Readings

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

LEC # READINGS
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Required Reading

Recommended Reading
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Required Reading

  • Hall, Peter. "Planning, Planners and Plans." In Urban and Regional Planning. 4th ed. Routledge, 2002, pp. 1–10. ISBN: 9780415217774. [Preview with Google Books]
  • 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

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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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  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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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Recommended Reading

  • 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."
  • Bateson, Gregory, and Margaret Mead. Balinese Character, Photographic Analysis. New York Academy of Sciences, 1942.
  • Vergara, Camilo José. The New American Ghetto. Rutgers University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780813522098.
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  • 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.
  • Young, Iris Marion. "City Life and Difference." In Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780691078328. [Preivew with Google Books]
  • 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).
  • 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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Required Reading

  • Roy, Ananya. "Urbanisms, Worlding Practices and the Theory of Planning." Planning Theory 10, no. 1 (2011): 6–15.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Davis, Mike. "The Urban Climacteric." In Planet of Slums. Verso, 2006, pp. 1–20. ISBN: 9781844670222. [Preivew with Google Books]
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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 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]
  • Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1961. ISBN: 9780679644330.
  • Buy at MIT Press 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/
  • Mumford, Lewis. "Home Remedies for Urban Cancer." In The Urban Prospect. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968, pp. 182–207. ISBN: 9780151931903.
  • Nordenson, Guy, Catherine Seavitt, and Adam Yarinsky. On the Water: Palisade Bay. The Museum of Modern Art, 2010. ISBN: 9780870707858.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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.