Old ways: the local road-building regime in late-nineteenth-century New York -- New ways: the emergence of a subfederal road-building regime, 1898-1919 -- Highways: state-centered bureaucracy and the elevation of engineer-administrators, 1919-1930 -- Clearing the way: depression, war, and the...

Preliminary arguments : culture, economy, and the city -- Origins and early growth of the Hollywood motion picture industry -- A new map of Hollywood -- The other Hollywood : television program production -- Dream factories : studios, soundstages, and sets -- The digital visual effects industry...

Malthusianism, eugenics, and carrying capacity in the interwar period -- War and nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the birth of global ecology -- Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life -- "Feed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier...