Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-180) and index.
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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Early Post-War Planning Theory; 1 -- Town planning as physical planning and design; 2 -- The values of post-war planning theory; 3 -- Early critiques of post-war planning theory; Part II: Planning Theory in the 1960s; 4 -- The systems and rational process views of planning; 5 -- Planning as a political process; Part III: Planning Theory from the 1970s to the 1990s; 6 -- Theory about the effects of planning; 7 -- Rational planning and implementation; 8 -- Planning theory after the New Right; Part IV: Conclusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Taylor describes the development of urban planning ideas since the end of the Second World War, outlining the main theories from the traditional view of planning as an exercise in physical design to recent views of planning as 'communicative action'.
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Title
Urban planning theory since 1945.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
City planning.
Urbanisme.
City planning.
Geschichte.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Regional Planning.