Urban design in different eras & regions: General resources

HISTORICAL

Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (U. of Queensland)

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, “Our royal city of Honolulu,” in Hawaii: the past, present and future of its island, Routledge, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Lilley, Ian (editor), Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands, Blackwell, DU28 .A73 2006

Morgan, William, Prehistoric architecture in Micronesia, University of Texas Press, GN875.M625 M67 1988

CONTEMPORARY

Beatley, Timothy & Peter Newman, Green urbanism down under: learning from sustainable communities in Australia, Island Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Cooper, Mark, “Asia Pacific panorama,” Urban Land, July/August 2016, p.28-33

Cooper, Mark, “In Asia, a tremendous need for affordable housing,” Urban Land, November/December 2015, p.85-87 (regarding the Habitat for Humanity Asia-Pacific Housing Forum)

Ehrmann, Sigrid, “From Melbs’ elm with love,” Topos, 2013, #103, p.32-35 (On Melbourne’s “Urban Forest Strategy”)

Stent, Robert, “Urban housing in Melbourne,” Architecture Australia, May/June 2014, p.68-74

MESOAMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS

Ferguson, William M., Mesoamerica’s ancient cities: aerial views of pre-Columbian ruins, University of New Mexico Press, F1219 .F35 2001

Flannery, Kent V., The early Mesoamerican village, Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Houk, Brett A., Ancient Maya cities of the Eastern Lowlands, University of Florida Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Pasztory, Esther, Teotihuacan: an experiment in living, University of Oklahoma Press, F1219.1.T27P37 1997

“ASU lab digs deep into ancient city’s past,” Arizona State University, August 2016 (via asunow.asu.edu)

COLONIAL CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

The Laws of the Indies (1573 city-building guidelines)

Melvin, Karen, Building colonial cities of God, 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)

Zahradnik, Sarah, Architectural guide Mexico City, DOM Publishers, NA757.M49 Z34 2017

CONTEMPORARY CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

Alexandrou, Georgios, Building Brazil: projects and research for the proactive urban renewal of informal settlements, Ruby Press, HT178.B72 B85 2011

Bardi, Lina Bo, Stones against diamonds, London Architectural Association Publications, NA855 .B3713 2013

Correa, Felipe, “South America Project: a synthesis of scales,” Harvard Design Magazine, 2014, #37, p.92-97, 150

Garciavelez Alfaro, Carlos, Form and pedagogy: the design of the university city in Latin America, Applied Research + Design Publishing, HT169.L3 F67 2014

Hernández, Felipe, Transculturation: cities, spaces and architectures in Latin America, Rodopi, NA2543.S6 T73 2005

Kalach, Alberto, et al, México, ciudad future, Edition RM, HT169.M42 M4963 2010

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

McGuirk, Justin, Radical cities: across Latin America in search of a new architecture, Verso, NA2543.S6 M39 2015

CHINA

HISTORICAL CHINA

Guo, Qinghua, Chinese architecture and planning: ideas, methods, techniques, Edition Axel Menges, NA1540 .G857 2005

Knapp, Ronald, China's walled cities, Oxford University Press, NA497.C6 K59 2000

Larsen, Knud, The Lhasa atlas: traditional Tibetan architecture and townscape, Shambala, NA1547.L45 L37 2001

Milburn, Olivia (translator), Urbanization in early and medieval China, University of Washington Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Naquin, Susan, Peking: temples and city life, 1400-1900, University of California Press, DS795.3. N36 2000

Yu, Shuishan, Chang’an Avenue and the modernization of Chinese architecture, University of Washington Press, NA9053.S7 Y8 2012

 “Villages and towns: Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China,” G.A. Houses, January 2004, #79, p.[96]-111 (on canals)

Zhu, Jianfei, Chinese spatial strategies: imperial Beijing, 1420-1911, RoutledgeCurzon, NA1547.P6 Z48 2004

CONTEMPORARY CHINA

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

Harwell, Andrei, et al (editors), Rethinking Chongqing: mixed-use and super-dense, Yale School of Architecture, NA9266.C46 R266 2014

Johnson, Donald, “China rethinks urbanization,” Planning, November 2014, p.30-35

Shao, Qin, Shanghai gone: domicide and defiance in a Chinese megacity, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Vlassenrood, Linda (editor), Shenzhen: from factory of the world to world city, International New Town Institute, NA9053.U7 S54 2016

Zhou, Ying, Urban loopholes: creative alliances of spatial production in Shanghai’s city center, Birkhauser Verlag, NA9266.S53 Z46 2017

JAPAN 

HISTORICAL JAPAN

Hein, Carola, et al, Rebuilding urban Japan after 1945, Macmillan, HT169.J3 R43 2003

Sorenson, André, The making of urban Japan: cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century, RoutledgeCurzon, HT169.J3 S67 2004

CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

Bharne, Vinayak, Zen spaces and neon places: reflections on Japanese architecture and urbanism, Applied Research + Design Publishing, NA1550 .B53 2014

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

KOREA

HISTORICAL KOREA

Kim, Jinwung, History of Korea: From Land of the Morning Calm to States in Conflict, Indiana University Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

“Korea; architecture,” Oxford Art Online

Kim, Sun Joo (editor), The northern region of Korea: history, identity, culture, Center for Korean Studies, University of Washington, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

CONTEMPORARY KOREA

Choi, Helen Hejung & Hyungmin Pai (editors), Imminent commons: commoning cities: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017, Actar, NA2460.S4 S466 2017

Park, Jinhee & John Hong, Convergent flux: contemporary architecture and urbanism in Korea, Birkhauser Architecture, NA1565.6 .P365 2012

Yim, Dongwoo, [Un]precedented Pyongyang, Actar Publishers, HT147 .K7 Y56x 2016

Zaera, Alejandro & Hyong-min Pae (editors), Imminent commons: urban questions for the near future: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017, Actar, NA2460.S4 S466 2017

EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Christie, Neil & Hajnalka Herold, Fortified settlements in early medieval Europe, Oxbow Books, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Fulton, Helen (editor), Urban culture in medieval Wales, University of Wales Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

The Labyrinth: resources for medieval studies

Lilley, Keith D., City and cosmos: the medieval world in urban form, Reaktion, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Saalman, Howard, Medieval Cities, Braziller, HT115.S2

Sternberg, Maximillian, Cistercian architecture and medieval society, Brill, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel, Castles and warfare in the Middle Ages, Dover Publications, UG460 .V5613 2005

EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE

Argan, Giulio Carlo, The Renaissance city, Braziller, NA9084.A713

Cooper, Tracy Elizabeth, Palladio’s Venice: architecture and society in a Renaissance Republic, Yale University Press, NA1123.P2 C66 2005

Goldthwaite, Richard, The economy of Renaissance Florence, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Rowland, Ingrid D., “Renaissance ideas of space: introduction,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 2013, Vol.58, p.1-2 (via JSTOR)

Tafuri, Manfredo, Interpreting the Renaissance: princes, cities, architects, Yale University Press, NA1115 .T3513 2006

EUROPEAN BAROQUE & ROCOCO

Fagiolo, Marcello, Roma barocca: Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Electa, N6920 .R559 2006 

Habel, Dorothy Metzger, “When all of Rome was under construction”: the building process in baraoque Rome, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA9070.H33 2013

Millon, Henry A., Circa 1700: architecture in Europe and the Americas, National Gallery of Art, NA590 .C57 2005

Zucker, Paul, “Space and movement in high baroque city planning,” JSAH, March 1955, p.8-13 (via JSTOR)

EUROPEAN 18th CENTURY CLASSICISMS & ROMANTICISMS

Avery, Derek, Georgian & Regency architecture, Chaucer, NA966.5.G45 A94 2003

Bergdoll, Barry, European architecture 1750-1890, Oxford University Press, NA956.B47 2000

Lee, Min Kyung, “An objective point of view: the orthogonal grid in eighteenth-century plans of Paris,” Journal of Architecture, February 2012, p.11-32

Matthew, Robert H., The Conservation of Georgian Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, NA109.G7 C64

Rykwert, Joseph, The first moderns: the architects of the eighteenth century, MIT Press, NA600 .R94

EUROPEAN 19TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONS & REVIVALS

Arnold, Dana, Rural urbanism: London landscapes in the early nineteenth century, Manchester University Press, HT169.G72 L6127 2005

"City Beautiful Movement." Oxford Art Online.

Clark, Frank, “Nineteenth-Century Public Parks from 1830,” Garden History, Summer 1973, p.31-41

Friedrich, Lenger, European cities in the modern era, 1850/1914, Brill, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Guedes, Pedro, “Free plan for the 1805s: forgotten imagined architectures from the mid-century,” Architectural History, 2014, Vol.57, p.239-275

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

Olsen, Donald J., The city as a work of art: London, Paris, Vienna, Yale University Press, NA970 .O47 1986

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

Lenger, Friedrich, European cities in the modern era, 1850-1914, Brill, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Tunnard, Christopher, “A City Called Beautiful,” JSAH, March/May 1950, p.31-36 (via JSTOR)

CONTEMPORARY

Casanova, Helena, Public space acupuncture: strategies and interventions for activating city life, Actar, NA9053.S6 C37 2014

Colantonio, Andrea, Urban regeneration & social sustainability: best practice from European cities, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

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

Röttjer, Julia & Jan Kusber, “Europe’s only megacity: urban growth, migration and gentrification in 21^st century Moscow,” from Spaces of the poor: perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants,” Hans Christian Petersen (editor), Transcript Verlag, 2013 (via JSTOR)

Sonne, Wolfgang, Urbanity and density, DOM Publishers, NA9183 .S6613 2017

HISTORICAL

Bennison, Amira K. & Alison L. Gascoigne, Cities in the pre-modern Islamic world, Routledge, HT147.5.B38 2007

Listri, Marrakech: living on the edge of the desert, DT329.M3 L57 2005

Necipoaeglu, Gülru, The age of Sinan: architectural culture in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton University Press, NA1373.S5 N43 2005

O’Meara, Simon, Space and Muslim urban life: at the limits of the labyrinth of Fez, Routledge, NA9053.W3044 2007

Organization of Islamic Capitals and Cities (OICC)

Ross, Eric, Sufi City: urban design and archetypes in Touba, University of Rochester Press, DT549.9.T68 R67 2006

Slyomovics, Susan (editor), The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history, 2001

Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian, The image of an Ottoman city: imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16^th and 17^th centuries, Brill, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Wheatley, Paul, The places where men pray together: cities in Islamic lands, University of Chicago Press, HT384.I67 W48 2001

Wolper, Ethel Sara, Cities and saints: Sufism and the transformation of urban space in medieval Anatolia, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA1363 .W65 2003

CONTEMPORARY

Andraos, Amale, “The Arab city,” Places Journal, May 2016 (via placesjournal.org) 

Lim, Nartano & Widari Bahrin, Sand to spectacle: the Dubai Mall, Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, NA6218 .L56 2015

Morris, Ali, “From the ground up,” Metropolis, March 2016, p.96-103

Ramos, Stephen J., Dubai amplified: the engineering of a port geography, Ashgate, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Salama, Ashraf M., “Urban traditions in the contemporary lived spaces of cities on the Arabian peninsula,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Fall 2015, p.20-39 (via JSTOR)

NORTH AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS

Lewis, R. Barry & Charles Stout (editors), Mississippian towns and sacred spaces: searching for an architectural grammar, E99.M6815 M575 1998

Morgan, William N., Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States, MIT Press, E98.A63 M67

COLONIAL & FRONTIER NORTH AMERICA

Crouch, Dora P., Spanish city planning in North America, MIT Press, HT169.N68 C76

Fries, Sylvia Doughty, The urban idea in colonial America, Temple University Press, HT167 .F743

Flexner, James Thomas, “The Great Columbian Federal City,” American Art Journal, Spring 1970, p.30-45 (On Washington, D.C.)

Hayden, Dolores, Seven American Utopias: the architecture of communitarian socialism, 1790-1975, MIT Press, HX653.H39

Melosi, Martin V., Sanitary city: urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present, Johns Hopkins University Press, TD223.M45 2000

Reps, John W., "Thomas Jefferson's Checkerboard Towns," JSAH, October 1961, p.108-114 (via JSTOR)

Reps, John W., Cities of the American West: a history of frontier urban planning, Princeton University Press, HT123.5.A17 R46

Society for American City and Regional Planning History

Warner, Sam Bass, American urban form: a representative history, MIT Press, HT123 .W228 2012

Wright, Amos, Historic Indian towns in Alabama, 1540-1838, University of Alabama Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICA

Phelps, N. A., Sequel to Suburbia: glimpses of America’s post-suburban future, MIT Press, HT352.U6 P44 2015

Ryan, Brent D., Design after decline: how America rebuilds shrinking cities, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Tomalty, Ray & Alan Mallach, America’s urban future: lessons from north of the border, Island Press, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Wachter, Susan M. & Kimberly A. Zeuli (editors), Revitalizing American cities, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

HISTORICAL

Blumenfeld, Hans, “On a Peculiar Feature of the City Plan of Mohenjo – Daro,” JSAH, January 1942, p.23-26

Glover, William, Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Herrle, Peter & Anna Wokniak, Tibetan houses: vernacular architecture of the Himalayas and environs, Birkhäuser, 2017 (via Ebook Central)

Higham, Charles, The civilization of Angkor, University of California Press, DS554.6 .H54 2001

Johnson-Roehr, Susan N., “Centering the Charbagh: the Mughal garden as design module for the Jaipur city plan,” JSAH, March 2013, p.28-47 (via JSTOR)

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

“Mathura” Oxford Art Online

World Heritage Sites: India

CONTEMPORARY

Bishop, Ryan & John Phillips (editors), Postcolonial urbanism: Southeast Asian cities and global processes, Routledge, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Fynn, Shaun, Chandigarh revealed: Le Corbusier’s city today, Princeton Architectural Press, NA1508.C44 F96 2017

Kusno, Abidin, Behind the postcolonial: architecture, urban space, and political cultures in Indonesia, Routledge, NA1526 .K87 2000

Ostojic, Dejan, et al, Energizing green cities in Southeast Asia: applying sustainable urban energy and emissions planning, The World Bank, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Poesz, Pelle, et al (editors), Learning from Delhi: practicing architecture in urban India, Mapin Publishing, NA1508.D45 L43 2015