URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: A Systems Approach

‘A textbook to introduce new developments to new students and old planners was clearly needed; we are fortunate that one of the most able of British academic planners took on the task. McLoughlin has been outstandingly successful in writing a clear and comprehensive account of the systems approach to planning. He particularly deserves to be congratulated on his lively and unpretentious style: a wider public may thus be encouraged to learn more of the planners’ new tools. Books such as this may do more for public participation in planning than many a shrill pamphlet.’ -R.E. Pahl in New Society ‘Hard-bitten, overworked, practical planners who normally reach for their guns at the mention of a systems approach will be pleasantly surprised by this book. It is well written, easily understood and might even be described as ‘absorbing’. The book is a must for all town planners and should certainly become a text book in schools of planning.’ -Architect’s Journal