List of Figures ix
Preface to the Fourth Edition xii
Preface to the Third Edition xiii
Preface to the First Edition xv
1 Cities of Imagination 1
Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880–1987
2 The City of Dreadful Night 12
Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880–1900
3 The City of By-Pass Variegated 49
The Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900–1940
4 The City in the Garden 90
The Garden-City Solution: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900–1940
5 The City in the Region 149
The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900–1940
6 The City of Monuments 202
The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900–1945
7 The City of Towers 237
The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris, Chandigarh, Brasília, London, St Louis, 1920–1970
8 The City of Sweat Equity 291
The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890–1987
9 The City on the Highway 325
The Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930–1987
10 The City of Theory 385
Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955–1987
11 The City of Enterprise 414
Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975–2000
12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Époque 443
Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990–2010
13 The City of the Permanent Underclass 485
The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louis, London, 1920–2011
Bibliography 529
Index 608
