Readings

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

Course readings.
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1	Required Reading Feuer, Alan. "Protecting the City, Before Next Time," The New York Times, November 3, 2012. Recommended Reading Homans, John. "The City and the Storm." New York Magazine, November 4, 2012.
2	Required Reading Hall, Peter. "Planning, Planners and Plans." In Urban and Regional Planning. 4th ed. Routledge, 2002, pp. 1–10. ISBN: 9780415217774. [Preview with Google Books] Speth, James Gustave. "Looking Into the Abyss." In The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 17–45. Webb, Molly. "Why Smart Cities Will Help Save the World," The Guardian, November 16, 2008. Recommended Reading Garvin, Alexander. "Planning Now for the 21st Century." In Urban Planning Today. Edited by William S. Saunders. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
3	Required Reading Krieger, Alex. "Past Futures: Boston: Visionary Plans and Practical Visions." (PDF - 5.3 MB) Places 5, no. 3 (1989). Murray, Hubert. "Paved with Good Intentions: Boston's Central Artery Project and a Failure of City Building." In Urban Planning Today. Edited by William S. Saunders. University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Brady-Myerov, Monica. "Boston Plans for Near-Term Risk of Rising Tides," NPR Cities: Urban Life in the 21st Century (radio series), August 21, 2012.
4	Required Reading Fainstein, Susan, and Scott Campbell. "Theories of Urban Development and their Implications for Policy and Planning." In Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Fainstein and Campbell. Blackwell Publishers, 2002, pp. 1–15. ISBN: 9780631223450. Sandercock, Leonie. "Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century." Journal of the American Planning Association 70, no. 2 (2004): 133–41. Recommended Reading Ryan, Brent D. "Reading Through a Plan." Journal of the American Planning Association 77, no. 4 (2011): 309–27.
5	Required Reading Fishman, Robert. "Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier." In Readings in Planning Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 21–60. ISBN: 9781444330809. Friedmann, John. "Two Centuries of Planning Theory." In Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. 51–85. ISBN: 9780691022680. [Preview with Google Books] Hall, Peter. "City of Dreadful Night." In Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Wiley-Blackwell, 2002, pp. 14–46. ISBN: 9780631232520. [Preivew with Google Books] UN Habitat. "Urban Challenges and the Need to Revisit Urban Planning." In Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements 2009. Routledge, 2009, pp. 3–22. Recommended Reading Koolhaas, Rem. "Whatever Happened to Urbanism?" In S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium,Large, Extra Large. Edited by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 961–71. ISBN: 9781885254016.
6	Required Reading Lefebvre, Henri. "From the City to Urban Society." In The Urban Revolution. University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp. 1–22. ISBN: 9780816641604. [Preview with Google Books] Webber, Melvin. "The Post-City Age." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard LeGates and Frederic Stout. Routledge, 2011, pp. 549–53. ISBN: 9780415556651. Friedmann, John, and John Miller. "The Urban Field." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 31, no. 4 (1965): 312–20. Soja, Edward, and Miguel Kanai. "The Urbanization of the World." In Living in the Endless City: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society. Edited by Richard Burdett and Deyan Sudjic. Phaidon Press, 2011, pp. 54–69. ISBN: 9780714861180. Recommended Reading Gottmann, Jean. "How Large Can Cities Grow?" In Since Megalopolis: The Urban Writings of Jean Gottmann. Edited by Jean Gottman and Robert Alexander Harper. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, pp. 149–61. ISBN: 9780801839276.
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8	Required Reading Frank, Adam. "The City as Engine: Energy, Entropy and the Triumph of Disorder," NPR Cosmos & Culture (radio series), August 21, 2012. Glaeser, Edward. "Urban Age: Electric City: Ed Glaeser—Economic Dynamics of the 21st Century Electric City." January 15, 2013. You Tube. Accessed December 6, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQDgvevjHE Humphries, Courtney. "Life in the Concrete Jungle." Nature 491, no. 22 (2012): 514–15. Armstrong, Rachel. "A Trip to the Living City of the Future," Fast Company, February 7, 2012. Lehrer, Jonah. "A Physicist Solves the City," New York Times, December 17, 2010, Boggs, Grace Lee, and Scott Kurashige. "Planting Seeds of Hope: How Sustainable Activism Transformed Detroit." Yes! Magazine, June 16, 2011. Gans, Herbert. "Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions." In The Urban Sociology Reader. Edited by Jan Lin and Christopher Mele. Routledge, 2005, pp. 42–50. ISBN: 9780415323420. Recommended Reading Florida, Richard. "Why We Need a Better 'Science' of Cities," Atlantic Cities, September 28, 2012. Oppenheim, Leonora. "Can We Use Biomimicry to Design Cities? Janine Benyus Says Yes," Treehugger, June 3, 2010.
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11	Required Reading Mostafavi, Mohsen. "Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?" Harvard Design Magazine 32 (2010): 1–12. Rebuild by Design website, http://www.rebuildbydesign.org and Design Brief HUD, Hurricane Sandy rebuilding strategy Recommended Reading Mathur, Anuradha, and Dilip da Cunha. SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary. Rupa and Co, 2009. ISBN: 9788129114808.
12	Required Reading Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Photography and the Art of Visual Thinking." Bateson, Gregory, and Margaret Mead. Balinese Character, Photographic Analysis. New York Academy of Sciences, 1942. Vergara, Camilo José. The New American Ghetto. Rutgers University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780813522098.
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14	Required Reading Berger, Alan. "Drosscape." In The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Edited by Charles Waldheim. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, pp. 197–217. ISBN: 9781568984391. [Preview with Google Books] Additional readings to be assigned by guest lecturer
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16	Required Reading Fainstein, Susan. "Planning and the Just City." April 29, 2006. [Paper presented at Searching for the Just City conference, Columbia University] Yiftachel, Oren. "Re-engaging Planning Theory? Towards 'South-Eastern' Perspectives." Planning Theory 5, no. 3 (2006): 211–22. Young, Iris Marion. "City Life and Difference." In Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780691078328. [Preivew with Google Books] King, Mel. Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development. South End Press, 1999, pp. xv–xxix, 3–8 and 227–61. ISBN: 9780896081055. Recommended Reading Roy, Arundhati. "The Greater Common Good." Frontline 16, no. 11 (1999). Jones, Van. "The Dual Crisis." In The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. HarperCollins, 2008, pp. 19–33.
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19	Required Reading Roy, Ananya. "Urbanisms, Worlding Practices and the Theory of Planning." Planning Theory 10, no. 1 (2011): 6–15. Mukhija, Vinit. "Urban Design for a Planet of Informal Cities." In A Companion to Urban Design. Edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. Routledge, 2011, pp. 574–84. ISBN: 9780415553643. MVRDV. Metacity / Datatown. 010 Uitgeverji, 1999. ISBN: 9789064503719. [Preview with Google Books]
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21	Required Reading Roy, Ananya. "Urbanisms, Worlding Practices and the Theory of Planning." Planning Theory 10, no. 1 (2011): 6–15. Mukhija, Vinit. "Urban Design for a Planet of Informal Cities." In A Companion to Urban Design. Edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. Routledge, 2011, pp. 574–84. ISBN: 9780415553643. MVRDV. Metacity / Datatown. 010 Uitgeverji, 1999. ISBN: 9789064503719. [Preview with Google Books]