Michael Mezzano
URBAN HISTORY/URBAN CULTURE
Reading List for Oral Exams
Prof. Quigley
Foundations: The Early American City
Bender, Tom, New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from
1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (1987)
Kennedy, Lawrence. Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630 (1992)
Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
(1961)
Nash, Gary, The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the
Origins of the American Revolution(1979)
Stansell, Christine, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1986)
Warner, Sam Bass, The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of its Growth (1968)
The G.A.P.E. City:
The Physical City
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)
Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987)
Harris, Neil, The Land of Contrasts: 1880-1901 (1970)
Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and how they Transformed New
York (1993)
Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth, Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the
American Settlement House Movement (1993)
Leavitt, Judith Walzer, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health (1996)
Lewis, Sinclair, The Jungle
Lubove, Roy, The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York
City, 1890-1917 (1962)
Philpott, Thomas, The Slum and the Ghetto: Immigrants, Blacks, and Reformers in
Chicago (1978)
Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890)
Smith, Carl, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the
Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (1995)
Thernstrom, Stephan The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in an American
Metropolis (1973)
Trachtenberg, Alan, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded
Age (1982)
Warner, Sam Bass Jr., Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
(1962)
Zunz, Olivier, ed. The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940 (1997)
The City in Theory
Bender, Tom, Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth Century
America (1975)
Chambers, John, The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
(2000)
Diner, Steven J. A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998)
Ethington, Phil, The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San
Francisco, 1850-1900 (1994)
Feffer, Andrew, The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism (1993)
Gluck, Peter R. and Richard Meister, Cities in Transition: Social Changes and
Institutional Responses to Urban Development (1979)
Harvey, David, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural
Change (1989)
Henkin, David, City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
(1998)
Link, William, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism (1992)
Park, Robert, Ernest Burgess, and Roderick McKenzie, The City (1925)
Ryan, Mary, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the
Nineteenth Century (1997)
The “Modern” City
The Physical City
Baldassare, Mark, Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban Transformation of America (1986)
Beckert, Sven, The Monied Metropolis (2001)
Davis, Mike, The City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1992)
Findlay, John Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940 (1992)
Gottendiener, Mark, The Social Production of Urban Space(1985)
Hall, Peter. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design
in the Twentieth Century (1985)
Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985)
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
Katz, Michael, ed. The “Underclass” Debate: Views from History (1993)
Katznelson, Ira, City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United
States (1981)
Zunz, Olivier, ed. The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940 (1997)
Urban Policy, Urban Criticism
Anderson, Martin. The Federal Bulldozer: A Critical Analysis of Urban Renewal, 19491962 (1965)
Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974)
Garreau, Joel. Edge Cities: Life on the New Frontier (1991)
Gelfand, Mark I. A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urbanism, 1933-1965
(1975)
Hirsch, Arnold, and Raymond A. Mohl, eds. Urban Policy in Twentieth Century America
(1993)
Hirsch, Arnold, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
(1983
Lewis, Tom. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming
American Life (1997)
McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (1994)
O’Connor, Thomas. Building a ‘New Boston’: The Politics of Urban Renewal, 1950-1970
(1993)
Schulman, Bruce, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development,
and the Transformation of the South, 1983-1980 (1991)
Schwartz, Joel. The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and
Redevelopment of the Inner City (1992)
Seeley, Bruce. Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers
(1987)
Sugrue, Thomas, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar
Detroit (1996)
Teaford, John C. The Twentieth Century American City (1993 [2nd Ed.])
Teaford, John, The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 19401985 (1990)
Social Space in Modern Cities
Clark, Kenneth, Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power (1965)
Cohen, Liz, Making A New Deal
Gamm, Gerald, Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
(1998)
Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making
of the Underclass (1993)
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in
the War on Poverty (1969)
Mumford, Lewis, The Urban Prospect (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1956)
Sennett, Richard, The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities (1990)
Sennett, Richard, The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life (1996)
Sugrue, Thomas J. “Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction Against
Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964” Journal of American History v 82 (Sept.
1995)
Wilson, William Julius. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and
Public Policy (1987)
Hogensen, Kristen Fighting for American Manhood
Hunt, Lynn, The New Cultural History: Essays by Aletta Biersack (1989)