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things which we were very keen on..... Anyway, we were trying to develop a strategic framework for development which would be sufficiently firm for the infrastructure to be constructed, because you have got to tell the engineers where their roads and sewers will be, etc. So for that you need a clear and firm physical structure. Beyond that we were hoping to have, as it were, a menu of the different approaches, different solutions, within this framework. In other words, we were planning for pluralist solutions rather than singles and we were very keen that it wasn't just a physical plan, that it was a plan which understood the social implications...Cities must absorb change, live with it, rather than prohibit it. So, I think there is still great scope to improve the city, and I think it will happen.
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They wanted a 21st century new town, not the end of the 20th century. So we had to think ahead to what kind of changes there will be, particularly in industry and the increasing role of knowledge, computerisation and so on. This was way ahead of contemporary thinking at the time and it was one of the
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Universities. During the 1970s and 1980s, as well as continuing to work on the development of Milton Keynes, and in Venezuela, he worked on the development plans for
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National Life Stories, 'Bor, Walter (1 of 29) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 1997
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conducted an oral history interview (C467/13) with Walter Bor in 1997 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the
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in 1962, as chief planning officer. In 1966 he resigned, partly because he disagreed with the council's support for
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Bor also worked on development proposals in the US, Canada and Scotland, and wrote the book
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as a planner, rising to a position in which, by 1958, he was in charge of planning the
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Walter Bor: He salvaged a vision of modern architecture from the ruin of war
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in the UK and elsewhere in the second half of the twentieth century.
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He was married three times, and died in 1999 at the age of 82.
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Jews who immigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism
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He was then involved in developing the overall plan for
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and architect who was influential in the development of
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Index

CBE
Town planner
Milton Keynes
CBE
town planner
new towns
Vienna
Jewish
Czech
chemical engineer
Prague University
German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Herbert Lom
Birkenau concentration camp
munitions
Czech army in exile
Cambridge
Bartlett School of Architecture
London County Council
renewal and redevelopment
East End
Liverpool City Council
high-rise housing
Llewelyn-Davies
Washington
County Durham
Ciudad Losada
Caracas
Milton Keynes
Royal Town Planning Institute

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