John F. C. Turner
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British architect and urban planner
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Why Is John F. C. Turner Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Francis Charlewood Turner was a British architect and theorist known for his work on informal self-help housing and neighbourhood building in Peru, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His work on housing in the 1960s and 1970s has seen him described as the most influential post-war writer on housing in the developing world and as a "principal architect" in United Nations and World Bank policies on self-help urban assistance to developing countries. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1988 for "championing the rights of people to build, manage and sustain their own shelter and communities".
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