Title & Author:

In Step with Planning in China / [presented by] Walter Bor (Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks, Forester-Walker & Bor).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1988.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Walter Bor -- World Map Showing Areas Of Poverty -- Map Of China Showing Categories Of Priority Areas & Cities -- Map Showing Location Of Shenzhen's Special Economic Zone -- Linear Plan: Townships Separated By Green Belts -- Shekou Area On Shenzhen Bay -- Shenzhen Commercial Centre -- New University In Shenzhen -- Typical Courtyard Housing, Eight-Storey Walk-Up Flats -- Indoor Sports Centre -- Shenzhen Library -- Landscape Environmental Development Plan -- Plan Showing High Buildings Policy For Special Economic Zone -- Location Of New Commercial Centre In Relation To Old Town -- Aerial View Of Old Town -- Strategy Plan For Old Town -- Plan Showing Approach From South -- Plan & Sketch Of New Square At Foot Of International Trade Centre -- Plan For New City Centre -- Road Structure & Land Use Proposals For Futian City Centre -- Plan For City Centre Showing New Civic Square -- Sketch Of New Civic Square -- Typical Courtyard Housing In Soochow (Suzhou).

Summary:

The late Walter Bor, born in Czechoslovakia, lived in the UK from 1939. He studied architecture at Prague University and at Cambridge, and then town planning at London University, qualifying in 1947. He worked as a city planner for the London County Council from 1947 - 1962, then as Liverpool City Planning Officer from 1962 - 1966; after which he was in private practice as Partner in Llewelyn Davies Weeks Bor until 1976, and thereafter as Senior Consultant to Llewelyn Davies Weeks and Llewelyn Davies Planning. In 1963 he was President of the Royal Town Planning Institute and in 1975 he received the award of Commander of the British Empire. He lectured and taught at London University, Princeton and Nice, and was the author of many articles on urban planning and city development, as well as of the much-translated book "The Making Of Cities" (1970). Projects with which he was associated during the 1970s and 1980s included Milton Keynes new town, two new cities in Venezuela, the development plan for Bogota, and the Nicosia master plan; then he became adviser to the Shenzhen Urban Planning Commission in the People's Republic of China. It is this last project which he discusses here.

Subject:

City planning.
Architectural design China.
Design architectural Chine.
Architectural design
China

Added entries:

Bor, Walter G., narrator.