| Description |
182 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Peter Carolin and Marco Goldschmied -- Introduction / Marcial Echenique and Andrew Saint -- 1. Compaction. Let's Cram More into the City / Richard Rogers and Richard Burdett. Capitalism and the City / Richard Sennett. Density Means Better Cities / Tony Travers -- 2. Dispersal. Mobility and Space in Metropolitan Areas / Marcial Echenique. Densities and Sustainable Cities: The UK Experience / Michael Breheny. Compactness or Sprawl: America's Future vs. the Present / Harry W. Richardson and Peter Gordon -- 3. Regeneration. 'Creating an Urban Splash': Rehabilitation of Central Sites / Tom Bloxham. Imaginative Landscapes out of Industrial Dereliction / Anneliese Latz and Peter Latz. The Task of the Urban Planner and Architect: The Sensuality of Logic and the Logic of Sensuality / Ashok Bhalotra. Living in the Landscape / Kees Christiaanse -- 4. Technical Issues. Deltametropolis: An Exercise in Strategic Planning / Dirk Frieling. Infrastructure and Cities / Alan Baxter. Urban Form and Building Energy / Koen Steemers. Designing for Disaster: The Urban Future / Mary C. Comerio -- 5. Lessons from History. Edinburgh / Deborah Howard. Lessons from London / Andrew Saint. Extensive or Intensive Development? A Century of Debates and Experience in Moscow / Catherine Cooke |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Great Britain.
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Sociology, Urban -- Great Britain.
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Sociology, Urban.
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Cities and towns.
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| Author |
Echenique, Marcial.
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Saint, Andrew.
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| LC no. |
2001032068 |
| ISBN |
0415231833 |
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