Introduction: Places on the edge
Part 1. Jack London imagines the suburban frontier
Real estate and race: imagining the second circuit of capital in sunbelt cities
Imagining Portland's urban growth boundary: planning regulation as cultural icon, with Joy Margheim
Jim Rockford or Tony Soprano: coastal contrasts in American suburbia
On the sidewalks of Los Angeles
Part 2. Continental refuge
West by southeast: Pater Matthiessen's Florida trilogy as western fiction
Cascadian dreams: imagining a region over four decades
Rocky Mountain refuge: constructing "Colorado" in science fiction
The light on the horizon: imagining the death of American cities
Part 3. Planetary pioneering
Firefly, westerns, and western history
Homesteading on the extraterrestrial frontier
Falling into history: the imagined wests of Kim Stanley Robinson.