ABSTRACT
A rapid transformation is currently overtaking advanced industrial cities. As we approach the verge of a new millennium, old ideas and assumptions about the development, planning and management of the modern, industrial city seem less and less useful. Accepted notions about the nature of space, time, distance and the processes of urban life are similarly under question. The boundaries separating what is private and what is public within cities are shifting fast. Urban life seems more volatile and speeded up, more uncertain, more fragmented and more bewildering than at any time since the end of the last century.
