CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Conceiving the New Metropolis: 1 Expertise, Public Policy, and the Problem of Civic Culture in New York City PART 1: Private Infrastructure and Public Policy 15 1. The Public Be Pleased: Railroad Planning, Engineering 17 Culture, and the Promise of Quasi-scientific Voluntarism 2. Beyond Voluntarism: The Interstate Commerce 58 Commission, the Railroads, and Freight Planning for New York Harbor PART 2: Public Infrastructure, Local Autonomy, and Private Wealth 99 3. Buccaneer Bureaucrats, Physical Interdependence, and 101 Free Riders: Building the Underground City 4. Taxing, Spending, and Borrowing: Expanding Public Claims on Private Wealth 143 PART 3: Urban Planning, Private Rights, and Public Power 183 5. City Planning versus the Law: Zoning the New Metropolis 185 6. They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with 227 brushes of comets' hair: Regional Planning and the Metropolitan Dilemma Conclusion: An almost mystical unity: 268 Interdependence and the Public Interest in the Modern Metropolis Appendix 281 Notes 285 Index 321