ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 took us in giant steps across nearly two and a half thousand years, showing that town planning was an ancient art pursued for many practical reasons, and sometimes with the well-being of residents as a powerful motivation. The last two examples, in France and Britain, were responding to the Industrial Revolution and urbanization in the nineteenth century. This chapter takes up the story, more in terms of institutional, professional and policy development. It draws mainly on the British experience from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, up to and including the new towns. While other countries were innovating during the same period, Britain was leader of the pack. Many of the insights and policy tools of this period are still influential today.
