ABSTRACT

Scholars and practitioners universally cite several rationales for including history within the education of planners: to give students a sense of the roots of the profession and to document planners' impacts on society. They aims to exemplify the specifics of good planning and to give students a sense of the dynamics of the urbanization process. Academic accreditation processes determine how planning education programs structure their curricula and, as a result, how history should be covered. The chapter explores some questions, examines planning history scholarship and education, and drawing from a diverse array of global planning education examples. Planning education in the United States and the United Kingdom traces its origins to the early 20th century when the modern city planning movement also emerged. It grew out of established disciplines that already paid attention to historical matters, focuses on the contributions of prominent designers and engineers, and to some extent on the urbanization process.