"Anglo-American Town Panning Theory since 1945: three significant development but no paradigm shifts" - Nigel Taylor (1999)

Over fifty years there has been a number of important shifts in town planning theory. Throughout this paper Taylor offers a retrospective overview of the evolution of planning.

Two significant shifts in the way Town Planners have been conceived:

1. From the planner as a creative designer to the planner as a scientific analyst and rational decision-maker.

• Aster the second world war, Town Planning theory was considered essentially as an exercise of design.
• This continued until the 1960's as demonstrated because most Town Planners were architects
• shift from art to science 

     2. From the planner as a technical expert to the planner as a manager and communicator:

• 1960's Planners shifted to a rational decision maker, but the public had raised some question about these planners and if they were the right people to make these decisions.

Throughout history the role of a planner has been ever changing. as technology gets better and easier to access to role of a planner will continue on this path of evolution, however the paradigms will not be as large as the ones experienced on the past.