Designing the City: Towards a more sustainable urban form

London / New York: Spon Press, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. VG. Yellow and orange wraps, 148 pp. Profuse B/W illustrations. From the back cover: By addressing both the theory of sustainable urban form and the need for applicable design guidelines to generate such a form, a strategic urban design approach is developed that, if implemented, would help achieve a more sustainable structure of the city and city region. The first section reviews current arguments for and against specific urban forms, summarizing the characteristics generally agreed to render a settlement more sustainable. The second section examines in theory the applicability of this structural model, analyzing the conurbation of Glasgow. (Inventory #: 130269)