Introduction
Part I. The lived city
Cities of perpetual ruin and repair
The relics of civilized life
The smell of danger
Noise and gabble
Seeing and believing
Part II. Metropolitan improvements
The grid and the republican spatial imagination
Gridding consumption
Permutations of the pigeonhole : architecture as memory
Gridding the graveyard
Gridded utopias
Part III. Public spaces and private citizens
On the waterfront
In public walks
Conclusion.
Another city : urban life and urban spaces in the new American republic by Dell Upton. ISBN 9780300124880. Published by Yale University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.