Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Urbanization of the Human Population" Scientific American (1965) / Kingsley Davis 3 -- 1 Evolution of Cities -- "The Urban Revolution" Town Planning Review (1950) / V. Gordon Childe 22 -- "The Polis" from The Greeks (1951) / H.D.F. Kitto 31 -- "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" from Medieval Cities (1925) / Henri Pirenne 37 -- "The Great Towns" from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845) / Friedrich Engels 46 -- "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living" and "Color Prejudice" from The Philadelphia Negro (1899) / W.E.B. Du Bois 56 -- "Levittown and America" from The Levittowners (1967) / Herbert J. Gans 63 -- "The Megalopolis: 1920-" from The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City (1972) / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. 69 -- "Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb" from Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987) / Robert Fishman 77 -- Plate Section: The Evolution of Cities -- 2 Urban Culture and Society -- "What Is a City" Architectural Record (1937) / Lewis Mumford 92 -- "Urbanism as a Way of Life" American Journal of Sociology (1938) / Louis Wirth 97 -- "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" from The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) / Jane Jacobs 106 -- "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos" from When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996) / William Julius Wilson 112 -- "Choosing a Future" from Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (1984) / Charles Murray 122 -- "Whose Culture? Whose City?" from The Cultures of Cities (1995) / Sharon Zukin 131 -- "Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture" (1999) / Frederic Stout 143 -- Plate Section: Visions of a New Reality -- 3 Urban Space -- "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" from Robert Park et al., The City (1925) / Ernest W. Burgess 153 -- "The Almost Perfect Town" Landscape (1952) / John Brinckerhoff Jackson 162 -- "The New Downtown" from City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995) / Witold Rybczynski 170 -- "Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography" from Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989) / Edward Soja 180 -- "Fortress L.A." from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990) / Mike Davis 193 -- "Social Justice, Postmodernism, and the City" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (1992) / David Harvey 199 -- "A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications" from Cities in a World Economy (1994) / Saskia Sassen 208 -- 4 Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics -- "How to Study Urban Political Power" from A Phoenix in the Asbes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics (1992) / John Mollenkopf 219 -- "Post-Fordist City Politics" from Ash Amin (ed.), Post Fordism: A Reader (1994) / Margit Mayer 229 -- "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1969) / Sherry Arnstein 240 -- "Broken Windows" Atlantic Monthly (1982) / James Q. Wilson, George L. Kelling 253 -- "Cities and Uneven Economic Development" from Urban Sociology, Capitalism, and Modernity (1993) / Mike Savage, Alan Warde 264 -- "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City" Harvard Business Review (1995) / Michael E. Porter 278 -- 5 Urban Planning History and Visions -- "Modernism and Early Urban Planning, 1870-1940" from Early Urban Planning, 1870-1940 (1998) / Richard T. Legates, Frederic Stout 299 -- "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" American Social Science Association (1870) / Frederick Law Olmsted 314 -- "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" from Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898) / Ebenezer Howard 321 -- "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" from Cities in Evolution (1915) / Patrick9 Geddes 330 -- "A Contemporary City" from The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning (1929) / Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) 336 -- "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan" Architectural Record (1935) / Frank Lloyd Wright 344 -- "The Pedestrian Pocket" from Doug Kelbaugh (ed.), The Pedestrian Pocket Book (1989) / Peter Calthorpe 350 -- 6 Urban Planning Theory and Practice -- "The City of Theory" from Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (1996) / Peter Hall 362 -- "Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree" American Planning Association Journal (1995) / Edward J. Kaiser, David R. Godschalk 375 -- "A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning" and "Ingredients of Success" from The American City: What Works, What Doesn't (1996) / Alexander Garvin 396 -- "Planning in the Face of Conflict" American Planning Association Journal (1987) / John Forester 410 -- "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning" Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1965) / Paul Davidoff 423 -- "Planning Sustainable and Livable Cites" (1998) / Stephen Wheeler 434 -- "A Gender Agenda: New Directions for Planning Theory" American Planning Association Journal (1992) / Leonie Sander Cock, Ann Forsyth 446 -- Plate Section: Urban Planning -- 7 Perspectives on Urban Design -- "Author's Introduction," "The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares," and "The Enclosed Character of the Public Square" from The Art of Building Cities (1889) / Camillo Sitte 466 -- "The City Image and its Elements" from The Image of the City (1960) / Kevin Lynch 478 -- "The Design of Spaces" from City: Rediscovering the Center (1988) / William H. Whyte 483 -- "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto" American Planning Association Journal (1987) / Allan Jacobs, Donald Appleyard 491 -- "What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work" from Catharine R. Stimpson et al. (eds.), Women and the American City (1981) / Dolores Hayden 503 -- "An Introduction to Ecological Design" from Ecological Design (1995) / Sym Van Der Ryn, Stuart Cowan 519 -- 8 Future of the City -- "The Post-City Age" Daedalus (1968) / Melvin M. Webber 535 -- "Arcology: The City in the Image of Man" and "The Characteristics of Arcology" from Arcology: The City in the Image of Man (1969) / Paolo Soleri 540 -- "The Need for a New Vision for the Development of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas" Saloman Brothers (1989) / Anthony Downs 545 -- "European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy" Journal of Economic and Social Geography (1993) / Manuel Castells 557 -- "The Transformation of Cities: Towards Planetary Urban Networks" and "Telecommunications and Urban Futures" from Telecommunications and the City (1996) / Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin 568 -- "The Future Urban World" from Urban World/Global City (1996) / David Clark 579.