Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Author's Note -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Robert A.M. Stern -- Preface: The Art of Making Places -- Chapter I: Aspects of Modernity -- Introduction -- Contemporary Prospects -- From Political Pluralism to Architectural Plurality -- The Authority of the Architects in a Democracy -- Towards a Coexistence of Doctrines -- The Architect's Categorical Imperative -- Chapter II: Nature of the Architectural Object -- Res Publica * Res Privata -- Nameable Objects and So-Called Objects -- Definition of the Architectural Object -- True and False Monuments -- Technology and Architectural Expression -- Summary of Terms and Concepts -- Chapter III: Critique of a Modernist Ideology -- "How to Make the Easy Difficult by Way of the Useless" -- Modernism or the Anticonformism of the Establishment -- Historicism and Modernism -- Modernism and Progress -- The Aporia of Modernism -- Modernism and Experimentalism -- Modernism and Functionalism -- Modernism and Formalism -- Zeitgeist -- Modernism and Memory -- Modernism and Conservation: The Charter of Venice and Docomomo -- After Modernism -- Gained in Translation -- Chapter IV: Prospects for a New Urbanism -- Forms of Urban Overexpansion -- Ecology and Urbanism * The Vital Link -- Critique of Industrial Planning and Functional Zoning -- The Urbanization of the Suburbs -- The Need to Reform Development Programs -- The Masterplan, A Definition -- The Masterplan, A Tool of Public Interest -- Chapter V: The Polycentric City of Urban Communities -- Cities within the City -- Structural Components -- City and Landscape -- Sustainability -- Structure and Form of the Urban Quarter -- Geometry of Urban Patterns -- Siting of Buildings on Squares, Streets, and Blocks -- Type, Shape, and Character of Urban Spaces -- Single-Lot Blocks * Multi-Lot Blocks and Their Architecture.

Hierarchy of Public Spaces and Circulation Hierarchy -- The Polycentric Zoning of Functions -- Building Heights -- In Praise of Towers -- Critical Problems of Plot-Ratios -- Artificial Lighting of Public Spaces -- Chapter VI: Washington, DC: An Unfinished Canvas -- Washington, DC, A Global Ecological Reconstruction -- Rebirth of the America City -- On Classical Architecture and Vernacular Building -- Chapter VII: The Modernity of Traditional Architecture -- Traditional Culture and the Idea of Progress -- Architecture and Politics -- Why Architecture Matters to You! -- The Destiny of Traditional Architecture -- The Perennial Values of the Principles of Traditional Architecture -- The New * The Unique * The Tectonic * The Original -- Natural and Synthetic Materials -- Venustas * Firmitas * Utilitas -- Chapter VIII: The Universal Usefulness of a Modern Craft Industry or The Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Critique of the Industrialization of Buildings -- The Evaluation of Buildings by Their Whole Life Cycle -- Knowledge or Know-How: The Need for Modern Craftsmanship -- Chapter IX: The Architectural Tuning of Settlements -- The Architectural Tuning of Settlements -- Chapter X: Drawing to Reality -- Why I Practice Classical Architecture and Traditional Urbanism -- Sculpture Podium, Barcelona, Spain -- Tower Block Renovation, Alessandria, Italy -- Archeological Museum, Sintra, Portugal -- The Seaside Prize -- Robert Davis Laudatio -- Krier Hosue, Seaside, Florida, USA -- Cittá Nuova, Alessandria, Italy -- Windsor Village Hall, Vero Beach, Florida, USA -- Brasserie Agape, Val D'Europe, France -- The Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA -- The Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture -- Jaque Robertson Laudatio -- Hameau-Des-Pins, Hardelot, France -- Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, UK -- Afterwords.

Conclusion -- The Last Word by James Howard Kunstler -- Index -- Photo Credits -- Author's Biography -- Other Publications -- Editors' Biographies.