1 Introduction

Part One THE PECULIAR NATURE OF CITIES

2 The uses of sidewalks:safety

3 The uses of sidewalks:contact

4 The uses of sidewalks:assimilating children

5 The uses of neighborhood parks

6 The uses of city neighborhoods

Part Two THE CONDITIONS FOR CITY DIVERSITY

7 The generators of diversity

8 The need for primary mixed uses

9 The need for small blocks

10 The need for aged buildings

11 The need for concentration

12 Some myths about diversity

Part Three FORCES OF DECLINE AND REGENERATION

13 The self-destruction of diversity

14 The curse of border vacuums

15 Unslumming and slumming

16 Gradual money and cataclysmic money

Part Four DIFFERENT TACTICS

17 Subsidizing dwellings

18 Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles

19 Visual order:its limitations and possibilities

20 Salvaging projects

21 Governing and planning districts

22 The kind of problem a city is

Index