Colin Ward
British anarchist author and editor
Colin Ward was a British anarchist author and editor who also worked as an architect. He wrote about housing, planning and education.
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British Born 1924 in Wanstead, United Kingdom Died 2010
About Colin Ward
Colin Ward was born in Wanstead, Essex, on 14 August 1924, and died on 11 February 2010. He became an anarchist while serving in the British Army during World War II. He was an editor of the newspaper Freedom from 1947 to 1960, then founded the monthly journal Anarchy and edited it from 1961 to 1970. Ward worked as an architect from 1952 to 1961, and later became Education Officer for the Town and Country Planning Association. He published on education, architecture and town planning, and Anglia Ruskin University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2001. His books include The Child In The City, Anarchy in Action, Cotters and Squatters and Talking Green. Our catalog lists his book Anarchism.