...will п!бо be seen by the plan, that the whole communication from CharingCross lo Oxford-ttreet, will be a boundary and complete separation between...such ample breadth, and so circumstanced, being the iinn tst and most commodious approach from every part of the best inhabited quarters of the West and...

...had been implicitly determined by the existing street pattern: Nash himself stressed that the whole Communication from Charing Cross to Oxford Street...mechanics and the trading part of the community.' Nash, it is clear, had no sanitary zeal for the clearance of slums for its own sake; his avowed intention...

...intent. For example, John Nash's (unrealized) street plan for the Piccadilly area in 1813 provided "a boundary and complete separation between the Streets...by mechanics and the trading part of the community. ... It will be seen . . . that there would be no opening on the East side of the New Street all the...

...John Nash was still right in line with old Mrs Sarah Trimmer, when he planned Regent Street to form "a boundary and complete separation between the streets...mechanics and the trading part of the community." Nash was not paving Jerusalem, either round Regents Park or along Regent Street. This new road was...

...create "a complete separation between the streets occupied by the Nobility and Gentry, and the narrower Streets and meaner houses occupied by mechanics and the trading part of the community. . . . My purpose was that the new street should cross the eastern entrance to all the streets occupied...

...nobility and gentry, and the narrow streets and meaner houses occupied by mechanics and the trading^part of the community. A street so formed, of such ample...quarters of the West and North-west ends of the town to Charing-cross, will be used by every one who has any thing to do with Westminster-hall, the Houses...