Abstract
Urban areas in Europe have been studied by geo-scientists since the 1920s. More recently, a renewed interest in the environment and infrastructure has focused attention on the geoscientific conditions of urban areas again. In order to check the state-of-the-art of geoscientific knowledge and of geo-problems in major Western European cities, a survey was held among workers from all the Geological Surveys affiliated to the Western European Geological Surveys (WEGS). The results of this survey are presented in this paper. These are compared with the preliminary results of the Geo-Environmental Problem Inquiry (GEPI) for the urbanized areas in the pilot area in Central and Eastern Europe. An International Working Group on Urban Geology, created in 1992, is organizing various major symposia.
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