ABSTRACT
Both the micro-and the macro-structures of the city models which were compared in Chapter 3 are abstract forms, and no city will ever resemble any of them. It is therefore essential to investigate the relevance of these structures for a real city and city region. This chapter examines the existing macro-structure for the city region of Glasgow and attempts to implement the hierarchical composition of the city’s micro-structure in the Glasgow conurbation. One objective of this analytical and generative exercise is to establish whether any of the macro-structural city models investigated have any relevance to a real conurbation with its very specific development pattern and structure. Another objective is to establish to what degree the micro-structure of a sustainable city and city region can be implemented without major structural changes to the conurbation.
