CITIES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM (Hardcover)

Preface. Introduction. 1. Compaction. 'Let's Cram More into the City'. Capitalism and the City. Density Means Better Cities. 2. Dispersal. Mobility and Space in Metropolitan Areas. Densities and Sustainable Cities: The UK Experience. Compactness or Sprawl: America's Future vs. the Present. 3. Regeneration. 'Creating an Urban Splash': Rehabilitation of Central Sites. Imaginative Landscapes out of Industrial Dereliction. The Task of the Urban Planner and Architect. The Sensuality of Logic and the Logic of Sensuality. Living in the Landscape. 4. Technical Issues. Deltametropolis: An Exercise in Strategic Planning. Infrastructure and Cities. Urban Form and Building Energy. Designing for Disaster: The Urban Future. 5. Lessons from History. Edinburgh. Lessons from London. Extensive or Intensive Development? A Century of Debates and Experience in Moscow.