the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 1931 to 1933, was knighted in 1932 and consulted by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the New Deal in 1933. In 1936 he was appointed visiting Professor of Town Planning at Columbia University and in 1937 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for architecture. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1935 and by Harvard University in 1937. Death and legacy Raymond Unwin died at Lyme, Connecticut at the home of his daughter on 29 June 1940. His great-great-grandson has unveiled multiple roundabouts in his memory, one of which is in Siddington, Gloucestershire Bibliography Town Planning In Practice (1909) Footnotes External links DSA Architect Biography Report: Parker & Unwin Andrew Saint, Unwin, Sir Raymond (1863–1940), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 2 Nov 2010 The Town Extension Plan, 1912 Warburton lecture. Pollack, Theo Mackey, "The Best Planning Book is a Century Old: A Look Back at Unwin's Town Planning in Practice." New Urbs, The American Conservative, 12/15/2017. English urban planners Columbia University faculty Members of the Fabian Society English civil engineers Civil servants in the Local Government Board Civil servants in the Ministry of Munitions Civil servants in the Ministry of Health (United Kingdom) Letchworth Socialist League (UK, 1885) members People from Rotherham 1863 births 1940 deaths Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal Presidents of the Royal Institute of British Architects Presidents of the Royal Town Planning Institute People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford