Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index.
Contents
Paris : the achievements of Napoleon III and Georges Eugène Haussman -- Atlanta : does Edge City have a future? -- Mexico City : the end of the world and other cataclysms -- Berlin : the paradoxes of history -- Las Vegas : utopia of clowns -- Rome : in search of the classical -- Boston : overcoming history and modernism -- London : landscape as the cure for cities.
