Alfred Bettman (1873 - 1945) was one of the key founders of modern urban planning.

The rational planning model is central in the development of modern urban planning and transportation planning.

Jacobs's book also attacked the standardization of modern planning.

This standard was used until World War Two at which time modern Chinese urban planning began.

Mr. Eliot was an early practitioner of modern professional planning to cope with and manage change.

By the standards of modern planning, however, this idea was not banal at all; it was more like sacrilege.

Because the city developed before modern planning, homes are cheek by jowl with businesses.

However, the 1961 Plowden reforms were the watershed for modern planning, monitoring and control of public expenditure.

He introduced more modern financial planning, helped reduce the company's huge debts and made the company focus more on the global marketplace.

He would later write about creating an "old new architecture" that combined modern planning with adobe forms.