ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, English cities underwent a remarkable enlargement. It explains the form taken by the process of physical extension. It explores the way in which the landscapes created have changed during the subsequent half century in the face of marked social, economic and cultural change. It considers the principal findings in relation to a number of ideas about the physical process of urban change and how it is being, and should be, influenced by planning. The book provides substance for more general notions concerning the process of morphological change. Finally, it examines the first large-scale, systematic analysis of the kinds of changes that are taking place and of the contrasts between areas originally developed at different densities.
