Introduction / Howard Gillette, Jr.
1. Back to the present: Historians' treatment of the city as a social system during the reign of the Idea of community / Alan I. Marcus
2. The city in American culture / Howard Gillette, Jr.
3. From culture to cuisine: Twentieth-century views of race and ethnicity in the city / Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh
4. Work and the workplace in the city: Toward a synthesis of the "New" labor and urban history / Leonard Wallock
5. New life for an old subject: Investigating the structure of urban rule / Jon C. Teaford
6. From waterfront to metropolitan region: The geographical development of American cities / Edward K. Miller
7. Design, process, and Institutions: Planning in urban history / Eugenie Ladner Birch
8. Architecture and the city / Richard Longstreth
9. Patterns in the development of the urban Infrastructure / Joel A. Tarr and Joseph W. Konvitz
10. Re-reading suburban American: Urban population deconcentration, 1810-1980 / Michael H. Ebner
11. The suburban mosaic: Patterns of land use, class, and culture / Carol A. O'Connor
12. The neighborhood-city relationship / Patricia Mooney Melvin
13. Frontiers and sections: Cities and regions in American growth / Carol Abbott
14. Doing local history: Monographic approaches to the smaller community / Robert R. Dykstra and William Silag.
