Perényi Imre: Town Centres. Planning and Renewal

To solve the problems of overcrowding, traffic disruption and functional obsolescence in town centres is an urgent issue.
The book deals with the creation of the town centres of new towns and of the reconstruction of existing ones. Among others it treats the following questions: historical development of urbanization, its situation today; the role of town centres, its changing importance; location, structure and planning of town centres in new towns; reconstruction of existing town centres; protection of historical town centres; creation of the centre system of metropoles; development of the Hungarian town network.
The work will be of value to engineers, sociologists, economists, hygienists, garden architects, traffic engineers and others.