PART I INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
Images, Themes, and Urbanography 3 Lloyd Rodwin and Robert M. Hollister
PART II
URBAN IMAGES AND THEMES IN SPECIFIC FIELDS Chapter 2
Geography: Descriptive, Scientific, Subjective, and Radical Images of the City 21
Peter Hall
Chapter 3
Economics: Invisible, Productive, and Problem Cities 37
John R. Harris
Chapter 4
Images of the City in Political Science: Communities, Administrative Entities, Competitive Markets, and Seats of Chaos 55
Martin Shefter
Chapter 5
Anthropological Approaches to the City 83
Lisa Redfield Peattie and Edward Rabbins
Chapter 6
Sociology—Four Images of Organized Diversity: Bazaar, Jungle, Organism, and Machine 97
Peter Lander
Chapter 7
History: Notes on Urban Images of Historians 119
Charles Tilly
Chapter 8
City Planning: Images of the Ideal and the Existing City 133
Thomas A. Reiner and Michael A. Hindery
PART III
REFLECTIONS ON CONTEXT AND THE INTERPRETATION OF URBAN IMAGES
Chapter 9
Reconsidering The Image of the City 151
Kevin Lynch
Chapter 10
The Puzzle of Antiurbanism in Classic American Literature 163
Leo Marx
Chapter 11
Slums and Skyscrapers: Urban Images, Symbols, and Ideology 181
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
Chapter 12
Urban Political Images in Search of a Historical Context 197
Michael H. Frisch
Chapter 13
The City as a Legal Concept 233
Gerald E. Frug
Chapter 14
Cities and Countryside in Anthropology 291
Anthony Leeds
Chapter 15
Ex Uno Plures: A Walk through Marxist Urban Studies 313
Paolo Ceccarelli
Note on Sociological Images of the City 337
Nathan Glazer
Notes on Contributors 345
Index 349