ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the principles of sustainable city planning in relation to landform, water, vegetation, eco-building and land use. It uses a number of examples to illustrate the view that although there is considerable public and political support for making cities more sustainable, surprisingly little has been done towards that end. In particular, the chapter discusses the case of the Greenwich Peninsula which is a large sector of London designed and partly built in the 1990s. Government departments, Greenwich Council and the design teams have boasted that development of this area was based on a new sustainable approach and this claim is reviewed and evaluated.
