Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART 1 How we got where we are -- 1.1 Population: from rank 2 to 26 and dropping -- 1.2 Housing: from polished stoops to boarded shells and lofts -- 1.3 Dispersal policies: from a compact city to suburban sprawl -- 1.4 The inelastic city: from rapid growth to a "point of no return"--1.5 Coming full circle: from riots to renaissance to riots -- 1.6 Transportation: from streetcars to freeways to metro and light rail -- 1.7 Making and production: from Bethlehem Steel to distribution warehouses and robots -- PART 2 Case studies -- 2.1 Sprawl and smart growth -- 2.2 Transportation -- 2.3 Housing and community development -- 2.4 Preservation, adaptive reuse and heritage -- 2.5 Innovation and making -- PART 3 How to break the cycles -- 3.1 Brownfield redevelopment -- 3.2 Transportation -- 3.3 Making and innovation -- 3.4 Crowd-based production -- 3.5 Staging a comeback -- Conclusion: globalization, localization and cities -- Index