Objectives give substance to management. Without them there are no problems or opportunities, for they establish what is wanted. They determine what is of concern about the activities taking place in a city or town. They provide the measures to judge products and progress and therefore performance. Strictly speaking, the goodness of management is assessed against its objectives but is not judged by the desirability of its objectives. Because the poor conditions in so many urban areas may not figure in the true management objectives for those human settlements they may, in fact, not be the signs or the result of bad management. There is nothing intrinsic to the concept of urban management which predetermines its objectives.