Sustainable Development and Urban Form

Sustainable urban development - the political prospects; sustainable development in a regional system; communications technologies and the future of the city; environmental sustainability and land-use planning; on the sustainability of urban and regional structures; growth regions and the future of Dutch planning doctrine; the contradiction of the compact city - a review; use, transport and settlement patterns; patterns of land use in English towns - implications for energy use and carbon dioxide emissions; city transport - strategies for sustainability; depiction of local sustainability development; towards sustainability - the combined production of heat and power.