Henry Kendall (urban planner)

Henry Kendall (1903-1983) was a British architect, who worked mostly as an urban planner in the British colonies and ex-colonies.

Between 1922 and 1927, Kendall learned architecture in the University of London. In 1928 he practiced urban planning. His first appointment out of the British islands was in 1929, as an urban planner, for the office of colonies in Malesia. He worked there until 1932. In 1935, he worked in England.

Kendall worked for the British Mandatory Palestine, between 1936 and 1948. (In 1948, the British Mandatory Palestine stopped existing). During this era, he was the High Commissioner of Palestine's advisor for urban planning the manager of the Mandatory Palestine transportation Public Works Department (that later evolved to be the National Roads Company of Israel) and the Chief City Architect of Jerusalem. Kendall wrote two of his books about his projects of this era.

His work for the British Mandatory Palestine included the zoning plan of several cities, such as:

• Jerusalem – in 1944, Kendall's zoning plan for Beersheba replaced former plans. Like the former ones, it forbid tall building, and announced dimension stone as mandatory. It forbid building too close to the outer side of the Walls of Jerusalem, and announced the area around the wall as a park. It also announced the Mount of Olives as a nature reserve.
• Beersheba – in 1937, Kendall's zoning plan for Beersheba replaced former British zoning plans for it, which were not applicable. By Kendall's planning, the British kept building the Beersheba in the modern way that the Turkish Empire started. It was a grid street plan, in which the main avenue was the commercial and municipal center. The Israelis changed that zoning plan in 1952.
• Tel Aviv
• Tiberius
• Gaza City
• Nablus
• Jaffa – Jaffa's city whole (which was not yet a part of Tel Aviv) rejected Kendall's zoning plan. The preferred a plan of an Arabic architect, from Cairo.

Between 1948 and 1956, Kendall worked for the British colonial regime of Uganda. There he planned the zoning of Kampala and wrote another book. His zoning plan of Kampala replaced a former one, by a German architect.

In 1957, Kendall worked in Zanzibar. Between 1958 and 1962, he worked for the government of Gana. Between 1963 and 1966, Kendall worked for the Jordanian Kingdom – an ex-British colony, that included only areas formerly been in the British Mandatory Palestine. Between 1967 and 1977, Kendall worked for the British government, in Gibraltar.

Between 1978 and 1983, Kendall was a member of the Committee for Historic preservation of the English Countryside. In the last two of those years, he was the committee's chairman.

In Beersheba, Israel, there is a street by the name of Henri Kendall.

His Books

• Jerusalem The City Plan 1918-1948 Henry Kendall Published by His Majesty's Stationary Office (1948)
• Kendall Henery (1949), Village Development in Palestine During the British Mandate, Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.
• Town planning in Uganda; a brief description of the efforts made by government to control development of urban areas from 1915 to 1955. Author: Henry Kendall. Publisher: London, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, 1955.

References

1. Interview with the town planner, BuildGibraltar, Issue 01, P43 Jun 22, 2015
2. A list of the the C.V.s of the notable architects of the holy land in the 1930's
3. Chronology of architecture in the Holy Land, in the 1930s
4. A list of the the C.V.s of the notable architects of the holy land in the 1930's
5. • Capital city or spiritual center? The politics of architecture in post-1967 Jerusalem, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Cities , Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 229–240, 2005
     
   • אדם וסביבה בישראל, מסות גיאוגרפיות, אלישע אפרת, איור מספר 5, הוצאת רמות – אוניברסיטת תל אביב, 2004,
     
   • "Marrying Modern Progress with Treasured Antiquity": Jerusalem City Plans during the British Mandate, 1917-1948, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, TDSR V. 15. No. 1 PP 39-58, 2003.
     
   • ירושלים בתקופת המנדט – העשייה והמורשת, יהושע בן-אריה, יד בן-צבי ע' 71, 506, שנת 2003
     
   • Jerusalem and Its Environs: Quarters, Neighborhoods, Villages, 1800-1948 By Ruth Kark, Michal Oren-Nordheim, P 146 Magnes-Press, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
     
   • Jerusalem City Whole website
     
   • ירושלים: שכונות ובתים : תקופות וסיגנונות, דוד קרויאנקר‎ ע' 162 הוצאת כתר
6. מכרה זהב תיירותי: "בכסף קטן אפשר להפוך עיר כזו לאטרקטיבית - יעד לחופשה בזול", נעמה ריבה, דה מרקר, 2019
7. באר שבע, מעיר למטרופולין, אדר׳ יוספה דברה, האיגוד הישראלי של אדריכלי הנוף, עמוד 22 אוקטובר 2014, גליון 5
8. שוליים. דרום תל אביב, צפון יפו, אורי יואלי כאן, קול הרעם
9. רנה הברון, ‏מוחמד רוּשדי – משרתם של שני שלטונות, קתדרה 63, אפריל 1992, עמ' 107-98
10. ניסויים במרחב: פרקים בגיאוגרפיה יישובית של ארץ-ישראל, יחידות 1-4, עמוד 224, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, 1996
11. Evolution of Town Planning Ideas, Plans and their Implementation in Kampala City 1903-2004, Fredrick Omolo-Okalebo, 2011
12. How Kampala was designed by colonialists, Bamuturaki Musinguzi, Daily Miror, 2013
13. Interview with the town planner, BuildGibraltar, Issue 01, P43 Jun 22, 2015
    
    • A list of the the C.V.s of the notable architects of the holy land in the 1930's
14. A list of the the C.V.s of the notable architects of the holy land in the 1930's

Category:Urban planners Category:British architects Category:Geography of Palestine (region) Category:1903 births Category:1983 deaths