First Town Plan of Jerusalem, 1918, William McLean

Sir William Hannah McLean KBE (1877–1967) was a British civil servant in the

Colonial Office The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but required also to oversee the increasing number of col ...

. McLean was the first urban planner, responsible for the layout of Khartoum, Alexandria, where he was city engineer and of Jerusalem, where he prepared the master plan, in 1918. He divided Jerusalem into four zones: (1) the Old City, in which a ‘‘medieval aspect’’ was to be preserved through the prohibition of all new construction; (2) a zone of non-construction around the Old City, where undesirable buildings would be cleared and the area left to its natural state; (3) an area to the north and east of the Old City, where buildings could be erected only with special approval; and (4) an area to the north and west of the Old City that was set aside for modern development. He was a Scottish Unionist Party member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for Glasgow Tradeston between the general elections of 1931 and 1935. In 1938, he was appointed Commander of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

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* 1877 births 1967 deaths Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Civil servants in the Colonial Office {{Conservative-UK-MP-1870s-stub