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Required Texts


Amazon logo Fainstein, Susan, and Scott Campbell. Readings in Urban Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450.

Amazon logo King, Anthony D. Global Cities: Post-imperialism and the Internationalization of London. New York, NY: Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 9780415062411.

Amazon logo Legates, Richard, and Frederick Stout. The City Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415770842.

Amazon logo Merrifield, Andy. Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 9780415933490.



Recommended Texts


Amazon logo DeFilippis, James. Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 17-60. ISBN: 9780415945257.

Amazon logo Gans, Herbert J. Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780029112403.

Amazon logo ———. The Levittowners. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780231055710.

Amazon logo Levitt, Peggy. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520228139.

Amazon logo Mollenkopf, John Hull. The Contested City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780691022208.

Amazon logo Burgess, Ernest W., and Robert E. Park. The City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780226646114.

Amazon logo Sassen, Saskia. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691070636.

Amazon logo Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691121864.

Amazon logo Castells, Manuel. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Edited by Ida Susser. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631219330.

Amazon logo Wellman, Barry. Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780813368214.

Amazon logo Whyte, William Foote. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780226895451.



Weekly Readings


Each week's readings are divided into three parts: required readings, additional core readings, and additional suggested readings. All students should read the required readings for each week. PhD students studying for their general exam in Urban Sociology should also read the additional core readings.


SES #TopicsReadings
1Introduction
2Classical foundations

Durkheim, Emile. "Division of Labour in Society." In Sociology: An Introduction: From the Classics to Contemporary Feminists. Edited by Gordon Bailey and Noga Gayle. Don Mills, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 121-134. ISBN: 9780195409406.

Aldous, Joan, Emile Durkheim, and Ferdinand Tonnies. "An Exchange between Durkheim and Tonnies on the Nature of Social Relations, with an Introduction by Joan Aldous." The American Journal of Sociology 77, no. 6 (1972): 1191-1200.

Amazon logo Simmel, Georg. "The Metropolis and Mental Life." In The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Edited by Kurt H. Wolff. New York, NY: Free Press, 1964, pp. 409-424. ISBN: 9780029289204.

Amazon logo Weber, Max. "The Nature of Cities." In The City. New York, NY: Free Press, 1966. ISBN: 9780029342107.

Amazon logo Merrifield, Andy. "Karl Marx: Commodities and Cities with Sober Senses." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 13-30. ISBN: 9780415933490.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo Tilly, Charles. "Misreading, Then Rereading, Nineteenth-century Social Change." In Social Structures: A Network Approach. Edited by Barry Wellman and Stephen Berkowitz. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 332-358. ISBN: 9780521286879.

Redfield, Robert. "The Folk Society." The American Journal of Sociology 52, no. 4 (1947): 293-308.



Additional suggested readings


Amazon logo Tonnies, Ferdinand. Community and Society. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2002. ISBN: 9780486424972.

Amazon logo Marx, Karl. "The Commodity" and "The Process of Exchange." Chapters 1 and 2 in Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 1992. ISBN: 9780140445688.

Amazon logo Engels, Friedrich. The Conditions of the Working Class in England. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780192836885.

3Cities, industrialization, and socio-spatial change

Amazon logo Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1961. ISBN: 9780156180351.

Amazon logo Merrifield, Andy. "Frederick Engels: Backstreet Boy in Manchester." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 31-48. ISBN: 9780415933490.

Amazon logo ———. "Walter Benjamin: The City of Profane Illumination." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 49-70. ISBN: 9780415933490.

Amazon logo Howard, Ebenezer. "The Town-country Magnet." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 309-316. ISBN: 9780415770842.

Amazon logo Wright, Frank Lloyd. "Board-acre City: A New Community Plan." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 325-330. ISBN: 9780415770842.

Tilly, Charles. "The Chaos of the Living City." In An Urban World. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 86-107.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1961. ISBN: 9780156180351.

Amazon logo Sennett, Richard. Families against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984, pp. 59-149. ISBN: 9780674292260.

Warner, Sam Bass. "If All the World Were Philadelphia: A Scaffolding for Urban History, 1774-1930." In An Urban World. Edited by Charles Tilly. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 315-331.



Additional recommended readings


Amazon logo Sjoberg, Gideon. The Preindustrial City: Past and Present. New York, NY: Free Press, 1965. ISBN: 9780029289808.

Amazon logo Benjamin, Walter. "Paris, Capital of the Twentieth Century." In The Arcades Project. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780674008021.

Amazon logo Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780393308792.

4The Chicago school / human ecology

Wirth, Louis. "Urbanism as a Way of Life." The American Journal of Sociology 44, no. 1 (1938): 1-24.

Park, Robert E. "The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment." The American Journal of Sociology 20, no. 5 (1915): 577-612.

Amazon logo Burgess, Ernest W. "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project." In The City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 47-62. ISBN: 9780226646114.

Amazon logo McKenzie, Roderick. "The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community." In The City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 63-79. ISBN: 9780226646114.

Milgram, Stanley. "The Experience of Living in Cities." Science 167 (1970): 1461-1468.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo LaFarge, Albert. The Essential William H. Whyte. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780823220267.

Maier, Richard. "The Civic Bond." In An Urban World. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 382-405.



Other suggested readings


Harris, Chauncy D., and Edward L. Ullman. "The Nature of Cities." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 242 (Nov 1945): 7-17.

Hoyt, Homer. The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities. Washington, DC: U.S. Federal Housing Administration, 1939.

5The urban ethnographic tradition

Reading group 1


Amazon logo Gans, Herbert J. Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780029112403.

Amazon logo Whyte, William Foote. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780226895451.



Reading group 2


Amazon logo Gans, Herbert. The Levittowners. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780231055710.

Seeley, John, Alexander Sim, and Elizabeth Loosley. Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life. New York, NY: John Wiley, 1963.



Both groups


Amazon logo Whyte, William H. "The Design of Spaces. In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 429-436. ISBN: 9780415770842.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, NY: Modern Library, 1993. ISBN: 9780679600473.



Other suggested readings


Liebow, Elliot. Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.

Hughes, Everett. French Canada in Transition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Amazon logo Clark, Samuel D. The Suburban Society. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1966. ISBN: 9780802013774.

Amazon logo Vidich, Arthur, and Joseph Bensman. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780252068904.

6Urban / social ecology

Amazon logo Gans, Herbert. "Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Re-evaluation of Definitions." In People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 51-69. ISBN: 9780231074032.

Amazon logo Michelson, William, and Willem van Vliet. "Theory and the Sociological Study of the Built Environment." In Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Edited by Riley Dunlap and William Michelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 33-69. ISBN: 9780313268083.

Amazon logo Abrentzen, Sherry. "Socio-Behavioral Qualities of the Built Environment." In Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Edited by Riley Dunlap and William Michelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 70-95. ISBN: 9780313268083.

Alonso, William. "The Historic and the Structural Theories of Urban Form: Their Implications for Urban Renewal." In An Urban World. Edited by Charles Tilly. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 441-446.

Fischer, Claude S. "Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism." The American Journal of Sociology 80, no. 6 (1975): 1319-1341.

Granovetter, Mark S. "The Strength of Weak Ties." The American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (1973): 1360-1380.



Additional suggested readings


Amazon logo Michelson, William. Man and His Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1970. ISBN: 9780201047257.

Lynch, Kevin. "The Pattern of the Metropolis." In An Urban World. Edited by Charles Tilly. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 298-315.

Amazon logo Hawley, Amos. Human Ecology: A Theoretical Essay. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780226319841.

Wellman, Barry. "The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers." The American Journal of Sociology 84, no. 5 (1979): 1201-1231.

Wellman, Barry, and Scot Wortley. "Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support." The American Journal of Sociology 96, no. 3 (1990): 558-588.



Other suggested readings


Amazon logo Fischer, Claude. To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982, chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, and 10. ISBN: 9780226251387.

———. "Bowling Alone: What's the Score?" Social Networks 27, no. 2 (2005): 155-167.

Amazon logo Michelson, William. Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780195021448.

Amazon logo Hawley, Amos. Human Ecology: A Theory of Community Structure. New York, NY: Ronald Press Co., 1950. ISBN: 9780826039200.

Festinger, Leon, Stanley Schachter, and Kurt Back. Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.

Amazon logo Rae, Douglas W. City: Urbanism and Its End. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780300107746.

7Capitalism and urban dynamics

Amazon logo Merrifield, Andy. "Henri Lefebvre: The Urban Revolution." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 71-92. ISBN: 9780415933490.

Amazon logo ———. "Manuel Castells: The City of Althusser and Social Movements." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 113-132. ISBN: 9780415933490.

Amazon logo ———. "David Harvey: The Geopolitics of Urbanization." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 133-157. ISBN: 9780415933490.

Amazon logo ———. "Marshall Berman: A Marxist Urban Romance." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 157-173. ISBN: 9780415933490.

Amazon logo Sawers, Larry. "New Perspectives on Urban Political Economy." In Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy. Edited by William Tabb and Larry Sawers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp 3-20. ISBN: 9780195033083.

Amazon logo Gordon, David. "Capitalist Development and the History of American Cities." In Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy. Edited by William Tabb and Larry Sawers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp 54-81. ISBN: 9780195033083.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo Saunders, Peter. Urban Politics: A Sociological Interpretation. London, UK: Hutchinson Educational, 1984, pp. 66-136. ISBN: 9780091531119.

Amazon logo Castells, Manuel. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Edited by Ida Susser. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002, part 1. ISBN: 9780631219330.



Other suggested readings


Amazon logo Lefebvre, Henri. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780816641604.

Amazon logo David, Harvey. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780801831447.

8Elites, political power, and urban dynamics

Amazon logo Logan, John, and Harvey Molotch. "The City as a Growth Machine." Chapter 10 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450.

Amazon logo Squires, Gregory. "Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City." Chapter 11 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450.

Amazon logo Smith, Neil. "Gentrification, the Frontier, and the Restructuring of Urban Space." Chapter 12 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450.

Amazon logo Painter, Joe. "Regulation Theory, Post-Fordism and Urban Politics." Chapter 5 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo Mollenkopf, John. The Contested City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780691022208.



Other suggested readings


Amazon logo Katznelson, Ira. City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780226426730.

Amazon logo Fainstein, Susan. The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001. ISBN: 9780700611331.

Amazon logo Friedland, Roger. Power and Crisis in the City: Corporations, Unions, and Urban Policy. New York, NY: MacMillan, 1982. ISBN: 9780333260760.

Amazon logo Logan, John, and Harvey Molotch. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520254282.

Amazon logo Abu-Lughod, Janet. From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1994. ISBN: 9781557865250.

9From class to race, ethnicity, and culture

Amazon logo Zukin, Sharon. "Whose Culture, Whose City." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 136-146. ISBN: 9780415770842.

Amazon logo Wilson, William Julius. "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 126-135. ISBN: 9780415770842.

Amazon logo Hannigan, John. "Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Post-modern Metropolis." Chapter 14 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450.

Amazon logo Davis, Mike. "Fortress L.A." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 201-205. ISBN: 9780415770842.

Amazon logo Merrifield, Andy. "Social Justice and Communities of Difference: A Snapshot from Liverpool." In The Urbanization of Justice. Edited by Eric Swyngedouw and Andy Merrifield. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780814755761.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005, part 2 and 3. ISBN: 9780691121864.



Other suggested readings


Amazon logo Castells, Manuel. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Edited by Ida Susser. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002, part 2. ISBN: 9780631219330.

Amazon logo Katz, Michael. The "Underclass" Debate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780691006284.

Amazon logo Zukin, Sharon. The Cultures of Cities. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 1996. ISBN: 9781557864376.

Amazon logo Davis, Mike. City of Quartz. London, UK: Pimlico, 1998. ISBN: 9780712666237.

Amazon logo Klinenberg, Eric. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780226443225.

10New technologies and the city

Amazon logo Wellman, Barry. "The Network Community: An Introduction." In Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999, pp. 1-48. ISBN: 9780813368214.

Amazon logo Wellman, Barry, and Milena Gulia. "Net-surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities." In Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999, pp. 331-366. ISBN: 9780813368214.

Calhoun, Craig. "Community without Propinquity Revisited: Communications Technology and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere". Sociological Inquiry 68, no. 3 (1998): 373-379.

Kraut, Robert, Michael Patterson, Vicki Lundmark, Sara Kiesler, Tridas Mukophadhyay, and William Scherlis. "Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-being?" American Psychologist 53, no. 9 (1998): 1017-1031.

Hampton, Keith, and Barry Wellman. "Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb." City and Community 2, no. 4 (2003): 277-311.

Matei, Sorin, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach. "Real and Virtual Social Ties: Connections in the Everyday Lives of Seven Ethnic Neighborhoods." American Behavioral Scientist 45, no. 3 (2001): 550-564.



Additional core readings


Hampton, Keith. "Grieving for a Lost Network: Collective Action in a Wired Suburb." The Information Society 19 (2003): 417-428.

Webber, Melvin. "Order in Diversity: Community without Propinquity." In Cities and Space: The Future Use of Urban Land. Edited by J. Lowdon Wingo. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963, pp. 23-54.

Amazon logo Wellman, Barry. Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780813368214.



Other suggested readings


Amazon logo Fischer, Claude. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780520086470.

Amazon logo Ling, Rich. The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 2004. ISBN: 9781558609365.

Amazon logo Katz, James E., and Ronald E. Rice. Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262112697.

11Globalization and cities

Amazon logo Sassen, Saskia. "The Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Cities." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 212-220. ISBN: 9780415770842.

Amazon logo Smith, Michael Peter. "Transnationalism and the City." In The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City. Edited by Robert Beauregard, Sophie Body-Gendrot and Line Beauregard. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. ISBN: 9780761914853.

Amazon logo DeFilippis, James. Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 17-60. ISBN: 9780415945257.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo Sassen, Saskia. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691070636.

Amazon logo Levitt, Peggy. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520228139.



Other suggested readings


Amazon logo Clark, David. Urban World/Global City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780415320986.

Amazon logo Drainville, Andre. Contesting Globalization: Space and Place in the World Economy. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 9780415319300.

Amazon logo Marcuse, Peter, and Ronald Van Kempen. Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 9780631212904.

Amazon logo Sites, William. Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780816641567.

Amazon logo King, Anthony D. Global Cities: Post-imperialism and the Internationalization of London. New York, NY: Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 9780415062411.

12From cities in global context to the post-modern (or pre-modern?) city

Beauregard, Robert. "City of Superlatives." City and Community 2, no. 3 (2003): 183-216.

Amazon logo Soja, Edward. "Taking L.A. Apart: Towards a Post-modern Geography." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 189-200. ISBN: 9780415770842.

Amazon logo King, Anthony D. Global Cities: Post-imperialism and the Internationalization of London. New York, NY: Routledge, 1991, pp. 3-155. ISBN: 9780415062411.



Additional core readings


Amazon logo Sandercock, Leonie. Cosmopolis II: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century. London, UK: Continuum, 2003, pp. 85-153. ISBN: 9780826464637.

Amazon logo Dear, Michael. From Chicago to L.A.: Re-visioning Urban Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001. ISBN: 9780761920953.

Amazon logo Davis, Mike. Planet of Slums. New York, NY: Verso, 2007. ISBN: 9781844671601.

13Advanced urban social theory

Amazon logo Harvey, David. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 1-61, 125-184. ISBN: 9780801831447.

Amazon logo ———. Spaces of Hope. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 133-181, 233-256. ISBN: 9780520225787.

Amazon logo ———. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, pp. 207-328, 329-438. ISBN: 9781557866813.

Amazon logo Castells, Manuel. The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979, pp. 113-259. ISBN: 9780262530354.

Amazon logo ———. City, Class and Power. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780312139919.

Amazon logo Lefebvre, Henri. "The Right to the City." In The Production of Space. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1991. ISBN: 9780631181774.

Amazon logo ———. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780816641604.

Amazon logo Berman, Marshall. All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York, NY: Penguin, 1988. ISBN: 9780140109627.

Amazon logo Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2002, pp. 1-26, 871-892. ISBN: 9780674008021.

Amazon logo ———. "A Berlin Chronicle." In Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings. Vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2005. ISBN: 9780674017467.


 








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