On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Assess and create a collaborative explanation of the historic development of urban and regional planning.
2. Critically apply and relate understandings of planning histories and theories to contemporary planning.
3. Combine knowledge of planning histories and theories to explain how the role of the planner and planning practices have changed.

Historical overview of planning as a profession
History of urban planning of pre-industrial cities
Nineteenth century slums and the Garden City movement
The modern and the post-modern city
History of evolution of modes of transport, city form and suburbanization
The typologies of planning theory
Systems and rational theories of planning
Marxism and critical theory
Planning under neo-liberalism
Advocacy Planning
Post-modern theories
Post-colonial theories of planning
Collaborative planning