List of Figures ix // Preface to the Fourth Edition xii // Preface to the Third Edition xhi // 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, Brasilia, London, // St Louis, 1920-1970 // viii // Contents // 8 The City of Sweat Equity The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987 291 // 9 The City on the Highway The Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930-1987 325 // 10 The City of Theory Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987 385 // 11 The City of Enterprise Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-2000 414 // 12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Epoque Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990-2010 443 // 13 The City of the Permanent Underclass The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louis, London, 1920-2011 485 // Bibliography 529 // Index 608