The City Reader, Vol. 2
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The fourth edition of the highly successful The City Reader brings together the very best of publications on the city. Classic writings by such authors as Lewis Mumford, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Wirth, Jane Jacobs and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Florida, Mike Davis, Michael Porter, Robert Putnam, Andrus Duany, Saskia Sassen, and Manuel Castells. New to the fourth edition are important classic writings on urban economics by Wilbur Thomson and those on bosses and machines by James Bryce, Jane Addams, and William L. Riordan, and new contemporary material on sustainable urban development, the creative class, metropolitics, occidentalism, Asian megacities, and urban futurism by The Bruntland Commission, Richard Florida, Myron Orfield, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Aprodicio Laquian, and Joel Kotkin.Fifty-seven generous selections are included: a combination of forty-six readings from the third edition and eleven entirely new selections. Structured to aid student understanding, this anthology features main and part introductions, as well as individual introductions to the selected articles. Each selection is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the author’s writings and related literature, an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of urban history and practice, competing ideological perspectives on the city, and the major current debates concerning race and gender, globalization, terrorism, the impact of information technology on cities, civic engagement, and postmodernism.The City Reader provides the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies, old and new. It is illustrated with over forty photographs and is essential reading for anyone interested in the city.
List of plates xviiList of contributors xixAcknowledgements xxiiiIntroduction 1Prologue 5The Evolution of Cities 11Introduction 13"The Urbanization of the Human Population Kingsley Davis 17"The Urban Revolution" V. Gordon Childe 27"The Polis" H.D.F. Kitto 35First-Person Accounts of Great Cities of the Medieval and Early Modern World Marco Polo Ibn Battuta Bernal Diaz Albrecht Durer 41"The Great Towns" Friedrich Engels 50"The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America" Kenneth T. Jackson 59"Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb" Robert Fishman 69Plate Section: The Evolution of CitiesUrban Culture and Society 79Introduction 81"What is a City?" Lewis Mumford 85"Urbanism as a Way of Life" Louis Wirth 90"The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" Jane Jacobs 98"The Negroe Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice" W.E.B. Du Bois 103"From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos" William Julius Wilson 110"Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" Robert D. Putnam 120"The Creative Class" Richard Florida 129"The Occidental City" Ian Buruma Avishai Margalit 136"Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture" Frederic Stout 141Plate Section: Visions of a New RealityUrban Space 145Introduction 147"The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" Ernest W. Burgess 150"Social Exclusion and Space" Ali Madanipour 158"Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography" Edward Soja 166"Fortress L.A." Mike Davis 178"The Almost Perfect Town" John Brinckerhoff Jackson 184"The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor Andres Duany Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk 192"The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities" Saskia Sassen 197Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics 207Introduction 209First-Person Accounts of Nineteenth-Century Political Bosses and Machines James Bryce George Washington Plunkitt William Riordan Jane Addams 213"Contested Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form" David Harvey 225"A Ladder of Citizen Participation" Sherry Arnstein 233"The Need for a New Vision for the Development of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas" Anthony Downs 245"Broken Windows" James Q. Wilson George L. Kelling 256"The City as a Distorted Price System" Wilbur Thompson 266"The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City" Michael Porter 274"Fiscal Equity" Myron Orfield 287Plate Section: Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban SpaceUrban Planning History and Visions 301Introduction 303"Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" Frederick Law Olmsted 307"Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" Ebenezer Howard 314"A Contemporary City" Le Corbusier 322"Broadcare City: A New Community Plan" Frank Lloyd Wright 331"Towards Sustainable Development"$dWorld Commission on Environment and Development 337"Designing the Region" and "Designing the Region is Designing the Neighborhood" Peter Calthorpe William Fulton 342Urban Planning Theory and Practice 349Introduction 351"The City of Theory" Peter Hall 354"Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree" Edward J. Kaiser David R. Godschalk 366"Planning in the Face of Conflict" John Forester 387"Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning" Paul Davidoff 400"Planning for Sustainability in European Cities: A Review of Practice in Leading Cities" Timothy Beatley 411Plate Section: Urban PlanningPerspectives on Urban Design 423Introduction 425"Author's Introduction," "The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares," and "The Enclosed Character of the Public Square" Camillo Sitte 427"The City Image and its Elements" Kevin Lynch 438"The Design of Spaces" William H. Whyte 448"Towards an Urban Design Manifesto" Allan Jacobs Donald Appleyard 456The Future of the City 467Introduction 469"The Post-City Age" Melvin M. Webber 473"European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy" Manuel Castells 478"The Emergence of Mega-Urban Regions in Asia" Aprodicio A. Laquian 489"Planning Sustainable and Livable Cities" Stephen Wheeler 499"The Teleserviced City" William J. Mitchell 510"The Urban Future" Joel Kotkin 517Epilogue: Urban Studies and planning Richard T. LeGates 523Bibliography 540Illustration credits 552Copyright information 555Index 560
