Ch. 1. Planning, planners and plans -- ch. 2. The origins : urban growth from 1800 to 1940 -- ch. 3. The seers : pioneer thinkers in urban planning, from 1880 to 1945 -- ch. 4. Creation of the postwar British planning machine, from 1940 to 1952 -- ch. 5. National/regional planning from 1945 to 2000 -- ch. 6. Planning for cities and city regions from 1945 to 2000 -- ch. 7. Planning in Western Europe since 1945 -- ch. 8. Planning in the United States since 1945 -- ch. 9. The planning process.