Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Brian McGrath -- The architecture of the city / Aldo Rossi -- Collage city / Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter -- Cities within the city / Oswald Mathias Ungers -- Chicago �a la carte / Alvin Boyarsky -- Life in the metropolis or The culture of congestion / Rem Koolhaas -- The making of Hong Kong / Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan -- The territory of architecture / Vittorio Gregotti -- Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies / Reyner Banham -- Learning from Las Vegas / Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour -- An urbanism of reform / Albert Pope -- Mega urban ecologies / Sharon Haar and Victoria Marshall -- Ecology of the city : a perspective from science / Steward TA Pickett -- People as infrastructure : intersecting fragments in Johannesburg / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Bangkok : the architecture of three ecologies / Brian McGrath -- Sustainable megacity visions from S�ao Paulo / Carlos Leite -- Frugality and urban life / May Joseph -- Design, sustainability and the global city / Christian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou -- Situationist space / Tom McDonough -- The Manhattan transcripts / Bernard Tschumi -- The fragmented metropolis / David Grahame Shane -- Designing ecological heterogeneity / ML Cadenasso -- The elementary city / Paola Vigan�o -- Made in Tokyo / Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsunamoro.