The death and life of great American cities

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Introduction

Part 1. The peculiar nature of cities. The uses of sidewalks : safety ; The uses of sidewalks : contact ; The uses of sidewalks : assimilating children ; The uses of neighborhood parks ; The uses of city neighborhoods

Part 2. The conditions for city diversity. The generators of diversity ; The need for primary mixed uses ; The need for small blocks ; The need for aged buildings ; The need for concentration ; Some myths about diversity

Part 3. Forces of decline and regeneration. The self-destruction of diversity ; The curse of border vacuums ; Unslumming and slumming ; Gradual money and cataclysmic money

Part 4. Different tactics. Subsidizing dwellings ; Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles ; Visual order : its limitations and possibilities ; Salvaging projects ; Governing and planning districts ; The kind of problem a city is