Abstract

The urban quarter is a city-within-a-city … it contains the qualities and features of the whole. The urban quarter provides for all the periodic local (daily and weekly) urban functions within a limited piece of land dimensioned on the comfort of a walking citizen, not exceeding 33 hectares in surface and 10,000 inhabitants. Urban functions are zoned block-wise, plot-wise or floor-wise. An urban quarter must have a centre and a well-defined, readable limit. (Krier 1995)