Derek Walker obituary

Architect whose love of landscape provided inspiration for the new town of Milton KeynesDerek Walker, who has died aged 85, was the driving force behind Milton Keynes, the last in the postwar programme of new towns. Often the butt of jokes about roundabouts and concrete cows, it is one of the most successful examples of British planning in the 20th century. In Derek’s hands, deep traditions of English landscape merged with the burgeoning consumer world of the 1970s to form a kind of electric p