Machine generated contents note: 1.Capital cities in the twentieth century / David L. A. Gordon -- 2.Seven types of capital city / Peter Hall -- 3.The urban design of twentieth century capitals / Lawrence J. Vale -- 4.Paris : from the legacy of Haussmann to the pursuit of cultural supremacy / Paul White -- 5.Moscow and St. Petersburg : a tale of two capitals / Michael H. Lang -- 6.Helsinki : from provincial to national centre / Laura Kolbe -- 7.London : the contradictory capital / Dennis Hardy -- 8.Tokyo : forged by market forces and not the power of planning / Shun-ichi J. Watanabe -- 9.Washington : the DC's history of unresolved planning conflicts / Isabelle Gournay -- 10.Canberra : where landscape is pre-eminent / Christopher Vernon -- 11.Ottawa-Hull : lumber town to national capital / David L. A. Gordon -- 12.Brasilia : a capital in the Hinterland / Sylvia Ficher / Francisco Leitao / Geraldo Nogueira Batista / Dionisio Alves de Franca -- 13.New Delhi : imperial capital to capital of the world's largest democracy / Souro D. Joardar -- 14.Berlin : capital under changing political regimes / Wolfgang Sonne -- 15.Rome : where great events not regular planning bring development / Giorgio Piccinato -- 16.Chandigarh : India's modernist experiment / Nihal Perera -- 17.Brussels : capital of Belgium and 'capital of Europe' / Carola Hein -- 18.New York city : super-capital -- not by government alone / Eugenie L. Birch.