Gosling, David / Sir Norman Foster [foreword] - Gordon Cullen: Visions of Urban Design - 1996

Thomas Gordon Cullen (August 9, 1914 – August 11, 1994) was an influential British architect and urban designer who was a key motivator in the Townscape movement. Cullen introduced a new theory and methodology for urban visual analysis and design based on the psychology of perception, such as the human need for visual stimulation and the concepts of time and space. He is best known for the book Townscape, first published in 1961. Later editions of Townscape were published under the title The Concise Townscape.

Between 1944 and 1946, he worked in the planning office of the Development and Welfare Department in Barbados, as his poor eyesight meant he was unfit to serve in the British armed forces. He later returned to London and joined the Architectural Review journal, initially as a draughtsman and subsequently as a writer on planning policies. There, he produced many influential editorials and case studies on planning theory and town design. Many improvements in Britain's urban and rural environment took place during the 1950s and 1960s. He was also involved in the Festival of Britain in 1951. One of the few large-scale Cullen works on public display is the mural in the foyer of the Greenside Primary School in west London, designed by Erno Goldfinger and completed in 1953. His 1958 ceramic mural in Coventry, depicting the city's history and post-war regeneration, is on a much grander scale, though it has now been relocated away from its original central location.