The rising authority of neo-traditional urban planning and design - either in the United States via New Urbanism or in Europe via the European Urban Renaissance - might provide much needed answers to the failures of modern urbanism to produce sustainable urban environments. Nevertheless, the ethos of Modernist spatial planning seems to be pervasive on current planning processes despite its many flaws. The first part of this book shows how urban design theory - and in particular neo- traditional urban design theory - might inspire and reform current planning practices so as to ...