William McLean (civil servant)

In 1918, he prepared a protective urban planning scheme for Jerusalem, which was approved by Lord Allenby.

He divided Jerusalem into four zones:[3] He retired from the Egyptian Civil Service in 1926 and returned to Glasgow University, where he engaged in technical and economic research in regional planning, for which he was awarded a PhD in 1929.

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.

From 1931 onward, he dedicated much of his effort to the spreading of information about British colonial policy.

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McLean's 1918 Town Plan of Jerusalem, which was the first urban planning scheme for the city. It laid the foundations for what became West Jerusalem and East Jerusalem . [ 1 ]