ABSTRACT
Urban design is an activity which, though modest in the number of its practitioners, has grown to influence professional activity in both town planning and architecture over the past twelve years. Although its momentum is maintained through graduate courses, conferences, and reports on schemes proposed and effected, its purpose and re lationship with the parent professions is only slowly being defined. This chapter examines the relationship between town planning, ar chitecture and urban design in the recent British context and con siders issues and the implications which may face urban designers in the future.
