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The eighth edition of the highly successful
The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new.
List of contents
Lists of platesList of contributors Acknowledgements Prologue: 'How to Study Cities"
Richard T. LeGates
Part 1 The Evolution of CitiesIntroduction
"The Urbanization of the Human Population"
Kingsley Davis
"The Urban Revolution"
V. Gordon Childe
"The Earliest Cities"
Michael Smith
"The Polis"
H. D. F. Kitto
"City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"
Henri Pirenne
"The Great Towns"
Friedrich Engels
"The Automobile, the City, and the New Urban Mobilities"
Frederic Stout
Globalizing Cities
Xuefei Ren and Roger Keil
Plate Section 1: The Evolution of CitiesPart 2: Urban Culture and SocietyIntroduction
"The Urban Drama"
Lewis Mumford
"Urbanism as a Way of Life"
Louis Wirth
"The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice"
W. E. B. Du Bois
"The Code of the Street" and "Decent and Street Families"
Elijah Anderson
"Winning the Race"
John H. McWhorter
"Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital"
Robert D. Putnam
"The City That Lost Its Soul"
Sharon Zukin
Plate Section 2: "Urban Culture and Society"Part 3 Urban SpaceIntroduction
"The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"
Ernest W. Burgess
"Gender and Urban Space"
Daphne Spain
"The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"
Jane Jacobs
"Social Exclusion, Space, and Time"
Ali Madanipour
"Bright vs. Blurred Boundaries: Second-generation Assimilation and Exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States
Richard Alba
"The Causes of Sprawl"
Robert Bruegmann
Networks of Outrage and Hope
Manuel Castells
"Making Room for a Planet of Cities"
Schlomo Angel
Plate Section 3: "Urban Space"Part 4 Urban Politics, Governance, and EconomicsIntroduction
"Politics"
Aristotle
"The Right to the City"
David Harvey
"A Ladder of Citizen Participation"
Sherry Arnstein
"The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City"
Michael Porter
"The City as a Growth Machine: Towards a Political Economy of Place"
Harvey Molotch
"The City as a Distorted Price System"
Wilbur Thompson
"Metropolitics and Fiscal Equity"
Myron Orfield
Plate Section 4: "Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics"Part 5 Urban Planning History and VisionsIntroduction
"Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"
Frederick Law Olmsted
Garden Cities of Tomorrow
Ebenezer Howard
"A Contemporary City"
Le Corbusier
"Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The Charter of the New Urbanism
Congress for the New Urbanism
"Green Manhattan: Everywhere Should Be More Like New York"
David Owen
"The Almost Perfect Town"
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Plate Section 5: "Urban Planning History and Visions"Part 6 Urban Planning Theory and PracticeIntroduction
"The Smart City"
Michael Batty
"The City of Theory"
Peter Hall
"The Uses of Planning Theory"
John Friedmann
"Planning in the Face of Conflict"
John Forester
"Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning"
Paul Davidoff
"Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search for the Global Cultural Commons"
Bishwapriya Sanyal
"Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe's Central Urban Issues"
Vanessa Watson
"Urban resilience"
Sara Meerow
Plate Section 6: "Urban Planning: Theory and Practice"Part 7 Urban Design and PlacemakingIntroduction
"Urban Design
Richard LeGates
"What is Placemaking?"
Project for Public Spaces
"The Design of Spaces"
William H. Whyte
"The Neighborhood Unit"
Clarence Perry
"The City Image and its Elements"
Kevin Lynch
"Toward an Urban Design Manifesto"
Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard
"Designing Inclusive, Healthy Places"
Jennifer Gardner
"Life Between Buildings"
Jan Gehl
Plate Section 7: "Urban Design and Placemaking"Part 8 Urban Futures and Global ChallengesIntroduction
"The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities"
Saskia Sassen
"Planning as statecraft: a perspective of state entrepreneurialism in China
Fulong Wu
"AI-Driven Urban Planning: From Planning Support to Plan-Making"
Zhong-Ren Peng
"World Cities, or a World of Ordinary Cities?"
Jennifer Robinson
Plate Section 8: Urban Futures and Global ChallengesIllustration creditsCopyright informationIndex
About the author
Richard T. LeGates is a Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at San Francisco State University.
Frederic Stout is a lecturer in Urban Studies at Stanford University.
Roger W. Caves is a Professor Emeritus of City Planning at San Diego State University.
