| List of plates |
| Acknowledgements |
| Introduction |
| Prologue |
| "How to Study Cities" / Richard LeGates |
| The Evolution of Cities / Part 1： |
| "The Urbanization of the Human Population" / Kingsley Davis |
| "The Urban Revolution" / V. Gordon Childe |
| "The Polis" / H.D.F. Kitto |
| First-Person Accounts of Great Cities of the Medieval and Early Modern World / Marco Polo ; Ibn Battuta ; Bernal Diaz ; Albrecht Durer |
| "The Great Towns" / Friedrich Engels |
| "The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America" / Kenneth T. Jackson |
| "Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb" / Robert Fishman |
| Plate Section: The Evolution of Cities |
| Urban Culture and Society / Part 2： |
| "What Is a City?" / Lewis Mumford |
| "Urbanism as a Way of Life" / Louis Wirth |
| "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" / Robert D. Putnam |
| "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" / Jane Jacobs |
| "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice" / W.E.B. Du Bois |
| "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos" / William Julius Wilson |
| "Whose Culture? Whose City?" / Sharon Zukin |
| "Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture" / Frederic Stout |
| Plate Section: Visions of a New Reality |
| Urban Space / Part 3： |
| "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" / Ernest W. Burgess |
| "The Almost Perfect Town" / John Brinckerhoff Jackson |
| "The Islamic City: Historic Myths, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance" / Janet Abu-Lughod |
| "Social Exclusion and Space" / Ali Madanipour |
| "Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography" / Edward Soja |
| "Fortress L.A." / Mike Davis |
| "The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor" / Andres Duany ; Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk |
| "The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities" / Saskia Sassen |
| Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics / Part 4： |
| "Contested Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form" / David Harvey |
| "How to Study Urban Political Power" / John Mollenkopf |
| "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" / Sherry Arnstein |
| "The Need for a New Vision for the Development of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas" / Anthony Downs |
| "Broken Windows" / James Q. Wilson ; George L. Kelling |
| "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City" / Michael Porter |
| "The Center Cannot Hold" / Michael Sorkin |
| Plate Section: Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban Space |
| Urban Planning History and Visions / Part 5： |
| "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" / Frederick Law Olmsted |
| "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" / Ebenezer Howard |
| "A Contemporary City" / Le Corbusier |
| "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan" / Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "Designing the Region" and "Designing the Region Is Designing the Neighborhood" / Peter Calthorpe ; William Fulton |
| Urban Planning Theory and Practice / Part 6： |
| "The City of Theory" / Peter Hall |
| "Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree" / Edward J. Kaiser ; David R. Godschalk |
| "Planning in the Face of Conflict" / John Forester |
| "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning" / Paul Davidoff |
| "Green Urbanism and the Lessons of European Cities: 'The Vision of Green Urbanism' and 'Creating Green and Sustainable Cities in the United States: Lessons from Europe'" / Timothy Beatley |
| Plate Section: Urban Planning |
| Perspectives on Urban Design / Part 7： |
| "Author's Introduction," "The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares," and "The Enclosed Character of the Public Square" / Camillo Sitte |
| "The City Image and its Elements" / Kevin Lynch |
| "The Design of Spaces" / William H. Whyte |
| "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto" / Allan Jacobs ; Donald Appleyard |
| "What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work" / Dolores Hayden |
| The Future of the City / Part 8： |
| "The Post-City Age" / Melvin M. Webber |
| "European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy" / Manuel Castells |
| "Planning Sustainable and Livable Cities" / Stephen Wheeler |
| "The Teleserviced City" / William J. Mitchell |
| Illustration credits |
| Copyright information |
| Index |
| List of plates |
| Acknowledgements |
| Introduction |
| Prologue |
| "How to Study Cities" / Richard LeGates |
| The Evolution of Cities / Part 1： |
