Includes bibliographical references (page 343) and index.
Frontier city to regional capital, 1788-1829 -- Queen of the West, 1830-60 -- Building civic pride through engineering, architecture, and art, 1861-75 -- The Paris of America, 1876-95 -- The new order of things, 1893-1919 -- Modernism and reform in city building, 1920-33 -- The Depression era, 1933-44 -- Modernizing the city, post-World War II, 1945-64 -- Toward the Bicentennial, new versus old, 1964-88 -- Dynamic mix of new and old, 1989-2006