This is the fourth edition of this text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning, throughout the entire 20th century. This extensively revised edition follows the successful format of previous editions. It introduces the establishment of planning as part of the public health reforms of the late 19th century and goes on to look at the insights of the great figures who influenced the early planning movement, leading up to the creation of the post-war planning machine. National and regional...

This is the fourth edition of this text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning, throughout the entire 20th century. This extensively revised edition follows the successful format of previous editions. It introduces the establishment of planning as part of the public health reforms of the late 19th century and goes on to look at the insights of the great figures who influenced the early planning movement, leading up to the creation of the post-war planning machine. National and regional...

This text concerns global urban development at the start of the 21st century. The distilled result of several years' work by urban professionals, it has been specially written for the World Commission on 21st-Century Urbanism, whose report is the subject of a major conference in Berlin in summer 2000. It systematically reviews the main focus guiding urban development, develops two alternative scenarios for the first 25 years of the 21st century and outlines an action plan to meet the likely problems.