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3 A park grows in Brooklyn. (Courtesy of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates)
7 An unexpected urban pastime: kayaking in the East River. (Courtesy of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates)
15 Charles Mulford Robinson, godfather of the City Beautiful movement, c. 1915. (Box FAC—4, folder FAC—4 ROB—ROE, Negative 4062, RS: 39/2/22, courtesy of University of Illinois Archives)
20 The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 showed Americans their urban future. (Photograph by Brown Brothers. This image is in the public domain.)
21 The era of civic landmarks: Union Station in Washington, D.C. (This image is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the U.S. federal government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105, of the U.S. Code.)
26 The era of civic landmarks: The New York Public Library. (Photograph by Ken Thomas. This image is in the public domain.)
31 Sir Ebenezer Howard, inventor of the Garden City.
32 The model Garden City suburb: Hampstead Garden Suburb, near London, c. 1909. (University of Pennsylvania, Fine Arts Image Collection)
35 A garden suburb in the city: Station Square, Forest Hills Gardens, in New York. (Photograph by author)
44 The Voisin Plan remade Paris in a new image. (University of Pennsylvania, Fine Arts Image Collection)
47 Le Corbusier with a model of his Radiant City, c. 1930. (Associated Press)
59 Jane Jacobs in 1962, the year after she published The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (Associated Press)
62 Lewis Mumford, whose views on urbanism clashed with those of Jane Jacobs. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)
73 Broadacre City was a vision of a highly decentralized urban future, with private flying machines and strip malls. (© 2010 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY)
75 Frank Lloyd Wright at eighty-four. (Photograph by Al Ravenna. This image is in the public domain.)
86 The garden suburb returns as New Urbanism in a planned community in Orlando, Florida. (Photograph by author)
95 Burlington Arcade in London, an early example of urban design created by entrepreneurship. (Andrew Dunn, photographer. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.)
102 A ubiquitous big-box store in Shenzhen, China. (Hwang Xiheng, photographer. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.)
109 People, sidewalks, and cars in a planned downtown in Reston, Virginia. (Photograph by author)
117 Burnham’s Plan of Chicago made the river an integral part of the city. (University of Pennsylvania, Fine Arts Image Collection)
121 Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco introduced a new urban-renewal formula: rehabilitated waterfront buildings + commerce + tourism = downtown activity. (University of Pennsylvania, Fine Arts Image Collection)
123 Urban infrastructure transformed into a recreation site in San Antonio’s secluded Paseo del Rio. (Photograph by Matt Harriger. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.)
134 An architectural icon as the catalyst for urban renewal. (Photograph by Phillip Maiwald. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0.)
139 The Bilbao Effect failed to work its magic at the Bellevue Arts Museum. (Photograph by Gary Minnaert. This image is in the public domain.)
143 The 2002 Cooper, Robertson study established the main urban-design parameters for the World Trade Center site. (Courtesy of Cooper, Robertson & Partners)
152 The attraction of water at the esplanade in Battery Park City, New York. (Alistair McMillan, photographer. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.)
153 In Stapleton, Denver, traditional main-street activities animate a new neighborhood center. (Photograph by author)
156 New development restores old buildings, adds new ones, and creates waterside public parks at the Yards in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy Forest City Washington)
159 Mixing apartment and office buildings with ground-floor retail contributes to urban vitality. (Courtesy Forest City Washington)
172 Wilderness areas as urban amenities: the Wenatchee Mountains and Wenatchee, Washington. (Jennifer Gottwald, photographer. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.)
173 The attractions of the small city in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.)
192 The new city of Modi’in is a model for urban densification. (Photograph by Doron Gahali and Pascal Partouche of “sky-view.” Courtesy of Moshe Safdie & Associates.)
193 Modern housing along a traditional street. (Photograph by author)
194 The town center, which is a cross between a shopping mall and a bazaar, includes an outdoor market and a community theater. (Photograph by author)