CONTENTS Notes on contributors vii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction : towards a theory of eco-urbanity - DARKO RADOVIC 1 PART 1 : The compact city, strategies and success stories 7 1. Eco-urbanity : the framework of an idea - DARKO RADOVIC 9 2. The Barcelona Agenda : reuse, compactness and green - ORIOL CLOS 19 3. From industrial cities to eco-urbanity : the Melboune case study - ROB ADAMS 33 4. The sustainable city as a fine-grained city - DAVID SIM 47 5. From the compact city to the defragmented city : another route towards a sustainable urban form? - MIKE JENKS 63 PART 2 : Other cultures, approaches and strategies 75 6. Designing for shrinkage : Fibercity 2050, Tokyo - OHNO HIDETOSHI 79 7. Excavating the lost commons : creating green spaces and water corridors for eco-urban infrastructure - ISHIKAWA MIKIKO 92 8. Continuity and departure : a caser study of Singapore's Nankin Street - HENG CHYE KIANG 103 9. The cultural challenge for sustainable cities : coping with sprawl in Bangkok and Melbourne - SIDH SINTUSINGHA 112 10. Geometries of life and formlessness : the theoretical legacies of historical Beijing - JIANFEI AHU 125 11. Eco-city? eco-urbanity? - ARVIND KRISHAN 141 PART 3 : Other scales and sensibilities 161 12. Eco-urbanism : an Israeli perspective - ARIE RAHAMIMOFF 163 13. Bringing back nature and re-invigorating the city centre - KENGO KUMA 176 14. Sustainable design towards a positive spiral - KODAMA YUICHIRO 178 15. Creating a cemetery : architecture that sustains cultural forms - NAITO HIROSHI 182 16. eco-urbanity hypothesis: towards well-mannered built environments - DARKO RADOVIC 187 Index 192