Freese, Stanley
Entry updated 11 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1902-1972) UK author, best known for various works on English water mills and windmills; The Ten-Year Plan: A Dream of 1940 (1932) is a Utopia espousing traditional country values against the darkening tide of industrialization. It proposes that the presumed Overpopulation crisis of London should be solved by dispersal to a new town or towns with efficiently planned Transportation involving string cities evocative of Edgar Chambless's concept of the Roadtown. One of Freese's illustrations of such a town has in its background a "great wind-driven power station", prefiguring modern wind farms (see Power Sources). [JC/DRL]
Stanley Harman Freese
born Kentish Town, London: 1 June 1902
died Halesworth, Suffolk: 2 July 1972
works
- The Ten-Year Plan: A Dream of 1940 (London: Cecil Palmer, 1932) [hb/]
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