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Urban design: General resources

Recommended resources covering elements of urban design and various approaches to urbanism, past and present, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.

Recommended books

Other resources

American Planning Association

A Bridge Home - the City of Los Angeles’ 2018 initiative provides emergency ("bridge") housing for the homeless

City Map Sites - alpha list of resources from UT Austin

Congress for the New Urbanism

Livable Communities Initiative (Los Angeles-based urbanists, architects, and activists addressing the housing, mobility and climate crisis)

The People Concern - provides interim housing and services for the homeless and victims of domestic violence in Los Angeles County

Smart Growth Network

Urban Ecology

Urban Land Institute

Urban Land Magazine

Recommended for all architectural research

General resources on cities

Batty, Michael, The new science of cities, MIT Press, HT166 .B38667 2013

Bridge, Gary & Sophie Watson (editors), New Blackwell companion to the city, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Brook, Daniel, A history of future cities, W. W. Norton, HT111 .B76 2013

Cerdá, Ildefons, General theory of urbanization, 1867, IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture in Catalonia, NA9045 .G46 2018

Chinchilla, Izaskun, The caring city : health, economy, and environment, Actar Publishers, NA9031 .C55 2022

Cuff, Dana, et al, Urban humanities: new practices for reimagining the city, MIT Press, HT153 .D84 2020

​Cuff, Dana & Roger Sherman, Fast-forward urbanism: rethinking architecture’s engagement with the city, Princeton Architectural Press, NA9050 .F37 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Cupers, Kenny, et al (editors), What is critical urbanism? : urban research as pedagogy, Park Books, HT109 .W43 2022

Mayne, Thom & Stan Allen, Combinatory urbanism: the complex behavior of collective form, Stray Dog Café, NA737.M72A4 2011

Mostafavi, Mohsen (editor), In the life of cities, Lars Müller, NA9053.H76 I6 2012

Mostafavi, Mohsen & Peter Christensen (editors), Instigations: engaging architecture, landscape, and the city, Lars Muller, NA2300.H37 I64 2012

Mumford, Eric Paul, Designing the modern city: urbanism since 1850, Yale University Press, HT151 .M76 2018

Nelson, Arthur C. & Earl Blumenauer, Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030, Island Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Sanyal, Bishwapriya, et al, Planning ideas that matter: livability, territoriality, governance, and reflective practice, MIT Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Slater, Tom, Shaking up the city: ignorance, inequality, and the urban question, University of California Press, HT151 .S487 2021

Verebes, Tom (editor), Masterplanning the adaptive city: computational urbanism in the twenty-first century, Routledge, HT166 .V463 2014

Approaches to urbanism A-K

Aschenbrenner, Joyce & Lloyd R. Collins, World anthropology: processes of urbanism: a multidisciplinary approach, De Gruyter, Inc., 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Klaufus, Christien, Urban residence: housing and social transformations in globalizing Ecuador, Berghahn Books, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Schwanhäusser, Anja, Sensing the city: a companion to urban anthropology, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, HT153 .S46 2016

Stevenson, Deborah, Cities and urban cultures, McGraw-Hill Education, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology

Aitchison, Mathew, “The Boyd ultimatum,” AA Files, 2013, #66, p.59-67 (on urban blight, ugliness) (via JSTOR)

Bellamy, Edward, Looking backward, 1888 (via Project Gutenberg)

Morris, William, News from nowhere, 1890 (via Project Gutenberg)

Slater, T., “Anti-urbanism,” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, 2009 (PDF via Elsevier)

Williams, Raymond, The country and the city, Oxford University Press, PR409.C5 W5 1973

Çelik, Zeynep, “Bouvard's boulevards: Beaux-Arts planning in Istanbul,” JSAH, December 1984, p.341-355 (via JSTOR)

Olin, Laurie, “The long shadow of André Le Nôtre: notes on the design of cities, parks, and gardens in America,” SiteLINES, Spring 2017, p.3-6 (via JSTOR)

Wolf, Peter, “City structuring and social sense in 19th and 20th century urbanism,” Perspecta, #13, 1971, p.220-233 (via JSTOR)

 

Cappetti, Carla, “Sociology of an existence: Richard Wright and the Chicago School,” MELUS, Summer 1985, p.25-43 (via JSTOR)

Dear, Michael (editor), “From Chicago to L.A.: making sense of urban theory,” Sage Publications, HT384 .U52 L673 2001

C.I.A.M. (Congrés internationaux d’architecture modern)

CIAM,” Oxford Art Online

Giedion, Sigfried, “On C. I. A. M.'s unwritten catalogue,” JSAH, January-April 1943, p.43-46

Mumford, Eric Paul, The CIAM discourse on urbanism, 1928-1960, MIT Press, NA680.I475 M86 2000

Park, Robert Ezra & E. W. Burgess, City: suggestions for investigation of human behavior in the urban environment, HT151.P3 1925

Swenarton, Mark, “Rationality and rationalism: the theory and practice of site planning in modern architecture 1905-1930,” AA Files, #4, July 1983, 49-59 (via JSTOR)

Venkatesh, Sudhir, “Chicago’s pragmatic planners: American sociology and the myth of community,” Social Science History, Summer 2001, p.275-317 (via JSTOR)

Wirth, Louis, The ghetto, Transaction, DS123 .W5 1998

Acebillo, Josep, The new urban metabolism: Barcelona/Lugan​o case studies, AB Publishers, NA9183 .A173 2012

Baccini, Peter and Paul H. Brunner, Metabolism of the anthroposphere: analysis, evaluation, design, MIT Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Barcelona Institut d'Estudis Territorials, Cerdà: the Barcelona Extension, HT384. S72 T74 1992

Boutros, Alexandra & Will Straw, Circulation and the city: essays on urban culture, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Sennett, Richard, Flesh and stone: the body and the city in Western civilization, W. W. Norton, HT113 .S45 1994 (See “Circulation and Respiration”)

System city: infrastructure and the spaces of flows,” Architectural Design (AD), August 2013 (Theme issue)

The City Beautiful Movement (via University of Virginia)

Klein, Maury, Prisoners of progress: American industrial cities, 1850-1920, Macmillan, HT123.K55

Lewis, Arnold, An early encounter with tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition, University of Illinois Press, NA735.C4 L49 1997

Longstreth, Richard, The Mall in Washington, 1791-1991, University Press of New England, N386.U5 S94 v.30

Mumford, Eric Paul, Designing the modern city: urbanism since 1850, Yale University Press, HT151 .M76 2018

Wilson, William H., The City Beautiful Movement, Johns Hopkins University Press, HT164.U6 W55 1989

Davis, Mike & Daniel Bertrand Monk, Evil paradises: dreamworlds of neoliberalism, New Press; W. W. Norton, HB501 .E848 2007

Harvey, David, The Condition of Postmodernity, Blackwell, CB428.H38 1989

Harvey, David, “The right to the city,” New Left Review, #53, 2008 (via newleftreview.org)

Harvey, David, Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution, Verso, HN17.5 .H355 2013

Harvey, David, Spaces of global capitalism, Verso, HB501 .H3598 2006

Solnit, Rebecca, Hollow city: the siege of San Francisco and the crisis of American urbanism, Verso, HT177. S38 S65 2000

Dear, M. J., The postmodern urban condition, Blackwell, HT384 .U52 L674 1999

Hall, Tim & Malcolm Miles, Urban futures: critical commentaries on shaping cities, Routledge, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Jameson, Fredric, Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism, Duke University Press, PN98 .P67 J3 1991 (a relevant excerpt is available here)

Lynch, Kevin, Good city form, MIT Press, HT166.L96 1984

Lynch, Kevin, The image of the city, MIT Press, NA9108.L9

Lynch, Kevin, Managing the sense of a region, MIT Press, HT392 .L95

Al Sayyad, Nezar (editor), Forms of dominance: on the architecture and urbanism of the colonial enterprise, Avebury, GF51 .E87 vol. 5

Cohen, Jean-Louis, Casablanca: colonial myths and architecture ventures, Monacelli Press, NA1590.2.C37 C6513 2002

French colonial urbanism,” Historical Reflections, Summer 2007 (via JSTOR)

Glover, William J., Making Lahore modern: constructing and imagining a colonial city, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Klingelhofer, Eric, First forts: essays on the archaeology of proto-colonial fortifications, Brill, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Marriott, John, Other Empire: Metropolis, India, and progress in the colonial Imagination, Manchester University Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Melvin, Karen, Building colonial cities of God: mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain, 1570-1800, Stanford University Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Smith, Robert C., "Colonial towns of Spanish and Portuguese America," JSAH, December 1955, p.3-12 (via JSTOR)

Wright, Gwendolyn, The politics and design in French colonial urbanism, University of Chicago Press, NA1590.2.M44 W75 1991

Bharne, Vinayak, “Le Corbusier's ruin: the changing face of Chandigarh's capitol,” JAE, March 2011, p.99-112 (via JSTOR)

Evenson, Norma, “Yesterday’s city of tomorrow today,” in H. Allen Brooks (ed.), Le Corbusier, Princeton University Press, NA1053.J4L37 1987

Frampton, Kenneth, “The rise and fall of the radiant city: Le Corbusier 1928-1960,” Oppositions, Winter/Spring 1980, p.2-27

Le Corbusier, The city of tomorrow and its planning / Urbanisme, 8th ed, NA9090 .J413 1929a

Le Corbusier, The radiant city / La Ville Radieuse, NA9030.J34 (Office)

McLeod, Mary, "'Architecture or Revolution': Taylorism, technocracy, and social change,” Art Journal, Summer 1983, p.132-147 (via JSTOR)

Moulis, Antony, “An exemplar for modernism: Le Corbusier’s Adelaide drawing, urbanism and the Chandigarth plan,” Journal of Architecture, December 2012, p.871-887

Sekler, Patricia, “Constancies and changes in Le Corbusier’s urbanism: I. Attitudes toward the man-made environment,” Center, 1989, v.5, p.60-72

Americans for the Arts (advocacy group)

Donegan, Mary, “Which indicators explain metropolitan economic performance best? Traditional or creative class,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Spring 2008, p.180-195

Florida, Richard L., Cities and the creative class, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Florida, Richard L., The rise of the creative class: and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life, Basic Books, HD53 .F653 2004

Frank, Thomas, “Dead end on Shakin’ Street,” The Baffler, #20, July 2012 (via thebaffler.com)

Review roundtable on The rise of the creative class, by Richard Florida, Planning, Spring 2005, p.203-220

Carr, Patrick J., Clean streets : controlling crime, maintaining order, and building community activism, New York University Press, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Davey, Caroline, et al, “Designing safe residential areas,” in Designing sustainable cities, Rachel Cooper (editor), Wiley-Blackwell, HT241 .D47 2009

Manaugh, Geoff, A burglar’s guide to the city, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, HV6648 .M36 2016

Newman, Oscar, Defensible space: crime prevention through urban design, Macmillan, HV6177 .N49

Zimring, Franklin E., The city that became safe: New York's lessons for urban crime and its control, Oxford University Press, HV7433. N49 Z56 2012

Aragon, Louis, Paris peasant, Exact Change, PQ2601.R2 P313 1994

Benson, Timothy O., et al, Expressionist utopias: paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy, University of California Press, N6868.5.E9 B46 2001

Kern, Stephen, The culture of time and space, 1880-1918, Harvard University Press, CB478 .K46 2003

McDonough, Tom, “Delirious Paris: mapping as a paranoiac-critical activity,” Grey room, #19, Spring 2005, p.6-21

The Compact city,” Built Environment, 1992 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Density,” Built Environment, 2007 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Maas, Winy, et al (editors), FARMAX: excursions on density, 010 Publishers, HB2065 .F37 2006

Pranlas, Descours, Jean-Pierre (editor), Density, architecture, and territory: five European stories, Jovis Verlag, HT243.E85 D46 2016

Robinson, Julia W., Complex housing: designing for density, Routledge, NA7361 .R62 2018

Rowe, Peter G. & Har Ye Khan, Urban intensities: contemporary housing types and territories, Walter de Gruyter, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Schröpfer, Thomas, Dense + green: innovative building types for sustainable urban architecture, Walter de Gruyter, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

 

Dewar, Margaret & June Manning Thomas, City in the twenty-first century : city after abandonment, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Lunday, Elizabeth, “Shrinking cities, U.S.A.,” Urban land, November/December 2009, p.68-71

McGahey, Richard M. & Jennifer S. Vey, Retooling for growth: building a 21st century economy in America's older industrial areas, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Ryan, Brent D., City in the twenty-first century: design after decline: how America rebuilds shrinking cities, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Shetty, Sujata & Andreas Luescher, “When growth is no longer the norm: teaching urban design in a time of transformation,” ArchNet-IJAR, Vol.4, #2/3, 2010

Al Sayyad, Nezar (editor), Hybrid urbanism: on the identity discourse and the built environment, Praeger, HT119 .H93 2001

The cosmopolis: emerging multicultural spaces in Europe and North America,” Built Environment, 2004 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Davis, Mike, Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the US city, Verso, HN80. L7 D39 2000

Jacobs, Jane, The death and life of great American cities, Vintage Books, NA9109 .J3

Lees, Loretta, The emancipatory city?: paradoxes and possibilities, Sage Publications, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Penn, Alan, et al, “The generation of diversity,” in Designing sustainable cities, Rachel Cooper (editor), Wiley-Blackwell, HT241 .D47 2009

Reeves, Dory, Planning for diversity: policy and planning in a world of difference, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Sandercock, Leonie, Towards cosmopolis: planning for multicultural cities, J. Wiley, HT166 .S219 1997

Cremni, Dennis H., Grant Park: the evolution of Chicago’s front yard, Southern Illinois University Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Maas, Winy & Alexander Sverdlov, Absolute leisure: does leisure work?, nai010 publishers, HT165.5 .M33 2016

Monclús, Javier & Manuel Guardia (editors), Culture, urbanism and planning, Ashgate, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Murray, Kieran, et al., “Between crowd and control: the emergent stadium,” Building Material, 2016, #20, p.57-73 (via JSTOR)

 

Al, Stefan (editor), Factory towns of south China: an illustrated guidebook, Hong Kong University Press, HD60.5.C6 F33 2012

Alanen, Arnold R. & Chris Faust, Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. steel, and the forging of a company town, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Andrews, Gregg, City of Dust: a cement company town in the land of Tom Sawyer, University of Missouri, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Connolly, James J., After the factory: reinventing America's industrial small cities, Lexington Books, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Crawford, Margaret, Building the workingman's paradise, Verso, HT123.C688 1995

Garner, John S., The model company town, University of Massachusetts Press, HT123.5.A11 G37 1984

Klein, Maury & Harvey A. Kantor, Prisoners of progress: American industrial cities 1850-1920, Macmillan, HT123.K55

Benjamin, Walter, The Arcades Project, PT2603.E445P33513 1999 (see Convolute M, “The Flaneur”)

Benjamin, Walter, “The return of the flaneur,” in Selected Writings 1927-1934, PT2603.E455 A26 1996 v.2

Buck-Morss, Susan, “The flaneur, the sandwichman and the whore: the politics of loitering,” New German Critique, #39, Autumn 1986, p.99-140 (via JSTOR)

Fisher, Jaimey, “Wandering  in/to the rubble-film: filmic flânerie and the exploded panorama after 1945,” The German Quarterly, Fall 2005, p.461-480 (via JSTOR)

Hessel, Franz, Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital, The MIT Press, DD879 .H4713 2017

McDonough, Tom, “The crimes of the flaneur,” October, #102, Fall 2002, [101]-122

Murphy, Amy, “Traces of the flâneuse: from Roman holiday to Lost in Translation,” JAE, September 2006, p.33-42

Wilson, Elizabeth, The sphinx in the city: urban life, the control of disorder, and women, University of California Press, HT361 .W55 1992

Baird, “Karel Teige’s Mundaneum, 1929, and Le Corbusier’s In Defense of Architecture, 1933,” Oppositions, #4, 1974

Boyer, Christine M., Dreaming the rational city, MIT Press, HT167 .B655 1983

Cupers, Kenny (editor), Use matters: an alternative history of architecture, Routledge, NA2543.S6 U84 2013

Fabricius, Daniela, “Who's afraid of Ludwig Hilberseimer? Spectrality and space in the Groszstadt?JAE, March 2013, p.39-51

Functionalism,” Oxford Art Online

Mariani, Riccardo (editor), Tony Garnier: une citéindustrielle, Rizzoli, NA9030.N4 T65 1990

Groth, Paul, "Streetgrids as frameworks for urban variety," The Harvard Architecture Review, # 2, Spring 1981, p.68-75

Hays, Michael K., Modernism and the posthumanist subject: the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer, MIT Press, NA1353.M4 H39 1992

Hughes, Jonathan, “Hospital-City,” Architectural History, v. 40, 1997, p.266-288 (via JSTOR)

Rowe, Colin & Fred Koetter, Collage city, MIT Press, NA9050 .R68 1998

Smithson, Alison Margaret, The heroic period of modern architecture, Rizzoli, NA682. F8 S58

Batchelor, Peter, “The origin of the garden city concept of urban form,” JSAH, October 1969, p.184-200 (via JSTOR)

Buder, Stanley, Visionaries and planners: the garden city movement and the modern community, Oxford University Press, 1990 (via Ebook Central)

Garden city,” Oxford Art Online

Howard, Ebenezer, Garden cities of tomorrow, MIT Press, HT161.H6

Osborn, Frederic J., Green-belt cities, Schocken Books, NA9185 .O76 1969

Ainley, Rosa, New frontiers of space, bodies, and gender, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Darling, Elizabeth & Nathaniel Robert Walker (editors), Suffragette city : women, politics and the built environment, Routledge, NA2543.W65 S84 2020

Deutsch, Sarah, Women and the city: gender, space and power in Boston, 1870-1940, Oxford University Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Foxhall, Lin & Neher, Gabriele, Gender and the city before modernity, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Gender, Place and Culture (journal, volumes for 1995-1998 are available in the library stacks)

Lambright, Anne & Elisabeth Guerrero, Unfolding the city: women write the city in Latin America, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Sanders, Joel, Stud: architectures of masculinity, Princeton Architectural Press, NA2542.4 .S78 1996

SassenSaskia, “Built gendering,” Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2015/Winter 2016, p.34-35

Signs (journal, issues from 1975 available via JSTOR)

SluisAgeethDeco body, deco city: female spectacle and modernity in Mexico City, 1900-1939, University of Nebraska Press, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Spain, Daphne, How women saved the city, University of Minnesota Press, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Visual Culture & Gender (journal, issues from 2010 available via vcg.emitto.net)

Wilson, Elizabeth, The sphinx in the city: urban life, the control of disorder, and women, University of California Press, HT361 .W55 1992

Women and the American city,” Signs, Spring 1980 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Atkinson, Rowland & Gary Bridge, Gentrification in a global context: the new urban colonialism, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Brown-Saracino, Japonica, The gentrification debates, Routledge, HT170 .G454 2010

DeSena, Judith N., Gentrification and inequality in Brooklyn, Lexington Books, 2009 (via Ebook Central) 

Ewing, Reid, “A mixed picture of gentrification,” Planning, December 2017, p.43-44

Freeman, Lance, There goes the ‘hood: views of gentrification from the ground up, Temple University Press, 2006 

Glaesser, Edward L., et al, "Measuring gentrification: using Yelp data to quantify neighborhood change," 2018 (National Bureau of Economic Research working paper)

Hern, Matt, What a city is for: remaking the politics of displacement, MIT Press, HT361 .H47 2016

Hughes, James W. & Kenneth D. Bleakly, Jr., Urban homesteading, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, HD7293 .H83 1975

Jacobs, Karrie, “The High Line network tackles gentrification,” Architect, October 2017, p.111-120

Lees, Loretta, et al (editors), The gentrification reader, Routledge, HT170 .G465 2010

Margulies, Joseph, Thanks for everything (now get out) : can we restore neighborhoods without destroying them? Yale University Press, HT177.P76 M37 2021

Martinez, Miranda J., Power at the roots: gentrification, community gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side, Lexington Books, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Zielebach, Sean, The art of revitalization, Routledge, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Berry, Brian J. L. & James O. Wheeler, Urban geography in America: 1950-2000: paradigms and personalities, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Hood, Walter & Grace Mitchell Tada (editors), Black landscapes matter, University of Virginia Press, E185.86.B52559 2020

Jonas, Andrew E. G., et al, Urban geography: a critical introduction, John Wiley & Sons, 2015 (via EbookCentral)

Pacione, Michael, Urban geography: a global perspective, Routledge, GF125 .P33 2009

Adam, Robert, The globalization of modern architecture: the impact of politics, economics and social change on architecture and urban design since 1900, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Çelikkanat Aysu, Gözdem, "Managing the image of cities in the ‘global village’,” ArchNet-IJAR, 2013, v. 7, #2, p.258-268 (full text PDF via archnet-ijar.net)

Birch, Eugenie L. & Susan M. Wachter, City in the twenty-first century: global urbanization, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Globalization and the changing U. S. city,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 1997 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Graaf, Reinier de & Laura Baird, “Megalopoli(tic)s,” Log, Fall 2014, p.108-116 (via JSTOR)

Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle, Walking between slums and skyscrapers: illusions of open space in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai, Hong Kong University Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

King, Anthony D., Spaces of global cultures: architecture, urbanism, identity, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

McCann, Eugene, et al, Mobile urbanism: cities and policymaking in the global age, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Peterson, Marina & Gary W. McDonogh, Global downtowns, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Ren, Xuefei, Building globalization: transnational architecture production in urban China, University of Chicago Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Curtis, William J. R., “Grands Projets: monumentality and the machinery of state: François Mitterand's Parisian monuments symbolize the French nation's political agenda,” Architectural Record, March 1990, p.76-83

Fierro, Annette, The glass state: the technology of the spectacle, Paris, 1981-1998, MIT Press, NA1050 .F53 2003 (also via Ebook Central)

France’s identity crises,” SubStance, 1995, v.24, #1/2, (special issue via JSTOR)

Mellins, “Symposium looks to the Grands Travaux for inspiration in rebuilding Lower Manhattan,” Architectural record, November 2002

Magnuson, Torgil, Rome in the age of Bernini, Almavist & Wiksell International Humanities Press, DG812.4 .M27 1982

International Network for Urban Development

Kahn, Matthew E., Green cities: urban growth and the environment, Brookings Institute Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Lewis, Paul G. & Max Niemancustodians of place: governing the growth and development of cities, Georgetown University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Pallagst, Karina, Growth management in the US: between theory and practiceAshgate, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Porter, Douglas R., Managing growth in America's communities, Island Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Urban Land Institute

Urban Land Institute. The Smart growth tool kit: community profiles and case studiesHT392 .S58 2000

Williams, Donald C., Global urban growth: a reference handbookABC-CLIO, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Davies, Paul, “Georges-Eugène Haussmann,” Architectural Review, June 2016, p.80-81

Dilet, Marc, "Georges Eugène Haussmann," Oxford Art Online.

Jordan, David, Transforming Paris: the life and labors of Baron Haussmann, Free Press, HT178. F72 P345 1996

Kaltenbach, Frank, “19th century Paris: smart city with charm,” Detail (English edition), July/August 2017, p.6-7

Mead, Christopher, “Urban contingency and the problem of representation in second empire Paris,” JSAH, June 1995, p.138-174

Olsen, The city as a work of art: London, Paris, Vienna, NA970 .O47 1986

Rice, Shelley, Parisian views, MIT Press, TR72.P37 R53 1997

Saalman, Howard, Haussmann: Paris transformed, George Braziller, HT169.F72 P367

Weeks, Willet, The man who made Paris Paris, London House, DC280.5.H3W4 1999

 

Deutsche, Rosalyn, Evictions: art and spatial politics, MIT Press, NA9053.S6 D48 1996

Fontana-Giusti, Gordana, Foucault for architects, Routledge, B2430.F724 F584 2013

Foucault, Michel, “Of other Spaces,” Diacritics, Spring 1986, p.22-27 (via JSTOR)

Vidler, Anthony, “Spatial violence,” Assemblage, April 1993, #20, p.84-85 (via JSTOR)

Aquilino, Marie Jeannine, Beyond shelter: architecture and human dignity, Metropolis Books, NA2543.S6B49 2011

Borges, Sofia & R. Scott Mitchell (editors), Give me shelter: architecture takes on the homeless crisis, Oro Editions, HD7287.96.3U62L674 2018

Bratt, Rachel G., et al. (editors), A right to housing: foundation for a new social agenda, Temple University Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Brown, David J. (Editor), The HOME House Project : the future of affordable housing, MIT Press,  NA7540.H66 2004

Chiland, Elijah, “Designers envision shelters for LA’s homeless residents,” Curbed Los Angeles, July 31, 2018

Cimino, S., "Can design help solve LA’s homeless crisis?” Architect, April 2018, p. 98–101

Cisneros Henry G. & Lora Engdahl (editors), From despair to hope: HOPE VI and the new promise of public housing in America's cities, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Clouette, Benedict, Forms of aid : architectures of humanitarian spaceBirkhäuser, NA2542.4.C59 2017 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)

Davis, Sam, Designing for the homeless: architecture that works, University of California Press, NA7540.D385 2004

Dörries, Cornelia & Sarah Zahra, Container and modular buildings: construction and design manual, DOM Publishers, NA2542.4.D67 2016

Ellen, Ingrid Gould & Brendan O’Flaherty (editors), How to house the homeless, Russell Sage Foundation, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Freear, Andrew, et al., Rural Studio at twenty : designing and building in Hale County, Alabama, Princeton Architectural Press, NA2300.A9F74 2014 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)

Gilmartin, Wendy, “The homeless want more than housing: for the residents of L.A.’s Skid Row, public space is a priority,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, October 2016, p.58, 60

Hamilton, William L., “Shelter is a state of mind: Parsons and Pratt students have lessons to teach us about solutions for homelessness,” Interior Design, June 2015, p.128-130

Marr, Matthew D., Better must come: exiting homelessness in two global cities , Cornell University Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Minimum Cost Housing Group (McGill University)

The People Concern

Reslock, Debbie Sullivan, “Housing for all? Homeless numbers are down, but there’s much work to do,” Planning, February 2016, p.34-38

Smith, Cynthia E., et al., Design with the other 90%: cities, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, TS171.4.D488 2011

The Terner Center for Housing and Innovation  (The Terner Center at University of California, Berkeley, "leverages applied research and best practices to inform and advance innovation in the planning, financing, design and development of the built environment.")

Webb, Michael, “Safe haven: a multi-unit residence in L.A. gives homeless and disabled veterans a place to lay their heads,” Azure, June 2017, p.84-88

Angélil, Marc & Rainer Hehl (editors), Building Brazil: projects and research for the proactive renewal of informal settlements, Ruby Press, HT178.B72 B85 2011

ChalanaManish, “Slumdogs vs. millionaires: balancing urban informality and global modernity in Mumbai, India,” JAE, March 2010, p.25-37 (via JSTOR)

Federighi, Valeria, The informal stance: representations of architectural design and informal settlements, Applied Research and Design Publishing, NA2542.4 .F43 2018

Goff, Lisa, Shantytown USA: forgotten landscapes of the working poor, Harvard University Press, HD7287.96.U6 G64 2016

Hailey, Charlie, Slab City: dispatches from the last free place, MIT Press, HD7287.96.U622 C245 2018

Kellett, Peter & Mark Napier, “Squatter architecture?” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 1995, p.7-24 (via JSTOR)

MukhijaVinitSquatters as developers? : slum redevelopment in MumbaiRoutledge, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Potrc, Marjetica, “Caracas case study: the culture of the informal city,” Perspecta, 2005, Vol. 36, p.53-57 (via JSTOR)

Roy, Anaya & Nezar Al Sayyad (editors), Urban informality: transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia, Lexington Books; Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley, HT361 .U717 2004

Sadler, Simon, “Drop City revisited,” JAE, February 2006, p.5-14 (via JSTOR)

Silva, Elisa, Pure space : expanding the public sphere through public space transformations in Latin American spontaneous settlements, Actar Publishers, NA9053.S6 S58 2020

Urban-Think Tank, Torre David: informal vertical communities, Lars Müller, NA6234.V42 C378 2013

Villatoro, Paco Mejias, et al, Off-grid toilets :  compilation, analysis and comparison, Altrim Publishers, GT476 .O4 2023

Tagliabue, Benedetta, “Barcelona reset: circuit of ephemeral architecture,” Architectural Design, May/June 2015, p.64-71

Thompson, Nato, et al, The interventionists: users' manual for the creative disruption of everyday life, MASS MoCA, N6496 .I58 2004

Van Duin, Leen, et al, The urban project: architectural intervention in urban areas, Delft University Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Yiu, Marisa, “Politics of the light object: transformative architectural installations,” JAE, October 2009, p.107-119

Chung, Chuihua Judy, et al (editors), Great leap forward, HT169.C62 G82 2001

Chung, Chuihua Judy & Sze Tsung Leong (editors), Harvard Design School guide to shopping, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, NA2543.S6 H37 2001

Jameson, Fredric, “Future city,” New Left Review, #21, 2003

Koolhaas, Rem, “Junkspace,” and “Bigness & velocity” in OMA@work 1972-2000, E ando Yu, NA1153.K65O45 2000

Koolhaas, Rem, Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for ManhattanMonacelli Press, NA735.N5 K66 1994

Koolhaas, Rem, S, M, L, XLMonacelli Press, NA1153.K64363 1995 (See “Bigness,” and the “Extra Large” section)

Koolhaas, Rem, “Urbanism after innocence: four projects: the reinvention of geometry,” Assemblage, #18, August 1992, p.82-113 (via JSTOR)

Koolhaas, Rem, et al, MutationsACTARHT151 .M84 2000

Saunders, William S., “Rem Koolhaas's WRITING ON CITIES: POETIC PERCEPTION AND GNOMIC Fantasy,” JAE, September 1997, p.61-71 (via JSTOR)

Ungers, Oswald Matthias, Rem Koolhaas, et al, The city in the city: Berlin: a green archipelago / a manifesto (1977), Lars Müller Publishers, NA9200.B4 C58 2013

Approaches to urbanism L-Z

"Buying local: understand the pros and cons of striving to purchase your goods locally," Green Business Bureau, August 29, 2020 (blog post)

California Farmers’ Markets Association

Hess, David J., Localist movements in a global economy: sustainability, justice, and urban development in the United States, MIT Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Local Harvest (nation-wide guide)

Locovore smartphone app

Petrini, Carlo, Slow food: the case for taste, Columbia University Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Adam, John A., X and the city: modeling aspects of urban life, Princeton University Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Batty, Michael, Cities and complexity: understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals, MIT Press, HT166 .B3866 2005

De Roo, Gert & Jean HillierComplexity and planning: systems, assemblages and simulationsRoutledge, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Location theory

The Weber problem” Encyclopedia of Mathematics (“for the optimum location of a facility in the plane intended to serve several users”)

 

 

Amazing Archigram: A Supplement,” Perspecta, #11, 1967, p.[131-154]

Archizoom," "Metabolism," and “Superstudio," Oxford Art Online.

Banham, Reyner, Megastructure: urban futures of the recent past, Thames and Hudson, NA680 .B245 1976

Guiheux, Alain, Kisho Kurokawa: architecte, le Métabolisme 1960-1975, NA1559.K83 G85 1997

Fuller, R. Buckminster, Buckminster Fuller: starting with the universe, Whitney Museum of American Art; Yale University Press, NA737.F8 A4 2008

Ibañez, Daniel & Nikos Katsikis, Grounding metabolism, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, NA90000 .N49 2014 #6

Kikutake, Kiyonori, Between land and sea, Lars Müller Publishers, NA1559.K53 A4x 2016

Koolhaas, Charlie, Metabolism trip, Heibonsha, TR659.K75 2012

Koolhaas, Rem, Project Japan: an oral history of Metabolism, Taschen, NA1555.5 .M48 K66 2011

Lang, Peter, Superstudio: life without objects, Skira, NA1118.5.S96 L36 2003

Lin, Zhongjie, Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist movement: urban utopias of modern Japan, Routledge, NA1559.T33 L56 2010

Mand, Harpreet (Neena), “Creating Japanese discursive space,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Fall 2012, p.21 (via JSTOR)

Pernice, Raffaele, The urbanism of Metabolism : visions, scenarios and models for the mutant city of tomorrow, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, HT166 .U746 2022

Superstudio,” Perspecta, 1971, Vol.13/14, p.303-315

Cullen, Gordon, The concise townscape, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., HT166. C82 1971

Jacobs, Allan B., Great streets, MIT Press, NA9053.S7 J23 1993

Jacobs, Jane, The death and life of great American cities, Vintage Books, NA9108.J3

Laurence, Peter, “Contradictions and complexities: Jane Jacobs's and Robert Venturi's complexity theories,” JAE, February 2006, p.49-60 (via JSTOR)

Venturi, Robert, Complexity and contradiction in architecture, Museum of Modern Art; Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, NA2760 .V46 1977

Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown & Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas, MIT Press, NA735 .L3 V4 1972

Banerjee, Tridib, “U.S. planning expeditions to postcolonial India: from ideology to innovation in technical assistance,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Spring 2009, p.193-208

Caro, Robert A., The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York, Knopf, NA9085.M68 C37 1974

Doxiadis, Konstantinos & Truman B. Douglass, Dynapolis, the city of the future, Doxiadis Associates, HT111 D769d 1960

Doxiadis, Konstantinos & Douglass, The new world of urban man, United Church Press, HT151 .D6 1965

Ekistics magazine (volumes available in the library stacks for 1964-6, 1968-70, 1985, 1987, 1989-91)

Mahsud, Ahmed Zaib Khan, “Rethinking Doxiadis' Ekistical Urbanism,” Positions, Spring 2010, p.6-39 (PDF via Jstor)

Choay, Françoise, “The invention of an urban heritage,” in The invention of the historic monument, Cambridge University Press, NA2543.H55 C4813 2001

Crosby, Theo, The Necessary monument: its future in the civilized city, New York Graphic Society, CC135 .C74 1970

Makiya, Kanan, “The monument and the city,” in The monument: art and vulgarity in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, I. B. Tauris, NA9380.B34 K43 2004

Moravánszky, Ákos, “Peter Meyer and the Swiss discourse on monumentality,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.1-20 (via JSTOR)

Congress for the New Urbanism

Congress for the New Urbanism, Charter awards, NA7208.2 .C48 (available for 2001-6 & 2008)

Duany, Andres & Elizabeth Plater-ZyberkTowns and townmaking principles, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, NA9051.D8 1991

Fishman, Robert, New urbanism: Peter Calthorpe vs. Lars Lerup, University of Michigan; Arts Press, HT167 .N58 2005

Gillete, Howard, “The new urbanism: ‘organizing things that matter’,” in Civitas by design: building better communities, from the garden city to the new urbanism, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Katz, Peter, New urbanism: toward an architecture of community, McGraw-Hill, NA2542.4.K38 1994

Krier, Leon, Architecture of community, Island Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Krier, Rob, Urban space, Rizzoli International Publications, NA9053.S6 K7413 1979

New urbanism,” Built environment, Vol. 29, #3, 2003 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Seaside and the real world: a debate on American urbanism,” Any, #1, July/August 1993 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Badger, Emily, “How ‘not in my backyard’ became ‘not in my neighborhood’,” New York Times, January 3, 2018 (via www.nytimes.com)

Brasuell, James, “Debunking the politics of progressive NIMBYism,” Planetizen, March 2018 (via planetizen.com)

Khashan, Nesreen & Lia Bolden, "Census Bureau data key to housing advocacy on both sides," United States Census Bureau, May 22, 2018

Lind, Diana, “Control the masses,” Architect, January 2011, p.134-135

Newman, Morris, “Yes in my backyard: failure and success in bringing housing to the center city,” ArcCA, #2. 2001, p.32-35

Not in my back yard (2015), a documentary film exploring attitudes towards homeless services in Surrey, Vancouver, British Columbia

Snoonian, Deborah, “Yes, in my backyard: a sympathetic design raises the bar for affordable housing in a not-so-affordable city,” Architectural Record, October 2014, p.134-139

"Advocacy: a community planning voice," Design Quarterly, #82/83, 1971

Community architecture,” Built environment, #1, 1987 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Galeazzi, Francesca, “Empowering communities through design,” Architectural Design, July/August 2015, p.94-97

Kaliski, John, “Democracy takes command,” Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer 2005, p. 20-26

MacCallum, Diana & Graham Haughton, Discourse dynamics in participatory planning: opening the bureaucracy to strangers, Taylor & Francis, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Murray, Michael, Participatory rural planning: exploring evidence from Ireland, Ashgate, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Participatory design” Design issues, Summer 2012 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Ramati, Raquel, et al, How to save your own street, Dolphin Books, HT177. N5 R35

Alexander, Christopher, “A city is not a tree,” Architectural Forum, April 1965 (Reprinted in OckmanArchitecture culture 1943-1968, NA680.A57 1993)

Alexander, Christopher, A new theory of urban designNA9031 .A38 1987

Alexander, Christopher, Notes on the synthesis of form, NA2500.A45

Alexander, Christopher, A pattern language: towns, buildings, construction, NA2500.A445

BhattRitu, “Christopher Alexander’s pattern language: an alternative exploration of space-making practices,” Journal of Architecture, December 2010, p.711-729

Goodey, Brian, “Cut down to size? Christopher Alexander's ‘A city is not a tree’,” Built Environment, Vol.8, #4, 1982, p.258-261

Kalb, James, “Life in design: Christopher Alexander and the nature of order,” Archnet-IJAR, Vol.8, #2, 2014, p.94-98 (download pdf via archnet.org)

Ben-Joseph, Eran, The code of the city: standards and the hidden language of place making, MIT Press, HT166 .B3974 2005

Bohl, Charles C., Place making: developing town centers, main streets, and urban villages, Urban Land Institute, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Crankshaw, Ned, Creating vibrant public spaces: streetscape design in commercial and historic districts, Island Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Darby, Dilek Özdemir, “Analysing the concept of place attachment in the context of spatial factors: Kuzguncuk, Istanbul,” International Journal of Architecture & Planning, December 2017, p.18-29 (PDF via iconarp.selcuk.edu.tr)

Musterd, Sako & Zoltán Kovács, Place-making and policies for competitive cities, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Walljasper, Jay, The great neighborhood book: a do-it-yourself guide to placemaking, New Society Publishers, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Gottdiener, Mark, The social production of urban space, 2nd, University of Texas Press, HT334.U5G66 1994

Lefebvre, Henri, The critique of everyday life, Verso, BD431 .L36513 1991

Lefebvre, Henri, The production of space, Blackwell, BD621.L4813 1991

Lefebvre, Henri, et al, State, space, world: selected essays, University of Minnesota Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Lefebvre, Henri, Toward an architecture of enjoyment, University of Minnesota Press, NA2500 .L4513 2014 

Lefebvre, Henri, Writings on cities, Blackwell Publishers, HT153.L345 1996

StanekLukaszHenri Lefebvre on space: architecture, urban research, and the production of theory, University of Minnesota Press, H61.15 .S73 2011

Barlotta, Al, "Urban planning in the U.S. - Uncovering a legacy of racism," Foward Pinellas, August 13, 2020 (blog post)

Bullard, Robert D., The Black metropolis in the twenty-first century: race, power, and politics of place, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Dwyer, Claire & Caroline Bressey (editors), New geographies of race and racism, Ashgate, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

"Highways and zoning: Tools of racist policy," Transport Matters, Institute for Transportation & Development, March 10, 2021 (blog post)

Li, Chuo, "Postwar urban redevelopment and the politics of exclusion: the case of San Francisco's Chinatown," Journal of Planning History, February 2019, p.27-43

Murray, Noëleen, et al, Desire lines: space, memory and identity in the post-apartheid city, Routledge, NA9053.S6 D465 2007

Nightingale, Carl Husemoller, Segregation: a global history of divided cities, University of Chicago Press, HD7288.75 .N54 2012

Rast, Joel, The origins of the dual city: housing, race, and redevelopment in twentieth-century Chicago, University of Chicago Press, HD7304.C4 R37 2019

Redlining and gentrification, explores redlining, gentrification, and exclusion across California's Bay Area (San Francisco, East Bay, and San Jose). Created by the Urban Displacement Project, University of California Berkeley. See also:

Sugrue, Thomas J., The origins of the urban crisis: race and inequality in postwar Detroit, Princeton University Press, F574. D49 N4835 1996

Ban, Shigeru, “Twelve years of emergency architecture,” Verb: architecture boogazine, Actar, NA687.V47 2008 #6 (Office)

Camp Management Toolkit (Guidelines from the Norwegian Refugee Council)

Jacobs, Karrie, “What’s next: rethinking the refugee camp,” Architect, January 2017, p.78-82, 84, 86

Kaltenbach, Frank, “Steel container, timber element or solid? System building – also for refugees,” Detail (English edition), September/October 2017, p.60-66

Maak, Niklas, “Gimme shelter: refugee architecture in Germany,” Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer 2016, p.135-161

Newby, Tom, “The shelter solution,” Mark: Another Architecture, June/July 2016, p.76-81

Petti, Alessandro, “The concrete tent: a paradox of permanent temporality,” Perspecta, 2017, 193-202

Shelter Centre (Supports “transitional settlement and reconstruction needs of populations affected by conflicts and natural disasters”)

U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR, publisher of Refugee Magazine)

United States Committee for Refugees

 

Anderson, Martin, The federal bulldozer: a critical analysis of urban renewal, 1949-1962, MIT Press, HT175. U6 A84

Cruz, Teddy & Fonna Forma, Spatializing justice : building blocks, The MIT Press & Hatje Cantz, NA2542.4 .C78 2022

Desimini, Jill, From fallow: 100 ideas for abandoned urban landscapes, ORO Editions, HT170 .D48 2019

Isenberg, Alison, Designing San Francisco: art, land, and urban renewal in the City by the Bay, Princeton University Press, NA9127 .S3 I84 2017

Hirsh, Alison Bick, City choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in urban renewal America, University of Minnesota Press, NA9085.H35 H57 2014

Klemek, Christopher, The transatlantic collapse of urban renewal: postwar urbanism from New York to Berlin, University of Chicago Press, HT170 .K57 2011

Wilson, James Q. (editor), Urban renewal: the record and the controversy, MIT Press, TH175.U5W69

Nas, Peter J.M., Cities full of symbols: a theory of urban space and cultureLeiden University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Gottdiener, M. & Alexandros Ph. LagopoulosThe city and the sign: an introduction to urban semiotics, Columbia University Press, HT153 .C56 1986

Hauptmann, Deborah & Warren NeidichCognitive architecture: from bio-politics to noo-politics; architecture & mind in the age of communication and informationNA2543 .S46 C64 2010

Preziosi, Donald, Architecture, language and meaning: the origins of the built world and its semiotic organization, Mouton, 1979 (via Ebook Central)

Ahrentzen, Sherry, “The space between the studs: feminism and architecture,” Signs, Autumn 2003, p.179-206 (via JSTOR)

Colomina, Beatriz & Jennifer Bloomer, Sexuality & space, Princeton Architectural Press, NX650.S8 S48 1992

Doan, Petra (editor), Queerying planning: challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practices, Ashgate, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Heise, Thomas, “Degenerate sex and the city: Djuna Barnes' urban underworld,” Twentieth Century Literature, Fall 2009, p.287-321 (via JSTOR)

Herring, Scott, Another country: queer anti-urbanism, New York University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Higgs, David, Queer sites: gay urban histories since 1600, Routledge, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Reed, Christopher, “Imminent domain: queer space in the built environment,” Art Journal, Winter, 1996, p.64-70 (via JSTOR)

Williams, Richard J., Sex and buildings: modern architecture and the sexual revolution, Reaktion Books, NA2543.S6 W55 2013

Glaeser, Ed, et al, Consumer City, 2000 (via the National Bureau of Economic Research)

Gruen, Victor, Centers for the urban environment: survival of the cities, Van Nostrand Reinhold, HT166. G76

Gruen, Victor, The heart of our cities, Simon and Schuster, NA9108.G76

Gruen, Victor & Larry Smith, Shopping towns USA: the planning of shopping centers, Reinhold, HF5429 .G75

Hardwick, M. Jeffrey, Mall maker: Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream, University of Pennsylvania Press, NA737.G78 H37 2004

Lee, Martyn J., Consumer society reader, Blackwell, HF5415.32.C6592 2000

Smiley, David J., Pedestrian modern: shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956, University of Minnesota Press, NA6212 .S65 2013

Turnbull, Geoffrey, Urban consumer theory, Urban Institute Press, HF5415.32.T94 1995

Victor Gruen Associates, Fresno and the mall: a story of community action, HF5430.5. P7 V52 1960

Wall, Alex, Victor Gruen: from urban shop to the new city, Actar, NA737.G78 W34 2005

Busbea, Larry, Topologies: the urban utopia in France, 1960-1970, MIT Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Coverley, Merlin, Pocket essential: psychogeographyOldcastle, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Debord, Guy, Society of the spectacle, Zone Books, HM291 .D38813 1998x

Debord, Guy, Correspondence: the foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)Semiotext(e), HN440.R3 D433213 2009

Guy Debord and the Internationale Situationniste,” Vol. 79, Winter 1997 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Hussey, Andrew, “Mapping utopia: Debord and Constant between Amsterdam and Paris,” in Paris-Amsterdam underground: essays on cultural resistance, subversion, and diversion, Amsterdam University Press, 2013 (via JSTOR)

Lefebvre, Henri, The urban revolution, University of Minnesota Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central) 

Sadler, Simon, The situationist city, MIT Press, NA2500 .S124 1998

Situationist International (Extensive archive via Nothingness.org)

Stracey, Frances, Constructed situations: a new history of the Situationist International, Pluto Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

 

Dear, Michael J. (editor), From Chicago to L.A.: making sense of urban theory, Sage Publications, HT384 .U52 L673 2001

Judd, Dennis R. & Dick Simpson (editors), The city, revisited: urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Lin, Jan, et al (editors), The Urban Sociology Reader, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012 (via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Short, John R., The urban order: an introduction to cities, culture, and power, Blackwell Publishers, HT151 .S477 1996

Weber, Max, The city, Free Press, HT151 .W5 1951

Whyte, William, The social life of small urban spaces, Conservation Foundation, HT153.W49

Aalborg Charter of European Cities and Towns

Brose, Dominic A. (editor), Pathways to urban sustainability: perspective from Portland and the Pacific Northwest, National Academies Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Bürstmayr, Sigrid & Karl Stocker (editors), Designing sustainable cities: manageable approaches to make urban spaces better, Birkhauser, HT241 .D47 2020

Calthorpe, Peter, Urbanism in the age of climate change, Island Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Carracedo, Oscar, Design resilience in Asia : thinking the unpredictable, designing with uncertainty, Actar Publishers, NA9053.E58 C37 2021 

Livable Communities Initiative (Los Angeles-based urbanists, architects, and activists addressing the housing, mobility and climate crisis)

Dickson, Eric, et al, Urban risk assessments: an approach for understanding disaster and climate risk in cities, World Bank Publications, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Friedman, Avi, Smart homes and communites: fostering sustainable architecture, Australia Images, NA2542.36 .F75 2018

Grant, Gary, Ecosystem services come to town: greening cities by working with nature, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Haas et al, Sustainable urbanism and beyond: rethinking cities for the future, HT166 .S9136 2012

Hurd, A-P, Carbon efficient city, University of Washington Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Jha, Abhas K., et al (editors), Building urban resilience: principles, tools, and practice, World Bank Publications, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

McHarg, Ian, "The ecology of the city," Journal of Architectural Education, November/December 1962, p.101-103 (via JSTOR)

Mostafavi, Mahsen & Gareth Doherty (editors), Ecological urbanism, Lars Müller Publishers, HT241.E375 2010

Portney, Kent E., Sustainability, MIT Press, HC79.E5 P66925 2015

Schroepfer, Thomas, Ecological urban architecture: qualitative approaches to sustainability, De Gruyter, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Smart Growth Network

Urban Ecology

Vojnovic, Igor, Urban sustainability: a global perspective, Michigan State University Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

The Independent Group,” October, Vol. 94, Autumn  2000 (via JSTOR)

Pedret, Annie, Team 10: an archival history, Routledge, NA682.T43 P43 2012

Risselada, Max, Team 10: 1953-81, in search of a utopia of the present, NAi (publisher), NA682.T43 A4 2005 (Office)

Smithson, Alison & Peter Smithson, The charged void—urbanism, Monacelli Press, NA997.S57 A4 2005

Smithson, Alison (editor), Team 10 primer, MIT Press, NA2560.S6644 1968 (Office)

Ervin, Jordan, “San Diego’s urban trophy: Horton Plaza redevelopment project,” Southern California Quarterly, Winter 2008-2009, p.419-453 (via JSTOR)

Huxtable, Ada Louise, Unreal America, New Press, NA712.H88 1993

Schneider, Tatjana, “Profitopolis, or, the corporate landscape of theming,” Building Material, p.38-41 (via JSTOR)

Sorkin, Michael, Variations on a theme park: the new American city and the end of public space, Hill and Wang, HT123.V37 1992

Themed Entertainment Association

 

Barris, Roann, “Contested mythologies: the architectural deconstruction of a totalitarian culture,” JAE, May 2001, p.229-237 (via JSTOR)

D'Hooghe, Alexander, “Siberia as analogous territory: soviet planning and the development of science towns,” AA Files, #51, Winter 2005, p.14-27 (via JSTOR)

GutnovAlexei, et al, The ideal communist cityBrazillerNA9035 .B313

Kim, Hyeonsu, “Changes in Pyongyang: a city of socialism,” Space, February 2013, p.36-43

MakiyaKanan, The monument: art and vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, I. B. Tauris, NA9380.B34 M25 2004

Maulsby, Lucy M., “Drinking from the River Lethe: Case del Fascio and the legacy of fascism in postwar Italy,” Future Anterior, Winter 2014, p.19-39 (via JSTOR)

Otto, Christian F., “City-planning theory in Nationalist-Socialist Germany,” JSAH, March 1965, p.70-74 (via JSTOR

Yim, Dongwoo, [UN]Precedented Pyongyang, Actar Publishers, HT147 .K7 Y56x 2016

Judd, Dennis R. (editor), The infrastructure of play: building the tourist city, Routledge, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Munoz, Francesc, “Urbanalization: Francesc Munoz discusses urban tourism in the age of interchangeability,” Mark: another architecture, June/July 2017, p.74-79

Smith, Melanie K., Tourism, culture, and regeneration, CABI, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Urban Tourism,” Built Environment, #2, 2000 (Theme issue)

Yıldız, Selin & M. Tolga Akbulut, “Current trends in developing urban tourism,” ArchNet-IJAR, Vol. 7, #2, 2013, p.297-310 (via archnet.org)

Lobsinger, Mary Louise, “The new urban scale in Italy: On Aldo Rossi's "L'architettura della città,” JAE, February 2006, p.28-38 (via JSTOR)

Rossi, Aldo, The architecture of the city, MIT Press, NA9031.R6713

“Typological urbanism: projective cities,” Architectural Design (AD), January/February 2011 (Theme issue)

Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown & Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form, MIT Press, NA735.L3 V4 1977

Al-Sayyad, Nezar, “The cinematic city: between modernist utopia and postmodernist dystopia,” Built Environment, #4, 2000, p.268-281 (via JSTOR)

“Architecture & utopia in the 21st century,” JAE, March 2013 (Theme issue)

Curl, James Stevens, Making dystopia: the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism, Oxford University Press, NA680 .C87 2018

Gordin, Michael D., et al (editors), Utopia/ dystopia: conditions of historical possibility, Princeton University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Haydon, Dolores, Seven American utopias: the architecture of communitarian socialism, MIT Press, HX653.H39

Klanten, Robert & Sofia Borges (editors), The tale of tomorrow: utopian architecture in the modernist realmGestalten, NA209.5 .T35x 2016

Lewis, Michael J., City of refuge: separatists and utopian town planning, Princeton University Press, HX630 .L49 2016

More, Thomas, Utopia, Norton, HX811 1516 .E975

Prakash, Gyan, Noir urbanisms - dystopic images of the modern city, Princeton University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Representations of dystopia in literature and film,” Critical Survey, Vol. 17, #1, 2005 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Riley, Robert B., "Dreams of Tomorrow," Architectural Forum, April 1967, p.66-67, 112-113

Slaughter, Richard A., Futures beyond dystopia: creating social foresight, Routledge, 2003 (via Ebook Central )

Tod, Ian, Utopia, Harmony Books, H806 .T63 1978

Vidler, Anthony, "The New Industrial World: the reconstruction of urban utopia in late 19th century France,” Perspecta #13/14, 1971, p.243-256 (PDF via Jstor)

Wegner, Philip E., Imaginary communities: utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity, University of California Press, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Bell, David & Barbara M. Kennedy (editors), The cybercultures reader, Routledge, QA76.9.C66 C898 2007

Nunes, Mark, Cyberspaces of everyday life, University of Minnesota Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Pearce, Celia, et al, Communities of play: emergent cultures in multiplayer games and virtual worlds, MIT Press, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Renninger, K. Ann & Wesley Schumar (editors), Building virtual communities, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Rheingold, Howard, The virtual community, http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/

Webber, Melvin M., "Community without propinquity," in Cities and Space, (Lowden Wingo, Jr., editor) HT166.C47

Alofsin, Anthony, “Broadacre City – ideal and nemesis,” American Art, Summer 2011, p.21-25 (via JSTOR)

Levine, Neil, The urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright, Princeton University Press, NA9085.W75 L48 2016

Reisley, Roland & John Timpane, Usonia, New York: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright, Princeton Architectural Press, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Wright, Frank Lloyd, The living city, New American Library, NA9031 .W7 1963

Wright, Frank Lloyd, When democracy builds, University of Chicago Press, NA9030 .W74 1945a

Elements of Urban Design A-Z

HernanCasakin & Bernardo Fatima, Role of place identity in the perception, understanding, and design of built environments, Bentham Science Publishers, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Davis, Diane E. & Nora Libertun de DurenCities & sovereignty: identity politics in urban spaces, Indiana University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Korpela, Mari & Fred DervinCocoon communities: togetherness in the 21st Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Quimby, Ernest, Doing qualitative community research: lessons for faculty, students and the community, Bentham Science Publishers, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Roodhouse, Simon, Cultural quarters: principles & practice, Intellect Books, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

SepeMarichelaPlanning and place in the city: mapping place identityRoutledge, NA9053.H76S47 2013

Brueckner, Jan K., Lectures on urban economics, MIT Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Buckley, Robert M., et al, Urbanization and growth, World Bank Publications, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Levin, Miriam R., et al., Urban modernity: cultural innovation in the second industrial revolution, MIT Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Nallari, Raj, et al, Geography of growth: spatial economics and competitiveness, World Bank Publications, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Allen, Barbara, “Cities, poverty, and the environment,” Journal of Architectural Education, May 2007, p.67-71

Brand, Peter Charles, Urban environmentalism: global change and the mediation of local conflict, Routledge, 2005 (PDF via Ebook Central)

Bullard, Robert D. & Beverly Wright, Race, place, and environmental justice after Hurricane Katrina, Taylor & Francis, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

"Environmental ethics," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Gutierrez, Juana & Ricardo Gutierrez, "Boyle Heights," Invisible-5.org, [undated]. (Oral history featuring a co-founder and member of Madres del Este de Los Angeles / Mothers of East Los Angeles - Santa Isabel (MELA-SI). Here, they discuss their fight against a proposed municipal garbage incinerator project that would have burned 1600 tons of trash daily.) (Audio, 7:13)

Pavel, M. Paloma (editor), Breakthrough communities: sustainability and justice in the next American metropolis, MIT Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Social equity frameworks for the building industry (BuildingGreen)  

Soja, Edward W., Seeking spatial justice, University of Minnesota Press, 2010 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Sze, Julie, Noxious New York: the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice, MIT Press, GE235 .N7 S94 2006

Elliott, Donald L., A better way to zone, ten principles to create more livable cities, Island Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Garnett, Nicole Stelle, Ordering the city: land use, policing, and the restoration of urban america, Yale University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Gilbert, Roy Trevo, Improving municipal management for cities to succeed: an ieg special study, World Bank Publications, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Hsing, You-tien, The great urban transformation: politics of land and property in China, Oxford University Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

McLaren, Duncan & Julian Agyeman, Sharing cities: a case for truly smart and sustainable cities, MIT Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Parolek, Daniel G., et al, Form-based codes: a guide for planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers, J. Wiley & Sons, NA9050.5 .P37 2008

Pindus, Nancy, et al, Urban and regional policy and its effects, Brookings Institution Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Slone, Daniel K., A legal guide to urban and sustainable development for planners, developers, and architects, Wiley, KF5692 .S57 2008

Talen, Emily, City rules: how regulations affect urban form, Island Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Barratt, Claire & Ian Whitelaw, The spotter's guide to urban engineering: infrastructure and technology in the modern landscape, Firefly Books, TA148 .B37 2011

De Monchaux, Nicholas, Local code: 3,659 proposals about data, design & the nature of cities, Princeton Architectural Press, NA9053.E58 D4 2016

Huler, Scott, On the grid: a plot of land, an average neighborhood, and the systems that make our world work, Rodale, HC110. C3 H85 2010

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

Kabisch, Nadja, et al. (editors), Human-environmental interactions in cities: challenges and opportunities of urban land use planning and green infrastructure, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

McMann, Joel M., Environmental science, engineering and technology: potable water and sanitation, Nova Science Publishers, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Mell, Ian, Green infrastructure planning: reintergrating landscape in urban planning, Lund Humphries, HT166 .M45 2019

System city: infrastructure and the spaces of flows,” Architectural Design (AD), 2013 (Theme issue, via Ebook Central)

Grodach, Carl, “Urban branding: an analysis of city homepage imagery,” Journal of architectural & planning research, Autumn 2009, p.181-197

Musterd, Sako & Zoltán Kovács, Place-making and Policies for Competitive Cities, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Rennen, Ward, CityEvents: place selling in a media age, Amsterdam University Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Smith, M. K., Tourism, culture, and regeneration, CABI, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Urban Affairs & Veronique Patteeuw, City branding: image building & building images, NAi, NA9207 .C58 2002

Daniels, Thomas L., “A trail across time: American environmental planning from City Beautiful to sustainability,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Spring 2009, p.178-192

Farr, Douglas, Sustainable urbanism: urban design with nature, Wiley, HT241 .S8736 2008

Mostafavi, Mohsen & Gareth Doherty, Ecological urbanism, Lars Müller Publishers, HT241 .E374 2016

Prominski, Martin, et al., River space design: planning strategies, methods and projects for urban riversBirkhäuser, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

AndraosAmale & Dan Wood, Above the pavement: the farm! architecture & agriculture at P.F.1, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Vessel, Matthew F. & Herbert H. Wong, Natural history of vacant lots, University of California Press, QH541.5.V27 V47 1987

Vink, Jacques, et al., Making urban naturenai010 (publisher), HT241 .V56 2017

[Sustainability & urban agriculture] Volume #18, 2008 (Theme issue)

Carmon, Naomi & Susan Fainstein (editors), Policy, planning, and people: promoting justice in urban development, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Frece, John W., Sprawl & politics: the inside story of smart growth in Maryland, State University of New York Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Garvin, Alexander, The planning game: lessons from great cities, W. W. Norton & Company, HT167 .G37 2012

Herzog, Lawrence A., Return to the center: culture, public space, and city building in a global era, University of Texas Press, 2006 (via Ebook Cental)

Jong, Afaina de, For the people, by the people: a visual story of the DIY city, Ultra De La Rue Publishing, NA2542.4.J66 2012

Bandarin, Francesco & Ron van OersHistoric urban landscape: managing heritage in an urban century, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Bandarin, Francesco & Ron van Oers (editors), Reconnecting the city: the historic urban landscape approach and the future of urban heritage, John Wiley & Sons, 2014

Engel, Barbara (editor), Historical versus modern: identity through imitation? Jovis, NA9053.C6 H5713 2018

Hayden, Dolores, “Placemaking, preservation and urban history,” Journal of Architectural Education, Spring 1988, p.45-51 (via JSTOR)

Licciardi, Guido & Rana AmirtahmasebiUrban development: economics of uniqueness : historic cities and cultural heritage assets as public goods, World Bank Publications, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

May, Kyle (editor), Landmark, CLOG, NA105 .L36 2015

Roberts, Bryony (editor), Tabula plena forms of urban preservation, Lars Müller Publishers, HT170 .T33 2016

Young, Robert A., Stewardship of the built environment: sustainability, preservation, and reuse, Island Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Zhang, Yue, The fragmented politics of urban preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris, University of Minnesota Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Brett, Deborah L. & Adrienne Schmitz, Real estate market analysis: methods and case studies, Urban Land Institute, HD255 .S36 2009

Hsing, You-tien, The great urban transformation: politics of land and property in China, Oxford University Press, 2010

Ingram, Gregory K. & Yu-Hung Hong (editors), Value capture and land policies, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Jones, Colin, Real estate issues: office markets and public policy, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Parolek, Daniel G., et al, Form-based codes: a guide for planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers, J. Wiley & Sons, NA9050.5 .P37 2008

Perry, David C. & Wim Wiewel, The university as urban developer: case studies and analysis, Routledge, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Egan, Kristine, The terrorscape: geography of urban terror risk, LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Maas, Winy, et al, City shock: planning the unexpected, Nai010 Publishers, NA9207 .C589 2012

Sozer, M. Alper, Crime and community policing, LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009

Vale, Lawrence J. & Thomas J. Campanella (editors), Resilient City: how modern cities recover from disaster, Oxford University Press, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Zimring, Franklin, The city that became safe: New York's lessons for urban crime and its control, Oxford University Press, HV7433. N49 Z56 2012

Batty, Michael, Inventing future cities, MIT Press, HT371 .B38 2018

Douay, Nicolas, Urban planning in the digital age, ISTE Ltd.; John Wiley & Sons, HT166 .D6634 2018

Gassman, Oliver, et al., Smart cities: introducing digital innovation to cities, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central) 

Guallart, Vincente, The self-sufficient city, Actar, HT241.G85 2014

Halegoua, Germaine, Smart cities, MIT Press, TD159.4 .H35 2020

Kargon, Robert H. & Arthur P. Molella, Invented Edens: techno-cities of the twentieth century, MIT Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Kurgan, Laura & Dare Brawley (Editors), Ways of knowing cities, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, HT251 .W39 2019

McLaren, Duncan & Julian Agyeman, Sharing cities: a case for truly smart and sustainable cities, MIT Press, HT361 .M4245 2015

Mosco, Vincent, The smart city in a digital world, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central) 

O'Brien, Daniel T., The urban commons: how data and technology can rebuild our communities, Harvard University Press, HT177.B67 O27 2018

People plus technology: new approaches to sustainable mobility,” Built Environment, 2008 (Theme issue via Jstor)

Picon, Antoine, Smart cities: a spatialized intelligence, John Wiley & Sons, HT166 .P493 2015 (Ebook also available via Proquest Ebook Central)

Shepard, Mark (editor), Sentient city: ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space, Architectural League of New York; MIT Press, NA2543. T43 S47 2011

Wheeler, James O., et al (editors), Cities in the telecommunications age: the fracturing of geographies, Routledge, HT167.C483 2000

Willis, Katharine S. & Alessandro Aurigi, Digital and smart cities, Routledge, HT166 .W5345 2018

Zheng, Yu, Urban computing, MIT Press, TD159.4 .Z43 2018

Airport Industry-News, "providing operators and manufacturers with the latest supplier information and news globally"

Allen, Stan, et al., Infrastructural monument, Princeton Architectural Press, HT166 .I5435 2016

Altshuler, Alan A., The Urban Transportation System, MIT Press, HE308.A63

Arnt, Wulf-Holger (editor), Mobility and transportation: concepts for sustainable transportation in future megacities, Jovis, HE305 .M635 2014

Bureau of Transportation Statistics (Research & Innovative Technology Administration)

Bus Ride (Trade magazine)

Çelik, Zeynep, et al, Streets: critical perspectives on public space, University of California Press, NA9053.S7 S82 1994 (Office)

Dover, Victor, Street design: the secret to great cities and towns, Wiley, TE279.M37 2014

Ewing, Reid H. & Keith Bartholomew, Pedestrian and transit-oriented design, Urban Land Institute, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Fleming, Steven, Cycle space: architecture & urban design in the age of the bicycle, nai010 publishers, NA9053.C55 F53 2012

O'Flaherty, C. A. (editor), Highways: the location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements, Butterworth-Heinemann, TE278 .H54 2002

Schwieterman, Joseph P., “Inter-city buses rebound, with newbies leading the pack,” Praxis, 2007, #9, p.50-51

Southworth, Michael & Eran Ben-Joseph, Streets and the shaping of towns and cities, Island Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Suzuki, Hiroaki, et al, Transforming cities with transit: transit and land-use integration for sustainable urban development, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Warren, Roxanne, Rail and the city: shrinking our carbon footprint while reimagining urban space, MIT Press, HE308 .W37 2014

Representing Cities A-Z

Balshaw, Maria & Liam Kennedy, Urban space and representation, Pluto Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Boscagli, Maurizia & Enda Duffy (editors), Joyce, Benjamin and magical urbanism, Rodopi, 2011 (via Ebook Central) 

Lindner, Christoph, Urban space and cityscapes: perspectives from modern and contemporary culture, Routledge, NX650.C66 U73 2006

Fisher, Jaimey & Barbara Mennel, Spatial turns: space, place, and mobility in German literary and visual culture, Rodopi, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

The Intimate metropolis,” AA Files, #51, Winter 2005 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Watson, Jini Kim, New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Benson, Timothy, Expressionist Utopias: paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy, University of California Press; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, N6868.5.E9 B46 2001

Bussard, Katherine A., et al, The city lost & found: capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980, Princeton University Art Museum, N8217.C35 B87 2014

Capriccio” and “Veduta,” Oxford Art Online.

Cramerotti, Alfredo (editor) Unmapping the city: perspectives of flatness, Intellect, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Feireiss, Lukas & Robert Klanten (editors), Imagine architecture: artistic visions of the urban realm, Gestalten Verlag, N8217.C35 I43x 2014

Frugoni, Chiara, A distant city: images of urban experience in the medieval world, Princeton University Press, N5975 .F7813 1991

​Leaver, Jon, “Urban Sublime: Visualizing the Immensity of Los Angeles,” [2013] (via x-traonline.org) (originally published in X-tra: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Winter 2013)

Rosen, Mark, “Vasrai and ‘Vedute’,” Notes in the History of Art, Summer 2015, p.31-38 (via JSTOR)

Vure, Sarah & Robert Bruegmann, Cities of promise: imaging urban California, Orange County Museum of Art, ND1460.C57 C57 2003

Zurier, Rebecca, Picturing the city: urban vision and the Ashcan School, University of California Press, N6512.5.E4 Z875 2006

Alter, Robert, Imagined cities: urban experience and the language of the novel, Yale University Press, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Balshaw, Maria, Looking for Harlem: urban aesthetics in African American literature, Pluto Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Balshaw, Maria & Liam Kennedy (editors), Urban space and representation, Pluto Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Chisholm, Dianne, Queer constellations: subcultural space in the wake of the city, University of Minnesota Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Cities” PMLA, January 2007 (Theme issue via JSTOR)

Fraser, Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish urban experience: reading from the mobile city, Bucknell University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Frisby, David, Cityscapes of modernity: critical explorations, Polity Press in association with Blackwell, HT119 .F75 2001

Harding, Desmond, Writing the city: urban visions & literary modernism, Routledge, 2003

Holmes, Amanda, City fictions: language, body, and Spanish American urban space, Bucknell University Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

King, Sharon D., City Tragedy on the Renaissance Stage in France, Spain, and England, Edwin Mellen Press, PN1650.C57 K56 2003

Lambright, Ann & Elisabeth Guerrero (editors), Unfolding the city: women write the city in Latin America, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Riobó, Carlos (editor), Cuban intersections of literary and urban spaces, State University of New York Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Ulin, David L. (editor), Another city: writing from Los Angeles, City Lights Books, PS572.L6 A84 2001

Ulin, David L. (editor), Writing Los Angeles: a literary anthology, Library of America; Penguin Putnam, PS572.L6W74 2002

Villa, Raul Homero, Barrio-logos: space and place in urban Chicano literature and culture, University of Texas Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Alves, Daniel & Ana Isabel Queiroz, Studying urban space and literary representations using GIS: Lisbon, Portugal, 1852-2009, Social Science History, Winter 2013, p.457-481 (via JSTOR)

Busquets, Joan & Christina Crawford, Chicago: two grids between lake and river, Applied Research and Design Publishing, NA9127.C4 B87 2017

Busquets, Joan, et al, Urban grids: handbook for regular city design, ORO Editions, NA9031 .B87 2019

Camerlenghi, Nicola & Georg Schelbert, “Learning from Rome,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2018, p.256-266

City Map Sites, (Long alpha list of resources from UT Austin)

Kafescioğlu, Çiğdem, “Viewing, walking, mapping Istanbul, ca.1580,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 2014, v.56, #1, p.16-35 (via JSTOR)

McDonough, Tom, “Delirious Paris: mapping as a paranoiac-critical activity,” Grey Room, Spring 2005, #19, p.6-21

Patton, David K., et al, “Mapping cities and towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,” Michigan Historical Review, Spring 2005, p.93-122 (via JSTOR)

Pinto, John A., “Origins and Development of the Ichnographic City Plan,” JSAH, March 1976, p.35-50

Reps, John William, Cities of the Mississippi: nineteenth century images of urban development, University of Missouri Press, F353.R47 1994

Susteren, Arjen van, Metropolitan world atlas, 010 Publishers, G1028 .S8 2005

Al Sayyad, Nezar, Cinematic urbanism: a history of the modern from reel to real, Routledge, PN1995.9.C513 A47 2006

Barber, Stephen, Projected cities: cinema and urban space, Reaktion Books, PN1995.9.C513 B37 2002

Baweja, Vandana, “Architecture and urbanism in Slumdog Millionaire: from Bombay to Mumbai,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 2015, p.7-24

Billingham, Peter, Sensing the city through television: urban identities in fictional drama, Intellect Books Ltd, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Bruno, Giuliana, “Site-Seeing: The Cine City” in, Atlas of emotion: journeys in art, architecture, and film, Verso, NX440 .B78 2007

Chanan, Michael, “Going South: On Documentary as a Form of Cognitive Geography,” Cinema Journal, Fall 2010, p.147-154

Conley, Tom, Cartographic cinema, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Harper, Graeme & Jonathan Rayner, Cinema and landscape: Film, nation and cultural geography, Intellect Books Ltd, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Krause, Linda & Patrice Petro, Global cities: cinema, architecture, and urbanism in a digital age, Rutgers University Press, NX650.C66 G58 2003

Mazumdar, Ranjani, Bombay cinema: an archive of the city, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Mennel, Barbara Caroline, Cities and cinema, Routledge, PN1995.9.C513 M46 2008

Shonfield, Katherine, Walls have feelings architecture, film and the city, Routledge, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Webb, Lawrence, The cinema of urban crisis: seventies film and the reinvention of the city, Amsterdam University Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

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