The city reader / edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LeGates, Richard T.

Stout, Frederic, 1943-

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge urban reader series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy.

Cities and towns.

City planning.

Physical Description:

xxii, 624 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

Prologue : How to study cities

Part 1. The evolution of cities : The urbanization of the human population / Kingsley Davis

The urban revolution / V. Gordon Chide

The polis / H.D.F. Kitto

The great towns / Friedrich Engels

Evolution and transformation: the American industrial metropolis, 1840-1940 / Sam Bass Warner

The drive-in culture of contemporary America / Kenneth T. Jackson

Beyond suburbia: the rise of the technoburb / Robert Fishman

Photo section : The evolution of cities

Part 2. Urban culture and society : What is a city? / Lewis Mumford

Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth

The uses of sidewalks: safety / Jane Jacobs

The Negro problems of Philadelphia ; The question of earning a living ; Color prejudice / W.E.B. Du Bois

From institutional to jobless ghettos / William Julius Wilson

The code of the street ; Decent and street families / Elijah Anderson

Bowling alone: America's declining social capital / Robert D. Putnam

The creative class / Richard Florida

Visions of a new reality: the city and the emergence of modern visual culture / Frederic Stout

Plate section : Visions of a new reality

Part 3. Urban space : The growth of the city: an introduction to a research project / Ernest W. Burgess

The Los Angeles school of urbanism: an intellectual history / Michael Dear

What happened to gender relations on the way from Chicago to Los Angeles? / Daphne Spain

Social exclusion and space / Ali Madanipour

Fortress L.A. / Mike Davis

The almost perfect town / John Brinckerhoff Jackson

The causes of sprawl / Robert Bruegmann

Part 4. Urban politics, governance, and economics : Contested cities: social process and spatial form / David Harvey

A ladder of citizen participation / Sherry Arnstein

The city as a growth machine: towards a political economy of place / Harvey Molotch

Broken windows / James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling

The city as a distorted price system / Wilbur Thompson

The competitive advantage of the inner city / Michael Porter

Metropolitics / Myron Orfield

Plate section : Social and symbolic uses of urban space

Part 5. Urban planning history and visions : Public parks and the enlargement of towns / Frederick Law Olmsted

Author's introduction ; The town-country magnet / Ebenezer Howard

A contemporary city / Le Corbusier

Broadacre City: a new community plan / Frank Lloyd Wright

Towards sustainable development / World Commission on Environment and Development

Charter of the new urbanism / Congress for the New Urbanism

Designing the region ; Designing the region is designing the neighborhood / Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton

Part 6. Urban planning theory and practice ; The city of theory / Peter Hall

Anglo-American town planning theory since 1945: three significant developments by no paradigm shifts / Nigel Taylor

Twentieth-century land use planning: a stalwart family tree / Edward J. Kaiser and David R. Godschalk

Planning in the face of conflict / John Forester

Advocacy and pluralism in planning / Paul Davidoff

Planning for sustainability in European cities: a review of practice in leading cities / Timothy Beatley

Urban planning and global climate change / Stephen Wheeler

Part 7. Perspectives on urban design : Author's introduction ; The relationship between buildings, monuments, and public squares ; The enclosed character of the public square / Camillo Sitte

The neighborhood unit / Clarence Petty

The city image and its elements / Kevin Lynch

The design of spaces / William H. Whyte

Toward an urban design manifesto / Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard

Three types of outdoor activities ; Life between buildings ; Outdoor activities and the quality of outdoor space / Jan Gehl

Plate section : Urban planning and urban design

Part 8. Cities in a global society : The post-city age / Melvin M. Webber

The impact of the new technologies and globalization on cities / Saskia Sassen

World-city network: a new metageography? / Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith, Peter J. Taylor

Space of flows, space of places: materials for a theory of urbanism in the information age (2001, 2002) / Manuel Castells

Key findings and messages / UN-HABITAT

Chinese cities in a global society / Tingwei Zhang

From global cities to globalized urbanization / Neil Brenner and Roger Keil

Plate section : Cities in a global society.

Notes:

"Fifth edition"--Intro.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0415556643

9780415556644

9780415556651

0415556651

OCLC:

647772495

Publisher Number:

99954984544