Contents Acknowledgements A Century of Urban Theory in the West:西方城市理论一百年(代序言) 1. Georg Simmel: The Metropolis and Mental Life 2. Robert Ezra Park: Human Ecology 3. Ernest W. Burgess: The Growth of the City 4. Louis Wirth: Urbanism as a Way of Life 5. Le Corbusier: A Contemporary City 6. Lewis Mumford: What is a City? 7. Kevin Lynch: The City Image and Its Elements 8. Jane Jacobs: The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety 9. Manuel Castells: Toward a Sociological Theory of City Planning 10. Henri Lefebvre: Space is a Social Product 11. David Harvey:Contested Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form 12. William Julius Wilson: From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos 13. William H. Whyte: The Design of Spaces 14. John Forester: Planning in the Face of Conflict 15. Ali Madanipour: Social Exclusion and Space 16. Robert D. Putnam: Bowling Alone: Americas Declining Social Capital 17. Andres Duany and Elizabeth PlaterZyberk: The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor 18. Saskia Sassen: Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities 19. Edward Soja: Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography 20. Stephen Wheeler: Planning Sustainable and Livable Cities 21. Matthew Carmona et al: The Social Dimension of Urban Design 22. Richard Florida: The Rise of the Creative Class Aftenword 后记