European City-A Western Perspective

Out Of Print ... This book is a completely rewritten and revised version of The City in West Europe (1981) and takes into account the events of 1989 and 1990. In this examination of the city in Europe three broad approaches have been taken. The first part concentrates on the philosophies, histories and processes which have made the West European city system rich, in internal variety yet distinct from that of the rest of western industrialised urban society. The second part examines policies towards various aspects of the city's development and the third part synthezises the sectoral policies described in part two by means of an examination of the city plan as a whole.