pt. 1. Town: Town as ideal community / Booth Tarkington and Zona Gale -- Ideal questioned but not abandoned / Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis and Floyd Dell -- Automobility and community: the middle landscape of American automobiles -- Middletown and the "eclipse of community" / Robert and Helen Lynd -- pt. 2. City: City and the middle border / Hamlin Garland -- City as noncommunity / Theodore Dreiser and Henry Blake Fuller -- Social workers, reformers and the city / Jane Addams and Jacob Riis -- Alternative perspective: the "radical" journalism of Hutchins Hapgood and Ernest Poole -- A sociologist and the city: the experience of Robert Park -- Planning the American city / Charles Mulford Robinson and John Nolen -- Regionalism and the community: the urbanism of Lewis Mumford -- pt. 3. Afterword.
