Preface: Manufacturing Cities
Sight and Sound of the City
Life and Death in the City
Pugin versus the Panopticon
John Ruskin and the Venetian Turn
Macaulay, the Middle Classes and the March of Progress
Mammon and the New Medici
William Roscoe and the Italian Renaissance
Merchant Princes and Municipal Palaces
Life and Soul of the City
Battle of the Styles: the Foreign Office and Northampton Town Hall
Sewage, Saxons and Self-government
Whatever Happened to the Norman Conquest?
Revolving Despots: Chadwick and Haussmann
Joseph Chamberlain and the Municipal Gospel
Joseph Chamberlain: Unitarian and Businessman
Easy Row and the Municipal Gospel
From Municipal Gospel to Municipal Socialism
London: The Whited Sepulchre of Empire
The Capital of Corruption
Garden Cities and the Triumph of Suburbia
Ebenezer Howard and the Windy City
Corporate Communities: Bournville and Sunlight
Garden Cities of Tomorrow
Hampstead Garden Suburb and the Death of the City
Epilogue: Still Waiting for the Rover?