Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Foreword / Willem F. Heinemeijer , Michel van Hulten , and Hans D. de Vries Reilingh -- List of Participants -- Studies on Town Centers in France / Paul Cornière -- Image and Functions of the City / Dieter Prokop -- Land use in the Urban Core / Wolfgang Hartenstein and Gunnar Staack -- Quartiers Centraux et Quartiers Peripheriques de Paris / Michel Coquery -- The Urban Core as a Centre of Attraction / Willem F. Heinemeyer -- Urban Centres and Changes in the Centre Structure / John Allpass , Erik Agergård , Jesper Harvest , Poul Anker Olsen , and Svend Søholt -- The Internal Structure of London’s Central Area / John Goddard -- Le Quartier de L’opera et L’evolution du Centre D’affaires de Paris / Pierre Riquet -- Le „Centre de la Ville” a Marseille: Notion, Contenu, Evolution / Marcel Roncayolo -- In Search of the Urban Core of Amsterdam / Michel van Hulten -- Mobility, a Feature of the Residential Function of the Inner City / Karl Ganser -- The Diminishing Residential Function of the Inner City / Jan den Draak -- Structure, Spread and Development of the Retail Trade in the Inner City of Amsterdam / Paul E. Venekamp and Bert Kruijt -- Some Aspects of the Development of the Shopping-Center of the City of Utrecht (The Netherlands) / John D. Buissink and Dirk J. de Widt -- Les Halles et Leur Quartier / Daniel Monteux -- Perceptual Images of the City of Berlin / Thomas Sieverts -- The Delimitation of the Town-Centre in the Image of its Citizens / Hans-Joachim Klein -- The Tension between form and Function in the Inner City of Amsterdam / Hans D. de Vries Reilingh -- On The Pattern of Buildings / Peter Cowan -- Quartiers Historiques et Centre Ville: L’Exemple du Quartier du Marais / Paul Chatelain -- The use of the Inner City of Paris and Social Stratification / Bernard Lamy -- Planning and Inner City Research / Kees Bovenberg -- Research and Planning for the Urban Core of Hamburg / J. Lapp , E. Lindemann , and K. Nedderhut -- The Impact of Changing Economic and Organizational Structure on Urban Core Development (Size and Structure) / Folke Kristensson -- External Economies of the Urban Core / Bertil Thorngren -- On a Method for Analyzing Retail Centrality and Efficiency in Town- and Regional Planning / Gerhard Curdes -- Criteria for Delimitation of Urban Zones, Particularly the Town Centre, and their Application to the City of Zurich / Ulrich Zwingli -- Some Notes on Geographic Data-Banks and the use of Computors in Research / Torsten Hägerstrand -- Geographic Location by a System of Co-Ordinates / Gunnar Staack -- The Characterisation of the Core by Means of Residential Density Variables and Their Relationships / C. B. Winsten and F. F. Savigear -- Visitors’ Records: A Method for Analyzing the Flow of People in the C.B.D. / Wolfgang Hartenstein and Hanns Reiner Iblher -- Reflexions de Methode / Marcel Roncayolo -- The Aim, Implementation and Results of City-Block Research in Amsterdam / G. J. Zuidhoek -- Report of Section 1: The Basic Concepts: Urban Core, Inner City, Central Functions. -- Report of Section 2: Delimitation, Inner Tensions and Shifting of the Urban Core -- Report of Section 3: Static form Versus Dynamic Function -- Report of Section 4: Application of Research Findings to the Planning of Urban Cores. -- Report of Section 5: Methodology and Techniques. -- Impromptu Impressions and Reactions / Allan Pred -- List of Terms Used in the Study of Urban Core and Inner City Problems / Hendrik W. ter Hart -- Back Matter -- Register.

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