Contents:
Introduction
1. The Indian Legacy in the American Landscape
Karl W. Butzer 2. Spanish Legacy in the Borderlands
David Hornbeck 3. the Laws of the Indies
John W. Reps 4. St Augustine, Florida
John W. Reps 5. Mission, Presidio and Pueblo in California
John W. Reps 6. French Landscapes in North America
Cole Harris 7. New Orleans
John W. Reps 8. The Northeast and the Making of American Geographical Habits
Peirce F. Lewis 9. Timber Framing in Colonial America
Carl W. Condit 10. Masonry Construction in Colonial America
Carl W. Condit 11. Chicago: Nature's Metropolis
William Cronon 12. Comparitive Perspectives on Transit in Europe and the United States, 1850-1914
John P. McKay 13. The Trolley and Suburbanization
Kenneth T. Jackson 14. The Revolution in Street Pavements
Clay McShane 15. The Decentralization of Los Angeles during the 1920s
Mark S. Foster 16. The Minimum House
Greg Hise 17. Light, Height, and Site: The Skyscraper in Chicago
Carol Willis 18. Decisions about Wastewater Technology; 1850-1932
Joel Tarr 19. Refuse Pollution and Municipal Reform: The Waste Problem in America, 1880-1917
Martin Melosi 20. "The Best Lighted City in the World": The Construction of a Noctural Landscape in Chicago
Mark J. Bouman 21. Regional Planning for the Great American Metropolis: New York between the World Wars
David A. Johnson 22. Transport: Maker and Breaker of Cities
Colin Clark 23. Order in Diversity: Community without Propinquity
Melvin W. Webber 24. Squaring the Circle: Can We Resolve the Clarkian Paradox?
Peter Hall 25. New Highways
James Martin 26. Telecommunications and the Changing Geographies of Knowledge Transmission in the Late 20th Century
Barney Warf 27. Cities and their Airports: Policy Formation, 1926-1952
Paul Barrett 28. The Growth of the City Ernest W. Burgess 29. Boston's Highway 128: High-Technology Reindustrialization
Manuel Castells and
Peter Hall 30. The Role of Information Technology in the Planning and Development of Singapore
Kenneth E. Corey 31. Continuity and Change in Conceptions of the Wired City
William H. Dutton, Jay G. Blumler and
Kenneth L. Kraemer