Thomas Wilfred Sharp (12 April 1901 – 27 January 1978) was an English town planner and writer on the built environment.
He challenged the garden city movement, which sought to unite town and country, by insisting on their separate individual qualities.
His thoughts in this area were expressed in English Panorama (1936), written after an unplanned move into the University of Durham's architectural department in Newcastle.
Here also he edited the Shell Guide to Northumberland and Durham (1937) and wrote his celebrated Town Planning (1940), a Pelican Book that sold 250,000 copies.
His notions of townscape, then a novel concept, were perfected in his analyses of historic towns and cities – notably Durham, Exeter,[2] Oxford, Salisbury and Chichester – for which he wrote development plans just before and then after the end of the war.