Cities of the mind : images and themes of the city in the social sciences

I Introduction.- 1 Images, Themes, and Urbanography.- II Urban Images and Themes in Specific Fields.- 2 Geography: Descriptive, Scientific, Subjective, and Radical Images of the City.- 3 Economics: Invisible, Productive, and Problem Cities.- 4 Images of the City in Political Science: Communities, Administrative Entities, Competitive Markets, and Seats of Chaos.- 5 Anthropological Approaches to the City.- 6 Sociology-Four Images of Organized Diversity: Bazaar, Jungle, Organism, and Machine.- 7 History: Notes on Urban Images of Historians.- 8 City Planning: Images of the Ideal and the Existing City.- III Reflections on Context and the Interpretation of Urban Images.- 9 Reconsidering The Image of the City.- 10 The Puzzle of Antiurbanism in Classic American Literature.- 11 Slums and Skyscrapers: Urban Images, Symbols, and Ideology.- 12 Urban Political Images in Search of a Historical Context.- 13 The City as a Legal Concept.- 14 Cities and Countryside in Anthropology.- 15 Ex Uno Plures: A Walk through Marxist Urban Studies.- Note on Sociological Images of the City.- Notes on Contributors.