The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years.

Jon Lang, Emeritus Professor, is the principal of his own consulting firm and formerly the director of urban design for ERG in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His consultancy work has taken him to all the continents of the world, except Antarctica. Born in India, he was educated in that country, England, South Africa, and the United States. He received his architectural degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and city planning from Cornell, where he also obtained his doctorate. Before settling in Australia in 1990, he headed the joint MArch/MCP Program in Urban Design at the University of Pennsylvania. At the University of New South Wales, he headed the School of Architecture and was the associate dean for research in the Faculty of the Built Environment in the 1990s and early 2000s. He has served as a visiting professor at universities in North and South America and Asia and has authored books on architectural theory, on urban design, and on modern architecture in India. His writings on urban design include Urban Design: The American Experience (1994), Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products (2005; 2017), and, with Nancy Marshall, Urban Squares as Places, Links, and Displays (Routledge 2016). His book with Walter Moleski, Functionalism Revisited (2010), provides the intellectual basis for this endeavor. He has been a juror on several international urban design competitions. In 2010, he received the Reed and Malik Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

Prologue: The Nature of Urban Design

Part One: Antecedents of Twentieth Century Urban Design

Chapter 1. Religious Canons and Prescriptions

Chapter 2. The Classical and Beaux Arts Tradition

Chapter 3. Social and Philanthropic Urban Design

Chapter 4. The Garden Suburb

Chapter 5. The Urbanist Tradition

Part Two: Early Twentieth Century Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Concepts, and Specific Designs

Chapter 6. The City Beautiful

Chapter 7. Modern Empiricism

Chapter 8. The Rationalist Response

Part Three: Post-World War Two Pragmatic Urban Design and The Rationalist and Empiricist Responses

Chapter 9. The Post-World War Two Rationalists

Chapter 10. The Post-World War Two Empiricists

Chapter 11. The Postmodernist and The Deconstructivist Response

Part Four: Urban Design in an Age of Corporate Financial Capital

Chapter 12. Modernist, Neo-Modernist, and Hyper-Modernist Urban Design

Chapter 13. Hyper-Modernism, Parametricism, and Urban Design

Chapter 14. The Empiricist Responses

Chapter 15, Sustainable Urbanism and Urban Design

Chapter 16. Smart Cities and Urban Design

Epilogue: Looking Back to Look Forward

Chapter 17. A Critique of Twenty and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design

Chapter 18. The Way Forward: Toward Compact Cities