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

"Thomas Gordon Cullen (9 August 1914 – 11 August 1994) was an influential British architect and urban designer who was a key motivator in the Townscape movement. Cullen presented 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 notions of time and space.[1] He is best known for the book Townscape, first published in 1961.[2] 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 that he was unfit to serve in the British armed forces. He later returned to London and joined the Architectural Review journal, first as a draughtsman and then as a writer on planning policies. There, he produced many influential editorials and case studies on the theory of planning and the design of towns. Many improvements in Britain's urban and rural environment 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 Erno Goldfinger designed Greenside Primary School in west London, completed in 1953.[4] His 1958 ceramic mural in Coventry, depicting the city's history and its post-war regeneration, is on a much grander scale though now relocated away from its original central location." (bron: wiki)