Raymond Unwin

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British architect British urban planner architect person town planner urban planner

Raymond Unwin was a prominent British town planner and architect renowned for pioneering humane, low-density urban design and helping shape the early 20th-century garden city and garden suburb movement.

Observed surface forms (1)

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Parker and Unwin	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British architect ⓘ British urban planner ⓘ architect ⓘ person ⓘ town planner ⓘ urban planner ⓘ
architecturalFirm	Raymond Unwin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Parker and Unwin
awardReceived	Royal Gold Medal ⓘ surface form: Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
countryOfCitizenship	England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1863-11-02 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1940-06-29 ⓘ
educatedAt	Rotherham Grammar School ⓘ
employer	Ministry of Health ⓘ surface form: Ministry of Health (UK)
fieldOfWork	housing reform ⓘ socially oriented architecture ⓘ urban design ⓘ
genre	town planning theory ⓘ
influenced	British New Towns movement ⓘ post-World War I housing policy in the UK ⓘ
influencedBy	Ebenezer Howard ⓘ
knownFor	development of garden suburbs ⓘ influence on British town planning legislation ⓘ pioneering humane low-density urban design ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	Garden City Association ⓘ Town Planning Institute ⓘ
movement	Arts and Crafts movement ⓘ Garden city movement ⓘ surface form: garden city movement garden suburb movement ⓘ
notableWork	Cottage plans and common sense ⓘ Hampstead Garden Suburb ⓘ Letchworth Garden City ⓘ New Earswick ⓘ Nothing Gained by Overcrowding ⓘ Town Planning in Practice ⓘ
occupation	architect ⓘ civil servant ⓘ town planner ⓘ
partnerInFirmWith	Barry Parker ⓘ surface form: Richard Barry Parker
placeOfBirth	Rotherham ⓘ Yorkshire ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Barnet NERFINISHED ⓘ Hertfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	Chief Town Planning Inspector ⓘ President of the Town Planning Institute ⓘ
relative	Barry Parker ⓘ surface form: Richard Barry Parker
spouse	Ethel Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Raymond Unwin → architecturalFirm → Raymond Unwin self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Parker and Unwin

Barry Parker → coDesignerWith → Raymond Unwin ⓘ

Letchworth Garden City → designedBy → Raymond Unwin ⓘ

Garden city movement → keyFigure → Raymond Unwin ⓘ