Provides the principles of British town and country planning, how it has developed in practice and the results in physical urban design forms. The book is split into four parts. The first part gives an historical background of urban design and town planning, from the Roman Inheritance to the Industrial Revolution, the beginning of contemporary town planning, discussing Patrick Geddes, the linear architectural themes of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. The second part sets out the principles of basic town planning, based on a consensus after the Second World War. With a discussion of policies and techniques in the third part, the final section reviews the changes in the Thatcher era, and the re-emergence of urban design strategy in the 1980s and 1990s, ending with transformations in planning into the twenty-first century.
- ISBN10 0582234964
- ISBN13 9780582234963
- Publish Date 21 October 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format Paperback
- Pages 296
- Language English