Preface: What Makes a Great City Chapter 1: The Importance of the Public Realm Defining the Public Realm Streets, Squares, and Parks Beyond Streets, Squares, and Parks Making Cities Great Chapter 2: The Characteristics of the Public Realm Open to Anybody Something for Everybody Attracting and Retaining Market Demand Providing a Framework for Successful Urbanization Sustaining a Habitable Environment Nurturing and Supporting a Civil Society Chapter 3: Open to Anybody Overwhelmingly Identifiable, Accessible, and Easy to Use Plaza Mayor, Salamanca, Spain Creating an Identifiable, Accessible, and Easy-to-Use Public Realm The Paris Metro Federal Center, Chicago Piazza del Campo, Siena, Italy The Squares of Savannah Sixteenth Street, Denver Keeping the Public Realm Safe Gran Via, Barcelona Piet Heinkade, Amsterdam The Streets of Paris Feeling Comfortable Jardin du Palais Royale, Paris Commonwealth Avenue, Boston Kungstradgarten, Stockholm Via dei Condotti, Rome Via Aquilante, Gubbio, Italy Worth Avenue, Palm Beach Levittown, Long Island Forever Welcoming Chapter 4: Something for Everybody A Reason to Return Again and Again Boulevard des Italiens, Paris Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris Washington Park, Chicago Having Fun Playgrounds Piazza Navona, Rome Animating a Multifunctional Public Realm Market Square and PPG Place, Pittsburgh A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place Central Park, New York City Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona Reclaiming Bits of the Public Realm for Public Use Plenty of People Chapter 5: Attracting and Retaining Market Demand Using the Public Realm to Trigger Private Development Place des Vosges, Paris The Revival of the Place des Vosges Regent''s Park, London Avenue Foch, Paris Enlarging the Public Realm to Accommodate a Growing Market An Administrative Center for the Modern City of Paris North Michigan Avenue, Chicago Responding to Diminishing Market Demand by Repositioning the Public Realm Kärntner Straße, Vienna Bryant Park, New York City Continuing Investment Chapter 6: Providing a Framework for Successful Urbanization Alternative Frameworks Atlanta Dubrovnik, Croatia Rome St. Petersburg, Russia The Paris Street Network Ringstrasse, Vienna Radio-Concentric Moscow Houston''s Highway Rings The Manhattan Grid Maintaining the Public Realm Framework Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan Determining the Location of Market Activity Chapter 7: Sustaining a Habitable Environment What Does It Take to Sustain a Habitable Environment? Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn Using the Public Realm to Create a Habitable Environment Boston''s Emerald Necklace Long Island''s Network of Parks, Beaches, and Parkways Reconfiguring the Public Realm to Improve Habitability The Public Squares of Portland, Oregon New York City''s Greenstreets Program Transportation Alternatives that Improve Habitability Union Square, San Francisco Post Office Square, Boston Congestion Pricing in London Congestion Targets in Zurich An Ever More Habitable Public Realm The Chicago Lakeshore Reviving the San Antonio River Operating the Public Realm Park Management in New York City An Ever-Improving Public Realm Chapter 8: Nurturing and Supporting a Civil Society The Nurturing Role of the Public Realm The Streets of Copenhagen Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad), St. Petersburg Red Square, Moscow Ensuring that the Public Realm Continues to Nurture a Civil Society Times Square, Manhattan The Public Realm as a Setting for Self-Expression Chapter 9: Using the Public Realm to Shape Everyday Life Whose Realm Is It? Determining the Daily Life of a City The Squares of London The Minneapolis Park System The Madrid Miracle The Key to Greatness Chapter 10: Creating a Public Realm for the Twenty-First Century The Patient Search for a Better Tomorrow Place de la République, Paris Post Oak Boulevard in the Uptown District of Houston Brooklyn Bridge Park Atlanta''s BeltLine Emerald Necklace Waterfront Toronto What Makes a City Great.