Harmen Peter Daniel (Daniel, later Sandy) van Ginkel, (February 10, 1920 – July 5, 2009) was a Dutch and Canadian architect and urban planner. He was a leading force in the planning efforts surrounding

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. Van Ginkel studied architecture at the ''Elckerlyc Academy of Architecture and Applied Art'' in

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and sociology at

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. During the Second World War, he was active in the Dutch resistance. After his studies he worked in planning and architectural offices in the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland and eventually had his own office in Amsterdam. He had several collaborative projects with

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. As a member of the

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he drafted the ''Doorn Manifesto'' of the

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architects. He married a British-born Canadian architect, Blanche Lemco, who he had met at the CIAM congress in

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in 195

and at the age of 37 moved with her to

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, where he established the design and management firm ''van Ginkel Associates''. He subsequently played a major role in saving

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from destruction in the early 1960s. As assistant director of the city of Montreal's newly formed planning department, he persuaded authorities to abandon plans for an expressway that would have cut through the old city. In 2007, he was made a Member of the

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in recognition for having "brought a greater appreciation of the impact of infrastructure on the character of urban development". He died in his sleep on 5 July 2009, in a Toronto nursing home.

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