Urban Sociology - Bibliography

Books on Urban Sociology, Urban Sociology, Abstracts, Syllabus, Journals

Gottdiener, Mark (1994). The New Urban Sociology. NY: McGraw-Hill.

Macionis, J.J., & Parrillo, V.N. (1998). Cities and Urban Life. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Wilson, W. J. (1987). The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press.

Streetwise by Elijah Anderson, University of Chicago Press 1990.

Free Enterprise City by Joe Feagin, Rutgers University Press 1988.

Peter Hall. 1988. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and
Design in the Twentieth Century. NY: Basil Blackwell.

Peter Hall. 1998. Cities and Civilization. NY: Random House.

Lewis Mumford. 1961. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformation, and Its
Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace. Chapter 12: The Structure of Baroque Power.

John Landis 1997. A Choice Agenda. Fifty Years of City and Regional Planning at U.C.
Berkeley. Berkeley. NSQ Press.

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and
Design in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basil Blackwell.

Peter Hall. 1998. Cities and Civilization. New York: Random House.

Friedrich Engels. 1845. The Great Towns, reprinted from American Social Science
Association, in Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout, eds., The City Reader (1996).
New York: Routledge..

Jon Peterson. 1983. The Impact of Sanitary Reform upon American Urban Planning,
1840-1890. in Donald A. Krueckeberg, editor, Introduction to Planning History in the
United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers
University.

Space, Knowledge and Power (Interview Conducted with Paul
Rabinow) in Neil Leacf ed., Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.

Leonnie Sandercock. 1998. Making the Invisible Visible. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press.

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and
Design in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basil Blackwell.

Kenneth Jackson. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier. New York: Oxford Press.

Clifton Hood. 1992. Subways, Transit, Politics, and Metropolitan Spatial Expansion. in
David Ward and Olivier Zunz, eds. The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-
1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the
American Mettropolis. in Susan Hanson, ed., The Geography of Urban Transportation.
New York: Guilford.

Manuel Castells. 1996. The Space of Flows. originally published as Chapter 6 in The Rise
of the Network Society. Cambridge: Blackwell.

Ebenezer Howard. 1898. “Author’s Introduction” and “The Town-Country Magnet.” pp.
345-53, reprinted from Garden Cities of To-morrow, in Richard T. LeGates and Frederic
Stout, eds., The City Reader (1996). New York: Routledge.

Frank Lloyd Wright. 1935. “Broadacre City: A New Community Plan.” reprinted from
Architectural Record, in Richard T. LeGates, New York: Routledge.

Le Corbusier. 1929. “A Contemporary City.” reprinted from The City of Tomorrow and
its Planning, in Richard T. LeGates, New York: Routledge.

Eugenie Ladner Birch. 1983. Radburn and the American Planning Movement: The
Persistence of an Idea. in Donald Kruekeberg, ed., Introduction to Planning History in the
United States. New Brunswick: CUPR Press.

Todd Bressi. 1994. Planning the American Dream. in Peter Katz, The New Urbanism.
New York: McGraw-Hill.

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and The Decline of the
American Dream. New York: Northpoint Press.

The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New
York City, 1890-1917. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Susan Wirka. 1996. The City Social Movement: Progressive Women Reformers and
Early Social Planning. in Planning the 20th Century American City, Mary Corbin Sies and
Christopher Silver, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de
Janeiro. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dreaming the Rational City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Marc Weiss. 1987. The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate
Industry and Urban Land Planning. New York: Columbia University Press.

Regulating the Landscape: Real estate values, city planning, and
the 1916 zoning ordinance. in David Ward and Oliver Zunz, eds., The Landscape of
Modernity. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.

Christopher Silver. 1997. The Racial Origins of Zoning in American Cities. in June
Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf, eds., Urban Planning and the African American
Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

The Suburbanization of the United States.
New York: Oxford University Press.

Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence. Washington, D.C. : Island Press.

Wilson, William H. 1983. Moles and Skylarks. in in Donald Krueckeberg, ed.,
Introduction to Planning History in the United States. New Brunswick: CUPR Press.

Robert Fishman. 1992. The Regional Plan and the Transformation of the Industrial
Metropolis. in David Ward and Oliver Zunz, eds., The Landscape of Modernity. New
York: The Russell Sage Foundation.

Marc Weiss. 1987. The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate
Industry and Urban Land Planning. New York: Columbia University Press.

A Socialist Housing Alternative for the United States. In Rachel Bratt, Chester Hartman, and Ann Meyerson, eds., Critical
Perspectives on Housing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

The Origins and Legacy of Urban Renewal. in Pierre Clavel and
John Forester, editors, Urban and Regional Planning in an Age of Austerity. New York:
Pergamon.

Herbert Gans. 1968. People and Plans: Essays on Urban Problems and Solutions. New
York: Basic Books.

Jane Jacobs. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random
House.

Bernard Frieden and Lynne B. Sagalyn. 1989. Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds
Cities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Carl Abbott. 1996. Five Strategies for Downtown: Policy Discourse and Planning since
1943. in Planning the 20th Century American City, Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher
Silver, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Alan Altshuler 1983. The Intercity Freeway. in Donald A. Krueckeberg, ed., Introduction
to Planning History in the United States. New Brunswick: CUPR Press.

Lisa Peattie. 1987. Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guyana. Ann Arbor.
The University of Michigan Press.

Oscar Lewis. 1966. The Culture of Poverty. Scientific American.

Robert Halpern. 1995. Rebuilding the Inner City. New York: Columbia University
Press.

Alice O’Connor. 1999. Swimming Against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal Policy in
Poor Communities. in Ronald Ferguson and Edward Dickens, eds., Urban Problems and
Community Development. Washington, D.C.: Brookings University Press.

June Manning Thomas. 1997. Model Cities Revisited: Issues of Race and Empowerment.
in June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf, eds., Urban Planning and the African
American Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Robert Gottlieb. 1993. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American
Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Ian McHarg and Frederick Steiner. 1998. To Heal the Earth: Selected Writings of Ian L.
McHarg. Washington, D.C. Island Press.

Michael Porter. 1995. The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City. Harvard Business
Review (May-June).

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