The City Reader

Lists of Plates

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Prologue: 'How to Study Cities"

Richard T. LeGates

Part 1 The Evolution of Cities

Introduction

"The Urbanization of the Human Population"

Kingsley Davis

"The Urban Revolution"

V. Gordon Childe

"The Earliest Cities" (2002)

Michael E. Smith

"The Polis"

H.D.F. Kitto

"City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"

Henri Pirenne

"The Great Towns"

Friedrich Engels

"The Automobile, the City, and the New Urban Mobilities"

Frederic Stout

"Globalizing Cities"

Xuefei Ren and Roger Keil

Plate Section 1: The Evolution of Cities

Part 2: Urban Culture and Society

Introduction

"The Urban Drama"

Lewis Mumford

"Urbanism as a Way of Life"

Louis Wirth

"The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice"

W.E.B. Du Bois

"The Code of the Street" and "Decent and Street Families"

Elijah Anderson

"Winning the Race" (2006)

John McWhorter

"Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" (1995)

Robert D. Putnam

"The City that Lost its Soul" (2010)

Sharon Zukin

Plate Section 2: "Urban Culture and Society"

Part 3 Urban Space

Introduction

"The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"

Ernest W. Burgess

"Gender and Urban Space"

Daphne Spain

"The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"

Jane Jacobs

"Social Exclusion, Space, and Time"

Ali Madanipour

"Bright vs. Blurred Boundaries: Second-Generation Assimilation and Exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States"

Richard Alba

"The Causes of Sprawl"

Robert Bruegmann

Networks of Outrage and Hope (2012)

Manuel Castells

"Making Room for a Planet of Cities"

Schlomo Angel

Plate Section 3: "Urban Space"

Part 4 Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics

Introduction

"Politics"

Aristotle

"The Right to the City"

David Harvey

"A Ladder of Citizen Participation"

Sherry Arnstein

"The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City"

Michael Porter

"The City as a Growth Machine: Towards a Political Economy of Place"

Harvey Molotch

"The City as a Distorted Price System"

Wilbur Thompson

"Metropolitics and Fiscal Equity"

Myron Orfield

Plate Section 4: "Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics"

Part 5 Urban Planning History and Visions

Introduction

"Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"

Frederick Law Olmsted

Garden Cities of Tomorrow

Ebenezer Howard

"A Contemporary City"

Le Corbusier

"Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"

Frank Lloyd Wright

"The Charter of the New Urbanism": The Congress for the New Urbanism

"Green Manhattan: Everywhere Should Be More Like New York"

David Owen

"The Almost Perfect Town"

John Brinckerhoff Jackson

Plate Section 5: "Urban Planning History and Visions"

Part 6 Urban Planning Theory and Practice

Introduction

"The Smart City" (2020)

Michael Batty

"The City of Theory" (2014)

Peter Hall

"The Uses of Planning Theory"

John Friedmann

"Planning in the Face of Conflict"

John Forester

"Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning"

Paul Davidoff

"Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search for the Global Cultural Commons"

Bishwapriya Sanyal

"Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe's Central Urban Issues"

Vanessa Watson

"Urban resilience"

Sara Meerow

Plate Section 6: "Urban Planning: Theory and Practice"

Part 7 Urban Design and Placemaking

Introduction

"Urban Design" (2025)

Richard LeGates

"What is Placemaking?": Project for Public Spaces

"The Design of Spaces"

William H. Whyte

"The Neighborhood Unit"

Clarence Perry

"The City Image and its Elements"

Kevin Lynch

"Toward an Urban Design Manifesto"

Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard

"Designing Inclusive Healthy Places"

Jennifer Gardner

"Three Types of Outdoor Activities", "Life Between Buildings", and "Outdoor Activities and the Quality of Outdoor Space"

Jan Gehl

Plate Section 7: "Urban Design and Placemaking"

Part 8 Urban Futures and Global Challenges

Introduction

"The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities"

Saskia Sassen

"Planning as Statecraft: A Perspective of State Entrepreneurialism in China

Fulong Wu

"AI-Driven Urban Planning: From Planning Support to Plan-Making"

Zhong-Ren Peng

"World Cities, or a World of Ordinary Cities?"

Jennifer Robinson

Plate Section 8: Urban Futures and Global Challenges

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