ABSTRACT
The ideas about land use planning and town design in use today are closely associated with the processes of urbanisation and urban development which have arisen in association with industrial and related modes of production. The precise form of these processes is highly specific in time and place, reflecting the particularities of economic organisation, land tenure traditions, and cultural values about place and environment. Yet ideas about how to manage the processes of urban development have become increasingly internationalised as a result of the diffusion of expertise in the urban planning field.
