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Introduction PART 1 - THE CONSUMER SOCIETY: London - The First ModemCity; Portrait of an Economy; A New Economic Theory. PART 11 - THE STABLESOCIETY: Preface; The Control of London's Expansion; Seating the Gentry:Competing Motives - Competitive Consumption or Noblesse Oblige?, A CommonTask: What was the Function of Gentry Residence?, Both Ruler and Ruled;Projects and Manufactures: "Nifles, Trifles", Design Manufactures. PART III -THE LUXURY DEBATE: Preface: History and Ideas; The Luxury Debate, 1559 -1660; Competitive Consumption: Barbon: The Infinitive Wants of the Mind,Mandeville; The Spectator; David Hume; Adam Smith: Beauty and EconomicGrowth, Improvements in Production, The Progress of Opulence. PART IV - STYLEAND ECONOMICS - 17th & 18th CENTURIES: Preface; The Early Stuarts: Penshurstand the Old Fashion of England, The "Meaning of Classicism", "ArbiterElegantiarum"; The Spectator and Pope; Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty. PART V -DESIGNER REFORM: Preface; The Encouragement of the Arts of Design in theEighteenth Century; The Condition of England; Pugin; The Schools of Designand the Great Exhibition; The Opponents of Design Reform; Ruskin. PART VI -MODERN MOVEMENT AND WELFARE STATE: Preface; Design, Interiors and PersonalConsumption: The Modem Style: Loos and Le Corbusier, British Design Debatesin the '30s and '40s; Architecture: The Interior, The Struggle for Light,Free Love and Free Planning; Town Planning: Modernist Painting, DepressedAreas and Land Use Planning, Town Planning 1906-1947, Framing the 1947 Act;Modernist Ideas into Action: Daylighting and Density Control, ArchitectPlanners. PART VII - CONCLUSION: PLATO'S CONUNDRUM.