Dow stated that the book uses many photographs. The images also include maps and planning documents. Landscape photographer Paul Hester created most of the photographs. Christopher Dow wrote in Sallyport, the Rice University magazine, that the majority of the essays had a "descriptive" character.
Scardino wrote the introduction to "Places of the City". These discuss city-wide, infrastructure and zoning issues specific districts and neighborhoods and specific buildings, landmarks, and notable persons in architecture, respectively. The book itself has three parts: I: Idea of the City, II: Places of the City, and III: Buildings of the City. Rowe, the dean of Harvard University's College of Architecture, wrote the foreword. This was done in lieu of revising the essays themselves. The essays include updates, current as of the time of publication, in the postscripts by the authors. candidate James Wright stated that most of the articles oppose "Houston's disinterest in architectural equilibrium and unchecked impulse towards pastiche".
The essays discuss the urban core and suburban areas of Houston Snyder stated that the book "thoughtful balance" between the two. Scardino, Stern, and Webb were the publication's founding editors.
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