Worldwide there is a renewed interest in the form, nature and management of cities. There is a pressing need to review and create new and different forms of city to respond to future demands and use. This book brings together key issues through a series of edited essays from architects, planners and academics. Cities in the New Millennium looks at architecture in the early 21st century as a force for regenerating the culture of cities and the possibilities offered by technical progress for improving cities in the light of increasing concern for a sustainable human environment.

Cities for the New Millennium is the outcome of a joint conference held in Salford in July 2000 by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the University of Cambridge's Department of Architecture. It tackles these questions in the light of the Urban Task Force's report about the future of Britain's cities and communities, but sets them in an international and historical context. Professionals - architects, engineers and developers as well as academics from different countries and disciplines here lavish their expertise on issues of transportation, density, land use, risk and...