This second edition of "The City Reader" brings together writing on the city. Each piece is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the authors' writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of: urban history and practice; competing ideological perspectives on the city; and the major current debates concerning race and gender, global restructuring, sustainable urban development, and the impact of technology and postmodernism.
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List of plates xii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction xv Prologue ``The Urbanization of the Human Population 3(19) Kingsley Davis Scientific American The Evolution of Cities Introduction 17(5) ``The Urban Revolution 22(9) V. Gordon Childe Town Planning Review ``The Polis 31(6) H.D.F. Kitto from The Greeks ``City Origins and ``Cities and European Civilization 37(9) Henri Pirenne from Medieval Cities ``The Greet Towns 46(10) Friedrich Engels from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 ``The Negro Problems of Philadelphia, ``The Question of Earning a Living and ``Color Prejudice 56(7) W.E.B. Du Bois from The Philadelphia Negro ``Levittown and America 63(6) Herbert J. Gans from The Levittowners ``The Megalopolis: 1920- 69(8) Sam Bass Warner, Jr. from The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City ``Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb 77(12) Robert Fishman from Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia The Evolution of Cities Urban Culture and Society Introduction 89(3) ``What Is a City 92(5) Lewis Mumford Architectural Record ``Urbanism as a Way of Life 97(9) Louis Wirth American Journal of Sociology ``The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety 106(6) Jane Jacobs from The Death and Life of Great American Cities ``From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos 112(10) William Julius Wilson from When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor ``Choosing a Future 122(9) Charles Murray from Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 ``Whose Culture? Whose City? 131(12) Sharon Zukin from The Cultures of Cities ``Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture 143(6) Frederic Stout Visions of a New Reality Urban Space Introduction 149(4) ``The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project 153(9) Ernest W. Burgess from Robert Park et al., The City ``The Almost Perfect Town 162(8) John Brinckerhoff Jackson Landscape ``The New Downtown 170(10) Witold Rybczynski from City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World ``Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography 180(13) Edward Soja from Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory ``Fortress L.A. 193(6) Mike Davis from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles ``Social Justice, Postmodernism, and the City 199(9) David Harvey International Journal of Urban and Regional Research ``A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications 208(11) Saskia Sassen from Cities in a World Economy Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics Introduction 215(4) ``How to Study Urban Political Power 219(10) John Mollenkopf from A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics ``Post-Fordist City Politics 229(11) Margit Mayer from Ash Amin (ed.), Post Fordism: A Reader ``A Ladder of Citizen Participation 240(13) Sherry Arnstein Journal of the American Institute of Planners ``Broken Windows 253(11) James Q. Wilson George L. Kelling Atlantic Monthly ``Cities and Uneven Economic Development 264(14) Mike Savage Alan Warde from Urban Sociology, Capitalism, and Modernity ``The Competititve Advantage of the Inner City 278(21) Michael E. Porter Harvard Business Review Urban Planning History and Visions Introduction 295(4) ``Modernism and Early Urban Planning, 1870-1940 299(15) Richard T. Legates Frederic Stout from Early Urban Planning, 1870-1940 ``Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns 314(7) Frederick Law Olmsted American Social Science Association ``Authors Introduction and ``The Town-Country Magnet 321(9) Ebenezer Howard from Garden Cities of To-morrow ``City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government 330(6) Patrick Geddes from Cities in Evolution ``A Contemporary City 336(8) Le Corbusier Charles-Edouard Jeanneret from The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning ``Broadacre City: A New Community Plan 344(6) Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Record ``The Pedestrian Pocket 350(12) Peter Calthorpe from Doug Kelbaugh (ed.), The Pedestrian Pocket Book Urban Planning Theory and Practice Introduction 359(3) ``The City of Theory 362(13) Peter Hall from Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century ``Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree 375(21) Edward J. Kaiser David R. Godschalk American Planning Association Journal ``A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning and ``Ingredients of Success 396(14) Alexander Garvin from The American City: What Works, What Doesnt ``Planning in the Face of Conflict 410(13) John Forester American Planning Association Journal ``Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning 423(11) Paul Davidoff Journal of the American Institute of Planners ``Planning Sustainable and Livable Cites 434(12) Stephen Wheeler ``A Gender Agenda: New Directions for Planning Theory 446(17) Leonie Sandercock Ann Forsyth American Planning Association Journal Urban Planning Perspectives of Urban Design Introduction 463(1) ``Authors Introduction, ``The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares, and ``The Enclosed Character of the Public Square 463(15) Camillo Sitte from The Art of Building Cities ``The City Image and its Elements 478(5) Kevin Lynch from The Image of the City ``The Design of Spaces 483(8) William H. Whyte from City: Rediscovering the Center ``Toward an Urban Design Manifesto 491(12) Allan Jacobs Donald Appleyard American Planning Association Journal ``What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work 503(16) Dolores Hayden from Catharine R. Stimpson et al. (eds.), Women and the American City ``An Introduction to Ecological Design 519(16) Sym Van Der Ryn Stuart Cowan from Ecological Design The Future of the City Introduction 531(4) ``The Post-City Age 535(5) Melvin M. Webber Daedalus ``Arcology: The City in the Image of Man and ``The Characteristics of Arcology 540(5) Paolo Soleri from Arcology: The City in the Image of Man ``The Need for a New Vision for the Development of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas 545(12) Anthony Downs Saloman Brothers ``European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy 557(11) Manuel Castells Journal of Economic and Social Geography ``The Transformation of Cities: Towards planetary Urban Networks and ``Telecommunications and Urban Futures 568(11) Stephen Graham Simon Marvin from Telecommunications and the City ``The Future Urban World 579(11) David Clark from Urban World/Global City Illustration credits 590(2) Copyright information 592(5) Index 597
Richard T. LeGates is Professor of Urban Studies at San Francisco State University. Frederic Stout is Lecturer in Urban Studies at Stanford University.
