Ch. 1. Introduction: American Architecture? -- 1. Excerpt From On The Architecture Of America / Anonymous -- 2. Excerpt From On The Arts / Anonymous -- 3. Architecture: Its Alleged Degeneracy / R. C. Long -- 4. Excerpt From American Architecture / Horatio Greenough -- 5. Excerpt From A Public Building / Anonymous -- 6. Architecture Through Oppression / Frederick Jackson Turner -- 7. The Point Of View / Montgomery Schuyler -- 8. Excerpt From The Big Money / John Dos Passos -- 9. Melting Pot Of Architecture / Mary Hornaday -- 10. Excerpt From The Architecture Of The Future / Talbot F. Hamlin -- 11. Excerpt From The Tragedy Of American Architecture / G. E. Kidder Smith -- 12. Excerpt From What Is 'american' In Architecture And Design? Notes Toward An Aesthetic Of Process / John A. Kouwenhoven -- 13. Towers Of Mammon / Douglas Davis -- 14. Tomorrow's Ruins Today / Vincent Scully -- Ch. 2. They Do Things Better In Europe: American View The World -- 15. Letters From Paris / Thomas Jefferson -- 16. Excerpt From Description Of The City Of Morocco / Anonymous -- 17. Excerpt From Sketch Of Amsterdam / Anonymous -- 18. Excerpt From Letters From Abroad To Kindred At Home / Catherine Maria Sedgwick -- 19. Excerpt From Mentone, Cairo, And Corfu / Contance Fenimore Woolson -- 20. Excerpts From The Innocents Abroad / Mark Twain -- 21. Excerpt From Italian Villas And Their Gardens / Edith Wharton -- 22. Excerpt From The German Way Of Making Better Cities / Sylvester Baxter -- 23. Excerpt From Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey Of The 1920s / Malcolm Cowley -- 24. Excerpt From Architecture And Life In The U.s.s.r. / Frank Lloyd Wright -- 25. Excerpt From Recent Architecture Abroad / Douglas Haskell -- 26. Excerpt From Israel: Young Blood And Old / George Biddle -- 27. Excerpt From The International Style After Half A Century / Paul Goldberger -- 28. Manifest Destiny / Suzanne Stephens -- Ch. 3. So Glorious A Landscape: Shaping Nature The American Way -- 29. Antiquities Of Ohio / C. W. Short -- 30. Pine Lands Of New Jersey / Anonymous -- 31. Excerpt From The Pine Barrens / John Mcphee -- 32. Excerpt From A Tour On The Prairies / Washington Irving -- 33. Review Of Andrew Jackson Downing, Landscape Gardening And Rural Architecture In America / Anonymous -- 34. Excerpt From The Pennsylvania Coal Region / H. M. Alden -- 35. Our National Shabbiness / Frederick Lewis Allen -- 36. Architecture Of The Tva / Douglas Haskell -- 37. Last Chance To Save The Everglades / John D. Macdonald -- 38. Excerpt From Preliminary Glance At An American Landscape / John A. Kouwenhoven -- 39. Excerpt From The Politics Of Beauty / William F. Buckley -- 40. Excerpt From God's Own Junkyard / Peter Blake -- 41. Abolish The White House Lawn / Michael Pollan -- 42. The Trouble With Wilderness / William Cronon -- Ch. 4. One Nation, Of Many Parts: Regionalism And The Built Environment -- 43. Excerpt From Topographical Sketches Of The County Of Essex / Anonymous -- 44. Excerpt From An Account Of Moravian Settlements / Anonymous -- 45. Excerpt From Domestic Architecture / Z -- 46. Excerpt From The Souls Of Black Folk / W. E. B. Du Bois -- 47. Excerpt From Highways And Byways Of The South / Clifton Johnson -- 48. Excerpt From The Abomination Of Cities / Corra Harris -- 49. J. W. Hoover, Excerpt From House And Village Types Of The Southwest As Conditioned By Aridity, 1935; And Talbot Hamlin, Excerpt From What Makes It American? Architecture In The Southwest And West, 1939 -- 50. Excerpt From Grandfather's Store / Phyllis Fenner -- 51. Excerpt From Look What's Happened To California / Carey Mcwilliams -- 52. Why Is This An American Style House? / Charlotte Conway -- 53. Show Me The Way To Go Home / Thomas Griffith -- 54. Excerpt From A Vision Of New Fields / John Brinckerhoff Jackson -- 55. Bulldozing Our Sense Of Place / Steven Conn -- Ch. 5. Urbanism, Real And Imagined -- 56. Description Of Philadelphia / Jacob Duche -- 57. Description Of The City Of Washington / Anonymous -- 58. Excerpt From The Plan Of San Francisco / M. G. Upton -- 59. Excerpt From The Problem Of The Twentieth Century City / Josiah Strong -- 60. Excerpt From Colorado And Its Capital / Julian Ralph -- 61. Excerpt From What A Great City Might Be -- A Lesson From The White City / John Coleman Adams -- 62. Excerpt From Art And Railway Stations / Anonymous -- 63. Excerpt From Improvement In City Life: Aesthetic Progress / Charles Mulford Robinson -- 64. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study / W. E. B. Du Bois -- 65. Louis Sullivan, Excerpt From The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered, 1896; And Henry James, Excerpt From The American Scene, 1907 -- 66. The Terrible Super-city / Commonweal Editors -- 67. Excerpt From Magic Motorways / Norman Bel Geddes -- 68. Excerpt From Here Is New York / E. B. White -- 69. America Day By Day (l'amerique Au Jour Le Jour) / Simone De Beauvoir -- 70. Downtown Is For People / Jane Jacobs -- 71. Fear Of The City, 1783-1983 / Alfred Kazin -- 72. Excerpt From The New American Ghetto / Camillo Jose Vergara -- 73. Excerpt From A City On A Hill / Kurt Andersen -- 74. Excerpt From Las Vegas, Tis Of Thee / Richard Todd -- 75. On Edge, Again / Max Page -- Ch. 6. Taming The Crabgrass Frontier: The Triumph Of The Suburbs -- 76. Anonymous, Landscape-gardening: Llewellen Park, 1857; And Anonymous, Llewellyn Park, 1871 -- 77. Excerpt From Letter To The Riverside Improvement Company / Olmsted, Vaux And Co -- 78. Excerpt From Suburban Homes On The West Jersey Railroad / Anonymous -- 79. Excerpt From Suburban Homes: A Plea For Privacy In Home Life / R. Clipston Sturgis -- 80. Christine Frederick, Excerpt From Is Suburban Living A Delusion? 1928; And Ethel Longworth Swift, Excerpt From In Defense Of Suburbia, 1928 -- 81. Excerpt From Does Your City Suffer From Suburbanitis? / Thomas H. Reed, Doris Reed And Murrah Teigh Bloom -- 82. Excerpt From The Big Change In Suburbia / Frederick Lewis Allen -- 83. Excerpt From Are Cities Un-american? / William H. Whyte, Jr. -- 84. Excerpt From The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan -- 85. Excerpt From No Place Like Home / David Guterson -- 86. Excerpt From Home From Nowhere / James Howard Kunstler -- Ch. 7. Better Buildings, Better People: Architecture And Social Reform -- 87. Excerpt From American Notes / Charles Dickens -- 88. Excerpt From The Shakers At Lebanon / Anonymous -- 89. Excerpt From College Edifices And Their Relation To Education / Anonymous -- 90. Excerpt From The American Woman's Home / Catherine E. Beecher And Harriet Beecher Stowe -- 91. Excerpt From Pullman: A Social Study / Richard T. Ely -- 92. Excerpt From Mill Architecture / C. John Hexamer -- 93. Excerpt From Beautifying The Ugly Things / Mary Bronson Hartt -- 94. Excerpt From Giving Carnegie Libraries / Isaac F. Marcosson -- 95. Excerpt From City Planning In Justice To The Working Population -- 96. Excerpt From That 'one Third Of A Nation' / Edith Elmer Wood -- 97. The Case History Of A Failure / James Bailey -- 98. The Threat And Promise Of Urban Redevelopment In New Haven / Vincent Scully -- 99. John Edgar Wideman, Doing Time, Marking Race, 1995; And Peter Annin, Inside The New Alcatraz, 1998 -- Ch. 8. Monuments And Memory: Building And Protecting The American Past -- 100. Description Of An Indian Mound / Joseph Sansom -- 101. Excerpt From Church Architecture In New-york / S. -- 102. Washington's Examples / Anonymous -- 103. Excerpt From The Lack Of Old Homes In America / Charles Eliot Norton -- 104. Excerpt From A Great Battle Park / Anonymous -- 105. Excerpt From Preserving The Landmarks / Park Pressey -- 106. Excerpt From Colonial Williamsburg / Helen Burns 107. The Disappearance Of Pennsylvania Station / Lewis Mumford -- 108. Destroying The Past By 'development' / Russell Kirk -- 109. Herbert J. Gans, Excerpt From Preserving Everyone's Noo Yawk, 1975; And Ada Louise Huxtable, Excerpt From Preserving Noo Yawk Landmarks, 1975 -- 110. The Vietnam Memorial / Paul Goldberger -- 111. Excerpt From The House That Ruth's Father Built / Phil Patton -- 112. How A Brand-new Development Came By Its Rich History / Ann Carrns -- 113. Excerpt From Old Baltimore Row Houses Fall Before The Wrecking Ball / Tracie Rozhon -- 114. New War Memorial Is Shrine To Sentiment / Herbert Muschamp. Edited By Steven Conn And Max Page. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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