Introduction
Planning at the crossroads
Understanding urbanism
Learning from science and nature
This book
Cities, planning and modernism
City planning
Modernist city planning
Post-modern urbanism
Conclusions
Articulating urban order
Urban units
Urban syntax
The nature of urban order
Conclusions
The social logic of urban order
Buildings
Cities
The streets
Conclusions
The kind of thing a city is
Metaphors and models
Emerging perspectives
The city as ecosystem
Conclusions
Emergence and evolution
Emergence
Evolution
Conclusions
Emergent urban order
Urban emergence
Street patterns
City forms
Conclusions
Cities in evolution
The evolution of cities
Modernism in evolution
21st century evolving urbanism
Planning, design and evolution
Creation, development or evolution
Space, time and civics
An evolutionist approach
Conclusions
Understanding cities and urbanism
Implications for practice and research
Reflections on evolution
Beyond cities, design and evolution.
Cities, design & evolution by Stephen Marshall. ISBN 9780415423298. Published by Routledge in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.