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Introduction
Part I: Historical and Analytical Foundations
2Amazon logo Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961, pp. 446-474. ISBN: 0156180359.

Amazon logo Jacobs, Jane. The Economy of Cities. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1970, pp. 123-144. ISBN: 039470584X.
3Amazon logo Jacobs, Jane. The Economy of Cities. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1970, pp. 145-202. ISBN: 039470584X.
4Amazon logo Marcuse, Peter. "The Partitioned City in History." In Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space. Edited by Peter Marcuse and Ronald Van Kempen. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 11-34. ISBN: 019829719X.

Amazon logo Van Kempen, Ronald. "The Academic Formulations: Explanations for the Partitioned City." In Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space. Edited by Peter Marcuse and Ronald Van Kempen. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 35-58. ISBN: 019829719X.
5Amazon logo Harvey, David. "The Urbanization of Capital." The Urbanization of Capital. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 185-226. ISBN: 080183144X.

Molotch, Harvey. "The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place." American Journal of Sociology 82: 309-330.
6Amazon logo Cox, Kevin. "Ideology and the Growth Coalition." In Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later. Edited by Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 21-36. ISBN: 0791442608.

Amazon logo Gilbert, Melissa. "Place, Politics, and the Production of Urban Space: A Feminist Critique of the Growth Machine Thesis." In Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later. Edited by Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 73-92. ISBN: 0791442608.

Amazon logo Jessop, Bob, Jamie Peck, and Adam Tickell. "Retooling the Machine: Economic Crisis, State Structuring, and Urban Politics." In Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later. Edited by Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 141-162. ISBN: 0791442608.
Part II: Industrializing Cities in Form and Function
7Amazon logo Harvey, David. Paris Capital of Modernity. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 107-152. ISBN: 041594421X.
8Amazon logo Jones, Gareth Stedman. Outcast London. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1984, pp. 159-214. ISBN: 0394725476.
9Amazon logo Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis. New York, NY: W.W. Cronon, 1992, pp. 23-96. ISBN: 0393308731.
10Amazon logo Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis. New York, NY: W.W. Cronon, 1992, pp. 97-147, 263-310. ISBN: 0393308731.
11Amazon logo Fogelson, Robert. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 20-38, 44-111. ISBN: 0300090625.
12Amazon logo Fogelson, Robert. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 112-192, 218-248. ISBN: 0300090625.
Part III: Industrial and Post-industrial Cities in Form and Function
13Amazon logo Gordon, David. "Capitalist Development and the History of American Cities." In Marxism and the Metropolis. Edited by William K. Tabb and Larry Sawers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 21-53. ISBN: 0195033086.

Amazon logo Sellers, Jefferey M. "Urbanization and the Social Origins of National Policies Toward Sprawl." In Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States. Edited by Harry Richardson. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2004. ISBN: 0754637891.
14Amazon logo Mollenkopf, John. The Contested City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN: 0691022208.
15Amazon logo Mollenkopf, John. The Contested City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN: 0691022208.
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Amazon logo Gottdiener, Mark. Planned Sprawl: Private and Public Interests in Suburbia. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1977, pp. 13-66. ISBN: 0803905939.

17Amazon logo Gottdiener, Mark. Planned Sprawl: Private and Public Interests in Suburbia. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1977, pp. 67-146. ISBN: 0803905939.
18Amazon logo Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 4-88. ISBN: 0691058881.
19Amazon logo Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 179-271. ISBN: 0691058881.
20Amazon logo Schiffer, Sueli Ramos. "Economic Restructuring and Urban Segregation in Sao Paolo." In Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space. Edited by Peter Marcuse and Ronald Van Kempen. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 143-166. ISBN: 019829719X.

Amazon logo Scott, Alan. "Industrial Urbanism in Late Twentieth-Century California." In From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Edited by Michael Dear. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002, pp. 163-186. ISBN: 0761920951.
Part IV: The Global City in Form and Function
21Amazon logo Sassen, Saskia. The Global City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0691070636.
22Amazon logo Sassen, Saskia. The Global City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0691070636.
23Amazon logo Graham, Stephen, and Simon Marvin. Telecommunications and the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 1-46, 123-170. ISBN: 0415119030.
24Amazon logo Graham, Stephen, and Simon Marvin. Telecommunications and the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 311-336. ISBN: 0415119030.

Amazon logo Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 1-54. ISBN: 0691091595.
Part V: Planning Challenges
25Amazon logo Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 101-170. ISBN: 0691091595.
26Amazon logo Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 171-312. ISBN: 0691091595.
27Amazon logo Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 313-346. ISBN: 0691091595.

Amazon logo Graham, Stephen, and Simon Marvin. Telecommunications and the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 337-384. ISBN: 0415119030.
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