| 词条 | J. R. James |
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He was born in Stanley, County Durham, and was educated at Wolsingham County Grammar School and King's College London, graduating with a degree in geography in 1935. In the Second World War, he worked in Naval Intelligence, providing information on Greece.[3] He worked in London for the Ministry of Housing and Local Government from 1949. He had responsibility for leading the development of new towns at Newton Aycliffe and Peterlee in the 1950s.[4] He was Chief Planner to the UK government from 1961, a member of Peterborough Development Corporation,[2] and from 1970 was the first Professor of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield.[5] He also worked for the United Nations in India, Bangladesh, Japan and the Middle East.[3] He was awarded the OBE in 1956, and became a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1966. He died in Sheffield in 1980 at the age of 67.[3] A collection of almost 4,000 photographic slides left by James, showing major building projects across the country during the post-war period, was digitised and made available online by the University of Sheffield in 2014.[4] References1. ^"Planning in post-war Britain : the J. R. James Memorial Lectures ", National Library of Australia. Retrieved 10 September 2014 2. ^1 Wyndham Thomas, "Obituary: Professor JR James", September 1980 3. ^1 2 John Richings James, Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2014 4. ^1 [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29082338 Tom Heyden, "The era of radical concrete", BBC News, 10 September 2014]. Retrieved 10 September 2014 5. ^"The Man in the Know: Uncovering 50 years of planning heritage", Sheffield University Alumni Magazine, 2014/15. Retrieved 10 September 2014 External links
5 : 1912 births|1980 deaths|Alumni of King's College London|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|British urban planners |
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