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Sir Raymond Unwin
b. Rotherham, Yorks., 1863;
d. Connecticut, USA, 1940.
Sir Raymond Unwin, a famous British architect and town planner who put his social-welfare beliefs into practice by designing, with his partner Barry Parker, decent small dwellings and putting his mind to the perennial problems of town planning. Educated at Oxford, Unwin went on to study engineering [...]