Understanding Cities is richly textured, complex and challenging. It creates the vital link between urban design theory and praxis and opens the required method

How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and ho

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The city and its regulations: Unexpected marg

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the

A primer in urban literacy that teaches us in words and pictures what to notice if we want to understand the city. Cities speak, and this little book helps us u