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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• COMMENTS ON THE CITY READER
• Contents
• List of plates
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• PROLOGUE: “HOW TO STUDY CITIES”
• PART 1 THE EVOLUTION OF CITIES
• Introduction
• “The Urbanization of the Human Population”
• “The Urban Revolution”
• “The Realisation of Democracy: Athens”
• “City Origins” and “Cities and European Civilization”
• “The Great Towns”
• “Urbanity versus Suburbanity: France and the United States”
• “The Automobile, the City, and the New Urban Mobilities”
• “Global City Network”
• Plate Section 1: The Evolution of Cities
• PART 2 URBAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
• Introduction
• “The Urban Drama”
• “Urbanism as a Way of Life”
• “The Negro Problems of Philadelphia,” “The Question of Earning a Living,” and “Color Prejudice”
• “The Code of the Street” and “Decent and Street Families”
• “Spicing the City”
• “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital”
• “The City as Innovation Machine”
• “The City That Lost Its Soul”
• PART 3 URBAN SPACE
• Introduction
• “The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project”
• “The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety”
• “Gender and Urban Space”
• “Social Exclusion, Space, and Time”
• “Bright vs. Blurred Boundaries: Second-generation Assimilation and Exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States”
• “The Causes of Sprawl”
• “Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age”
• “European Space and Spatial Policy”
• Plate Section 2: Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban Space
• PART 4 URBAN POLITICS, GOVERNANCE, AND ECONOMICS
• Introduction
• Selections from Politics
• “The Right to the City”
• “A Ladder of Citizen Participation”
• “Reflections on Regime Politics: From Governing Coalition to Urban Political Order”
• “The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City”
• “The City as a Growth Machine: Towards a Political Economy of Place”
• “The City as a Distorted Price System”
• “Metropolitics and Fiscal Equity”
• PART 5 URBAN PLANNING HISTORY AND VISIONS
• Introduction
• “Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns”
• “Author’s Introduction” and “The Town–Country Magnet”
• “A Contemporary City”
• “Broadacre City: A New Community Plan”
• “Towards Sustainable Development”
• “The Charter of the New Urbanism”
• “Green Manhattan: Everywhere Should Be More Like New York”
• “The Almost Perfect Town”
• PART 6 URBAN PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE
• Introduction
• “The City of Theory”
• “The Uses of Planning Theory”
• “Planning in the Face of Conflict”
• “Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning”
• “Resilient Cities: Clarifying Concept or Catch-all Cliché?”
• “The Smart City”
• “Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search for the Global Cultural Commons”
• “Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe’s Central Urban Issues”
• PART 7 URBAN DESIGN AND PLACEMAKING
• Introduction
• “What is Placemaking?”
• “The Design of Spaces”
• “The Neighborhood Unit”
• “The City Image and its Elements”
• “Toward an Urban Design Manifesto”
• Selections from Life Between Buildings
• Plate Section 3: Urban Planning and Urban Design
• PART 8 URBAN FUTURES AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES
• Introduction
• “The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities”
• “Chinese Cities in a Global Society”
• “Key Findings and Messages”
• “The Place Where Everything Changes”
• Selections from Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
• “Making Room for a Planet of Cities”
• “World Cities, or a World of Ordinary Cities?”
• “Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words”
• “From Global Cities to Globalized Urbanization”
• Plate Section 4: Cities in a Global Society
• Illustration credits
• Copyright information
• Index