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Selected Bibliography on Cities

Ardrey, Robert. 1966. The Territorial Imperative. (New York: Dell Publishing).

Bebout, John e. and Ronald J. Brele. 1964. Where Cities Meet: The Urbanization of New Jersey. (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.)

Braudel, Fernand. 1979. The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1. Translated and revised by Siân Reynolds. (New York: Harper & Row)

Broderick, James F. 2003. Paging New Jersey. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press)

Calvino, Italo. 1972. Invisible Cities. Translated by William Weaver. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

Childe, V. Gordon. 2003. The Urban Revolution. In The City Reader (3rd ed.), edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederick Stout (New York: Routledge). First published in Town Planning Review (1950).

Fainstein, Susan S., and Normain I. Fainstein, Richard Child Hill, Dennis Judd and Michael Peter Smith. 1983. Restructuring the City: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment. (New York: Longman, Inc.).

Frieden, Bernard J. and Lynne B. Sagalyn. 1989. Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities. (Cambridge: MIT Press).

Gies, Joseph and Frances Gies. [1969] 1981. Life in a Medieval City. (New York: Harper Colophon Books). First published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

Hales, Peter Bacon. 2005. Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839- 1939 (revised ed.) (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press).

Healey, Patsy. "On Creating the ‘City’ as a Collective Resource." Urban Studies, Vol. 39, No. 10, 1777-1792 (2002).

Jacobs, Jane. [1961] 1992. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Reprint, New York: Vintage Books.

Johns, Michael. 2003. Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s. (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Kotkin, Joel. 2005. The City: A Global History. (New York: Random House Publishing)

Kunstler, James Howard. 2001. The City in Mind. (New York: Simon & Schuster).

_______________. 1993. The Geography of Nowhere. (New York: Simon & Schuster).

Liggett, Helen. 2003. Urban Encounters. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).

Lynch, Kevin. 1960. The Image of the City. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

_______________. 1981. Good City Form. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

McKelvey, Blake. 1968. The Emergence of Metropolitan America 1915-1966. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press).

Mayernik, David. [2003] 2005. Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy. Paperback edition (Colorado: Westview Press).

Monti, Jr., Daniel J. 1999. The American City: A Social & Cultural History. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers).

Mumford, Lewis. 2003. What is a City? In The City Reader (3rd ed.), edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederick Stout (New York: Routledge). First published in Architectural Record (1937).

_______________. [1924] 1955. Sticks & Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization. (New York: Dover Publications, Inc.). First published by Boni and Liveright, Inc.

_______________.  1961.   The City in History.  (New York: Harcourt, Inc.)

O'Gorman, James F.  1998.  ABC of Architecture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press).

Pirenne, Henri. [1925] 1952. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Translated by Frank D. Halsey (Princeton: Princeton University Press (Third Printing, 1974).

Rae, Douglas W. 2003. City: Urbanism and Its End. (New Haven: Yale University Press).

Reader, John. 2004. Cities. (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press).

Rybczynski, Witold. 1996. City Life. (New York: Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster).

______________. [1999] 2003. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and American in the 19th Century. Reprint, New York: Scribner.

______________. 2001. The Look of Architecture. (New York: Oxford University Press).

Rykwert, Joseph. [2000] 2002. The Seduction of Place. Reprint, New York: Vintage Books.

Sjoberg, Gideon. 1968. The Origin and Evolution of Cities. In America, Changing, edited by Patrick Gleeson (Columbus: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company). First published in Scientific American (1965).

Smailes, Arthur E. 1953, 1966. The Geography of Towns. (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company).

Watkin, David. A History of Western Architecture. 1986, 1992, 1996. (London: Laurence King)

Wirth, Louis. 2003. Urbanism as a Way of Life. In America, Changing, edited by Patrick Gleeson (Columbus: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company). First published in American Journal of Sociology (1938).

Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Living City. [1958] 1963. ((New York: Mentor Books).