Career
His most notable contributions were associated with planning in Middlesbrough, where he worked with Griselda Rowntree and Ruth Glass on the 1944 Middlesbrough Survey, and Hull. Darling and Whitworth describe Lock"s approach to planning as the most Geddesian of the post-war planners in the United Kingdom. Other key features of his approach were to include considerations of a town"s hinterland in the planning process, to incorporate insights from other disciplines, to blend both physical and social aspects, using surveys, interviews, community involvement, map overlays, topic reports, and photographs. This was a process involving Civic Diagnosis.
The Max Lock Centre at the University of Westminster is named in his honour and holds his archive.
(ed) (1946), The County Borough of Middlesbrough: Survey and Plan, The Middlesbrough Corporation, Middlesbrough.
