INDEX

Adams, Henry, 131

Adams, John Quincy, 88

African-Americans, 68, 85, 107–108, 113, 157, 170–72, 176

urban migration, 170–72, 200

African cities, 40, 44, 45, 83n., 85, 111

Agriculture, 83n., 113

colonial, 52, 53, 78

sharecropping, 170–71

Airports, 27, 32, 138, 201, 208, 228

Albany, N.Y., 87, 105

Alexandria, Va., 69, 72, 74, 76, 131

American cities. See city planning, American specific cities

American Civic Association, 136

American Civil Liberties Union, 167n., 208–209

American Institute of Architects, 136

Amsterdam, 64, 65, 72, 83, 100, 116

Amusement parks, 154–55, 211

Anderson, Pierce, 137, 138

Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio, 221

Annapolis, Md., 69–72, 76, 82, 103–105, 112, 235

Apartment buildings, 82, 120, 151, 164, 224

high-rise public housing, 164–70

New York, 154 and n., 159

Parisian, 151–52 and n., 154

Architecture. See city planning, American specific architects, buildings, cities, periods, and styles

Aristocracy, 20–24, 48, 65, 74, 101, 107

Aristotle, 36–37, 93, 220

Arizona, 55

Art Deco, 28, 138, 155

Art Nouveau, 151

Arts and Crafts style, 185, 204

Asian cities, 39–45, 83n., 113. See also specific cities

Athens, 37, 47

Atlanta, 45, 229

Atterbury, Grosvenor, 189–90, 196

Atwood, Charles B., 128

Australia, 43, 202

Automobiles, 32, 34, 77, 97, 109, 112, 145 and n., 173, 189

city, 46–47, 162, 202–207

mass ownership of, 145n., 162, 189–93, 200–207, 230, 233

suburban, 189–95

Baltimore, 11, 96, 104, 105, 115, 139, 170, 172, 204, 215, 226

Barnett, Henrietta, 184

Baroque design, 48–49, 69, 103, 149

Bartram, William, 54–55

Battery Park, New York, 107, 215

Beaumont de la Bonninière, Gustave-Auguste de, 84–86, 93, 96–98, 111

Beautification, urban, 101–109, 122–24, 131–48, 159–60

Beeby, Thomas, 168

Behrens, Peter, 139

Bennett, Edward H., 141–48, 151

Berkeley, Ca., 140, 177, 179

Berlin, 27, 43, 46, 61, 65, 100, 105, 142

Binford, Henry, 175

Bluestone, Daniel, 122–23

Boston, 66, 68, 87, 105, 116, 117, 156, 230

city planning, 64, 66, 98, 102, 124, 178

nineteenth-century, 178–79

population, 64, 115, 121, 175, 226

shopping malls, 215

suburbs, 175, 178–79

Branch, Mark Alden, 191–92

Braudel, Fernand, 47–50, 105, 114, 174, 235

British Columbia, 36, 105n.

Broadacre City, 229–30, 233

Brooklyn, N.Y., 94, 124, 125, 165n., 175, 177

Brunner, Arnold, 136–37

Buffalo, N.Y., 18, 30, 40, 57n., 87, 115, 124

Pan-American Exposition (1901), 138

Burgs, 37, 48, 53

Burnham, Daniel, 119, 122, 127–28, 132–38, 141–48, 152–53, 155, 162, 232

Plan of Chicago, 136, 141–48

Burnham Brothers, Inc., 147

Bushman, Richard L., 108

Cable cars, 117–18

Cabrini-Green, Chicago, 164–70, 196

California, 58, 205, 209, 213

Calthorpe, Peter, 231

Cambridge, Mass., 66–67, 177, 208

Canada, 11, 20, 23–27, 29, 36, 57, 59, 97, 105n., 190, 202, 207, 213, 219, 220, 225, 226, 231

French colonization in, 59–64. See also specific cities

Canals, 46, 47, 64, 99

Capital cities, 38, 40, 43, 104, 134–35, 143

American and European, compared, 104–105 and n.

Capitol, Washington, D.C., 95–97, 134

Carolina, 52, 54, 68, 78

Carrère, John, 132

Cathedral towns, 38, 80

Central cities and metro areas, relationship between, 224–33

Central Park, New York, 81, 99, 124, 125, 154

Champlain, Samuel de, 59

Champs-Elysées, Paris, 24, 25, 145, 146

Charleston, S.C., 64, 80, 82, 97, 223, 230

city planning, 68, 76, 77, 95

Chestnut Hill, Pa., 185–91, 223–24

Chicago, 11, 29, 38n., 40, 57n., 81, 110–30, 139, 151, 156, 170, 227, 228

Burnham plan (1909), 136, 141–48

city planning, 45, 76, 106, 110–11, 115–32, 136, 138, 141–48, 164–70, 234

civic beautification, 138, 141–48, 160, 162

Columbian Exposition (1893), 127–32, 133, 137, 138, 151–52, 167

fire of 1871, 116–17, 234

growth of, 115–21, 175–76

nineteenth-century, 110–11, 115–32

parks, 124–26, 141–43, 145

population, 111, 115, 116, 121, 175–76, 226

public housing, 164–70

skyscrapers, 110–11, 115, 118–20, 123–24, 126, 143–48, 153

suburbs, 175–76, 182–83, 190, 204–205, 207

transportation, 117–20, 130, 141–43, 145

twentieth-century, 141–48, 154, 155, 160, 164–70, 175–76

Chicago Tribune Cabrini-Green competition, 167–69

China, 39, 43, 48, 83n.

Chrysler Building, New York, 155

Cincinnati, 28, 87, 172

city planning, 45, 93–94 and n., 95

population, 93–94, 115

suburbs, 188–89

City, definition of, 36–38 and n., 39, 79, 113, 176

City Beautiful movement, 136 and n., 137–48, 152, 153, 160, 165

City planning, American: civic beautification movement, 131–48, 162

colonial, 51–83, 101–103, 113, 129

downtown, 73–74, 90–92, 115–24, 143–48, 163–64, 197–217, 228, 230–32

European cities compared to, 15–27, 61, 64–65, 69, 78–83, 101, 104–107, 113, 120–22, 129, 132–33, 144, 145, 149–53, 193, 211–15

future of, 230–35

metro area and central cities, compared, 224–33

Native America, 52–57, 81

nineteenth-century, 84–109, 110–30, 131–48, 178–79, 199–200

and politics, 19–22, 44–45, 48–49, 65, 101, 104–105, 117, 122, 136, 147–48, 158, 160–72, 209–10, 226

and population, 36–42, 63–64, 75, 100,. 111–15, 220, 223–28

street layouts, 42–47, 50, 66–67, 72–76, 81–82, 106, 162, 188

suburbs, 173–96

twentieth-century, 27–34, 140–48, 153–72, 173–217, 218–35

urban renewal, 160–72. See also specific cities

Civic art, 131–48, 162, 196

Civic centers, 136–37, 141–42, 160

Civil War, 77, 116

Classicism, 128–29, 132–34, 139–41, 155, 157

Cleveland, 76, 106, 115, 121, 136–38, 144, 170, 172, 189, 226

Cobb, Henry Ives, 128

Code, building, 146–47

Codman, Henry Sargent, 127

Colonial Revival, 129

Colonial urbanization, 44, 51–83, 101–103, 113, 129

Colorado, 55, 209, 222

Columbian Exposition (1893, Chicago), 127–32, 133, 137, 138, 151–52, 167

Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, 99, 106

Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), 158, 192

Congress, 95, 96, 143, 160

Connecticut, 66, 67, 87, 105, 174, 177, 191–92, 209

Corbusier, Le, 156–59, 164, 173–77, 192, 229, 232

Voison Plan, 157–59

When the Cathedrals Were White, 156–57, 174

Country and town, relationship between, 47–49, 113–14, 127, 177–78, 219–29

Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, 204–205, 215

Country houses, 113–14, 173–96

Cram, Ralph Adams, 139

Cret, Paul Philippe, 189, 190

Crime, 18–19, 29, 31

nineteenth-century, 108 and n 109

twentieth-century, 156n., 166–67, 192, 200, 223

Crystal Palace Exhibition (1853, New York), 118, 215

Culture, urban, 40, 41, 50, 111–13, 149

civic art movement, 131–48

nineteenth-century, 102–107, 112–15, 122–23, 131–48

twentieth-century, 148, 154, 157, 164, 172, 217

Dallas, 32, 134, 135, 233

Davis, Alexander, 180–81

Défense, La, Paris, 21, 22, 24

Deindustrialization, 172, 199, 200

Democracy, 47, 80, 86, 90, 93, 101–102, 106–107

Denver, 81, 134, 135, 137

Depression, 155, 159–60, 194, 200, 206

Detroit, 30, 41, 57, 62 and n., 65, 76, 97, 115, 154, 156, 170, 172, 206, 226

Disease, urban, 96–97, 100, 125

Domesticity: colonial ideal of, 81–83

nineteenth-century, 102–103

Downing, Andrew Jackson, 181

Downtown, commercial, 66, 73–74, 76, 90–92, 115–24, 132, 143–48, 154, 163–64, 179, 197–217, 228, 230–32

decline of, 197–201

shopping mall replacement of, 207–17

Duany, Andres, 230, 231

Duhring, H. Louis, 187 and n.

Dutch colonization, 64, 82–83

Economy, 29, 30, 57, 73, 114, 222

and architecture, 30, 48, 148, 162

nineteenth-century, 99

and population, 39–42, 114

twentieth-century, 148, 161–62, 171–72, 200–201, 214

Edison, Thomas Alva, 117, 180

Eiffel Tower, Paris, 26–27, 144, 151

Electricity, 117–18, 123, 130, 151, 152, 178, 199

Elevator, 118–19

Ellicott, Andrew, 96

Emery, Mary M., 189

Empire State Building, New York, 155, 158

English cottage style, 181, 187

Edge cities, 229

European cities, 12, 15–27, 33, 113, 230

American cities compared to, 15–27, 61, 64–65, 69, 78–83, 101, 104–107, 113, 120–22, 129, 132–33, 144, 145, 149–53, 193, 211–15

early history of 36–43, 47–50, 53–54, 64–66, 78–83, 149

nineteenth-century Paris, 149–52 and n.;

parks, 124–25

population, 36–42

postwar, 202, 212 and n., 225, 227. See also specific cities

Evelyn, John, 66

Expositions, 118, 127–33, 138–39, 151–52

Eyre, Wilson, 189, 190

Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 126, 135

Farmers Markets, 205–206

Faubourg, 60, 63

Faulkner, Don, 168–69

Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956), 160–61

Federal style, 103, 129

Ferguson, Frank W., 139

Fires, urban, 66, 78, 101, 116–17, 120 and n., 135, 143, 234

Fishman, Robert, 175

Fitch, James Marston, 129–30

Flatiron Building, New York, 153

Florence, 48, 53, 54

Florida, 41–42, 53, 54, 57–58, 231

Food, 19, 150, 176, 211

mall, 212–14, 217

production, 52, 78

supermarkets, 201–202

Forest Hills Gardens, N.Y., 189–90

Fortified towns, 61–63, 65

France, 12, 15–27, 37–39, 48, 60–61, 83–87, 96, 97, 104, 113, 125, 149–52, 155, 174, 187, 211, 214, 221

city planning, 23–27, 46, 61, 149–52, 211–12

colonial urbanization in New World, 51, 57, 59–63, 65, 76. See also specific cities

Fuller, Buckminster, 163, 168

Gabriel, Jacques-Ange, 135

Galleria, Houston, 207–208, 210

Gardens, 31

colonial, 69, 71–73, 78, 81–82, 83 and n.

nineteenth-century, 120, 124–26

Parisian, 22, 24, 107, 125, 150, 211–12

suburbs, 182–94, 204–205, 223–24

twentieth-century, 164, 182–94

Gare d’Orsay, Paris, 20, 151, 152

Garnier, Charles, 150

Garrison towns, 51, 57–58, 61–63, 74

Georgia, 54, 75–77, 222

Georgian style, 102–103

Germany, 16, 37, 38, 43, 48, 61, 75, 105, 125, 155, 165. See also specific cities

Gilchrist, Edmund, 187, 189

Glazer, Nathan, 168

Goodhue, Bertram, 139, 190, 196

Graffenried, Baron Christopher von, 78–79

Graham, John, Jr., 206

Grand Central Station, New York, 138, 157, 174

Great Britain, 16, 20, 37–39, 73, 75, 80, 86–87, 102–103, 104, 116, 214, 221

city planning, 45, 46, 65–66, 82, 83, 124–25, 152–53

colonial urbanization in New World, 51, 58, 60, 63–70, 80, 99, 113

garden suburbs, 183–87. See also specific cities

Greece, ancient, 36–37, 47, 93, 132

Greek Revival, 98, 129

Greenwich Village, New York, 165n., 233

Grid planning, 44–46, 50, 106

colonial, 58, 60, 62 and 63–83, 106, 188

nineteenth-century, 95–100, 103, 106, 120, 125, 126, 131, 135, 136

twentieth-century, 147, 157, 164, 169, 189

Griffin, Walter Burley, 43

Gruen, Victor, 207

The Heart of Our Cities, 12

Guerin, Jules, 141–46

Guimard, Hector, 151

Halles, Les, Paris, 25, 150, 157

Hampstead Garden Suburb (Great Britain), 184–88, 194

Hartford, Conn., 66, 67, 102

Haskell, Llewellyn, 180–82

Haussmann, Baron Georges-Eugène, 24, 27, 150–52 and 161, 162

Hegemann (Werner) and Peets (Elbert), The American Vitruvius, 132, 136n., 148

Highways, 27, 29, 47, 95, 141, 160–61, 201–203, 206

Hispanics, 176

colonial urbanization, 44, 51–59

Historic preservation, 28, 136

Hittorff, J. I., 150

Hoffmann, Josef, 139

Holland, 64, 75, 82–83, 116

Holme, Thomas, 72

Hood, Raymond, 146

Hotels, 28, 198, 201, 203

Houses, 223

colonial ideal of, 81–83

country, 113–14, 173–96

nineteenth-century, 102–104, 177–79

numbered, 72, 94

outlying residential, 120 and n.,–21, 173–96

private, 82–83 and n.

public housing, 29, 159, 160, 163–72, 191–92

standardized, 195

Housing Act (1937), 163

Housing Act (1949), 160, 163

Houston, 28, 47, 139, 177, 190, 207–208, 225, 233

Houston, Henry, 185–8, 223, 234

Houston, Sam, 88

Howard, Ebenezer, 193

Garden Cities of Tomorrow, 183–84

Howard, John Galen, 137, 140

Howell, John Mead, 146

Hunt, Jarvis, 138

Hunt, Myron, 190

Hunt, Richard Morris, 128, 132, 138

Hygiene: personal, 102–103

public, 17–18, 88 and n., 96, 100–101, 130

Hypermarché, 212–213

Illinois, 115–21

Immigration, 42, 74–75, 78, 79, 108, 115, 121–22, 153, 228

Income, 222, 227–28, 233

India, 39, 40, 43, 44, 153

Indianapolis, 76, 106

Indoor shopping malls, 207–17

Industrial cities, 32, 39, 40, 41, 49, 78, 99, 116–22, 125, 150, 170–72, 193, 199, 226, 233

International Style, 156–59

Interstate highway system, 160–61

Iroquois Confederacy, 52–53, 57–59

Italy, 26, 27, 38, 40–41, 48, 65, 82, 144, 207, 214, 221. See also specific cities

It’s A Wonderful Life (movie), 220, 221

Jackson, J. B., 133, 203, 232–33

Jackson, Kenneth, Crabgrass Frontier, 213, 215

Jacobs, Jane, 140, 165n., 193, 233

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 163–64

Jamaica Plains, Mass., 178–79, 185

Japan, 39, 40, 43, 83n.

Jefferson, Thomas, 20, 62n., 96, 97, 105, 113, 128, 134, 139

Jenney, William Le Baron, 122, 128

Jerde, Jon,

Kansas City, 57n., 135, 138, 155, 189, 204–205

Kentucky, 94

Labrouste, Henri, 150

Lake Forest, 111., 183, 190, 204–205, 231

Lakes, urban, 81, 141

Land: availability, 78–79, 179

ownership, 60, 74, 83, 162

values, 78, 83, 119, 120, 145–47, 162, 165

Land Ordinance, 106

Landscaping, suburban, 181–94

Latin America, 39–45, 51–52, 158

Laws of the Indies, 44, 58, 62, 65, 67, 80

Layouts, urban, 42–47, 50, 66–67

automobile city, 46–47

organic, 46, 59, 64, 67

practical, 43–46

symbolic, 42–43, 46. See also specific cities and designs

Le Moyne, Jean-Baptiste, 62–63

L’Enfant, Pierre Charles, 70, 95–97, 106, 115, 134

Le Nòtre, André, 22, 24

Letchworth Garden City (Great Britain), 183–84

Levitt, William, 33, 184, 195

Levittown suburbs, 195

Litchfield, Electus, 191, 235

Literature, small towns depicted in, 220–21

Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N.J., 180 and n.–82

London, 12, 27, 69, 104, 118, 131, 142, 144, 174, 183, 184, 214

city planning, 46, 61, 66, 70, 83, 107, 124, 125, 149, 152–53

Great Exposition of 1851, 152

Great Fire of 1666, 66, 78

population, 38–41

Long Island (N.Y.) suburbs, 33, 181, 184, 195

Los Angeles, 18, 27, 58, 170

city planning, 45, 46

shopping malls, 215–16

suburbs, 190

transportation, 29

and n.; zoning, 143

Louis, Victor, 211

Louisbourg (Cape Breton Island), 61, 62, 65

Louis XIV, King of France, 20–24, 48, 127

Louis XV, King of France, 61

Louisiana, 53, 62–63

Louis-Philippe, King of France, 86

Louvre, Paris, 21, 22, 24, 157

Lukacs, John, 33–34, 148

Lutyens, Edwin, 153, 184, 185, 194

Lynch, Kevin, 42–47, 50, 67

Mall of America, Bloomington, Minn., 210–11, 213

Malls, shopping, 28, 176, 207–17, 228, 230, 232, 235

free speech in, 208–10

and n.

regional, 216

tourism in, 210–13

Manhattan, 57n.. See also New York Mansart, Jules-Hardouin, 22

Mariemont, Ohio, 188–89, 191

Marina Village, Conn., 191–92, 196

Market Square shopping center, Lake Forest, 111., 204–205, 215, 231

Maryland, 69–70, 104

Mason, George, 113

Masonic Temple Building, Chicago, 110, 119

Massachusetts, 66–67, 87–88, 105, 209

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 85

Mass media, 154, 228

Mass transit, 27, 29 and n., 30, 46, 175, 200n., 231, 233

Mathews, Maurice, 68

McFarland, J. Horace, 136

McGoodwin, Robert Rodes, 187, 189, 196

McKenzie, Evan, 182

McKim, Charles Follen, 128, 132, 134, 137, 138, 151

McKim, Mead and White, 128, 137, 139, 181

Medieval cities, 37–41, 46–49, 53–54, 60, 64–66, 76, 79, 93n., 144

Megacities, 39–42

Memphis, 87, 93, 202

Metropolitan areas and central cities, relationship between, 224–33

Mexico, 51

Mexico City, 39–40, 44, 52, 151

Meyer, Frederick H., 137

Miami, 29, 36, 41–42, 57n., 190, 231

Michigan, 62 and n., 87

Middle class, 103, 106–13, 124, 148, 154, 165, 171–72, 178, 183, 188, 191, 213, 216, 227

Mies van der Rohe, 165–66

Mills, Robert, 134

Milwaukee, 28, 57n., 115

Minneapolis, 28–30, 81, 177, 206, 210

Minnesota, 223

Mission towns, 51, 52, 58

Mississippi, 53–54

Missouri, 53–54

Mitterand, François, 19–24, 27

Mizner, Addison, 205, 215

Modernism, 129, 164, 165, 196

Modern urbanism, 162–72

Monticello, 113

Montreal, 23 and n.–27, 81, 87, 97, 105n., 125, 164, 190, 198, 201, 219

city planning, 24–28, 45, 57, 59–61, 62, 72, 124, 162, 164

French colonization of, 59–62, 64

population, 226

Morris, William, 186

Movies, 28, 32, 33, 154–55, 163, 164, 198, 204, 220–21

Mumford, Lewis, 47, 122

Munich, 48, 194

Museums, 28, 156

Names: city, derived from Indian words, 57 and n.

street, 72, 94 and n., 109

Naples, 65, 82, 214

Napoléon Bonaparte, 24

Napoléon III, 87, 149–51

Native Americans, 34, 113

settlements, 52–57, 81

Nelson, Jim, 168–69

Neoclassicism, 28

Neo-Gothic style, 155

New Amsterdam, 64

New Delhi, 43, 153

New France, 52, 59–63

New Haven, Conn., 67–69, 117

New Jersey, 31, 94, 209

suburbs, 180–82, 191

New Mexico, 55, 56

New Orleans, 29, 45, 72, 87

city planning, 62–63, 68, 97–98, 106

population, 115

Newport, R.I., 66, 84–85, 102

New Spain, 51–59, 60

New York, 18–19, 25, 27, 35, 37, 38n., 66, 68, 81, 85, 87, 92, 95, 104, 105, 112, 117, 132, 170, 199, 201, 228, 230

British rule, 64, 99

city planning, 45, 64, 66, 98–102, 106, 107, 137, 138, 153–60, 164, 1 65n.

civic beautification, 137, 138, 160

Commissioners’

Plan (1811), 99, 106

Crystal Palace Exhibition (1853), 118, 215

grid layout, 45, 64, 99–100

nineteenth-century, 98–102, 107–108, 116

parks, 81, 99, 124, 125, 153

population, 39, 40, 64, 75, 99–100, 111, 115, 121, 153–54, 176

public monuments, 99

riots, 108

shopping malls, 215

skyscrapers, 144, 153–60

social class distinctions, 107–108

suburbs, 174, 175, 177, 180, 189–90

transportation, 30, 174

twentieth-century, 153–60, 164, 172, 176

zoning, 143

New York State, 52–53, 197–200

Nichols, Jesse Clyde, 104

Nicholson, Frances, 69–71, 75, 104

Nineteenth-century American urbanization, 84–109, 110–30, 131–48, 178–79, 199–200

Nolen, John, 132, 134, 189–90, 196

Northland shopping center, Detroit, 206, 207

North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 144–47, 162

Nouvel, Jean, 21

Numbered houses, 72, 94

Numbered streets, 109

Oglethorpe, James, 75–77, 234

Ohio, 53, 76, 93–95, 106, 189

Oklahoma, 55

Olbrich, Joseph Maria, 139

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 124–27, 132–34, 139, 141, 182–83, 185, 190, 204

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., 132–37

Olmsted, John C., 132–35, 190, 204

Oregon, 209

Otis, Elisha G., 118

Ottawa, 57n., 105n., 208

Palais Royal, Paris, 211–12

Palm Beach, Fla., 205, 215

Paris, 12, 15–27, 33, 35, 38, 40, 54, 60–61, 65, 70, 92, 96, 99, 99, 104, 113, 122, 131, 142, 144, 149–52 and n., 173, 175, 212 and n., 214, 225

city planning, 23–27, 46, 61, 82, 90, 107, 125, 127, 135, 149–52 and n., 161, 194, 211–12

Grands Projets, 19–22, 23

Second Empire, 87, 149–52 and n.

Parker, Barry, 183–85

Parking lots, 28, 202–207

Parks, 81, 99

Chicago, 124–26, 141

nineteenth-century, 102, 107, 108, 116, 124–26, 133, 135

twentieth-century, 141–43, 154–55, 164, 211

Parkways, 126, 133, 135, 141

Paxton, Sir Joseph, 124–25

Pedestrian movement, 28, 29, 46, 47, 162, 164, 166, 205–207, 230–32

Peets, Elbert, 132, 190

Pei, I. M., 21

Penn, William, 33, 72–75, 78, 80, 81, 96, 111, 135, 188, 223, 234

Pennsylvania Station, New York, 138, 157

Perrault, Claude, 22

Philadelphia, 11, 25, 29, 31, 33, 72–75, 81, 82, 87, 105, 117, 156, 170, 221–26, 230, 233

city planning, 50, 72–75, 76, 77, 94n., 96, 98, 102, 106, 124, 135, 138, 162, 165n., 188, 234–35

civic beautification, 138

colonial, 64, 72–77, 80

parks, 125–26, 135

population, 64, 74–75, 111, 115, 176, 226–27

riots, 108

suburbs, 175, 185–91, 195, 223–26

twentieth-century, 154, 155, 162, 172, 176, 185–91, 223–24

Phoenix, 32, 41, 47, 233

Pittsburgh, 37, 62, 87, 115, 116, 121, 154, 156, 208

Place de la Concorde, Paris, 24, 61, 135

Plantation mansions, 113–14

Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth, 231

Plattsburgh, N.Y., 36, 197–201, 216–17

Policing, 18–19, 31, 108, 227

Politics, and city planning, 19–22, 44–45, 48–49, 65, 101, 104–105, 117, 122, 136, 147–48, 158, 160–72, 209–10, 226

Pollution, 31, 49

Pompidou, Georges, 19–20, 27

Pope, John Russell, 198

Population, 36–42, 78, 111–15, 220

African-American, 170–72

growth, 31–32, 41–42, 60, 63–64, 67, 74, 77, 93, 111–15, 121, 153–54, 170–71, 175, 200, 233

metro area, 224–28

nineteenth-century, 100, 111–15, 121

size, 36–42, 63–64, 75, 100, 111–15, 220, 223–28

suburban, 175–76

twentieth-century, 153, 175, 223–28

Portland, Or., 27, 29, 30, 231

Post, George B., 128

Postmodernism, 28

Poverty, 29, 40, 44, 60, 78, 106–108, 163–72, 227–28

Presidios, 51, 58

Prisons, 86, 87

Promenades, 48, 61, 68, 107, 125, 145, 235

Providence, R.I., 66, 67

Public housing, 29, 159–60, 163–72, 196

Cabrini-Green (Chicago), 164–70

garden-suburb planning, 191–92

Public Works Administration, 159–60

Pueblos, 51, 55, 56, 58

Quakers, 73–74, 80

Quebec, 23, 26, 36, 59, 63, 219, 230

Quebec City, 59, 87, 97

Racial groups, 170–71, 176, 200

Racial zoning, 180 and n.

Railroads, 27, 29 and n., 30, 42, 90, 95, 116–20, 130, 134, 141–43, 179, 186, 198, 201, 231, 234

commuter, 174, 178, 179, 183, 186, 190, 194, 201, 234

decline of, 201–203

stations, 20, 137–38, 140, 151, 152, 154, 198–99, 201, 202

Reed, Henry Hope, 175

Reid, John, Jr., 137

Religion, 38, 80, 90

mission towns, 51, 52

tolerance, 74, 80

in urban layouts, 42–43, 46

Reps, John W., 59, 89, 99, 141;

The Making of Urban America, 99

Residential neighborhoods, outlying, 120 and n., 121, 173–96. See also Suburbs

Revolutionary War, 60, 85, 99, 103

Rhode Island, 66, 67, 84–85, 105

Richmond, Va., 29, 104, 118

Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, 11, 165n.

River cities, 94–95, 104, 235

Robertson, Jaquelin, 81–82

Robinson, Charles Mulford, 136

Rochester, N.Y., 93, 137

Roebling, John Augustus, 94

Rome, 12, 37, 38, 39, 43, 47, 65, 66, 67, 75, 118, 131, 132, 137, 138, 149, 161

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 20

Root, John, 119, 122, 127

Rouse Company, 209, 215

Rudolph, Paul, 163

Rusk, David, Cities Without Suburbs, 227–28

Ruskin, John, 186

Russia, 38, 48, 96, 214

Safdie, Moshe, 232

Saint Augustine, Fla., 57–58, 230

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 130–34

Saint Louis, 29, 53, 116, 170–71, 227

city planning, 62, 137

civic beautification, 137, 139

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904), 139

population, 115, 226

transportation, 29–30

San Diego, 30, 41, 58, 215, 233

Panama-California International Exposition (1915), 139

San Francisco, 27, 29, 58, 108n., 116, 117, 154

city planning, 45, 106, 124, 125, 135, 137, 165n.;

civic beautification, 137, 139

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), 139

parks, 125

population, 115, 225, 226

suburbs, 231

Savannah, Ga., 75–77, 82, 97, 104, 223, 234

Scott, M. H. Baillie, 185

Scully, Vincent, 34, 56

Seaside Village, Conn., 191–92

Seattle, 81, 108n., 116

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1910), 139

city planning, 45

suburbs, 206

Senate Park Commission, 134

Sewage, 44, 100–101

Shaw, Howard Van Doren, 190, 204

Shopping bazaars, 214–15

Shopping centers, 28, 176, 201–17

Shopping villages, 203–206

Sioux Falls, S.D., 30–32, 57n. Sites and services projects, 44–45

Sixtus V, Pope, 66, 149, 161

Skyscrapers, 28, 153, 157, 227

Chicago, 110–11, 115, 118–20, 123–24, 126, 143–48, 153

New York, 144, 153–60

Slavery, 68, 85, 107–108, 113, 170

Slums, 41, 44, 107–108, 120, 160–64

Small towns, American preference for, 219–23

Social class distinctions, 235

nineteenth-century, 101–109, 112–15, 148, 151, 178

twentieth-century, 148, 154, 160–72, 176, 182, 188, 190–91, 202, 216–17, 227, 235. See also specific social classes

Social reform, 49, 148, 163–70

Southdale shopping center, Edina, Minn., 206–207

Spain, 38, 44, 105

colonial urbanization in New World, 44, 51–59, 63, 65, 76

Speer, Albert, 43

Squares, central, 48, 58, 67–69, 73–78, 93n., 102, 106, 193, 194

Stamper, John W., 147

Steamboats, 94, 101, 115

Steel-frame construction, 119

Steevens, G. W., In the Land of the

Dollar, 121–22

Stern, Robert A. M., 128, 179

Stilgoe, John, 175, 177–78

Stock market crash (1929), 200

Streetcars, 117–18, 178–79, 194

Street layouts, 42–47, 50, 66–67, 72–76, 81–82, 106, 162, 188. See also specific cities and designs

Strip development, 202–204, 229

Subdivisions, postwar, 194–96, 206

Suburbs, 23, 30, 31, 33, 44, 48, 49, 60, 79, 113–14, 120, 161, 163, 172, 173–96, 204–205, 235

annexed, 177–79, 185, 233

exclusive enclave, 181–82, 188, 204

garden, 182–94, 204–205, 223–24

growth, 145n., 206

metro area relationship to, 225–33

postwar, 194–96, 206

shopping centers, 204–16

terminology, 176–78

Sullivan, Louis, 110, 119, 123, 128

Supermarkets, 201–203, 206

Supreme Court, 209

Symmes, John, 93–94

Taxes, 31, 172, 227

Technology, urban, 12, 49, 117–19, 130, 133, 151, 152, 161–62, 196n., 199

Telephone, 117, 118n., 199

Terminology, urban, 36–41, 176–78, 225

Texas, 61, 222

Third World cities, 39–40, 44, 121

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 84–109, 111–16, 156, 157, 220

Democracy in America, 86–87, 101, 109n.

Todd, Frederick, 190

Topography, 45, 56, 89, 92, 153, 180–81, 185, 188

Toronto, 11, 27, 29, 57 and n., 81, 105n., 106, 190, 208, 225, 231

Tourism, 41–42, 85, 199, 201, 210–13, 228

Town, definition of, 36–39

Transportation, 27–30, 46–47, 73, 77, 90, 94–95, 100–101, 109, 117–20, 130, 137–38, 140–43, 151, 155, 160–62, 199–201, 227, 231

commuter, 174–80, 183, 186, 189–95, 201, 226, 234

mass automobile ownership, 145n., 162, 189–93, 200–207, 230, 233. See also specific types of transportation

Trolley cars, 27, 29, 30, 100, 117–18, 120, 199, 200n.

Trucking, 202–203

Tuileries gardens, Paris, 22, 24, 107, 125

Tunnard, Christopher, 175

Twentieth-century American urbanization, 140–48, 153–72, 197–217, 218–35

Unemployment, 49, 78, 160, 170–72, 199, 227

University campuses, 138–40, 199

Unwin, Raymond, 183–87, 193, 196

Town Planning in Practice, 193–94

Urban, definition of, 37–38

Urban renewal, 160–72

Utah, 55, 208

Vanderbilt, George, 18

Varro, Marcus Terentius, 36

Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de, 61, 65

Vaux, Calvert, 125–27, 141, 182

Venice, 27, 40–41, 46, 227, 230

Vermont, 89–93, 199

Versailles, 48, 86, 96

Vienna, 40, 48, 65, 82, 100, 142, 227

Village, definition of, 38

Virginia, 68–72, 103–104

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus, 67

Von Hoffman, Alexander, 178–79

Walcott, Derek, 32

Walkways, elevated, 28

Walled cities, 37, 47–48, 54, 59–60, 64, 79

Washington, D.C., 27, 87, 95–97, 105, 116, 139, 198

city planning, 43, 70, 95–97, 105–106, 134–35, 137, 143, 152

civic beautification, 134–35, 137

population, 115

Washington, George, 96, 113

Washington Monument, 134

Weber, Eugen, 17

Webster, Daniel, 88

Welfare, 167n., 171, 227

West Edmonton Mall, Alberta, 207–13

White House, 20, 43, 95–97, 134

Williamsburg, Va., 70–72, 77, 78, 82, 103, 104, 112, 230, 235

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 175

Wilson, William, 136, 147

Wisconsin, 28, 106, 115

Woodfield shopping center, Chicago, 207

Wood-frame construction, 116, 120

Woodstock, Vt., 89–93, 155, 235

Woodward, George, 185–89, 193, 223

Woodward, Judge Augustus, 62n., 76

World War I, 154, 156, 191

World War II, 42, 159–60, 194, 206

Wren, Christopher, 66, 70, 153, 185

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 187n.

Broadacre City, 229–30, 233

Yorkship Village, N.J., 191–92, 231, 235

Zeckendorf, William, 33

Zoning, 44, 79, 92, 143–44, 164

racial, 180 and n.

single-use, 164 and n.