Table of contents

Editorial comment

H. Heineberg German geographical urban morphology in an international and interdisciplinary framework

A. Reeve, B. Goodey and R. Shipley Townscape assessment: the development of a practical tool for monitoring and assessing visual quality in the built environment

G.A. Neglia An interpretation of the urban fabric: the structure of pre-Islamic Aleppo

Viewpoints

M. Berghauser Pont and P. Haupt The relation between urban form and density

M.P. Sobti Stepping outside the comfortable confines of the West

Reports

A. Simms Urban Europe in comparative perspective

G. Gallarati Annual Meeting of CISPUT

E. Camacho-Hübner Nordic and international urban morphology

S. Coady-Schaebitz Townscape and heritage conservation

Book reviews

S. Komossa et al. (2005) Atlas of the Dutch urban block M. Newman

A.R. Cuthbert (2006) The form of cities P. Gaubatz

K. Dupré (2004) Caribbean urban modernization J.D. Coleman

J.A. Jakle and K.A. Sculle (2004) Lots of parking N.A. Salingaros

Book notes

Notes and notices

Elections to ISUF Council

ISUF membership survey

The best urban neighbourhood in Europe

Density inside out

A suburban world?

Visual planning and urbanism in the mid-twentieth century

Ville Recherche Diffusion

Transmitting architecture