Nigel Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Planning and Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

`The author has created a short and readable overview of the main theories of planning, an achievement which students will surely appreciate′ - Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment`I would use Nigel Taylor′s book as a first point of entry. The text is peppered with very good illustrations of planning theory in practice and Nigel Taylor is very careful to show the implications, impacts, and contradictions of theoretical ideas when applied to a range of planning contexts′ - European Planning Studies

• PART ONE: EARLY POST-WAR PLANNING THEORYTown Planning as Physical Planning and DesignThe Values of Post-War Planning TheoryEarly Critiques of Post-War Planning TheoryPART TWO: PLANNING THEORY IN THE 1960SThe Systems and Rational Process Views of PlanningPlanning as a Political ProcessPART THREE: PLANNING THEORY FROM THE 1970S TO THE 1990STheory about the Effects of PlanningRational Planning and ImplementationPlanning Theory after the New RightPART FOUR: CONCLUSIONSParadigm Shifts, Modernism, and Postmodernism

Nigel Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Planning and Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

`The author has created a short and readable overview of the main theories of planning, an achievement which students will surely appreciate′ - Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment`I would use Nigel Taylor′s book as a first point of entry. The text is peppered with very good illustrations of planning theory in practice and Nigel Taylor is very careful to show the implications, impacts, and contradictions of theoretical ideas when applied to a range of planning contexts′ - European Planning Studies

• PART ONE: EARLY POST-WAR PLANNING THEORYTown Planning as Physical Planning and DesignThe Values of Post-War Planning TheoryEarly Critiques of Post-War Planning TheoryPART TWO: PLANNING THEORY IN THE 1960SThe Systems and Rational Process Views of PlanningPlanning as a Political ProcessPART THREE: PLANNING THEORY FROM THE 1970S TO THE 1990STheory about the Effects of PlanningRational Planning and ImplementationPlanning Theory after the New RightPART FOUR: CONCLUSIONSParadigm Shifts, Modernism, and Postmodernism

Nigel Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Planning and Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

`The author has created a short and readable overview of the main theories of planning, an achievement which students will surely appreciate′ - Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment`I would use Nigel Taylor′s book as a first point of entry. The text is peppered with very good illustrations of planning theory in practice and Nigel Taylor is very careful to show the implications, impacts, and contradictions of theoretical ideas when applied to a range of planning contexts′ - European Planning Studies

• PART ONE: EARLY POST-WAR PLANNING THEORYTown Planning as Physical Planning and DesignThe Values of Post-War Planning TheoryEarly Critiques of Post-War Planning TheoryPART TWO: PLANNING THEORY IN THE 1960SThe Systems and Rational Process Views of PlanningPlanning as a Political ProcessPART THREE: PLANNING THEORY FROM THE 1970S TO THE 1990STheory about the Effects of PlanningRational Planning and ImplementationPlanning Theory after the New RightPART FOUR: CONCLUSIONSParadigm Shifts, Modernism, and Postmodernism