College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.
In Memoriam: John L. Hancock
Sunday December 2008
John Loretz Hancock, professor emeritus of Urban Design and Planning, died Dec. 7, 2008, at age 78. Family and friends gathered on his birthday, January 23, 2009, in Gould Hall Court to remember the historian and urban planner who taught at the University of Washington for 34 years.
Hancock was born in St. Louis in 1930, and fought with the Marine Corps in the Korean War. He married Joanne Johnson, the mother of their children Manjit (nee Martha), Joseph, Karen, and Steve. He began his career as a historian of cities and urban planning after obtaining a Ph.D. in American civilization and city planning at the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. Hancock taught at the University of North Dakota, University of Kansas and in Sweden and Japan on Fulbright scholarships before coming to the UW. He married Marga Rosencranz on August 30, 1975.
Hancock’s research examined the nature of urban communities and the shaping of urban form, and he helped establish the UW’s award-winning undergraduate program in Community, Environment, and Planning (CEP). In 1998, he retired as professor emeritus. Hancock was active in the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, the International Planning History Society, and the Council on America’s Military Past.
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