Readings

This course contains lecture-specific required and recommended readings, as well as an overall recommended reading list.

LEC # READINGS
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Recommended Reading

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Required Reading

  • Amazon logo Hall, Peter. "Planning, Planners and Plans." In Urban and Regional Planning. 4th ed. Routledge, 2002, pp. 1–10. ISBN: 9780415217774. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo Speth, James Gustave. "Looking Into the Abyss." In The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 17–45.
  • Webb, Molly. "Why Smart Cities Will Help Save the World," The Guardian, November 16, 2008.

Recommended Reading

  • Amazon logo Garvin, Alexander. "Planning Now for the 21st Century." In Urban Planning Today. Edited by William S. Saunders. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
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  • Amazon logo Fainstein, Susan, and Scott Campbell. "Theories of Urban Development and their Implications for Policy and Planning." In Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Fainstein and Campbell. Blackwell Publishers, 2002, pp. 1–15. ISBN: 9780631223450.
  • Sandercock, Leonie.  "Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century." Journal of the American Planning Association 70, no. 2 (2004): 133–41.

Recommended Reading

  • Ryan, Brent D. "Reading Through a Plan." Journal of the American Planning Association 77, no. 4 (2011): 309–27.
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  • Amazon logo Fishman, Robert.  "Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier." In Readings in Planning Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 21–60. ISBN: 9781444330809.
  • Amazon logo Friedmann, John. "Two Centuries of Planning Theory." In Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. 51–85. ISBN: 9780691022680. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo Hall, Peter. "City of Dreadful Night." In Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Wiley-Blackwell, 2002, pp. 14–46. ISBN: 9780631232520. [Preivew with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo UN Habitat. "Urban Challenges and the Need to Revisit Urban Planning." In Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements 2009. Routledge, 2009, pp. 3–22.

Recommended Reading

  • Amazon logo Koolhaas, Rem. "Whatever Happened to Urbanism?" In S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium,Large, Extra Large. Edited by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 961–71. ISBN: 9781885254016.
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  • Amazon logo Lefebvre, Henri. "From the City to Urban Society." In The Urban Revolution. University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp. 1–22. ISBN: 9780816641604. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo Webber, Melvin. "The Post-City Age." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard LeGates and Frederic Stout. Routledge, 2011, pp. 549–53. ISBN: 9780415556651.
  • Friedmann, John, and John Miller. "The Urban Field." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 31, no. 4 (1965): 312–20.
  • Amazon logo Soja, Edward, and Miguel Kanai. "The Urbanization of the World." In Living in the Endless City: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society. Edited by Richard Burdett and Deyan Sudjic. Phaidon Press, 2011, pp. 54–69. ISBN: 9780714861180.

Recommended Reading

  • Amazon logo Gottmann, Jean. "How Large Can Cities Grow?" In Since Megalopolis: The Urban Writings of Jean Gottmann. Edited by Jean Gottman and Robert Alexander Harper. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, pp. 149–61. ISBN: 9780801839276.
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  • Amazon logo Mathur, Anuradha, and Dilip da Cunha. SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary. Rupa and Co, 2009. ISBN: 9788129114808.
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  • Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Photography and the Art of Visual Thinking."
  • Amazon logo Bateson, Gregory, and Margaret Mead. Balinese Character, Photographic Analysis. New York Academy of Sciences, 1942.
  • Amazon logo Vergara, Camilo José. The New American Ghetto. Rutgers University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780813522098.
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  • Amazon logo Berger, Alan. "Drosscape." In The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Edited by Charles Waldheim. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, pp. 197–217. ISBN: 9781568984391. [Preview with Google Books]

Additional readings to be assigned by guest lecturer

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Required Reading

  • Fainstein, Susan. "Planning and the Just City." April 29, 2006. [Paper presented at Searching for the Just City conference, Columbia University]
  • Yiftachel, Oren. "Re-engaging Planning Theory? Towards 'South-Eastern' Perspectives." Planning Theory 5, no. 3 (2006): 211–22.
  • Amazon logo Young, Iris Marion. "City Life and Difference." In Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780691078328. [Preivew with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo King, Mel. Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development. South End Press, 1999, pp. xv–xxix, 3–8 and 227–61. ISBN: 9780896081055.

Recommended Reading

  • Roy, Arundhati. "The Greater Common Good." Frontline 16, no. 11 (1999).
  • Amazon logo Jones, Van. "The Dual Crisis." In The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. HarperCollins, 2008, pp. 19–33.
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  • Roy, Ananya. "Urbanisms, Worlding Practices and the Theory of Planning." Planning Theory 10, no. 1 (2011): 6–15.
  • Amazon logo Mukhija, Vinit. "Urban Design for a Planet of Informal Cities." In A Companion to Urban Design. Edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. Routledge, 2011, pp. 574–84. ISBN: 9780415553643.
  • Amazon logo MVRDV. Metacity / Datatown. 010 Uitgeverji, 1999. ISBN: 9789064503719. [Preview with Google Books]
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Required Reading

  • Roy, Ananya. "Urbanisms, Worlding Practices and the Theory of Planning." Planning Theory 10, no. 1 (2011): 6–15.
  • Amazon logo Mukhija, Vinit. "Urban Design for a Planet of Informal Cities." In A Companion to Urban Design. Edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. Routledge, 2011, pp. 574–84. ISBN: 9780415553643.
  • Amazon logo MVRDV. Metacity / Datatown.  010 Uitgeverji, 1999. ISBN: 9789064503719. [Preview with Google Books]

Recommended Readings

Additional readings will be recommended throughout the semester, particularly for those who do not have previous urban design or planning background.

  • Castells, Manuel. "City of Bits, Space of Flows: My Dialogue with Bill Mitchell's Theory of Urbanism in the Digital Age" (public lecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, November 10, 2011) (video).
  • Amazon logo Corbusier, Le. The City of To-morrow and Its Planning. Translated by Frederick Etchells. Dover Publications, 1987, pp. 232–47 and 275–88. ISBN: 9780486253329.
  • Amazon logo Davis, Mike. "The Urban Climacteric." In Planet of Slums. Verso, 2006, pp. 1–20. ISBN: 9781844670222. [Preivew with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo Gans, Herbert. "Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Re-evaluation of Definitions." In People and Plans: Essays on Urban Problems and Solutions. Basic Books, 1968, pp. 34–52. ISBN: 9780465054596.
  • Amazon logo Glaeser, Edward L.  "Growth: The Death and Life of Cities." In Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America. Edited by Robert P. Inman. Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. 22–62. ISBN: 9780691131054. [Preivew with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo Hall, Peter. "The City in the Garden," "The City in the Region," "The City of Monuments," "The City of Towers," and "The City on the Highway." In Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. isbn: 9780631232520. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo Hayden, Dolores. "Decoding Everyday American Landscapes." In A Field Guide to Sprawl. W.W. Norton, 2004, pp. 7–16. ISBN: 9780393731255.
  • Buy at MIT Press Amazon logo Howard, Ebenezer. "Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet." In Garden Cities of Tomorrow. The MIT Press, 1965, pp. 41–57. ISBN: 9780262580021. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1961. ISBN: 9780679644330.
  • Buy at MIT Press Amazon logo Lynch, Kevin. "The Image of the Environment" and "The City Image and Its Elements." In The Image of the City. MIT Press, 1960. ISBN: 9780262620017. [Preivew with Google Books]
  • "Robert Moses and the Modern City" website, http://www.learn.columbia.edu/moses/
  • Amazon logo Mumford, Lewis. "Home Remedies for Urban Cancer." In The Urban Prospect. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968, pp. 182–207. ISBN: 9780151931903.
  • Amazon logo Nordenson, Guy, Catherine Seavitt, and Adam Yarinsky. On the Water: Palisade Bay. The Museum of Modern Art, 2010. ISBN: 9780870707858.
  • Amazon logo Ryan, Brent. "Rightsizing Shrinking Cities: The Urban Design Dimension." In The City After Abandonment. Edited by Margaret Dewar and June Manning Thomas. University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming, 2012. ISBN: 9780812244465. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Amazon logo Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Ecological Urbanism." In A Companion to Urban Design. Edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. Routledge, 2011, pp. 600–10. ISBN: 9780415553643.
  • Amazon logo Wright, Frank Lloyd. "Broadacre City." In Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture. Edited by Patrick J. Meehan. Preservation Press, 1988, pp. 351–61. ISBN: 9780891331742.