"Most of the essays published here previously appeared in Harvard design magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design"--T.p. verso.
Introduction: An urban frame of mind / Alex Krieger
Origins of an urban design sensibility: The first urban conference : extracts
The emergence of urban design in the breakup of CIAM / Eric Mumford
The elusiveness of urban design : the perpetual problem of definition and role / Richard Marshall
Perspectives on a half-century of urban design practice: Urban design at fifty : a personal view / Denise Scott Brown
Fragmentation and friction as urban threats : the post-1956 city / Fumihiko Maki
The way we were, the way we are : the theory and practice of designing cities since 1965 / Jonathan Barnett
Territories of urban design practice: Where and how does urban design happen? / Alex Krieger
Defining the urbanistic project : ten contemporary approaches / Joan Busquets
Beyond centers, fabrics, and cultures of congestion : urban design as a metropolitan enterprise / Richard Sommer
Debates about mandates and purpose: The end(s) of urban design / Michael Sorkin
Bad parenting / Emily Talen
Facts on the ground : urbanism from Midroad to Ditch / Michelle Provoost and Wouter Vanstiphout
Expanding roles and disciplinary boundaries: A third way for urban design / Kenneth Greenberg
Urban design after Battery Park City : opportunities for variety and vitality / Timothy Love
The other '56 / Charles Waldheim
Democracy takes command : new community planning and the challenge to urban design / John Kaliski
Challenges for the unprecedented phenomena of our new century: Designing the postmetropolis / Edward W. Soja
Unforeseen urban worlds : post-1956 phenomena / Peter G. Rowe
Urban design looking forward / Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Urban design now : a discussion.
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