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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Place
Chapter 1: The Making of an Urbanist
Chapter 2: The Thinning Metropolis
Chapter 3: The Garden Suburb and the New Urbanism
Chapter 4: The Autocratic Citizen of Philadelphia
Chapter 5: Having No Car but Plenty of Cars
Chapter 6: Tom Hayden's Cars
Chapter 7: Talk City
Chapter 8: Why I'm Scared to Walk in Houston
Chapter 9: My Favorite Street
Part 2: Prosperity
Chapter 10: Romancing the Smokestack
Chapter 11: Company Town
Chapter 12: The Case for Subsidizing the Mermaid Bar
Chapter 13: Kotkin versus Florida
Chapter 14: Houston, We Have a Gentrification Problem
Part 3: The Promised Land
Chapter 15: The Long Drive
Chapter 16: The California Attitude
Chapter 17: The Not-So-Reluctant Metropolis
Chapter 18: Living the 2 Percent Life
Chapter 19: My Los Angeles
Conclusion: On the Morning after the Pandemic
Acknowledgments
Credits
About the Author
Index.