Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Changing Field of Urban Geography. Chapter 2. The Origins and Development of Cities. Chapter 3. The Evolution of the American Urban System. Chapter 4. Globalization and the Urban System.

Chapter 5. Telecommunications and the City. Chapter 6. Urban Land Use: The CBD and the Growth of the Suburbs. Chapter 7. Landscapes of Production. Chapter 8. Foundations of Urban Social Landscapes.

Chapter 9. Urban Housing Markets: Sprawl, Blight, and Regeneration. Chapter 10. Segregation, Race, and Urban Poverty. Chapter 11. Immigration, Ethnicity, and Urbanism. Chapter 12. Metropolitan Governance and Fragmentation.

Chapter 13. Planning the Better City. Chapter 14. Cities in the Developed World. Chapter 15. Cities in the Less Developed World. Chapter 16. Regional Variations in Urban Structure and Form in the Less Developed World.