Sir Colin Douglas Buchanan CBE (22 August 1907 – 6 December 2001) was a Scottish town planner.
Buchanan was born in 1907 in Simla, India, a descendant of a long line of Scottish civil engineers.
[1][2] He was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, before studying engineering at Imperial College, London.
[5] Between 1973 and 1975 Colin Buchanan was head of the newly established School of Advanced Urban Studies at Bristol University.
[8] However, the Maplin proposal was shelved after the 1973 oil crisis, and all plans for a new four-runway airport were replaced by smaller-scale redevelopment of Stansted, a site not short-listed by the Roskill Commission.