Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Timeline -- 1 Introduction: The Direction of Travel -- Rationale -- The scope and content of Anglo-American Crossroads -- 2 Roads to Reconstruction: The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Special Housing Mission to Wartime Britain -- Introduction -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the wartime British city -- The Special Housing Mission to Great Britain, 1942-46 -- Networks and themes coalesce -- Networks -- 3 Green Lights for Understanding: The American Contribution to Urban Research in Britain, 1940s-1970s -- Introduction -- The Institute of Community Studies -- The Centre for Urban Studies -- The Centre for Environmental Studies -- The Ditchley Foundation -- Social scientists and the Rockefeller Foundation -- Conclusion -- 4 Through Roads and Dead Ends: American Influences on Post-war Urban Reconstruction -- Introduction -- The new towns programme -- Travelling beyond the neighbourhood unit -- Roads and urban renewal -- Radburn and the design of post-war new towns and new communities -- Roads, Radburn and the re-thinking of residential areas: The initial planning of Milton Keynes -- The final passing of the neighbourhood unit -- Education and campuses -- Some conclusions -- 5 Roads to Edge City: Motorization, Milton Keynes and Urbanization After the Era of Reconstruction -- Introduction -- Edge City -- From the detested to the digested city: Learning from Los Angeles -- Roads: Similarities and differences between LA and MK -- Shopping centres -- Linear parks, waterfronts and redways -- LA and MK: Some other differences -- Conclusion: England's most American city -- 6 The Opposite Direction: British Influences Upon Privately and Publicly Developed New Towns and New Communities in the United States of America -- Introduction.

James W. Rouse, Cross Keys and Columbia -- Reston, Virginia -- The New Communities Development Act of 1968 and the federally assisted new towns in the United States of America -- The ending of the federally assisted new communities -- Operation Breakthrough -- Conclusion -- 7 Avoiding Danger: The USA and the Regeneration of the Inner City in Britain Since 1970 -- Introduction -- The growth of the inner city problem in Britain -- The inner city problem in England and the United States of America -- Inner city policies during the late 1960s and the 1970s -- The significance of failure: The community development projects -- Enterprise zones: Business-led solutions to decline during the 1980s and 1990s -- From Baltimore to Britain: Waterfronts and urban regeneration -- Gentrification: Encouraging the middle classes back into the inner cities and the city centres -- From SoHo to Soho: Loft living -- Conclusion: The special relationship between the British and American city since 1970 -- 8 A Coda on New Urbanism: Back to Milton Keynes -- High Priests and Princes -- New Urbanism and Milton Keynes -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography and Sources -- Archive Sources -- Published Sources -- Unpublished Sources -- Web Sources -- Index.