Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Proximity Is Good -- 3 Cars, Pollution, and Accidents -- 4 Congestion -- 5 Mass Transit -- 6 Land -- 7 Too Many Cars? Too Much Lawn? Too Much Blight? -- 8 Rules -- 9 Water, Sewers, Fire, and Garbage -- 10 Education -- 11 Race and Space -- 12 Race and Policy -- 13 Housing: The Big Picture -- 14 Housing and Poor People -- 15 Homelessness -- 16 Crime -- 17 Drugs, Guns, and Alcohol -- 18 Urban Economic Development -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Index.