Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice CONTENIDO: Introduction. The city edge. Preliminaries -- The walled edge -- Meeting the water -- On the periphery -- The open city -- The soft edge of suburbia -- Urban divisions. Introduction. The sovereign district -- God in the city -- Pagus mercatorum -- Keeping apart -- Public places. The nature of public places -- The distribution of public places -- Matters of size -- Typologies -- Public parks -- The public places of today -- The street. Introduction -- The street as public space -- The design of streets -- Some street types -- The advent of the modernist street -- Urban process. The fall and rise of cities -- Disasters and their aftermaths -- The destruction of war -- Haussmannization -- Incremental changes -- Process against conservation: the life of urban form.
