Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : urban planning in the American past -- Sanitary reform and landscape values, 1840-1890 -- Civic art, 1890-1900 -- The nation's first comprehensive city plan, 1900-1902 -- The origins of the city beautiful, 1897-1902 -- The birth of the city planning ideal, 1902-1903 -- The new planning ideal and the public interest, 1902-1904 -- The outburst of great civic schemes, 1902-1905 -- City beautiful planning : dreams and reality, 1905-1909 -- City beautiful planning : a transitional art, 1905-1909 -- The social progressive challenge, 1909 -- The birth of city planning, 1909-1910 -- An elusive quest, 1911-1917 -- Opportunistic interventionism, 1911-1917 -- Epilogue : American urban planning as a fragmented art…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 Cities of Imagination: Alternative Visions Of The Good City, 1880-1987 -- The Anarchist Roots of the Planning Movement -- A Warning: Some Boulders in the Trail -- A Guide through the Maze -- 2 The City of Dreadful Night -- The Bitter Cry -- The British Royal Commission of 1885 -- Depression, Violence, and the Threat of Insurrection -- The Booth Survey: The Problem Quantified -- The Slum City in Europe -- New York: The Tumor in the Tenements -- An International Problem -- 3 The City of By-Pass Variegated -- The London County Council Starts to Build -- The First Town-Planning Schemes -- New York Discovers Zoning -- London: The Tube Brings Suburban Sprawl -- The Legacy of Tudor Walters -- The Building of Suburbia -- The Architects' Revenge -- 4 The City in the Garden -- The Sources of Howard's Ideas -- The Garden City and the Social City -- Letchworth and Hampstead: Unwin and Parker -- The Garden-City Movement between the Wars -- The Garden City in Europe -- Garden Cities in Far Places -- Garden Cities for America -- New Towns for Britain: The State Takes Over -- 5 The City in the Region -- Geddes and the Anarchist Tradition -- The Regional Planning Association of America -- The RPAA versus the Regional Plan of New York -- New Deal Planning -- The TVA -- The Vision Realized: London -- 6 The City of Monuments -- Burnham and the City Beautiful Movement in America -- The City Beautiful in the British Raj -- Canberra: City Beautiful Exceptional -- The City Beautiful and the Great Dictators -- 7 The City of Towers -- The Corbusian Ideal City -- The Planning of Chandigarh -- Brasília: The Quasi-Corbusian City…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taylor Displacement, urban transformations and resistance in Indonesian-occupied Dili, East Timor / Vannessa Hearman Displacing the laws of the Indies with the city beautiful : Daniel Burnham's 1905 plan for Manila / Ian Morley Conflicting modes of colonial occupation in British Malaya, 1874-95 / Joanna Lee The unsuccessful development of southern Burmese tin mines in the nineteenth century / Yi Li Mapping China under Japanese occupation : spatial configurations of state power during wartime (1937-45) / David Serfass Corral and confine : colonial occupation and the politics of space in the Andaman Islands / Vishvajit Pandya and Madhumita Mazumdar Occupation at sea : rethinking the 'in-between' spaces of empire in colonial Indonesia and China / Kris Alexanderson Hydroponic imperialism : race, hygiene and agro-technology in occupied Japan, 1945-60 / Abhishek Nanavati From military base to conservation site : reimagining the demilitarization of the Yambaru Forest in Okinawa / Sayaka Sakuma…”

“…With chapters focusing on photomontage, the film theories of Sergei Eisenstein, Mies van der Rohe's spatial experiments, and Rem Koolhaas's use of literary montage in his seminal manifesto Delirious New York (1978), Stierli demonstrates the centrality of montage in modern explorations of space, and in conceiving and representing the contemporary city. Beautifully illustrated, this interdisciplinary book looks at architecture, photography, film, literature, and visual culture, featuring works by artists and architects including Mies, Koolhaas, Hannah Hoech, George Grosz, El Lissitzky, and Frank Lloyd Wright…”

“…Challenging the idea that the city can be entirely planned on paper, this book implores you to work with chaos when planning cities. Beautifully illustrated with striking hand-drawn plans of global cities, this is a vital and accessible contribution to urban theory and planning. …”