Download or read book The Social Background of a Plan written by Ruth Glass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume X of thirteen in a series on Urban and Regional Sociology. First published in 1948, this study uses Middlesbrough in the North East of England as a basis of research into the new Town and Country Planning Bill, and the widening responsibility of the planner to the broader basis of team work, and civic designer to ground their work in skills gained from the field of geographers, economists, sociologists, engineers and architects.