Links and Resources

• University of Louisville School of Urban and Public Affairs
  http://supa.louisville.edu/

• University of Kentucky College of Design
  http://www.uky.edu/Design/aboutourcollege.html

• University of Louisville Planning Student Organization
  http://pso.louisville.edu/
  
• R/UDAT Guide (PDF)

Urban Reading List
Spring 2005
Barry Kew and F. Myers
UKLA

The Evolution of Cities

• “The Urbanization of the Human Population” Scientific American (1965) Kingsley Davis
• “The Polis” from The Greeks (1951) H.D.F. Kito
• First-Person Accounts of Great Cities of the Medieval and Early Modern World: Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Bernal Diaz, and Albrecht Durer
• “The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America ” from The Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985) Kenneth T. Jackson

Urban Culture and Society

• “What is a City?” Architectural Record (1937) Lewis Mumford
• “Bowling Alone: American's Declining Social Capital” Journal of Democracy (1995) Robert D. Putnam
• “The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety” from The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) Jane Jacobs
• “The Negro Problems of Philadelphia ,” “The Question of Earning a Living,” and “Color Prejudice” from The Philadelphia Negro (1899) W.E.B. Du Bois
• “From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos” from When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996) William Julius Wilson
• “Whose Culture? Whose City?” from The Cultures of Cities (1995) Sharon Zukin
• “Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture” (1999) Frederic Stout

Urban Space

• “The Almost Perfect Town” Landscape (1952) John Brinckerhoff Jackson
• “Social Exclusion and Space” from Ali Madanipour, Goran Cars, and Judith Allen (eds), Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, Experiences, and Responses (1998) Ali Madanipour
• “Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards A Postmodern Geography” from Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989) Edward Soja
• “The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor” from Peter Katz and Vincent Scully, Jr. (eds), The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community (1993) Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
• “The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities” from Arie Graafland and De3borah Hauptmann (eds), Cities in Transition (2001) Saskia Sassen

Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics

• “Contested Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form” from Nick Jewson and Susanne MacGregor (eds), Transforming Cities (1997) David Harvey
• “How to Study Urban Political Power” from A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics (1992) John Mollenkopf
• “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1969) Sherry Arnstein
• “Broken Windows” Atlantic ” Monthly (1982) James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling
• “The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City” Harvard Business Review (1995) Michael Porter
• “The Center Cannot Hold” from Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin (eds), After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (2002) Michael Sorkin

Urban Planning, History, and Visions

• “ Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns” American Social Science Association (1870) Frederick Law Olmstead
• “Author's Introduction” and “The Town-Country Magnet” from Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898) Ebenezer Howard
• “A Contemporary City ” from The City of Tomorrow and its Planning (1929) Le Corbusier
• “ Broadacre City : A New Community Plan” Architectural Record (1935) Frank Loyd Wright
• “Designing the Region” and “ Designing the Region Is Designing the Neighborhood” from The Regional City” Planning for the End of Sprawl (2001) Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton

Urban Planning, Theory & Practice

• “ Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree: Journal of the American Planning Association (1995) Edward J. Kaiser and David R. Godschalk
• “Planning in the Face of Conflict” Journal of the American Planning Association (1987) John Forester
• “Green Urbanism and the Lessons of European Cities: ‘The Vision of Green Urbanism' and ‘Creating Green and Sustainable Cities in the United States : Lessons from Europe ”' from Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities (2000) Timothy Beatley

Perspectives on Urban Design

• “Author's Introduction,” “The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares,” and “The Enclosed Character of the Public Square ” from The Art of Building Cities (1889) Camillo Sitte
• “The City Image and its Elements” from The Image of the City (1960) Kevin Lynch
• “The Design of Spaces” from City: Rediscovering the Center (1988) William H. Whyte
• “Toward an Urban Design Manifesto” Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1987) Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard
• “What Would a Non-sesist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work” from Catherine Stimpson et al. (eds) Women and the American City (1981) Dolores Hayden

The Future of the City

• “Planning Sustainable and Livable Cities” (1998) Stephen Wheeler
• “The Teleserviced City ” from E-topia: Urban Life, Jim-But Not as we Know it (2001)