David Nichols is Associate Professor in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

"We commend this work as offering present day planning practitioners insights to the legacies and traditions of this form of urbanism but also an opportunity to raise questions about that legacy and the scope for its continuity. The potential of lessons from historical urban forms should not be lost and this text demonstrates extensive historical research and a thread of argument and narrative that should be a strong interest to those planning Australia's current cities."Planning Institute of Australia, 2024 Commendation Award for Excellence in Planning Research

• Introduction 1. Making the ‘superblock’ 1890-1915 2. Essential elements? The 1920s 3. Diffusion, diffraction, debate, decline and discovery: 1930-1960 4. The in-between realm: the 1960s and 70s 5. New Urbanism and new ways forward: 1980 to today 6. Remake, remodel, reimagine

David Nichols is Associate Professor in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

"We commend this work as offering present day planning practitioners insights to the legacies and traditions of this form of urbanism but also an opportunity to raise questions about that legacy and the scope for its continuity. The potential of lessons from historical urban forms should not be lost and this text demonstrates extensive historical research and a thread of argument and narrative that should be a strong interest to those planning Australia's current cities."Planning Institute of Australia, 2024 Commendation Award for Excellence in Planning Research

• Introduction 1. Making the ‘superblock’ 1890-1915 2. Essential elements? The 1920s 3. Diffusion, diffraction, debate, decline and discovery: 1930-1960 4. The in-between realm: the 1960s and 70s 5. New Urbanism and new ways forward: 1980 to today 6. Remake, remodel, reimagine

David Nichols is Associate Professor in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

"We commend this work as offering present day planning practitioners insights to the legacies and traditions of this form of urbanism but also an opportunity to raise questions about that legacy and the scope for its continuity. The potential of lessons from historical urban forms should not be lost and this text demonstrates extensive historical research and a thread of argument and narrative that should be a strong interest to those planning Australia's current cities."Planning Institute of Australia, 2024 Commendation Award for Excellence in Planning Research

• Introduction 1. Making the ‘superblock’ 1890-1915 2. Essential elements? The 1920s 3. Diffusion, diffraction, debate, decline and discovery: 1930-1960 4. The in-between realm: the 1960s and 70s 5. New Urbanism and new ways forward: 1980 to today 6. Remake, remodel, reimagine