Hildebrand Frey. Designing the City: Towards a More Sustainable Urban Form

Taylor & Francis, 1999 — 230 p. — ISBN 978-0419221104, 0419221107This book looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level. The book is highly visual and illustrates the topic with a variety of sketches, line drawings, axonometrics, and models. The author draws upon the valuable experience gained by the City of Glasgow and compares its solutions - successful and less successful - with projects in a variety of European countries.Introduction
The Current Debate about the Sustainable City
What Urban Design Is and Why it is so Important Today
Compact, Decentralised or What? The Sustainable City Debate
Micro- and Macro-structures of a More Sustainable City
Application of the Model Urban Structure to Glasgow
Glasgow: A Typical Post-industrial City
Application of Micro- and Macro-structure: The Case of Glasgow
Strategic Design of Districts of the City of Glasgow
Epilogue
Index