Essay produced for one of the theory modules of the MA course at the JCUD, Oxford Brookes.
This essay examines whether Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter’s Collage City (1975 and 1978), produced at that time, and which was critically acknowledged to have influenced the body of thinking and practice, was mere midwife to the birth of a new era or also mother to the subsequent outworking of the new era some 30 years later. This is done by distilling the themes from the writing and seeing if they have any relevance in critically appraising the author’s submission for the Issues II module of the JCUD MA course in Urban Design (Kassanis, 2006) as an example of a contemporary effort to address to current urban design issues.
