First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors which have made town planning one of the normal functions of government.

The author begins with an examination of the rapid growth of towns in the nineteenth century and the consequent emergence of inescapable new problems of health, morality, and economic efficiency, and goes on to discuss the chief ways in which a remedy for these problems was sought in the later part of the century. Separate chapters are devoted to new model villages and towns to the spread of suburbs, and to the improvement of already established towns by means of clearance and rebuilding schemes, bye-law control, and efforts of private philanthropy. The final section of the book shows how the successes and failures of earlier attempts at reforms stimulated a demand for something more comprehensive, which found expression in the town planning act of 1909, and ends by considering the influences that brought to the town planning movement a new strength and importance in the 1930s and the war years.

The author has drawn his material from a wide range of government and local authority reports, the writing of philanthropists and social workers, local guides and topographical works and the book will be of great value to those interested in social history, architecture and urban sociology.

Dr. Ravichander Janapati is Associate Professor at Department of ECE, SR University, Warangal. He is a senior member of IEEE. He graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad and received his PhD in the Adhoc Wireless Sensor Networks field and M. Tech in Digital Electronics and Communication Systems from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, Anantapur. His areas of interest are wireless sensor networks and brain–computer interface.

Dr. Usha Desai is Professor and Head at Department of ECE, SR University, Warangal. She received her PhD in the area of Biomedical Signal Processing from REVA University, Bengaluru in 2017 and M. Tech in Digital Electronics from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka.

Dr. Shrirang A. Kulkarni is Post-Doctoral Fellow with the School of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida. Before joining UCF, he worked as an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, India. He earned his PhD in Computer and Information Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University in the year 2012. His current research work includes developing new algorithms for analysis of healthcare data using machine learning. He is also a senior member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Dr. Shubham Tayal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at SR University, Warangal, India. He has more than 6 years of academic/research experience teaching at UG and PG levels. He received his PhD in Microelectronics and VLSI Design from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, M. Tech (VLSI Design) from YMCA University of Science and Technology, Faridabad, and B. Tech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) from MDU, Rohtak. He is the editor/coeditor of eight books in total from CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group, USA) and Springer Nature. He is a recipient of Green ThinkerZ International Distinguished Young Researcher Award 2020. His research interests include simulation and modeling of multigate semiconductor devices, device-circuit co-design in digital/analog domain, machine learning, and IoT.