The
Bartlett School of Planning is one of the premier schools of planning. It
was established in 1914 and represents one of the oldest schools of planning
in the UK. Since its establishment several eminent planners have headed the
school including: Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Lord William Holford, Lord Richard
Llewelyn-Davies, Nathaniel Lichfield, Gerald Smart and Sir Peter Hall.
The
School is located at the heart of Bloomsbury, the academic quarter of London.
This central London location provides an exciting laboratory in which to study
contemporary urbanism and planning. The result is teaching and research programmes
that draw extensively on the wealth of planning issues and urban projects
that London provides. In addition to its focus on London and the UK, the School
has a European and international outlook.
In
this context, research and teaching programmes are focused on the delivery
of holistic, interdisciplinary modes of planning action, firmly based within
the sustainable planning paradigm. This concept and its related agenda now
represents and organising set of principles for planning, managing and designing
the built environment. It incorporate the environmental, economic, social
and institutional dimensions of development.