The new millennium gives us a special opportunity to focus our minds on how the age of the city can also become an age of sustainability. I wish to contribute to this discussion in order to make some constructive suggestions, whilst I am also aware that the sustainable city is still a singularly elusive creature. The following text speaks for itself. This study explains how and why cities took the shape they did. It describes each of the Charter's points in separate chapters, with plans, examples, techniques and sidebar information complementing each section.
Case studies provide clarification.