Towns, Plans and Society in Modern Britain (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. Understanding cities: the impact of mass urbanisation; 3. Ideals and experiments in modern urban living, 1860?1914; 4. Town planning in a free society: the inter war period; 5. The golden age of planning: 'Building the better Britain', 1942?65; 6. Crisis of identity for cities and town planners, 1965?79; 7. Thatcherism and cities: the new context for planners; 8. Economic imperatives and urban regeneration: a new culture of cities?; Appendix; Bibliography.