One Images of the City -- 1. The Future Metropolis: Can It Be Made More Humane? -- 2. Great and Terrible Cities -- 3. The Educative City -- 4. The Form of the City -- 5. Images of the City in the Social Sciences -- Two The Metropolis and New Communities in the United States -- 6. Problems of the Metropolis: Changing Images and Realities -- 7. Conditions for a Successful New Communities Program -- 8. The New Communities Program and Why It Failed -- Three The Metropolis and City Planning in Third World Countries -- 9. Realism and Utopianism in City Planning: A Retrospective View -- 10. Changing Perspectives on Area Development Strategies -- Four Educational Dilemmas in City Planning -- 11. Four Approaches to Urban Studies -- 12. Training City Planners in Third World Countries -- Five City Planning: Promise and Reality -- 13. On the Illusions of City Planners -- 14. The Profession of City Planning -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.