Community Design and the Culture of Cities: The Crossroad and the Wall Book

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.