Summary
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Following the Second World War, modern systems of urban and regional planning were established in Britain and most other developed countries. In this book, Nigel Taylor describes the changes in planning thought which have taken place since then. He outlines the main theories of planning, from the traditional view of urban planning as an exercise in physical design, to the systems and rational process views of planning of the 1960s; from Marxist accounts of the role of planning in capitalist society in the 1970s, to theories about planning implementation, and more recent views of planning as a form of `communicative action'.
Town Planning as Physical Planning and Design
Town Planning as Physical Planning and Design
Introduction
In this and the following chapter we shall be examining the view, or theory, of town and country planning which prevailed in Britain for about twenty years following the Second World War. There are two aspects of post-war planning theory which I shall distinguish and examine separately in this and the next chapter.
First, in this chapter, I examine the prevailing conception of the nature of town (and country) planning as a discipline; that is, the view which most town planners held in the post-war years about the kind of activity they were engaged in – how planning theorists at this time would have defined town planning. A useful way of approaching this ...
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