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Volume I The American city - a 20th-century overview: the American city- views and debates - Mumford, Borsodi, Smith, Wirth, Goodman, Mills, Moses,Reed, Gottman, White Gleer, Schnore and Sharp, Rourke, Hauser, Susman, LeoMarx, Bolt; early hisotry - Burke, Shurtleff, Cooper, Flint, Hall, Chevalier,Mackay, Dixon, Browne; responses to the city - the 19th century - Edgar AllanPoe, Greeley, Chapin, Herman Melville, Mayo, Walt Whitman, Strang, Alger,Habberton, Bryce. Volume II America as an urban culture: picturesque cities -Thompson, Woolson, Gardette, Carpenter, Towle, Bunce; the city in trouble -Riis, Crane, Veiller, Steffans, MacAdoo; the black American city - Lee,Locke, Johnson, LeRoi Jones (Barbaka), James Baldwin, Brown Wright, EldridgeCleaver, Toni Morrison; the immigrant city - Hunter, Cahan, Kazin, Soto,Mangione; suburban American - Bridgeman, Allen, Wood, McEntire, Penn,L'Enfant, Jefferson, Downing, Olmsted and Vaux, Sullivan, Lamb, Feiler,Frank, MacKaye, Frank Lloyd Wright, Perry, Firey, Hudnut, Stein, Gans, NormanMailer; Art against the city - Wood; the city in crisis - a 20th-centuryoverview - Frich & Associates, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Clark, Gordon, Wilson,Hill. Volume III The American city - the individual context: New York -Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Adams, Henry James, Rosenfeld, Garcia Lorca,F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, Frank, Crane, Theodore Dresier, Rosenfeld,Tate, Mayakovsky, O'Henry, Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Gunther, Le Corbusier,White, Roland Barthes, Jack Kerouac, Berger, Berman; Chicago - Chamberlain,Ralph, Zorbaugh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Farrell, Saul Bellow, Schmitz, RudyardKipling, James Adams, Fuller, Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair; SanFrancisco and Los Angeles, William Faulkner, West, F. Scott Fitzgerald,Miller, Wilson, Joan Didion, Wolfe, Banham, Gold, Farrell, Norman Mailer,Wolfe, Aldous Huxley; Washington D.C. - Fenimore Cooper, Bellamy, T.S. Eliot,Robert Lowell, Raban; Boston - Walt Whitman, Adams, James, Bellamy, T.S.Eliot, Robert Lowell, Raban; New Orleans, Goldman, Mark Twain, Cable, LilianHellman, Carmer; a footnote on Las Vegas - J. Hunter Thompson.