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Critically examine the development of Town and Country Planning in the United Kingdom
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"Critically examine the development of Town and Country Planning in the United Kingdom" Town and country planning or urban and regional planning as its otherwise known, can be defined as 'planning with a spatial, or geographical, component, in which the general objectives is to provide for a spatial structure of activities (or of land uses) which in some way is better than the pattern that would exist without planning' (Hall. 2002). Cherry (1974) expands this by stating town planning is an activity centred on land, land use and activities and the development process embedded within a distinct social context and takes place with economic and political systems. Hall (2002) claims town and country planning emerged in response to specific social and economic problems that were simulated by the Industrial Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. Sutcliffe (1980) agrees, stating that the foundation period of modern planning was the century of...
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