| PART # | READINGS |
|---|---|
| Part I. Reading the City |
 Clay, Grady. Close-Up: How to Read the American City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980. ISBN: 0226109453. |
| Part II. City and Nature: Natural Processes as Agents of Change |
Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Granite Garden. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984. ISBN: 0465027067. Elkins, James. "Preface," "How to Look at a Culvert," "How to Look at Pavement," "How to Look at a Twig." In How to Use Your Eyes. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 0415922542. |
| Part III. City and Society: Social Processes as Agents of Change |
Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN: 0195049837. Warner, Sam Bass. "A Brief History of Boston." In Mapping Boston. Edited by Norman Leventhal, Alex Krieger, David Cobb, and Amy Turner. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0262611732. |
| Part IV. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Envisioning and Shaping Future Cities |
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, NY: Vintage Press, 1992. ISBN: 067974195X. Spirn, Anne Whiston. "The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek." In The Language of Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0300082940. (Prologue) The West Philadelphia Landscape Project |
| Part V. Boston Sites: Where Have They Been, Where Are They Headed | 2006 Boston Sites: Review all of the other student projects in the projects section. |
