Arthur Denis Winston

Arthur Denis Winston CBE (1908–1980) was an architect and town planner who became Australia's first professor of town planning at the University of Sydney. In 1951 he led the amalgamation of state based planning associations into a national body, of which he became the first president.[1]

Career and works

  • Arthur published “Sydney’s Great Experiment: The Progress of the Cumberland County Plan” in 1957. This was an illustrated and independent account of the development of the Cumberland County Plan for general readers.
  • He acted as a consultant in the planning of Adaminaby and Jindabyn From the 1950s to the 1970s.[2]

He was appointed CBE in the 1979 New Year Honours.

Legacy

  • Denis Winston Memorial Lecture, Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney.

References

  1. ^ Freestone, Robert (2002). "Winston, Arthur Denis (1908–1980)". Arthur Winston Denis (1908-1980). National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. ^ R. Freestone, Denis Winston, an Annotated Bibliography, 1949-1976 (Syd, 1983)


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