Contents	6
	Photo Essay: Authenticity in the Middle Ground	17
	Acknowledgments	18
	Editor’s note	19
	Introduction	20
	PART ONE TOWARDS A METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE	22
	CHAPTER 1 The spatial transformation and restructuring of american cities	24
	CHAPTER 2 It’s time for comedy	40
	CHAPTER 3 Agrarian urbanism and the aerial subject	50
	CHAPTER 4 The uses of history in urban design	68
	CHAPTER 5 Urbanism by numbers: A quantitative approach to urban form	78
	PART TWO TOWARDS A METROPOLITAN URBANISM	100
	CHAPTER 6 Practicing pragmatism in urban metropolitan design	102
	CHAPTER 7 Flexibility to resilience: Directions for contemporary practice	118
	CHAPTER 8 Planning the city multiple	124
	CHAPTER 9 Citizenship and architecture: Notes on the order of the American city	140
	PART THREE MAKING THE METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE	152
	CHAPTER 10 Integrating urban design and educational reform in the post-industrial american city: Paterson, New Jersey, as a City of Learning	154
	CHAPTER 11 Drawing, persuasion, politics: A case study in the California Delta	174
	CHAPTER 12 Urban decisions/urban designs	184
	CHAPTER 13 Beijing sketchbook	194
	PART FOUR PROGRAMS FOR A METROPOLITAN URBANISM	214
	CHAPTER 14 Programs for a metropolitan urbanism	216
	Notes on contributors	224
	Figure Credits	232
	Index	234