Title page -- Contents -- Word of Welcome -- Introduction -- Research by Design: the urban project -- Papers -- Design interventions as regenerators in historic towns: Proposal for Ayvalik Historic Depots Region -- Design strategies for the urban sprawl -- Creative Destruction -- Performance of Urban Form using the Spacemate© Model -- Architectural models for decentralized hospital buildings. Urban renewal and healthcare services. A design study for Rotterdam Zuid -- Railroads in the urban context. An architectural reading of the metropolitan railways project in the Dutch City -- Underground car parks have been brought into action as key buildings in a strategy of urban re-conquest -- Architecture as a tool to modify behavior in a multicultural society -- Between the strategic and the tactical: research driven projects and project driven researches in Cádiz and Edinburgh -- Istanbul Transforms -- India Imprint Generating Urban Projects within the Framework of an Academic Programme -- Archaeological Athens: Academy, Pnyx, Mouseion -- Strategies in Architectural and Urban Design handling Complexity. On Techniques and Visions -- New approaches to urban form and processes: Retail distribution as indicator -- A network of hospitals examined: Rotterdam 1840-1915 -- Sustainable Housing. Transformationa challenge for architects -- Grunwaldzki Square, Wroclaw. Searching for the spirit -- Improvements to the Urban Block Spaces and their Reconnection to the Adjacent Danube in Novi Sad, Serbia -- 4D Tool for Analyzing, Interpreting and Conceiving Urban Spaces. Moving Collage -- Porto after 2001, perceptions and change -- The roles of key actors in planning process and the production of space. A Case Study of "Villages in the City" in Guangzhou, China -- Engaging the Urban Realm: Designing for Transformation in an Underresourced Community.

"The Net-city". Clusterization and the urban block -- Learning to See our Sainte Victoire Mountain -- The Urban Project on a Regional Scale? -- The Randstad utopia and its spatial reality. Various types of centralities and its contradictions with Dutch planning policies -- New units, scales, and themes in metropolitan urban form -- Defining structures in the urban landscape of the Alpine Rhine Valley -- Urban form and social segregation. A new method to assess attractiveness in urban block types -- Affecting Urban Transformation through Knowledge-Building. The Case of Carnegie Mellon's Urban Laboratory Studio and Remaking Cities Institute -- Understanding urban form in East European Cities -- Residential Skyscrapers -- Coherence, complexity and sobriety as morphological attributes in urban design -- Seeking a New Housing Development Model, or: The Transformation of a Trailer Park in Charlottesville, Virginia -- Changing Niederrad -- Analysis of an Interior Street Building typology -- Darsena as Grande Piazza in South Milan -- Sustainability Of Historical Urban Space and Urban Identity. Isparta City Sample -- Emerging strategies from Latin-American metropolises. Expressions of a minimal approach -- Investigation of the spatial potentials of strategic locations in the city's waterfront. Case Study: Sava Amphitheatre in Belgrade -- Pictorial Strategies -- Production of Space in the Urban Transformation Process (A Typological Research on the Spatial Transformation in Jogjakarta, Indonesia) -- A Critical Look to the Transformation Applications in Traditional City Textures and Close Surrounding -- Konya Turkey -- From Monocentric to Multinuclear Spatial Model. An Analytic Study of Metropolitan Transformation of Beijing City 1949-2008 -- The City of Porto and the Douro River -- Oases of tranquility in Dutch Cities.

In Search of Urbanity for the 21st Century. Urban Landscapes and new nature -- A Typo-morphological Study on Yunnanyi. A Historic Town of China -- From train station to key public transport hub in the city. A study of the transformation of station buildings throughout Europe -- Transforming outskirts into cities -- Authors.