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Frank Mears

Born

in Tynemouth, England

July 11, 1880

Died

January 25, 1953

Genre

Planning, Architecture, Rural Development

Influences

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Frank Charles Mears was a Scottish architect and Scotland's leading planning consultant from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Born in Tynemouth, he moved to Edinburgh with his parents in 1890.

He trained as an architect, initially with Hippolyte Blanc (1896 - 1901), and then with Robert Weir Schultz (1860 - 1951). In 1908 he became an assistant to the pioneer planner Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932), working on a Survey of Edinburgh for the first Town Planning Exhibition in 1910.

In 1943, under the autonomous administration established by the wartime Secretary of State for Scotland, Tom Johnston, Mears was asked to prepare a regional plan for central and south-east Scotland, an area encompassing the entire catchments of the Rivers Forth and Tweed. H ...more

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	A Regional Survey and Plan for Central and South-East Scotland it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1948 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greenock, Portal of the Clyde: An Outline Plan for Redevelopment really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1947	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interim Report on Population Trends in Relation to Industrial Development and Housing Needs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1945	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	County of Sutherland: An Interim Report on Planning and Development by Frank Mears, Alex Neish (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1951	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in the Ulster Halls, July 24 to August 2, 1911 by Patrick Geddes, Frank Mears 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1911	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civic Survey of Edinburgh by Patrick Geddes, Frank Mears (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1911 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The town and harbour of Greenock occupy a sheltered site, set amid surroundings of great natural beauty, at a point of strategic value which may justly be described as the Portal of the Clyde. For here the artificially deepened shipping channel of the river, flanked for miles down stream from Glasgow's docks by wide mudbanks and shoals, gives place to deep water at the famous "Tail of the Bank" of sailing men; the "Clyde Anchorage" of their war-time successors.

Here, too, the fairway flows close to the shore under the lee of a great promontory which affords shelter from the prevailing south-wet winds.

Thus Greenock, blessed as are few other ports by the twin assets of deep water and protection from storm, has taken high rank among them since the period when our overseas trade was first being built up.”
― Frank Mears, Greenock, Portal of the Clyde: An Outline Plan for Redevelopment

tags: 1947, clydeside, deep-water, firth-of-clyde, greenock, shipping

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