Dr. John Udy (1928 - 2010) Dr. Udy’s Honours in Town and Country Planning was from Durban University (England) and his multidisciplinary degree (planning, philosophy and Jungian psychology) was from Concordia University, Montreal. He worked as an Executive Planner on important programmes including ones in Britain, for the Government of Ethiopia in Ethiopia, in the United States, and in Canada. He published a number of books in the field, including “Man makes the City”, “A Typology of Urban and Regional Planners”, “A Value Basis of Urban and Regional Planning”, “Albuquerque Metropolitan Survey and Plan”, and “St. John’s Metropolitan Plan”. Westmount Bike Path: Now and In The Beginning © Copyright All Rights Reserved Helene Udy Monica’s Website Design Man Makes The City: Urban Development and Planning ISBN-10: 1412036194, ISBN-13: 978-1412036191 Trafford Publishing, 2004 314 pages This book is for all who are interested in how our urban surroundings have become what they are and how they are liable to change. No other introduction to the subject reveals, step by step, this complex field in easily understood language. It explores all functions making up an urban area: Economic Activities (industry, commerce); Domestic Activities (housing); Public Activities (open space, institutions); and Flow Systems (transportation, infrastructure). Special attention is also paid to the Metropolitan centre. The appendices open the reader to a values approach to planning, afford a basis for examining their own community; introduce two classics in Canadian planning literature, (along with review and precis writing); provide three contrasting views of a recent Canadian book on planning (to encourage independent, critical thinking); a case study of inadequate planning contrasted with a more enlightened approach. Innovative grass roots planning is explored; and lastly, a critical look at poor thinking about an important subject: "a non-sexist sustainable city."   Buy from Amazon.com A Typology of Urban and Regional Planners Who Plans? ISBN10:  0-7734-9652-1, ISBN13:  978-0-7734-9652-1 Edwin Mellen Press, 1991 164 pages Planning is a new, highly complex profession that has achieved considerable success and gained the confidence of the public. If the profession is to build on this success it must reject the narrow conservatism of the professional associations and the short-sighted radicalism of the progressives. This study shows the need to go outside the planning profession to learn from professions that focus on the range of human choices, be they individual (psychology) or group choices (cultural history). Armed with their insights, a "Matrix" of Planners is established for ordering the sixteen types of planner that are here defined and differentiated.   Buy from MellenPress.com A Value Basis for Urban and Regional Planning ISBN10:  0-7734-8958-4, ISBN13:  978-0-7734-8958-5 Edwin Mellen Press, 1995 248 pages After acknowledging the veracity (but inapplicability) of the Eternal Values, and examining Utilitarianism and Public Policy as possible value indicators, the author recognizes Equality, (through the promotion of Information, Participation, Coordination, and Community), Life (through the application of nine criteria), Liberty, (through the balancing of reciprocal values), and the Pursuit of Happiness (in planning terms), as the sound value bases for urban and regional planning.  Buy from MellenPress.com “We need to become comfortable with the fact that all policies and plans represent value choices, and we need to make explicit the values underlying our policies.” Charles W. Williams Jr. Dr. John Udy Urban Planning Books