1 Introduction 3
Part One THE PECULIAR NATURE OF CITIES 27
2 The uses of sidewalks:safety 29
3 The uses of sidewalks:contact 55
4 The uses of sidewalks:assimilating children 74
5 The uses of neighborhood parks 89
6 The uses of city neighborhoods 112
Part Two THE CONDITIONS FOR CITY DIVERSITY 141
7 The generators of diversity 143
8 The need for primary mixed uses 152
9 The need for small blocks 178
10 The need for aged buildings 187
11 The need for concentration 200
12 Some myths about diversity 222
Part Three FORCES OF DECLINE AND REGENERATION 239
13 The self-destruction of diversity 241
14 The curse of border vacuums 257
15 Unslumming and slumming 270
16 Gradual money and cataclysmic money 291
Part Four DIFFERENT TACTICS 319
17 Subsidizing dwellings 321
18 Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles 338
19 Visual order:its limitations and possibilities 372
20 Salvaging projects 392
21 Governing and planning districts 405
22 The kind of problem a city is 428
Index 449