Syntax of Cities

This book was first published in 1977.

Part One: A Psychological Scenario 1. Strategy and apologia 2. Environment as medium 3. The passive environment? 4. Monotony in reverse 5. Mind before environment 6. The attitudinal model 7. Left, right and centre 8. Images in still waters 9. Emotional needs and remedies 10. Viva vulgarity! and other limbic values 11. Line and shape 12. Colour and texture Part Two: Towards a Concept of Value 13. The aesthetic matrix 14. Values in the aesthetic equation 15. Aesthetics and emotion 16. The aesthetics of symbolism 17. Idealized distance 18. Inductive space 19. The gate and the arch 20. The maze factor and urban accents 21. Socially intensive urban space 22. Epitome urbanism Part Three: From Theory to Practice 23. The city and optimal mutation 24. Images and fantasies 25. The architect and the city 26. Recent endeavours 27. Interstitial architecture 28. Interstitial tactics 29. Urban contrasts 30. Encore to aesthetics 31. Towards the 'care and culture of man'

Peter F. Smith (University of Nottingham and Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)