"This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Llufs Sert (1902-1983), one of its most influential practitioners and theorists." "With essays by leading scholars and a wide selection of archival materials, illustrations, plans, and maps, this book provides a timely look at the man who advocated the idea of "urban consciousness" and an architecture that dealt with the total environment-well before these concepts became commonplace."--BOOK JACKET

• Introduction / Hashim Sarkis
• Eduard F. Sekler
• Francesco Passanti
• Jordana Mendelson
• Timothy Hyde
• Mardges Bacon
• Jill Pearlman
• Richard Marshall
• Eric Mumford
• Cammie McAtee
• Robert Campbell
• Huson Jackson The CIAM legacy
• Sert, CIAM, and the GSD: a memoir / The aesthetic dimension in Le Corbusier's urban planning / Creating a public for modern architecture: Sert's use of images from GATCPAC to The heart of the city / The Latin American planning experience
• Planos, planes y planificacion: Josep Lluis Sert and the idea of planning / Josep Lluis Sert's evolving concept of the urban core: between Corbusian form and Mumfordian social practice / The parameters of urban design
• Breaking common ground: Joseph Hudnut and the prehistory of urban design / Josep Lluis Sert's urban design legacy / From the heart of the city to Holyoke Center: CIAM ideas in Sert's definition of urban design / From the ground up: Hideo Sasaki's contributions to urban design / A conversation with Josep Lluis Sert / Commentary on selected projects by Sert: curated by Ines Zalduendo and Mary Daniels /