INTRODUCTION

Since 1930 there has been a plethora of books about the modern movement in architec­ ture, but there has been a singular dearth of studies dealing in a broad historical and critical way with the similar transformation that has been going on in the design o f cities. This lack of comparative information over what has actually been thought and done about the Rebuilding of Cities gives to Professor Percy Johnson-Marshall’s survey a particular distinction and value.