Institute, vol. 47, no. 9 (November 1961), p. 304, by John

Beaty.

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, vol. 52, no. 11 (1961), p. 304, by W.

Steigenga.

Town Planning Review, vol. 33, no. 1 (April 1962), pp. 85–86, by E. Estyn Evans.

Erdkunde, vol. 17, nos. 1/2 (June 1963), pp. 122–123, by Gabrielle Schwartz.

Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, vol. 108, nos. 1/2 (1964), pp. 112–113, by I.

Möller.

The Urban Landscape: Historical Development and Management. Papers by M. R. G.

Conzen. Edited by J. W. R. Whitehand (London: Academic Press, Institute of British

Geographers Special Publication no. 13, 1981). 166 pp.

Reprinted papers include:

“The Plan Analysis of an English City Centre” (Chapter 2) pp. 25–53; “Historic Townscapes



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in Britian” (Chapter 3) pp. 55–74; “Geography and Townscape Conservation” (Chapter 4) pp.

75–86; and “The Morphology of Towns in Britain during the Industrial Era” (Chapter 5) pp.

87–126 [first publication in English].

Environment and Planning A, vol. 14, no. 10 (October 1982), pp. 1416–1417, by S.

Openshaw.

Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 9, no. 1 (1983), pp. 77–79, by Anthony Sutcliffe,

University of Leicester.

*Taken from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences web site http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-les/gees/MRGConzenCV.pdf 1st August 2014

Town Planning Review, vol. 54, no. 1 (January 1983), p. 130.

Geographical Journal, vol. 149, no. 2 (July 1983), pp. 218–220, by Emrys Jones, London

School of Economics.

Urban History Review, vol. 12, no. 2 (October 1983), p. 150, by Peter G. Goheen, Queen’s

University, Ontario.

Progress in Human Geography, vol. 8, no. 1 (1984), pp. 145–147, by Harold Carter.

Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, vol. 126 (1984), pp. 173–

174, by W. Matznetter.

2. FESTSCHRIFTEN

The Urban Landscape: Historical Development and Management. Papers by M. R. G.

Conzen. Edited by J. W. R. Whitehand (London: Academic Press, Institute of British

Geographers Special Publication no. 13, 1981). 166 pp.

Chapters contributed by Jeremy W. R. Whitehand: 1—Background to the Urban

Morphogenetic Tradition; 6—Conzenian Ideas: Extension and Development

REVIEWED IN:

See previous listing

The Built Form of Western Cities: Essays for M. R. G. Conzen on the Occasion of his

Eightieth Birthday edited by Terry R. Slater (Leicester and London: Leicester University

Press, 1990), 445 pp.

Canadian Geographer, vol. 34, no. 4 (1990), p. 376, by Peter G. Goheen, Queen’s University,

Ontario.

Annales de Géographie, vol. 100, no. 557 (January–February 1991), pp. 98–99, by Claude

Chaline.

Planning Perspectives, vol. 6, no. 2 (May 1991), pp. 240–242, by E. Taverne, Groningen

State University, The Netherlands.

Rivista Geographica Italiana, vol. 98, no. 2 (June 1991), pp. 249–250, by Calogero Muscara.

Environment and Planning A, vol. 23, no. 6 (June 1991), pp. 921–922, by Mark Bouman,

Chicago State University.

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, vol. 82, no. 2 (1991), pp. 157–158, by

Anthony Sutcliffe, University of Leicester.

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Economic History Review, 2nd ser., vol. 44, no. 3 (August 1991), pp. 567–568, by P. J.

Smith, University of Alberta.

Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. 107, no. 2 (September 1991), pp. 139–140, by Lynn

Watkins.

Australian Geographical Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 (October 1991), pp. 386–387, by Brian J.

Shaw, University of Western Australia.

Urban Studies, vol. 29, no. 1 (February 1992), pp. 129–130, by Brian Goodey, Oxford

Polytechnic.

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, n.s. vol. 17, no. 2 (1992), pp. 250–251,

by Roy Lewis, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Die Erde, vol. 23, no. 2 (1992), pp. 174–175, by Dietrich Denecke, Universität Göttingen.

Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 18, no. 4 (October 1992), pp. 502–503, by Anngret

Simms, University College Dublin.

Urban History, vol. 20, no. 2 (October 1993), pp. 234–235, by Colin G. Pooley, University of

Lancaster.

Urban Morphology, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 1997), Jeremy Whitehand, Editor.

“This Inaugural Issue is dedicated to M.R.G. Conzen on the occasion of his ninetieth

birthday,” dedication appearing on inside front cover.

3. BOOK CHAPTERS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS

“Vesprém,” Berichte über die Pfingstexkursion des Geographischen Institutes der Universität

Berlin nach Ungarn und der Tschechoslowakei ([Berlin: Selbstverlag des Geographischen

Institutes der Universität Berlin], 1930), pp. 34–37. [Over “Günther Conzen”]

“Ausflug am Fusse der Hohen Tatra, Tatralomnitz,” Berichte über die Pfingstexkursion des

Geographischen Institutes der Universität Berlin nach Ungarn und der Tschechoslowakei

([Berlin: Selbstverlag des Geographischen Institutes der Universität Berlin], 1930), pp. 93–

95. [Over “Günther Conzen”]

“Manchester Town Planning Scheme: Scheme Map,” Manchester University School of

Architecture Prospectus, 1936–37, reproduced from a study entitled “Suggestions for the

Replanning of Manchester,” 1936.

“Nantwich Planning Scheme” and “Nantwich Urban District—Regional Report Map,”

Manchester University School of Architecture Prospectus, 1937–38, reproduced from the

author’s Town Planning Diploma Thesis, 1936.

Review of Los Angeles by A. Wagner in Geography, vol. 22, no. 2 (June 1937), p. 149.

Review of Ekonomisk-Geografisk Undersökning av Nutida Stockholm med Förorter, Vols. 1

and 3 by H. W. Ahlmann et al. in Geography, vol. 22, no. 2 (June 1937), p. 156.

Review of Stadt und Hafen von Bristol: eine stadt- und wirtschaftsgeographische

Untersuchung by K. Waltjen in Geography, vol. 22, no. 3 (September 1937), p. 221.

Review of Deutschland by G. Braun in Geography, vol. 23, no. 1 (March 1938), p. 62 [over

initials “M. N.”].

Review of Länderkundliche Forschung: Festschrift zur Vollendung des Sechzigsten

Lebensjahre Norbert Krebs edited by H. Louis and W. Panzer in Geography, vol. 23, no. 2

(June 1938), pp. 142–143.

“Problems of Rural Planning,” Journal of the Town Planning Institute, vol. 29, no. 9 (July



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1938), pp. 315–319. [First presented at the Annual Meeting of the North of England Division

of the Town Planning Institute, Chester, May 27th 1938. Typescript in MRGC files.]

“Towards a Systematic Approach in Planning Science: Geoproscopy,” Town Planning

Review, vol. 18, no. 1 (July 1938), pp. 1–26.

Review of Berlin und Potsdam by Karl Baedeker in Geography, vol. 23, no. 3 (September

1938), p. 208.

Review of Planning in Town and Country by P. Abercrombie in Geography, vol. 23, no. 3

(September 1938), p. 215.

Review of The Future of Merseyside: Town and Country Planning Schemes by W. G.

Holford and W. A. Eden in Geography, vol. 24, no. 1 (March 1939), p. 56.

Review of East Suffolk Regional Planning Scheme by P. Abercrombie and S. A. Kelly in

Geography, vol. 24, no. 1 (March 1939), p. 58.

Review of Ekonomisk-Geografisk Undersökning av Nutida Stockholm med Förorter, Vol. 2

by W. William Olson in Geography, vol. 24, no. 1 (March 1939), p. 73.

Review of Raumforschung und Raumordnung in Journal of the Town Planning Institute, vol.

25, no. 8 (June 1939), p. 281.

Review of Raumforschung und Raumordnung in Journal of the Town Planning Institute, vol.

25, Nos. 9/10 (July–August 1939), pp. 317–318.

“Geography and Spatial Planning,” The Globe: Journal of the Manchester University

Geographical Society (1941), 3pp.

Review of The Nature of Geography by Richard Hartshorne in Geography, vol. 26, no. 2

(June 1941), p. 99.

Various maps for articles in Geography: Sept. 1936 (pp. 176–182), Dec. 1936 (269–279,

302–303), March 1937 (25), June 1937 (89, 124), Sept. 1937 (172, 191), Dec. 1937 (285,

301), March 1938 (24), Sept. 1938 (165–175), Dec. 1938 (259), March 1940 (8–13), Sept.

1940 (111, 123–127), March 1940 (3), and June 1942 (56–57).

“The Havel District,” The Globe: Journal of the Manchester University Geographical

Society, no. 22 (February 1943), pp. 8–12.

Review of Broadsheets 1–10 by the Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction in

Geography, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 1943), p. 30.

Review of When We Build Again: A Study Based on Research into Conditions of Living and

Working in Birmingham by The Bournville Village Trust in Geography, vol. 28, no. 1

(March 1943), pp. 30–31.

Review of The Survival of Polish Civilization by A. B. Boswell in Geography, vol. 28, no. 1

(March 1943), p. 32.

Review of Map Reading Made Easy by C. C. Esson and G. S. Philip in Geography, vol. 28,

no. 1 (March 1943), p. 35.

“Better Training for the Planner,” Journal of the Town Planning Institute, vol. 31, no. 2

(January/ February 1945), pp. 59–63.

“East Prussia: Some Aspects of its Historical Geography,” Geography, vol. 30, no. 1 (March

1945), pp. 1–10.

Review (with H. J. Fleure) of Creative Demobilisation by E. A. Gutkind in Sociological

Review, vol. 35, Nos. 3/4 (July/October 1943 [sic! should have read 1945]) , pp. 129–130.

Review of Cheshire Maps by H. Whitaker in Geography, vol. 33, no. 4 (December 1948), pp.

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“Modern Settlement,” in Scientific Survey of North-Eastern England edited by P. C. G. Isaac

and R. E. A. Allan (Newcastle: British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1949),

pp. 75–83.

“The Geographical Setting of Newcastle,” in Scientific Survey of North-Eastern England

edited by P. C. G. Isaac and R. E. A. Allan (Newcastle: British Association for the

Advancement of Science, 1949), pp. 191–197.

“The Scandinavian Approach to Urban Geography,” Norsk Geografisk Tidskrift, vol. 12, no.

2 (1949), pp. 86–91.

Review of Urban Geography by Griffith Taylor in Planning Outlook, vol. 1, no. 3 (Autumn

1949), pp. 66–68.

“Foreword,” Journal of the King’s College Geographical Society, no. 3, Oct. 1951, p. 1.

Review of Our World From the Air by E. A. Gutkind in Planning Outlook, vol. 3, no. 1

(Spring 1952), pp. 76–77.

Review of Die Entwicklung der Groß-städte in Hauptländern der Industrie by Ludwig

Mecking in Erdkunde, vol. 6, no. 4 (October 1952), pp. 293–294.

Review of A German and English Glossary of Geographical Terms by Eric Fischer and

Francis E. Elliott in Geography, vol. 38, no. 3 (July 1953), pp. 202–203.

Review of Die Glan bei Salzburg by Karl Sinnhuber in Geography, vol. 38, no. 4 (November

1953), p. 333.

“Special Aspect: Historical Geography. Easter Field Week 1954: South Shropshire,” [M.R.G.

Conzen, ed.], Department of Geography, King’s College (University of Durham), Newcastle

upon Tyne, 1954, cyclostyled, 29 pp.

Review of Organisation und Gegenwartsprobleme der Landesplanung in England by Hans-

Joachim Gaede in Erdkunde, vol. 9, no. 3 (July 1955), pp. 244–245.

Review of Die Bundeskompetenz zur Regelung und Gestaltung der Raumordnung by

Friedrich Giese in Erdkunde, vol. 9, no. 3 (July 1955), p. 238.

“Preface” to “Special Aspect: Historical Geography. Field Seminar 1956: The Central Welsh

Border,” (M.R.G. Conzen, ed.), Department of Geography, King’s College (University of

Durham), Newcastle upon Tyne, 1956, cyclostyled, 54 pp.

Review of The Oxford Economic Atlas of the World in Planning Outlook, vol. 4, no. 1

(Spring 1956), pp. 56–57.

Review of Die Kulturlandschaft: Methoden der Forschung und das Beispiel Nordostenglands

by Harald Uhlig in The Geographical Journal, vol. 124, no. 2 (June 1958), pp. 242–243.

“The Growth and Character of Whitby,” Part II of A Survey of Whitby and the Surrounding

Area edited by G. H. J. Daysh (Eton, Windsor: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1958),

Chapter 1: “The Growth of Whitby,” pp. 51–77,

Chapter 2: “Whitby’s Geographical Character,” pp. 78–89,

(including 2 large coloured maps of land use and building types in map pouch).

BOOK REVIEWED IN:

Journal of the Town Planning Institute, vol. 44, no. 10 (November 1958), p. 287, by S. Lee

Vincent.

Geographical Journal, vol. 124, no. 4 (December 1958), p. 543, by E. W. Gilbert, Oxford

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Geography, vol. 43, no. 4 (November 1958), p. 284, by R. W. C.

“Whitby’s Townscape and its Future,” Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society Annual

Report (1959), pp. 10–11.

“The Plan Analysis of an English City Centre (Newcastle upon Tyne),” in Proceedings of the

International Geographical Union Symposium in Urban Geography, Lund 1960 edited by

Knut Norborg (Lund, Sweden: C.W. Gleerup, Lund Studies in Geography, 1962), pp. 383–

414.

Reprinted in The Urban Landscape (see under BOOKS)

Svensk Geografisk Årsbok, vol. 38 (1962), pp. 198–199, by Hans Esping.

Geographical Review, vol. 53, no. 4 (October 1963), pp. 602–605, by Richard L. Morrill,

University of Washington

Economic Geography, vol. 40, no. 1 (January 1964), pp. 93–94, by Howard J. Nelson.

Urban Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (November 1964), pp. 212–214, by Peter Hall.

Die Erde, vol. 95, no. 3 (1964), p. 224, by W. Steigenga, University of Rotterdam.

—MRGC “bekannt durch seine anregende Studien des Stadtplans von Alnwick”

Review of The City in Geography by Emrys Jones in Urban Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (May

1965), p. 109.

“Historical Townscapes in Britain: A Problem in Applied Geography,” in Northern

Geographical Essays in Honour of G. H. J. Daysh edited by J. W. House (Newcastle upon

Tyne: Oriel Press, 1966), pp. 56–78.


Geographical Journal, vol. 133, no. 4 (December 1967), p. 566, by T. W. Freeman.

Town Planning Review, vol. 38, no. 4 (January 1968), p. 341, by Peter Haggett.

Geography, vol. 53, no. 2 (April 1968), p. 204, by H. B. R.

Review of Tyneside Classical: The Newcastle of Grainger, Dobson and Clayton by Lyall

Wilkes and Gordon Dodds in Urban Studies, vol. 3, no. 3 (November 1966), pp. 279–280.

“The Use of Town Plans in the Study of Urban History,” in The Study of Urban History

edited by H. J. Dyos (London: Edward Arnold, 1968), pp. 113–130.

Urban History Newsletter, no. 11 (December 1968), pp. 20–23, by Eric E. Lampard.

(“Brilliant explication of town plans”)

Geographical Journal, vol. 135, no. 2 (June 1969), pp. 289–290, by M. A. Morgan.

American Historical Review, vol. 54, no. 4 (April 1969), pp. 1247–1248, by Donald J. Olsen.

Journal of the Town Planning Institute, vol. 55, no. 6 (June 1969), pp. 271–272, by Stanley

Buder.

The Professional Geographer, vol. 21, no. 5 (September 1969), pp. 377–378, by Robert

Sinclair.

History, vol. 54, no. 182 (October 1969), pp. 471–473, by C. W. Chalkin.

Urban Studies, vol. 7, 1 (February 1970), pp. 95–96, by Oscar Handlin.

Australian Economic History Review, vol. 10, no. 2 (September 1970), pp. 218–225, by Sean

Glynn.

Economic History Review, vol. 24, no. 4 (November 1970), pp. 684–685, by W. E.

Minchinton.

“Elsdon,” in Northumberland, National Park Guide No. 7 edited by John Philipson (London:

Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, for the Countryside Commission, 1969), pp. 71–82.

The Purpose and Contents of Geography. Newcastle: University of Newcastle upon Tyne



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Department of Geography Seminar Paper, no. 14, June 1970. 9 pp.

Review of Allgemeine Stadtgeographie edited by Peter Schöller in The Australian

Geographer, vol. 12, no. 5 (March 1974), pp. 478–79.

“Geography and Townscape Conservation,” in First German-English Symposium on Applied

Geography, Gießen-Würzburg-München 1973 edited by Harald Uhlig and Cay Lienau

(Gießen: Lenz Verlag, Gießener Geographische Schriften, vol. 35, 1975), pp. 95–102.


Erdkunde, vol. 30, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 310, by Klaus-Joachim Boesler.

Geographische Zeitschrift, vol. 65, no. 1 (1977), p. 53, by W. Witt.

Die Erde, vol. 108, no. 3 (1977), pp. 271–272, by G. C. K. Peach, Unversity of Oxford

Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, vol. 121, no. 3 (1977), p. 178, by Ernst Neef.

Annales de Géographie, vol. 86, no. 477 (September-October 1977), p. 562, by Philippe

Pinchemel.

Acta Geographica, vol. 3 (1976), p. 1.

Review of Perspectives in English Urban History edited by A. Everitt in Journal of Historical

Geography, vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1975), pp. 230–231.

“Der englische Städteatlas,” Wiener Geschichtsblätter, vol. 31, no. 4 (1976), pp. 243–249.

“The Historic Towns Atlas,” Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 2, no. 4 (October 1976),

pp. 361–362.

“Zur Morphologie der englischen Stadt im Industriezeitalter,” in Probleme der Städtewesens

im industriellen Zeitalter edited by Helmut Jäger (Köln/Wien: Böhlau Verlag,

Städteforschung, Series A, 1978), pp. 1–48.

Translated and published in English in The Urban Landscape (see under BOOKS)

Historisches Zeitschrift, vol. 231, no. 1 (August 1980), pp. 127–129, by Dieter Rebentisch,

Frankfurt am Main.

Historisches Jahrbuch, vol. 108, no. 2 (1981), pp. 485–486, by Wolfgang Zorn, München.

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, vol. 94, no. 2 (1981), pp. 292–293, by H. van Dijk.

Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire, vol. 59, nos. 3/4 (1981), pp. 1016–1017, by V. G.

Martiny.

“Japanese and English Castle Towns: An Historico-Geographical Comparison of their

Morphologies [Long Abstract],” in Proceedings of the 24th International Geographical

Congress Section 9: Historical Geography edited by T. Tanioka and T. Ukita (Tokyo, 1981 ),

pp. 89–92.

“Morphogenesis, Morphogenetic Regions, and Secular Human Agency in the Historic

Townscape, as Exemplified by Ludlow,” in Urban Historical Geography edited by Dietrich

Denecke and Gareth Shaw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 253–272.

Economic History Review, 2nd ser., vol. 42, no. 3 (August 1989), pp. 419–420, by Alan

Dyer, Univ. of Wales.

Planning Perspectives, vol. 4, no. 3 (September 1989), pp. 366–367, by Tom Elkins,

University of Sussex. (MRGC the “doyen of urban historical geography”)

Urban Studies, vol. 26, no. 5 (October 1989), pp. 527–528, by Michael Barke, Newcastle

upon Tyne Polytechnic.

Geographical Journal, vol. 156, no. 1 (March 1990), p. 96, by C. R. Lewis.

Geographische Zeitschrift, vol. 78, no. 1 (1990), pp. 63–64, by Helmut Jäger. (MRGC the

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Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 16, no. 2 (April 1990), pp. 241–242, by Derek Keene.

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 80, no. 2 (June 1990), pp. 308–309,

by Norman J. G. Pounds, Indiana University

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, vol. 82, no. 1 (1991), pp. 63–64, by G. J.

Ashworth.

Social Science History, vol. 15, no. 2 (1991), pp. 265–288, by Richard Dennis, University

College London.

Environment & Planning D, vol. 9, no. 3 (1991), pp. 376–377, by Russell S. Kirby, Arkansas

Dept. of Health.

English History Review, vol. 106, no. 421 (October 1991), pp. 1068–1069, by Alexander

Cowan, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic

“Apropos a Sounder Philosophical Basis for Urban Morphology,” in Urban Morphology vol.

2, no. 2 (1998), pp. 113–114.

4. UNPUBLISHED PAPERS & OTHER SCHOLARLY WORK

“Ländliche Siedlungstypen des Rhône-Saône-Gebiets” (Types of Rural Settlements in the

Rhône-Saône District). Map at a scale of 1:1,000,000, prepared for the Advanced Study

Group on Regional Geography at the University of Berlin, 1930.

“Die Landschaften des Havellandes und der Zauche” (The Geographical Regions of the

Havel and Zauche Districts), typescript, n.d., 53 pp. and 5 maps at the scale of 1:200,000.

“Die Havelstädte” (The Havel Towns), Diploma thesis, 130 pp. and 18 maps at the scale of

1:10,000, and 76 photographs, University of Berlin, circa 1932.

[“Geography and the Planning of Manchester”], being Chapter 3 of “A Health and Recreation

Centre for South Central Manchester” (joint with J. H. Napper, 1935, 95 pp.; MRGC portion,

pp. 15–69)

“The Place of Geography in Planning Education,” [Annotation at top in pencil: “Written for

Max Lock at Hull (Jan. 1943)], typescript, 4 pp.

“Spatial Planning as a University Subject,” (Annotation at top in pencil: “Revised version.

Jan. 1943”). Typescript, 15 pp.

“Better Training for the Planner,” [Annotation at top in pencil: “Third version. Aug. 1944.

The fourth (shortened) version appeared in the T.P.I. Journal, Jan./Feb. 1945.”], typescript,

14 pp.

“Studies in Urban Morphology,” presented at the British Association for the Advancement of

Science, Section E: Geography, The University of Oxford, September 1954, typescript, 39

pp.

“The Evolution of the Plan of the Old-Established English Town, Exemplified by Alnwick,

Northumberland,” presented at the “Summer Course: Recent University Work in Geography

& its Relevance to the Schools,” University of London Institute of Education, Mon. 29 June

— Sat. 4 July, 1959. Text of the paper summarizing the monograph, Alnwick: A Study in

Town Plan Analysis (1960), 13 pp. (without illustrations).

THE ALNWICK LECTURE “The Plan Analysis of an English City Centre,” presented at the

King’s College, Newcastle, Department of Geography, Research Meeting, 23rd November,

1960. Handwritten, 18 pp. + list of 18 illustr.

THE NEWCASTLE LECTURE “The Urban Morphology of Central Newcastle,” presented



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at the XXth International Geographical Congress 1964, Symposium in Urban Geography S2,

Edinburgh, Scotland. Introductory talk to First Excursion. Handwritten, 4 pp.

“Town Plan and Building Types as Systematic Aspects of Urban Morphology, exemplified

by Alnwick and Ludlow,” presented at the XXth International Geographical Congress 1964,

Symposium in Urban Geography S2, Edinburgh, Scotland. Typescript, 8 (7) pp.

“Nelson’s Historical Townscape, 1968,” presented to the University of Canterbury

Department of Geography, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1968. Handwritten, 3 pp.

“Townscapes in Southern Asia” (Improved Version), given before the Durham University

Geographical Society, 23rd January, 1970). Handwritten, 4 pp., with lists of slides and plan.

“A Re-Orientation in Urban Geography, in the Light of the Nature of Geography,” presented

to the Glasgow University, Department of Geography, Staff/Student Seminar, 18th

November, 1970). Handwritten, 14 pp. Also revised version, Summer 1971, typescript, 13 pp.

“The Historical Character of Townscapes,” given before the Newcastle Society of

Antiquities, Wed. 27th May, 1970). Full Text (1st & 2nd sects.), outline notes (remainder),

handwritten, 12 pp.

“The Urban Morphology of Central Newcastle,” text of the abbreviated lecture version of the

1962 Lund Symposium paper, n.d. (but no later than 1971), typescript, 4 pp.

“Town Plans and Building Types as Systematic Aspects of Urban Morphology, Exemplified

by Alnwick and Ludlow,” paper prepared as part of a series of lectures presented to Japanese

universities, Summer 1971. Typescript, 7 pp.

“Urban Morphology: A Geographical Approach,” Paper read before the Postgraduate

Seminar of the Unit for Architectural Studies, School of Environmental Studies, University

College London, April 29, 1977 (revised to January 1, 1996). Typescript, 17 pp.

“Morphogenetic Regions in Historic Towns,” 20th March 1985. Full text, handwritten, 18 pp.

“Urban Morphology: Its Nature and Development,” paper in preparation, 1st January, 1992–

present.

5. INVITED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

Lecture on “Aspects of Urban Morphology,” University of Liverpool, Department of

Geography, Liverpool, 7th May 1954.

Lecture on “The Morphological Study of the English Town,” University of Leeds,

Department of Geography, Leeds, 14th February 1955.

Lecture on “Urban Morphology,” Durham Colleges Geographical Society, University of

Durham, Durham, 25th February, 1955.

Lectures on “Stadtmorphologie: Studien aus England,” given at various German universities,

March–April 1955.

Lecture on “Some Aspects of Urban Morphology” (with slides), Department of Geography,

University of Durham, 28th February 1958.

Invited paper in the Bonn Kolloquium, “Stadtplananalyse: Ein Beitrag zur Stadtgeographie,”

Institut für Geographie, Universität Bonn, West Germany, 23rd February 1959.

Lecture on Alnwick work at the Institute of Education, University of London, London, 1st

July 1959.

Lecture on Alnwick work to the Hull University Geographical Society, Hull, 27th November

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Lecture on Alnwick research to the Geography Department, University of Edinburgh,

Edinburgh, 19th May, 1961.

Lecture on Alnwick research to the Geographischies Institut, University of Marburg, W.

Germany, 24 July, 1962.

Lecture on Alnwick research to the Geographisces Institut, University of Giessen, W.

Germany, 26th July, 1962.

Lectures on urban geography using English and German illustrations, University of Giessen,

Giessen, W. Germany, 5th July, 1963.

Co-Organizer, Symposium S2: Urban Geography (with sessions in Newcastle upon Tyne and

Edinburgh), XXth International Geographical Congress, London, 28th July—6th August,

1964.

Lecture on “Historic Towns” , School of Planning, Delhi University, New Delhi, India, 18th

December, 1967.

University Extension Lecture on Alnwick, Department of Geography, University of Delhi,

New Delhi, India, 19th December, 1967.

Lecture on Alnwick, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 22nd December, 1967.

Lecture on Alnwick, Department of Geography, University of Poona, Poona, India, 28th

December, 1967.

Lecture on Alnwick, Parle College, Bombay, India, 4th January, 1968.

Lecture on Alnwick, Department of Geography, University of Agra, Agra, India, 29th

January, 1968.

Lectures on Alnwick and Newcastle at Aligarh University, Aligarh, India, 2nd February,

1968.

Lectures on Alnwick and Newcastle, and seminar with research scholars, Varanasi

University, Varanasi, India, 6th–9th February, 1968.

Panelist, discussion on the nature of geography, Christchurch Teachers’ College, Howard

Hall, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10th April, 1968.

Talk on the “Nelson Townscape,” Old Folks’ Hall, Nelson, New Zealand, 27th August, 1968.

Staff-Student seminar on “Urban Geography,” Department of Geography, Glasgow

University, Glasgow, Scotland, 18th November, 1970.

Eight lectures on “Urban Morphology,” Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, 13th–18th

September, 1971.

Lecture on “Townscapes of Southern Asia” to the Dundee University Geographical Society,

Department of Geography, Dundee, Scotland, 17th January, 1972.

Following retirement on 1st October, 1972, professional appearances mostly limited to

scientific papers at conferences and symposia, not yet abstracted from diary record, which

appeared as publications.

PUBLIC SERVICE

1. GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONS — INTERNATIONAL

Special Commission from the United Kingdom Foreign Office (German Section)

Scheme, July, 1948. Lecturer at the Universities of Münster and Bonn, charged with

reestablishing professional relations between geographers in the U.K. and the British



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Military Zone of occupied Germany.

2. GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONS — NATIONAL

Oral evidence before Lord Justice Scott’s Committee on Rural Planning, 20th

February 1942. Culmination of work undertaken by the Research Group on Rural

Planning, 1941–42.

3. LOCAL ACTIVITIES

Invited Speaker, Six lectures on Higher School Certificate Teaching, Loreto College,

Lancashire, July 1944.

Member, Board of Governors, Winlaton Secondary Modern School, Blaydon, Co.

Durham, 1955–1958.

Speaker, Alnwick Rotary Club (Talk on Alnwick), Louvre Café, Alnwick, 12th

January 1956.

Consultant, Newcastle Regional Hospital Board, regarding trends in population

change in North-East England, 1949–1975, as they would affect hospital planning

stategy, 4th February 1957.

Geographical Association Lecturer (“Urban Conglomerations”), Creighton School,

Carlisle, 8th March 1957.

Speaker, Morpeth Antiquarian Society (on Morpeth & neighboring settlements),

Bertha Burn’s Café, Morpeth, 27 November, 1957.

Contributor, The Whitby Survey, carried out by the Department of Geography, Kings

College Newcastle, University of Durham, at the request of Lord Normanby of

Mulgrave Castle, for the improvement of the town and its region, and presented to the

Whitby Urban District Council, 1958.

Speaker, The Historical Association–North Eastern Counties Branch (“The Growth of

a Northumbrian Market Town, as recorded in its Plan”), Newcastle upon Tyne, 9th

December 1957.

Invited talk (“Whitby’s Townscape & its Future”), given before the Whitby Literary

& Philsophical Society, Whitby, 4th May, 1959.

Series of four public lectures (“Two Northern Townscapes”), Joseph Cowen House,

Barras Bridge, Newcastle. Four consecutive Friday evenings, January 22, 29,

February 5, and 12, 1960. Associated field excursion by bus from Newcastle on

Saturday, 6th February, 1960.

Illustrated lecture (“The Urban Scene in Europe: Contrasts & Similarities”), given to

the Crewe Branch of the Geographical Association, Crewe, 13th January, 1961.

Illustrated lecture (“The Plan of the Old-Established City Centre, Newcastle upon

Tyne”), given to the Newcastle Branch of the Geographical Association, Newcastle



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uppon Tyne, 23rd February, 1961.

Lecture on Alnwick. given at the Kenton Lodge [Teacher] Training College, Kenton,

Newcastle, 26th April, 1961.

Lecture on Alnwick. given to the Birmingham Branch of the Geographical

Association, Birmingham, 4th May, 1961.

Speaker, The Historical Association–North Eastern Counties Branch (“The Plan

Analysis of a City Centre: Newcastle upon Tyne”), Newcastle upon Tyne, 6th

December 1961.

Speaker, The Wensleydale Society (“Rural Settlement Structure and Market towns”),

Aysgarth Institute, Aysgarth, 23rd March, 1962.

Lecture on Alnwick to the York Geographical Association, St. John’s College, York,

15th February, 1963.

Lecture on the early development of Newcastle to the City Guides, Upper Bewick

Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 30th October, 1963.

Talk in opposition to the private redevelopment proposal for central Alnwick,

Northumberland Hall, Alnwick, 24th May, 1965.

Talk on “A Developmental View of Rural Settlements,” Bellingham Secondary

Modern School, Bellingham, Northumberland, 28th November, 1966.

Lecture on “Newcastle’s Historic Townscape,” Bewick Room, Newcastle City

Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, 15th Febryuary, 1967.

Lecture on “Urban Geography” to the Tyneside Geographical Association,

Department of Education, University of Newcastle, 29th April, 1967.

Lecture on “The Historical Character of Townscape,” Society of Antiquities of

Newcastle upon Tyne, Literary & Philosophical Society, 27th May, 1970.

Lecture on “South Asian Towns,” Tyneside Geographical Association, Department of

Education, Newcastle upon Tyne, 12th November 1970.

Occasional further lectures given before public audiences, but not yet abstracted from

diary record.

Advisor in Historical Geography, First Working Party (chaired by Frank Atkinson),

Beamish Open Air Museum, Beamish, Co. Durham, 198__?

ADVANCED STUDENTS

Jay Appleton (B.Sc., 1950; M.Sc., 1956, King’s College Newcastle, University of

Durham), Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Hull, England.

Robin A. Donkin (Ph.D., 1953, King’s College Newcastle, University of Durham),

“Some Aspects of the Cistercian Contribution to the geography of England and Wales

in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.” Reader in Geography, University of

Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, England.

R. Geoffrey Ironside (B.A., 1959; Ph.D. 1965, King’s College Newcastle, University

of Durham), Professor of Geography, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.



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James W. Henderson (matric. University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Lecturer in

Geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Stanley S. Openshaw (Ph.D., 1973, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), “Processes

in Urban Morphology with Special Reference to South Shields,” 469 pp. Professor of

Geography, University of Leeds.

Khalis H. Al-Ashab (Ph.D., 1974, University of Newcastle upon Tyne): “The Urban

Geography of Baghdad,” 2 vols., 940 pp. City Planner, Baghdad, Iraq.

Adrian Randall (Ph.D., 19??, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Lecturer in

Geography, Geografisk Institut, University of Århus, Denmark.

UNDERGRADUATE TUTEES WHO WENT ON TO ACADEMIC CAREERS

Julian V. Minghi (B.A., 1957, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Professor of

Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

Donald N. Parkes (B.A., 1965, King’s College Newcastle, University of Durham),

Lecturer in Geography, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Deryck W. Holdsworth (B.A., 1968, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Professor

of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.

—There is likely to be significantly more listings than this—needs researching.

INFLUENCE ON STUDENTS — Quotations from:

How I Made the World: Shaping a View of Landscape by Jay Appleton (Hull: University of

Hull Press, 1994), pp. 180–182.

“When I arrived in Newcastle I was nearly nine years older [than when I had left Oxford],

certainly more experienced, in some ways even a little more mature and I dare say more

receptive to any force which might be available to introduce what had been missing. “Force”

was, I think, the right word, because, when it hit me, metaphorically I hasten to add, the

impact was immediate and irresistible, and it did more to change my way of looking at the

world than any single experience before or since. It took the form of a German scholar, some

ten years older than I, who had left the Reich in the middle ’thirties to escape from the

National Socialist régime. M. R. G. Conzen, ‘Con’ to everybody, including his wife, had

studied at the University of Berlin and arrived in England as the product of the German

educational system. If anyone knows about the rigours of academic discipline it’s the

Germans, but those whose works I’d previously come across seem to have been carried up

like Elijah into a kind of élitist cloud which had no place for me.

“I discovered almost immediately that Con seemed to have the same basic attitude to

geography as I had, in that all his enquiries started with visual observation. For him the

landscape was a repository of information which it yielded only to those who knew how to

ask the right questions. This much I had in common with him, and, having discovered a

common starting-point, I found I had the confidence, in myself as well as in him, to follow

new paths into the unfamiliar. His methods were far more exacting than mine, his insight

infinitely sharper, his accumulated knowledge incomparably greater and his scholarship of a

different order, but I very soon knew that I had found the link I was looking for between the

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the philosopher.

“I dare say the most important lesson I leaned from Con was to recognize the respectability of

the elementary. I had hitherto been in danger of falling in to the trap of supposing that

anything academically worthwhile must be highly complex, whereas it’s the function of the

academic to reduce the complex to a level of simplicity at which it can be comprehended. He

taught me, for example, that everything in what he called the ‘cultural landscape’ (initially a

German concept, Kulturlandschaft, covering the whole natural landscape as modified by

human activity) can be interpreted in terms of three aspects, its morphology (its shapes,

patterns and distributions; what it’s like), its function (what it’s for), and its evolution (how it

came to be like that). A simpler formula could hardly be conceived, yet it has proved over the

succeeding years to be the most useful exploratory tool that was ever placed in my hands. Of

course, it’s only a starting formula. The problems do indeed soon become more complex, but

as long as the chain of question-and-answer can be related back to those aspects, and as long

as one remembers that all geographical questions must ultimately be concerned with places,

one has the rudiments of a methodology which made a great deal of sense to me then and still

does.

Teaching and Research

“When I went to Hull my contract stipulated that I was to engage in teaching, research and

such administrative duties as might be prescribed by the Head of Department. As far as

teaching was concerned I found myself responsible for a course in historical geography,

which, no doubt under Con’s influence, had by now become my favorite subject, another on

the regional geography of Europe, in which I lectured with authority on places I’d never

heard of, much less visited, and another on the interpretation of maps. Other courses were

added in subsequent years, and there were in addition tutorials, seminars, etc. I had no choice

in these matters, so I counted myself fortunate that my boss, the late Herbert King, foisted on

me only subjects which I found congenial.

“When it came to my second obligation, however, the pursuit of research, it was expected

that I would have the initiative to put forward proposals of my own, and I wasn’t long in

deciding to invest a hobby with the dignity of a research project; so I chose railways.

Although Con would not have claimed any particular expertise in this field, his main interest

being in urban morphology (and incidentally I acquired a particular interest in that area in

which they both overlapped), it was clear to me that the kind of approach that he had been

following in his own work could equally well be applied to the study of transport systems and

that the trilogy of morphology, function and evolution were just as useful as guidelines for

research.”

“Landscape and Archives as Texts,” by Deryck W. Holdsworth in Understanding Ordinary

Landscapes edited by Paul Groth and Todd W. Bressi (New Haven: Yale University Press,

1997), p. 218.

“This [urban morphology] is a tradition of urban analysis that I learned as an undergraduate

with Prof. M. R. G. Conzen at Newcastle. For him, the morphological approach had three

elements, town plan, building types, and land use. Any one of those by itself involved a

significant research challenge, and few have been able to bring all three detailed elements

together.”

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Quotations from:

The Man who made Beamish: An Autobiography by Frank Atkinson (Gateshead: Northern

Books, 1999), pp. 181 and 189.

Beamish North of England Open Air Museum is Britain’s first museum of this kind, devoted

to interpreting the everyday life of the region during the heyday of the Industrial Revolution.

It was Museum of the Year in Britain in 1986 and European Museum of the Year in 1987.

Frank Atkinson, CBE, was the creative force behind its formation and development.

“Chapter 13: Why did Beamish Succeed?: . . . Two members of Newcastle University were

especially helpful and encouraging: Professor Conzen, who took part in our first working

party on the planning of the urban area and very kindly also came and spoke to my Joint

Committee on this matter. . . .” (p. 181)

“Chapter 14: What happens to Museum Objects?: . . . Another successful advisory group was

the one we set up to plan the ‘Town’. By then I had the basis of a small professional staff,

with Ian Walden as Keeper of Industry and Rosemary Allan as Assistant Keeper (Social

History). We brought in Professor Norman McCord on social and economic grounds;

Professor Conzen as a medieval geographer; a landscape architect; and several others. When

we first met, with blank sheets of paper and an enormous remit, we almost failed, for the

subject seemed too broad and our discussions ranged over what should be the character and

original period of the ‘Town’, its theoretical population size, the range of periods to be

represented, the kind of shops and streets and public buildings and so on. So for our second

meeting we three museum people drew our own ideal ‘Town’, making all kinds of basic

decisions and offering this to our team. It worked wonderfully for everyone had something

concrete on which to make further recommendations. Especially I remember Professor

Conzen stating that the burgage strips of the supposed medieval part of the town should not

be straight, but slightly sigmoid in plan, to represent the turning of the ox teams at either end.

He it was who delightedly suggested that this was the first time a medieval town had ever

been planned. Our town took shape and we agreed that it began at a river crossing point. It

might be seen as something the size of Bishop Auckland and with some of its characteristics.

It would have been extended in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and again in various

periods in the nineteenth century and would probably be seen by our visitors as belonging to

the early 1920s. . . .” (p. 189)

OBITUARY Notices

“Professor M.R.G. Conzen,” by Jeremy W. R. Whitehand, The Independent, Wednesday, 8th

March, 2000.

“Obituary: M.R.G. Conzen,” by Peter Larkham, Planning History: Bulletin of the

International Planning History Society, vol. 22, no. 1 (2000), p. 7.

“M.R.G. Conzen, 1907–2000,” by Terry Slater, Geography, vol. 84, no. 4 (October 2000), p.

355.

“Obituary: M.R.G. Conzen, 1907–2000,” by Peter Larkham and Karl Kropf, Urban

Morphology, vol. 4, no. 2 (2000), pp. 90–95.

“Obituary: M.R.G. Conzen,” by Jay Appleton, Transactions of the Institute of British

Geographers, New Series vol. 25, no. 4 (2000), pp. 521–522.



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“Obituary: M.R.G. Conzen, 1907–2000,” by Jeremy W. R. Whitehand, Journal of Historical

Geography, vol. 27, no. 1 (January 2001), pp. 93–97.