ABSTRACT
Concentrating on the written discourses of planning as markers of trends, problems, and paradigms remains an attractive portal for appreciating the evolution of planning ideas over time. Contextualised against a chronological outline of the development of Australian planning theory and practice, this chapter captures shifting preoccupations through an analysis of the published literature of planning. Several key texts are singled out in capturing the zeitgeist of their times and thus record the evolving concerns and approaches from the beginnings of modern planning and its attendant literature in the 1910s.
