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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".