Excerpt from Planning, 1946: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting Held in New York City, May, 6-8, 1946 While my greetings are official, my appreciation is personal. Like every other Official, I am acutely aware of the need for intelligent plan ning and the difficulties confronting those who must face and offer con Structive solutions for the many problems of government. New York is a big, busy city. I suppose every known urban problem is to *be found here in some form. But except for its size, New York is much like every other city. That is why such meetings as this, represent ing planners from all over the country, have meaning for us. Since all communities suffer from similar civic ailments we must seek and will find some measure of help from common remedies. I not only extend you welcome, therefore: I wish you every success in developing your programs and know that your discussions will be fruitful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Taylor describes the development of urban planning ideas since the end of the Second World War, outlining the main theories from the traditional view of planning as an exercise in physical design to recent views of planning as 'communicative action'.