served as: Chairman of the planning committee of the Social Science Research Council; A member of the Urban Motorways Committee; and, A member of the South East Economic Planning Council. In 1968 he was invited by Israel's Ministry of Housing and Development to advise on the countries approach to planning (within the 1948 borders). His week-long visit was managed by the minister's planning adviser, Dalia Kadury. The following year, following the death of Lichfield's first wife, Rachel Goulden, he and Dalia were married. In the 1990s he was a member of the Council of the Urban Villages Forum. There he helped to develop key ideas that proved influential, not only in Britain – to the development concept at Poundbury, in Dorset – but more widely in the United States, in the New Urbanist movement. He founded a new partnership, Lichfield Planning, with his wife Dalia in 1992. In his later years he served on the following boards: Council for National Academic Awards (as a member of its estate management, building economics and land-use board); Council of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations; National Economic Development Office (On the shopping capacity sub-committee). In 2002, aged 86, he received the DSc degree for his cumulative achievement from UCL. Works Lichfield, N.; Kettle, P. & Whitbread, N. (1975) – Evaluation in the Planning Process; Lichfield, N.; Darin-Drabkin, H. (1980) – Land Policy in Planning Lichfield, N. (1996) – Community Impact Evaluation. 1976: with Alan Proudlove "Conservation and Traffic: A Case Study of York" York: Sessions Book Trust.(Review) References http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/19/obituary-nathaniel-lichfield External links Raines Foundation School 1916 births 2009 deaths English Jews People educated at Raine's Foundation School Presidents of the Royal Town Planning Institute Civil servants in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government