Robert Shean McConnell

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Sir Robert Shean McConnell, 4th Baronet, known as R. Shean McConnell or simply Shean McConnell, is an Urban planning theorist and practitioner in the Radical planning tradition. He is also the fourth McConnell to hold the baronetcy granted to his great-grandfather Sir Robert John McConnell by Queen Victoria in 1901.

Contents 1 Childhood and Education 2 Career 3 Councillor 4 References

[edit] Childhood and Education

Robert Shean McConnell was born on 28 November 1930 to Sir Robert Melville Terence McConnell and "Rose" Mary Elizabeth McConnell (nee Reade). He was educated at Stowe, and completed a MA at Queen's College, Cambridge, and a MSc in Architecture at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and University of British Columbia.

[edit] Career

McConnell He was appointed Head of Department of Town Planning at the Polytechnic of the South Bank, and went on to be appointed Associate Senior Lecturer in Town Planning and Management with the School of Land and Construction Management, University of Greenwich, London.

McConnell aligned himself with the Radical planning movement associated with Stephen Grabow and Allen Heskin, and in 1981 provided his own contribution with Theories for Planning. In 1998 he provided a chapter on “Management and Organisation” for Housing: The Essential Foundations (1998), a leading text for the school of housing studies. McConnell has also completed an MSc in gerontology at King's College London.^[1][2]

[edit] Councillor

McConnell served as a Liberal Democrat councillor for Knight's Hill in the London Borough of Lambeth, from to 1998 to 2006.

[edit] References