British town planning and urban design : principles and policies

Contents. Introduction PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1.Historical background 2. The industrial slum and model industrial towns 3. The beginning of contemporary town planning 4. Urban design approaches: The liner city PART II: PLANNING PRINCIPLES 5. The development of planning principles 6. Land use planning, new towns and town development 7. Regional cities and third generation New Towns PART III: URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING POLICIES 8. Urban design in the post-war period 9. Urban redevelopment, urban renewal and urban conservation PART IV: PLANNING URBAN DESIGN AND THE ENVIRONMENT 10. The new planning framework, reogranisation and planning theories 11. Lessons from the seventies 12. Changes in the Thatcher era 13. The re-emergence of urban design in the late twentieth century 14. The countryside and the environment 15. Transformations in planning into the twenty-first century APPENDIX: PLANNING PROGRESS IN GREAT BRITAIN - SIGNIFICANT DATES Bibliography. Index.