Planning And Urban Change

`Clear, thorough, fascinating and wise. It should be required reading for any student of planning. Any student who has read and absorbed this book will have a firm foundation on which to comprehend the debates that have surrounded town planning in Britain this century down to the present day' - Planning Practice and Research

`This is a masterly survey of planning over the last hundred years, well written, with apposite and telling illustrations' -

Professor J B Cullingworth, Cities

`This excellently organised and clearly written text can be read both for its overall demolition of the omnipotence of town planning and also to obtain authoritative briefings on those many urban geographical topics which are part of 'A'-Level syllabuses' - Geography

`This is a useful and welcome addition to the town planning text book shelf and one that complements rather than replicates the existing books on offer. Ward does a credible job in providing students of town planning with a readable and informative book that offers a good introduction to the subject' - Local Government Studies

`One of the best reviews of British planning history recently written' - Urban Studies

`This is a reliable, readable and well-illustrated account of the history of planning in Britain over the past hundred years' - Regional Studies

`Ward's book is a fine achievement, a text which is well structured, written, illustrated, and arranged, and which makes clear attempts to reinterpret the systems of ideas that have underpinned previous periods of planning thought and practice' - Environment and Planning B

`Notable for its scholarship, and is an excellent source for the main themes, debates and policies in the history of planning' - Progress in Human Geography

`A thoughtful and critical account of the history of British town and country planning... The book certainly ranks as one of the key texts on past and contemporary problems and issues surrounding planning theory and practice' - European Planning Studies