Title & Author:
The city reader / edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.
Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description:
xviii, 608 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The Urbanization of the Human Population" Scientific American (1965) / Kingsley Davis 3 -- 1 Evolution of Cities -- "The Urban Revolution" Town Planning Review (1950) / V. Gordon Childe 22 -- "The Polis" from The Greeks (1951) / H.D.F. Kitto 31 -- "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" from Medieval Cities (1925) / Henri Pirenne 37 -- "The Great Towns" from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845) / Friedrich Engels 46 -- "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living" and "Color Prejudice" from The Philadelphia Negro (1899) / W.E.B. Du Bois 56 -- "Levittown and America" from The Levittowners (1967) / Herbert J. Gans 63 -- "The Megalopolis: 1920-" from The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City (1972) / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. 69 -- "Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb" from Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987) / Robert Fishman 77 -- Plate Section: The Evolution of Cities -- 2 Urban Culture and Society -- "What Is a City" Architectural Record (1937) / Lewis Mumford 92 -- "Urbanism as a Way of Life" American Journal of Sociology (1938) / Louis Wirth 97 -- "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" from The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) / Jane Jacobs 106 -- "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos" from When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996) / William Julius Wilson 112 -- "Choosing a Future" from Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (1984) / Charles Murray 122 -- "Whose Culture? Whose City?" from The Cultures of Cities (1995) / Sharon Zukin 131 -- "Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture" (1999) / Frederic Stout 143 -- Plate Section: Visions of a New Reality -- 3 Urban Space -- "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" from Robert Park et al., The City (1925) / Ernest W. Burgess 153 -- "The Almost Perfect Town" Landscape (1952) / John Brinckerhoff Jackson 162 -- "The New Downtown" from City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995) / Witold Rybczynski 170 -- "Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography" from Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989) / Edward Soja 180 -- "Fortress L.A." from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990) / Mike Davis 193 -- "Social Justice, Postmodernism, and the City" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (1992) / David Harvey 199 -- "A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications" from Cities in a World Economy (1994) / Saskia Sassen 208 -- 4 Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics -- "How to Study Urban Political Power" from A Phoenix in the Asbes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics (1992) / John Mollenkopf 219 -- "Post-Fordist City Politics" from Ash Amin (ed.), Post Fordism: A Reader (1994) / Margit Mayer 229 -- "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1969) / Sherry Arnstein 240 -- "Broken Windows" Atlantic Monthly (1982) / James Q. Wilson, George L. Kelling 253 -- "Cities and Uneven Economic Development" from Urban Sociology, Capitalism, and Modernity (1993) / Mike Savage, Alan Warde 264 -- "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City" Harvard Business Review (1995) / Michael E. Porter 278 -- 5 Urban Planning History and Visions -- "Modernism and Early Urban Planning, 1870-1940" from Early Urban Planning, 1870-1940 (1998) / Richard T. Legates, Frederic Stout 299 -- "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" American Social Science Association (1870) / Frederick Law Olmsted 314 -- "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" from Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898) / Ebenezer Howard 321 -- "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" from Cities in Evolution (1915) / Patrick9 Geddes 330 -- "A Contemporary City" from The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning (1929) / Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) 336 -- "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan" Architectural Record (1935) / Frank Lloyd Wright 344 -- "The Pedestrian Pocket" from Doug Kelbaugh (ed.), The Pedestrian Pocket Book (1989) / Peter Calthorpe 350 -- 6 Urban Planning Theory and Practice -- "The City of Theory" from Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (1996) / Peter Hall 362 -- "Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree" American Planning Association Journal (1995) / Edward J. Kaiser, David R. Godschalk 375 -- "A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning" and "Ingredients of Success" from The American City: What Works, What Doesn't (1996) / Alexander Garvin 396 -- "Planning in the Face of Conflict" American Planning Association Journal (1987) / John Forester 410 -- "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning" Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1965) / Paul Davidoff 423 -- "Planning Sustainable and Livable Cites" (1998) / Stephen Wheeler 434 -- "A Gender Agenda: New Directions for Planning Theory" American Planning Association Journal (1992) / Leonie Sander Cock, Ann Forsyth 446 -- Plate Section: Urban Planning -- 7 Perspectives on Urban Design -- "Author's Introduction," "The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares," and "The Enclosed Character of the Public Square" from The Art of Building Cities (1889) / Camillo Sitte 466 -- "The City Image and its Elements" from The Image of the City (1960) / Kevin Lynch 478 -- "The Design of Spaces" from City: Rediscovering the Center (1988) / William H. Whyte 483 -- "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto" American Planning Association Journal (1987) / Allan Jacobs, Donald Appleyard 491 -- "What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work" from Catharine R. Stimpson et al. (eds.), Women and the American City (1981) / Dolores Hayden 503 -- "An Introduction to Ecological Design" from Ecological Design (1995) / Sym Van Der Ryn, Stuart Cowan 519 -- 8 Future of the City -- "The Post-City Age" Daedalus (1968) / Melvin M. Webber 535 -- "Arcology: The City in the Image of Man" and "The Characteristics of Arcology" from Arcology: The City in the Image of Man (1969) / Paolo Soleri 540 -- "The Need for a New Vision for the Development of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas" Saloman Brothers (1989) / Anthony Downs 545 -- "European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy" Journal of Economic and Social Geography (1993) / Manuel Castells 557 -- "The Transformation of Cities: Towards Planetary Urban Networks" and "Telecommunications and Urban Futures" from Telecommunications and the City (1996) / Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin 568 -- "The Future Urban World" from Urban World/Global City (1996) / David Clark 579.
Summary:
The City Reader brings together classic writings on the city by authors like Robert Park, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Unwin, and Le Corbusier, with contemporary writings by, among others, Peter Hall, Saskia Sassen and Manuel Castells.
ISBN:
0415190703 (hbk.)
9780415190701 (hbk.)
0415190711 (pbk.)
9780415190718 (pbk.)
Subject:
Urban policy.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Small cities.
Cities
City Planning
Politique urbaine.
Petites villes.
Urbanisme.
Villes.
cities.
towns.
urban planning.
Stadtplanung
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtgeografie
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Stedelijk beleid.
Sociaal-economische verandering.
Design urbain.
Urbanisme Anthologies.
Sociologie urbaine Anthologies.
Added entries:
LeGates, Richard T.
Stout, Frederic, 1943-
Holdings:
Location: Library main 208652
Call No.: HT151 .C5 2000
Status: Available
