Contents

Preface

PARIS The Achievements of Napoleon III and Georges Eugène Haussman

ATLANTA Does Edge City Have a Future?

MEXICO CITY The End of the World and Other Cataclysms

BERLIN The Paradoxes of History

LAS VEGAS Utopia of Clowns

ROME In Search of the Classical

BOSTON Overcoming History and Modernism

LONDON Landscape as the Cure for Cities

Notes

Index