Community design and the culture of cities: the crossroad and the wall

Prologue Part I: 1. Cities today 2. The traditions in community design, or the professional as a newcomer 3. Urban form as pattern, pattern as combination of typologies Part II: 4. Below the urban surface, or how urban systems, organised in complex hierarchies, are the roots of urban form 5. Cities in evolution, or how growth and change guide urban form in time 6. Urban scale, or how urban form, size and function are interrelated through growth Part III: 7. Land use in cities, or how segregation and homogeneity have threatened the social ecology of urban areas 8. Density in communities, or the most important factor in building up urbanity 9. Distribution in cities, or a key to reconstituting the culture of cities Part IV: 10. The design roots in traditional settlements 11. The pluralistic form of traditional communities: combination and interface 12. Visual phenomena and movement through traditional settlements: orientation and variety Symbolism epilogue: An agenda for action.