... be seen as a series of interacting systems - systems for living, working and playing - crystallised into built forms. It is by looking at these systems that we can find the face of the city of the future". These systems are not neatly confined to the neighbourhood or even the whole city but operate on a regional, national and global level. Linear urban systems must be transformed into circular systems where waste outputs provide the raw materials for resource inputs, as advocated by a fuel project pioneered in Calcutta. A question now arises of , What will sustainable urban neighbourhoods look like? It is possible to suggest a number of principles: THE PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOOD We argue that, since future cities will be pedestrian based, they will resemble traditional towns which predate the car. As Francis Tibbalds suggests, this means "forgetting the spaced-out buildings of the past few decades, separated from each other ...

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