Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The fifth edition of the highly successful City Readerjuxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new contributions by experts including Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry, Daphne Spain, Nigel Taylor, Samuel Bass Warner, and others - some of which have been newly written exclusively for The City Reader. Classic writings from Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Louis Wirth, meet the best contemporary writings of Sir Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Kenneth Jackson.

This edition of TheCity Reader has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as sustainable urban development, climate change, globalization, and the impact of technology on cities. The plate sections have been extensively revised and expanded and a new plate section on global cities has been added.

The anthology features general and section introductions and introductions to the selected articles. New to the fifth edition is a bibliography listing over 100 of the top books for those studying Cities.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part 1 The Evolution of Cities
• Introduction
• 1 The Urbanization of the Human Population"
• 2 "The Urban Revolution"
• 3 The Polis"
• 4 "The Great Towns"
• 5 "U.S. Urban History"
• 6 "The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America"
• 7 "Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb" Plate
• Section 1 The Evolution of Cities
• Part 2 Urban Culture and Society
• Introduction
• 8 "What is a City?"
• 9 "Urbanism as a Way of Life"
• 10 "The Use of Sidewalks: Safety"
• 11 "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice"
• 12 "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos"
• 13 "Decent and Street Families"
• 14 "Bowling Alone"
• 15 "The Creative Class"
• 16 "Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture" Plate
• Section 2 Visions of a New Reality
• Part 3 Urban Space
• Introduction
• 17 "The Growth of the City"
• 18 "The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An Intellectual History"
• 19 "What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles"
• 20 "Social Exclusion and Space"
• 21 "Fortress L.A."
• 22 "The Almost Perfect Town"
• 23 "The Causes of Sprawl"
• Part 4 Urban Politics, Governance and Economics
• Introduction
• 24 "Contested Cities: Social Processes and Spatial Form"
• 25 "A Ladder of Citizen Participation"
• 26 "The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place"
• 27 "Broken Windows"
• 28 "The City as Distorted Price System"
• 29 "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City"
• 30 "Metropolitics" Plate
• Section 3 Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban Space
• Part 5 Urban Planning History and Visions
• Introduction
• 31 "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"
• 32 "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"
• 33 "A Contemporary City"
• 34 "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"
• 35 World Commission on Environment & Development "Towards Sustainable Development"
• 36 Congress of the New Urbanism "Charter of the New Urbanism"
• 37 "Designing the Region" and "Designing the Region is Designing the Neighborhood"
• Part 6 Urban Planning Thoery and Practice
• Introduction
• 38 "The City of Theory"
• 39 "Anglo-American Town Planning Theory Since 1945: Three Significant Developments but no Paradigm Shifts"
• 40 "Twentieth-Century Land Use Planning"
• 41 "Planning in the Face of Conflict"
• 42 "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning"
• 43 "Planning for Sustainability in European Cities"
• 44 "Urban Planning and Global Climate Change"
• Part 7 Perspectives on Urban Design
• Introduction
• 45 "Author's Introduction," "The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares," and "The Enclosed Character of the Public Square"
• 46 "The Neighborhood Unit"
• 47 "The City Image and Its Elements"
• 48 "The Design of Spaces"
• 49 "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto"
• 50 "Three Types of Outdoor Activities", "Life Between Buildings", and "Outdoor Activities and the Quality of Outdoor Space" Plate
• Section 4 Urban Planning and Urban Design
• Part 8 Cities in a Global Society
• Introduction
• 51 "The Post City Age"
• 52 "The Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Cities"
• 53 "World City Network"
• 54 "The Space of Flows"
• 55 UN Habitat "The Challenge of Slums"
• 56 "Chinese Cities in a Global Society"
• 57 "The Globalization Debates" Plate
• Section 5 Cities in a Global Society