Brian McGrath is an Associate Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. He taught at Columbia University in the Urban Design Studios for 15 years in a programme that grew 500% in student population between 1991 and 2005. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99. He is currently a co-investigator on an interdisciplinary team on the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a Long Term Ecological Research project where he coordinates a working group linking science research, public policy and design. McGrath has authored and contributed to many books and journals, he also teaches and lectures internationally.

• Introduction 8Brian McGrathFROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY TO METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTUREThe Architecture of the City 16Aldo RossiCollage City 27Colin Rowe and Fred KoetterCities Within the City 36Oswald Mathias UngersChicago à la Carte 48Alvin BoyarskyLife in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion 60Rem KoolhaasThe Making of Hong Kong 72Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas KvanMEGALOPOLIS: THE NATURE OF SPRAWLThe Territory of Architecture 86Vittorio GregottiLos Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 98Reyner BanhamLearning From Las Vegas 108Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert VenturiAn Urbanism of Reform 122Albert PopeMega Urban Ecologies 146Sharon Haar and Victoria MarshallEcology of the City: A Perspective from Science 162Steward TA PickettTHE MEGACITYPeople as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg 174AbdouMaliq SimoneBangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies 184Brian McGrathSustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo 196Carlos LeiteFrugality and Urban Life 212May JosephDesign, Sustainability and the Global City 220Christian Hubert and Ioanna TheocharopoulouTHE METACITYSituationist Space 238Tom McDonoughThe Manhattan Transcripts 248Bernard TschumiThe Fragmented Metropolis 260David Grahame ShaneDesigning Ecological Heterogeneity 272ML CadenassoThe Elementary City 282Paola ViganòMade in Tokyo 300Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu TsunamoroIndex 314

Brian McGrath is an Associate Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. He taught at Columbia University in the Urban Design Studios for 15 years in a programme that grew 500% in student population between 1991 and 2005. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99. He is currently a co-investigator on an interdisciplinary team on the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a Long Term Ecological Research project where he coordinates a working group linking science research, public policy and design. McGrath has authored and contributed to many books and journals, he also teaches and lectures internationally.

• Introduction 8Brian McGrathFROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY TO METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTUREThe Architecture of the City 16Aldo RossiCollage City 27Colin Rowe and Fred KoetterCities Within the City 36Oswald Mathias UngersChicago à la Carte 48Alvin BoyarskyLife in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion 60Rem KoolhaasThe Making of Hong Kong 72Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas KvanMEGALOPOLIS: THE NATURE OF SPRAWLThe Territory of Architecture 86Vittorio GregottiLos Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 98Reyner BanhamLearning From Las Vegas 108Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert VenturiAn Urbanism of Reform 122Albert PopeMega Urban Ecologies 146Sharon Haar and Victoria MarshallEcology of the City: A Perspective from Science 162Steward TA PickettTHE MEGACITYPeople as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg 174AbdouMaliq SimoneBangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies 184Brian McGrathSustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo 196Carlos LeiteFrugality and Urban Life 212May JosephDesign, Sustainability and the Global City 220Christian Hubert and Ioanna TheocharopoulouTHE METACITYSituationist Space 238Tom McDonoughThe Manhattan Transcripts 248Bernard TschumiThe Fragmented Metropolis 260David Grahame ShaneDesigning Ecological Heterogeneity 272ML CadenassoThe Elementary City 282Paola ViganòMade in Tokyo 300Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu TsunamoroIndex 314

Brian McGrath is an Associate Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. He taught at Columbia University in the Urban Design Studios for 15 years in a programme that grew 500% in student population between 1991 and 2005. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99. He is currently a co-investigator on an interdisciplinary team on the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a Long Term Ecological Research project where he coordinates a working group linking science research, public policy and design. McGrath has authored and contributed to many books and journals, he also teaches and lectures internationally.

• Introduction 8Brian McGrathFROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY TO METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTUREThe Architecture of the City 16Aldo RossiCollage City 27Colin Rowe and Fred KoetterCities Within the City 36Oswald Mathias UngersChicago à la Carte 48Alvin BoyarskyLife in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion 60Rem KoolhaasThe Making of Hong Kong 72Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas KvanMEGALOPOLIS: THE NATURE OF SPRAWLThe Territory of Architecture 86Vittorio GregottiLos Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 98Reyner BanhamLearning From Las Vegas 108Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert VenturiAn Urbanism of Reform 122Albert PopeMega Urban Ecologies 146Sharon Haar and Victoria MarshallEcology of the City: A Perspective from Science 162Steward TA PickettTHE MEGACITYPeople as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg 174AbdouMaliq SimoneBangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies 184Brian McGrathSustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo 196Carlos LeiteFrugality and Urban Life 212May JosephDesign, Sustainability and the Global City 220Christian Hubert and Ioanna TheocharopoulouTHE METACITYSituationist Space 238Tom McDonoughThe Manhattan Transcripts 248Bernard TschumiThe Fragmented Metropolis 260David Grahame ShaneDesigning Ecological Heterogeneity 272ML CadenassoThe Elementary City 282Paola ViganòMade in Tokyo 300Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu TsunamoroIndex 314