1st Edition

Cities Design and Evolution

By Stephen Marshall Copyright 2009
360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that are less attractive and functional than the ‘organic urbanism’ of traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution takes up the challenge of this question, investigating ‘how cities are put together’, both in the sense of how the parts are organized in relation to the whole, and how they are created or evolve over time.... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Cities, Planning and Modernism  3. Articulating Urban Order  4. The Social Logic of Urban Order  5. The Kind of Thing a City Is  6. Emergence and Evolution  7. Emergent Urban Order  8. Cities in Evolution  9. Planning, Design and Evolution  10. Conclusions

Biography

Stephen Marshall is a senior lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He research and teaching focuses on transport, planning and urban design and their inter-relationships in the form of streets, urban structure and urban morphology.

Reviews of Streets & Patterns, by the same author:

"classic, incisive, thought-provoking" – Journal of the American Planning Association

"a fascinating contribution, beautifully published" – Municipal Engineer

"one of the most exciting books we have read this year" – Transport Reviews