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| Preface | |
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| Urban America in the Colonial Age, 1600-1776 | |
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| Urban Beginnings | |
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| Problems of Growth | |
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| The Social Mosaic | |
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| Cities in the American Revolution | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Commercialization and Urban Expansion in the New Nation, 1776-1860 | |
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| The Commercial Revolution | |
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| Westward Expansion | |
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| Beginnings of Urban Industrialism | |
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| Societal Effects of Economic Change | |
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| Servicing the City | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Life in the Walking City, 1820-1860 | |
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| The Walking City | |
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| Social Complexity and Contested Terrain | |
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| Cities and the Civil War | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Industrialization and the Transformation of Urban Space, 1850-1920 | |
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| The Growth of Mass Transit | |
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| Spatial Segregation and the Beginning of Urban Sprawl | |
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| The Quickening Pace of Industrialization | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Newcomers and the Urban Core, 1850-1920 | |
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| Migration, Old and New | |
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| Housing and Health | |
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| Coping with Inner-City Life | |
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| Patterns of Social Mobility | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| City Politics in the Era of Transformation | |
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| Origins of the Machine | |
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| Structure and Functions of the Machine | |
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| Some Notable Cases | |
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| City Governance and Municipal Reform | |
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| Goals and Tactics of Municipal Reform | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Refashioning the Social and Physical Environment | |
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| Impulses of Social Reform | |
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| Remedies of Social Reformers | |
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| Planning and Engineering the City | |
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| Reform Becomes Progressivism | |
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| The Rise of Urban Liberalism | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Cities in an Age of Metropolitanism: The 1920s and 1930s | |
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| New Urban Growth | |
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| Suburbanization and Metropolitanism | |
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| Cities and Consumer Culture | |
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| Cities as a Cultural Battleground | |
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| Urban Politics in the 1920s | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| Political and Social Life in the 1930s | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Politics of Growth in the Era of Suburbanization, 1941-1974 | |
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| The Impact of World War II on Cities | |
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| Spatial Patterns of Postwar Growth | |
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| Reshaping Downtown: Progrowth Coalitions, Urban Renewal, and Their Consequences | |
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| Currents of Protest | |
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| New Political Alignments | |
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| New Suburban Realignments | |
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| Signposts of Change | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Fate of the Modern American City | |
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| Fiscal Crisis and the Uncertainty of Federal Urban Policy | |
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| Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Neglect as a Panacea | |
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| The Clinton Years: Further Neglect | |
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| The Social Costs of Widening Income Inequality and Urban Neglect | |
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| New Urban Neighbors | |
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| Edge City and Inner City | |
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| Into the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Note | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |