xii, 331 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index pt. 1. Would America Produce a Civilization of Cities? 1890-1909 -- The Rupture of a rural Order -- The Quest for Disciplinary Control -- In Search of a Spatial Order -- pt. 2. The Disciplinary Order of Planning, 1909-1916 -- The Rise of the Planning Mentality -- Functional Requirements of a City Plan -- The Barriers of Municipal Government and the Need for Urban Observatories -- pt. 3. Superspeculation in the American City, 1916-1929 -- Zoning and the Single-Family Home -- Traversing a Regional Domain -- pt. 4. Cities and Regions in Economic Crisis, 1929-1945 -- Must American Cities Decay? -- To Reconstruct the American City -- Planning for Postwar Regional Cities -- An Architecture of Complexity -- The City of Collective Memory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index