What is suburbia? : naming the layers in the landscape, 1820-2000 / Dolores Hayden -- How they lost their way in San Jose : the capital of Silicon Valley as a case study of postwar sprawl / Glenna Matthews -- Electronic cottages, wired neighborhoods, and smart cities / William J. Mitchell -- How...

Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation,...

Cities are green is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change. In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with...

Introduction : city prospects, city policies / Robert P. Inman -- The city economy : the death and life of cities / Edward L. Glaeser -- Transportation : urban transportation policy / Kenneth A. Small -- Space : the design of the urban environment / Witold Rybczynski -- Housing : urban housing...