Includes bibliographical references.

The city: people and population -- Building confidence in crowded space -- Finding unity in the midst of diversity -- The city: centre of knowledge -- Consistency and the information highway -- Bearing the image in an image-driven age -- Permanency in impermanent times -- Singularity and the epidemic of pluralism -- Overcoming the contradictions of modernity -- The city and its emotional demands -- A harbour of safety in a sea of concrete -- Coming together when things fall apart -- Stability in stressed-out times -- The city: its shillings and shakers -- Overcoming prosperity's peril and poverty's prison -- Confronting the hiddens costs of materialism -- The city: human plans and patterns -- Turning the maze into a place of ministry -- Discipling beyond professional trappings -- Summary and conclusions.