| | | Foreword by Michael Dear | | |
| | | Introduction : making Southern California : public policy, markets, and the dynamic of growth by Jennifer Wolch and Manuel Pastor, Jr. and Peter Dreier | | 1 |
| 1 | | W(h)ither sprawl? : have regional water policies subsidized suburban development? by Steven P. Erie and Gregory Freeman and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli | | 45 |
| 2 | | Environmental racism and urban development by Laura Pulido | | 71 |
| 3 | | Urban sprawl, racial separation, and federal housing policy by Carolyn B. Aldana and Gary A. Dymski | | 99 |
| 4 | | From the barrio to the burbs? : immigration and the dynamics of suburbanization by Enrico A. Marcelli | | 123 |
| 5 | | Where is the "region" in regional transportation planning? by Genevieve Giuliano | | 151 |
| 6 | | Metropolitan fiscal structure : coping with growth and fiscal constraint by Juliet Musso | | 171 |
| 7 | | Federal expenditures, intrametropolitan poverty, and fiscal disparities between cities by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Juliet Musso and Jennifer Wolch | | 195 |
| 8 | | The preservation of nature at the urban fringe by Stephanie Pincetl | | 225 |
| 9 | | Can growth control escape fiscal and economic pressures? : city policy before and after the 1990s recession by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and William Fulton and Juliet Musso | | 255 |
| 10 | | Smart growth or smart growth machine? : the smart growth movement and its implications by Elizabeth Gearin | | 279 |
| 11 | | Living on the edge : growth policy choices for Ventura County by Christine M. Ryan and John P. Wilson and William Fulton | | 309 |
| 12 | | The experimental metropolis : political impediments and opportunities for innovation by Mara A. Marks and Elizabeth Gearin and Carol S. Armstrong | | 343 |