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 |