Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning)
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
August 1987
Abstract
Although many Anglo-American social historians would like to believe that they have invented planning history, their assumption is incorrect. The field has deeper roots. Its earliest practitioners - architects, archaeologists and classicists - engaged in questions of urban design, the origin of cities and urbanization.
Date Posted: 02 April 2007
Comments
Reprinted from American Urbanism: A Historical Review, edited by Howard Gillette, Jr., and Zane L. Miller, (New York: Greenwood Press), 1987, pages 135-153.