“AMERICAN CITIES AND PUBLIC SPACES”

 

Institute Texts

 

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. NY: Vintage, 1961; 1992.

 

Mumford, Lewis.  The City in History. NY: Harvest,1968.

 

Rybczynski, Witold. City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World, NY: Scribner, 1995.

 

 

For readings for individual seminars, see Institute Daily Schedule.

 

 

 

Supplementary Recommended Bibliography

 

Agnew, John and John Mercer, and David Sopher, eds. The City in Cultural Context. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1984.

 

Bender, Thomas and Carl Schorske, eds. Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930. New York: Russell Sage, 1994.

 

Bender, Thomas. Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-century America. 1975.

 

Boyer, M. Christine. Manhattan Manners. Architecture and Style 1850-1900. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.

 

Boyer, M. Christine. The City of Collective Memory. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.

 

Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham. NY: Oxford, 1999.

 

Castells, Manuel. European Cities, the Informational City, and the Global Economy

 

Castells, Manuel. The City and the Grassroots. A Cross-cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

 

Castells, Manuel. The Informational City. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.

 

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz/ Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Random/Vintage, 1992.

 

Hall, Peter. Cities in Civilzation. New York: Pantheon, 1998.

 

Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place. Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

 

Kunstler, James Howard. The City in Mind/ Notes on the Urban Condition. NY: Free Press, 2001.

 

Liggett, Helen and David Perry, eds. Spatial Practices. Critical Explorations in Social/Spatial Theory. London: Sage, 1995.

 

Morse, Richard and Jorge Hardoy, eds. Rethinking the Latin American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

 

Olsen, Donald. The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

 

Rykwert, Joseph. The Seduction of Place: the City in the Twenty-First Century. NY: Vintage, 2000.

 

Sato, Tsugitaka, ed. Islamic Urbanism in Human History. NY: Kegan Paul, 1997.

 

Tuan, Yi-Fu. Cosmos and Hearth. Space and Place: the Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.