ABSTRACT
ABERCROMBIE, SIR PATRICK (1879-1957) Architect and town planner. A leading campaigner for the green belt around London and the most famous architect at the London County Council (LCC), he was joint author of the County of London Plan (1943) for the reconstruction of the LCC area following the war. The plan was succeeded, however, by the Greater London Plan, which emphasised the planned decentralisation of population into new towns and council estates and the rebuilding of the blitzed areas of the capital. Abercrombie also drew up postwar plans for other cities, for example the Clyde Valley Regional Plan.
