Professor Sir Patrick Abercrombie - Planner of Towns Professor Sir Patrick Abercrombie's success as a town planner is due to his daring imagination, his practical grasp of reality, and to years hard work. Six years of exacting work in architects offices preceded his editorship of "The Town Planning Review". The Winning in collaborating of an international competition for the re-planning of Dublin was followed in 1915 by his appointment as Professor of Civil Design in Liverpool University School