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`Clear, thorough, fascinating and wise. It should be required reading for any student of planning. Any student who has read and absorbed this book will have a firm foundation on which to comprehend the debates that have surrounded town planning in Britain this century down to the present day' - Planning Practice and Research
`This is a masterly survey of planning over the last hundred years, well written, with apposite and telling illustrations' -
Professor J B Cullingworth, Cities
`This excellently organised and clearly written text can be read both for its overall demolition of the omnipotence of town planning and also to obtain authoritative briefings on those many urban geographical topics which are part of 'A'-Level syllabuses' - Geography
`This is a useful and welcome addition to the town planning text book shelf and one that complements rather than replicates the existing books on offer. Ward does a credible job in providing students of town planning with a readable and informative book that offers a good introduction to the subject' - Local Government Studies
`One of the best reviews of British planning history recently written' - Urban Studies
`This is a reliable, readable and well-illustrated account of the history of planning in Britain over the past hundred years' - Regional Studies
`Ward's book is a fine achievement, a text which is well structured, written, illustrated, and arranged, and which makes clear attempts to reinterpret the systems of ideas that have underpinned previous periods of planning thought and practice' - Environment and Planning B
`Notable for its scholarship, and is an excellent source for the main themes, debates and policies in the history of planning' - Progress in Human Geography
`A thoughtful and critical account of the history of British town and country planning... The book certainly ranks as one of the key texts on past and contemporary problems and issues surrounding planning theory and practice' - European Planning Studies
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Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - urban planning history as the development of theoretical approaches: from radical and utopian beginnings, to the `new right' thinking of the 1980s, and recent interest in green thought and sustainability; policies - urban planning history as an intensely political process, the text explains the complicated relation between planning theory and political practice; and impacts - urban planning history as the divergence of expectation and outcome, each chapter shows how intended impacts have been modified by economic and social forces.
This Second Edition features an entirely new chapter on the key policy changes that have occurred under the Major and Blair governments, together with a critical review of current policy trends.
Town planning, by its nature, is essentially concerned with shaping the future. Read the first page
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