This is a social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of three nations--the United States, Sweden, and England

Introduction; I: History; 1: The Rural to Urban Transition; 2: The Path to Metropolitan Life; II: Form; 3: The Metropolitan Setting: A Portrait of Three Metropolitan Areas; 4: Explaining the Dissimilarities of Metropolitan Form; III: Life; 5: Everyday Life in the Metropolitan Area; 6: The Structure of the Metropolitan Community; IV: Change; 7: The Metropolitan Community and the Privatization of Life; 8: Changing the Metropolitan Community in the United States