The Unique Nature of Frontier Cities and their Development Challenge Harvey Lithwick and Yehuda Grad us The advent of government downsizing, and globalization h

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cro

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay in

Spectacular modern aerial photographs of twenty-three of the towns dramatically illustrate changes to the urban scene and demonstrate the lasting influence of t

The Description for this book, Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning, will be forthcoming.