Walter Bor
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Walter George Bor CBE |
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| Born |
Walter Bukbinder October 14 1916 Vienna |
| Died | October 4, 1999 (aged 82) |
| Occupation | town planner and architect |
| Employer | Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks, Forestier-Walker & Bor |
| Known for | Plan for Milton Keynes |
| Spouse(s) | Dr Muriel Blackburn (third wife) |
| Children | son (first marriage) son and daughter (second marriage) |
Walter George Bor CBE (14 October 1916 – 4 October 1999) was an Austrian-born British town planner and architect who was influential in the development of new towns in the UK and elsewhere in the second half of the twentieth century.
He was born Walter Bukbinder in Vienna, the son of a secular Jewish Czech chemical engineer. He studied architecture at Prague University, before escaping the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 with his friend, the actor Herbert Lom, and travelling to Britain. Many members of his family subsequently died at the Birkenau concentration camp. He worked in a munitions factory, and served in the Czech army in exile, before continuing his studies in architecture and town planning at Cambridge and at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.
In 1947 he joined London County Council as a planner, rising to a position in which, by 1958, he was in charge of planning the renewal and redevelopment of parts of the East End. He moved to Liverpool City Council in 1962, as chief planning officer. In 1966 he resigned, partly because he disagreed with the council's support for high-rise housing. He then became a partner in the private architectural and planning consultancy of Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks, Forestier-Walker & Bor, and began working on the development of Washington new town, in County Durham, and on a large new urban development, Ciudad Losada, 50 km. south of Caracas in Venezuela.
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