| List of plates |
| Acknowledgements |
| Introduction to the Second Edition |
| What Is a City? / Part 1： |
| Introduction |
| 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' / Georg Simmel |
| 'The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project' / Ernest W. Burgess |
| 'What is a City?' / Lewis Mumford |
| 'The Hotel Lobby' / Siegfried Kracauer |
| 'World Cities' / Elizabeth Wilson |
| Plate Section: The Waterfront of Barcelona |
| What Is Culture? / Part 2： |
| 'Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism' / Raymond Williams |
| 'The Affirmative Character of Culture' / Herbert Marcuse |
| 'The Art Museum as Ritual' / Carol Duncan |
| 'Separation Perfected' / Guy Debord |
| 'Globalised Culture: The Triumph of the West?' / John Tomlinson |
| Symbolic Economies / Part 3： |
| 'The Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods' / Pierre Bourdieu |
| 'Opening up Public Art's Spaces: Art, Regeneration and Audience' / Tim Hall |
| 'Fragments of a Metropolitan Viewpoint' / Martha Rosler |
| 'The World in a Shopping Mall' / Margaret Crawford |
| 'Justice, Politics, and the Creation of Urban Space' / Susan Fainstein |
| Plate Section: Capital Arcade / John Goto |
| The Culture Industry / Part 4： |
| 'The Culture Industry Reconsidered' / Theodor W. Adorno |
| 'Reinterpreting Local Culture' / John Urry |
| 'Barcelona: The Making of a Cultural City' / Dianne Dodd |
| 'Difference, Boundaries, Community: The Irish in Britain' / Mary J. Hickman |
| 'Out of Order: The Public Art Machine' / Patricia Phillips |
| Cultures and Technologies / Part 5： |
| 'The City and the Car' / Mimi Sheller |
| 'The Social and Cultural Life of the City' / Stephen Graham ; Simon Marvin |
| 'The People's Radio of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida: Alternative Communication and Cultures of Resistance in Brazil' / Vivian Schelling |
| 'Posthuman Unbounded: Artificial Evolution and High-tech Subcultures' / Tiziana Terranova |
| 'Electronic Civil Disobedience' / Critical Art Ensemble |
| Plate Section: The Pursuit of Happiness and other works by Marjetica Potrc |
| Everyday Lives / Part 6： |
| 'Plan of the Present Work' / Henri Lefebvre |
| 'Railway Navigation and Incarceration' / Michel de Certeau |
| 'Home in the Weeds' / Lucy Lippard |
| 'Tango: A Choreography of Urban Displacement' / Ana Betancour ; Peter Hasdell |
| 'A Performative Critique of the City: The Urban Practice of Skateboarding, 1958-98' / Iain Borden |
| Contesting Identity / Part 7： |
| 'Space, Place and Gender' / Doreen Massey |
| 'Social Movements and the Politics of Difference' / Iris Marion Young |
| 'World Alienation and the Modern Age: The Deprivations of Obscurity' / Kimberley Curtis |
| 'Changing the Public Space: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo' / Suzana Torre |
| 'Re-imagining the Global: Relocation and Local Identities in Cairo' / Farha Ghannam |
| Plate Section: Touch Sanitation by Mierle Laderman Ukeles |
| Boundaries and Transgressions / Part 8： |
| 'The Dirt of Cities, the Aura of Cities, the Smell of the Dead, Utopia of an Odorless City' / Ivan Illich |
| 'Border Crossings' / David Sibley |
| 'Engendering Race Research: Unsettling the Self-Other Dichotomy' / Kay Anderson |
| 'A Chance to Live' / Luce Irigaray |
| 'New Urbanism and its Discontents' / Dean MacCannell |
| Utopias and Dystopias / Part 9： |
| 'The Political Theory of Utopia: From Melancholia to Nostalgia' / Judith Shklar |
| 'Ernst Bloch and the Ubiquity of Utopia' / Vincent Geoghegan |
| 'Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City' / Rosalyn Deutsche |
| 'The Death of Radical Planning: Radical Praxis for a Postmodern Age' / Leonie Sandercock |
| 'Cafe-Extra: Culture, Representation and the Everyday' / Malcolm Miles |
| Plate Section: Ring der Erinnerung by Herman Prigann |
| Possible Futures / Part 10： |
| 'Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form' / Edward Soja |
| 'Environmental Justice and the Sustainable City' / Graham Haughton |
| 'The Urban Poor: An Invisible Resource' / Jeremy Seabrook |
| 'iViva Loisaida Libre!' / Bill Weinberg |
| 'Architecture Co-generated with Poetry, because the Word is Inaugural, it Conveys, it Gives Birth' / Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian |
| Illustration credits |
| Copyright information |
| Index |
| List of plates |
| Acknowledgements |
| Introduction to the Second Edition |
| What Is a City? / Part 1： |
| Introduction |
| 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' / Georg Simmel |
