Preface. 1. The Environment Fashion 2. The Politics of Planning 3. The Idea of Town Planning before 1909 4. Town and Country Planning, 1909-1947 5. 1947 and All That 6. Environmental Issues after 1965 7. Political Theory and Planning: The Orthodoxy 8. Political Theory and Planning: Heterodox 9. 'Participation' in the Planning Process 10. Pressure-group Strategies and Conservation 11. Visionary Planning. Index.

First published in 1975, this was a new approach to the study of environmental planning and problems. Planning had hitherto been described as a technical exercise, involving the solving of biological and economic problems. Here it is seen as an ideological activity.