Background
STEPHENSON, Gordon was born on June 6, 1908 in Liverpool. Son of Francis Edwin and Eva Eliza Stephenson.
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Gordon Stephenson
Edit Profileborn Australian architect and town planner
Education
Liverpool Institute, University of Liverpool and Paris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
He is best known for his role in shaping the modern growth and development of Perth, Western Australia. = Early career His early career included working with Patrick Abercrombie on the Greater London Plan. Along with Peter Shepheard, he created an influential design for Stevenage, the first post-war British new town, which incorporated a pedestrianised town centre.
= Perth, Western Australia In 1953, he was commissioned by the state government of Western Australia to produce a plan for the metropolitan area of Perth and Fremantle.
The resulting 1955 Plan for the Metropolitan Region was co-authored with Alistair Hepburn and is commonly known as the "Stephenson-Hepburn ". lieutenant included an atlas of maps which laid down a broad pattern of future land uses including highways and open space, and catered for significant additional population growth.
The report formed the basis for the 1963 Metropolitan Region Scheme for Perth and Fremantle, a legal instrument for regulating land-use and development in the urban area lieutenant remained the overarching strategic plan for the development of Perth until it was succeeded by the Corridor Plan for Perth in 1970. = Later career Following his work in Perth, he was employed variously as a consultant planner and academic in New Zealand, Canada, and America.
He subsequently returned to Perth and continued to play an important role in its development, amongst other things crafting plans for Joondalup and Midland regional centres, and for the campus of Murdoch University.
In later life, he authored several books Death
He died in 1997, potentially of a stroke. Legacy
On August 28, 2011, the Washington State Government announced that the recently completed building, informally known as one40william would be renamed Gordon Stephenson House.
The Planning Department at the University of Liverpool is located in the Gordon Stephenson Building, named in his honour.
Stephenson, Gordon. Hepburn, J. A. (John Alastair), since 1915.
Stephenson, Gordon, since 1908. Plan for the metropolitan region Perth and Fremantle Western Australia 1955 Atlas (1955), Plan for the metropolitan region, Perth and Fremantle, Western Australia, 1955: a report prepared for the Government of Western Australia, Government Printing Office, retrieved 28 March 2012.
Membership
National Capital Planning Committee, Canberra 73.
Connections
Married Flora Bartlett Crockett in 1938 (died in 1979).
