URBAN SOCIOLOGY READING LIST
10/12/09
THEORY
Dear, Michael. 2001. From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Sage Publications.
Fischer, Claude. 1995. “The Subcultural Theory of Urbanism - A 20th Year Assessment”
American Journal of Sociology 101:543-77.
Gottdiener, Mark and Joe Feagin. 1988. "The Paradigm Shift in Urban Sociology." Urban
Affairs Quarterly 24(2):163-187.
Harvey, David. 1973. Social Justice and the City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Harvey, David. 1978. "The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework For Analysis.”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2:101-131.
Harvey, David. 1997. “The Environment of Justice.” Pp. 65-99 in The Urbanization of
Injustice, Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. New York: NYU Press.
Hawley, Amos H. 1978. “Urbanization as Process.” Pp. 3-26 in David Street (ed.), Handbook of
Contemporary Urban Life.
Jacobs, Jane. 1961. Death and Life of Great American Cities, Part One (Ch. 2-6)
Logan, John and Harvey Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Massey, Douglas S. 2005. Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World.
New York: W. W. Norton. Chapters 1,2,6,7
Miller, Donald S., editor. 1986. The Lewis Mumford Reader. New York: Pantheon Books.
Part III – The City in Civilization and Part IV – They Urban Prospect (pp. 99- 242)
Park, Robert E. and Ernest W. Burgess. 1967. The City, Edited by M. Janowitz. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press.
Sassen, Saskia. 2000. "New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium." The British
Journal of Sociology 51:143-159.
Smith, David. 1995. “The New Urban Sociology Meets the Old: Rereading Some Classical
Human Ecology.” Urban Affairs Review 30(3):432-457.
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Wirth, Louis. 1938. "Urbanism as a Way of Life" American Journal of Sociology 44:1-24.
Zukin, Sharon. 1991. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Berkeley:
University of California Press (Chapters 1,7-8).
POLITICS OF GROWTH AND URBAN RESTRUCTURING
Dreier, Peter, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom. 2001. Place matters: Metropolitics for the
twenty-first century. University of Kansas Press.
Fainstein, Susan. 1997. “Justice, Politics and the Creation of Urban Space.” Pp. 18-44 in The
Urbanization of Injustice, Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. New York:
NYU Press.
Galster, George, Royce Hanson, Michael R. Ratcliffe, Harold Wolman, Stephen Coleman, and
Jason Freihage. 2001. “Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground: Defining and Measuring an
Elusive Concept.” Housing Policy Debate 12:681-717.
Halle, David. 2003. New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society and Culture – A
Comparative View. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Introduction, Chapters 1, 2,
3, 4, 5)
Harding, Alan. 1996. “Is There a New Community Power and Why Should We Need One?”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 20:637-55.
Jackson, Kenneth. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Jaret, Charles, Ravi Ghadge, Lesley Williams Reid, and Robert M. Adelman. 2009. “The
Measurement of Suburban Sprawl: An Evaluation.” City & Community 8:65-84.
Logan, John R. and Kyle D. Crowder. 2002. "Political Regimes and Suburban Growth, 19801990." City & Community 1:113-135.
Logan, John R., Rachel Bridges Whaley, and Kyle Crowder. 1997. "The Character and
Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of Research" Urban
Affairs Review, 32: 603-630.
Rosenbaum, James, Stefanie DeLuca, and Tammy Tuck. 2005. “New Capabilities in New Places:
Low Income Black Families in Suburbia.” Pp. 150-175 in Xavier de Souza Briggs (ed.),
The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America.
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SEGREGATION AND THE URBAN UNDERCLASS
Adelman, Robert M. 2005. “The Role of Race, Class, and Residential Preferences in the
Neighborhood Racial Composition of Middle-Class Blacks and Whites,” Social Science
Quarterly 86(1): 209- 228.
Alba, Richard D., John R. Logan, and Brian Stults. 2000. “The Changing Neighborhood
Contexts of the Immigrant Metropolis” Social Forces 79 (December): 587-621.
Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community.
Chicago:University of Chicago Press.
Bruch, Elizabeth E. and Robert D. Mare. 2006. "Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood
Change." American Journal of Sociology 112:667-709.
Butler, John Sibley. 2005(1991). Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans.
Albany: SUNY Press.
Charles, Camille Z. 2003. “The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation.” Annual Review of
Sociology 29:167-207.
Clark, William A.V. and Sarah A. Blue. 2004. “Race, Class and Segregation Patterns in U.S.
Immigrant Gateway Cities.” Urban Affairs Review 39(6):667-688.
Crowder, Kyle D. and Scott South. 2008. “Spatial Dynamics of White Flight: The Effects of
Local and Extra local Racial Conditions on Neighborhood Out-Migration.” American
Sociological Review 73:792-812.
Ellen, Ingrid Gould. 1998. “Stable, Racial Integration in the Contemporary United States: An
Empirical Overview” Journal of Urban Affairs 20: 27-42.
Ellis, Mark, Steven R. Holloway, Richard Wright, and Margaret East. 2007. "The Effects of
Mixed-Race Households on Residential Segregation." Urban Geography 28.
Fischer, Claude S., Gretchen Stockmayer, Jon Stiles, and Michael Hout. 2004. “Distinguishing
the Geographic Levels and Social Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation, 19602000,” Demography 41(1): 37-59.
Fischer, Mary J. 2003. “The Relative Importance of Class and Race in Determining Residential
Outcomes in U.S. Urban Areas, 1970-2000.” Urban Affairs Review. 38(5): 669-696.
Friedman, Samantha. 2008. “Do Declines in Residential Segregation Mean Stable Neighborhood
Racial Integration in Metropolitan America? A Research Note.” Social Science Research
37(3):920-933.
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Galster, George and Sean Killen. 1995. “The Geography of Housing Opportunity: A
Reconnaissance and Conceptual Framework” Housing Policy Debate: 6:7-43.
Harris, David R. 1999. “ ‘Property Values Drop When Blacks Move In Because…’: Racial and
Socioeconomic Determinants of Neighborhood Desirability.” American Sociological
Review 64:461-79.
Iceland, John. 2004. “Beyond Black and White: Metropolitan residential segregation in multiethnic America.” Social Science Research 33:248-271.
Lacy, Karyn. 2007. “Black spaces, black places: Strategic Assimilation and Identity Construction
in Middle-Class Suburbia.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 27(6):908-30.
Logan, John R. , Brian J. Stults and Reynolds Farley. 2004. "Segregation of Minorities in the
Metropolis: Two Decades of Change" Demography 41(1): 1-22.
Krysan, Maria. 2002. “Whites Who Say They’d Flee: Who Are They, and Why Would They
Leave?” Demography 39:675-96.
Krysan, Maria and Reynolds Farley. 2002. “The Residential Preferences of Blacks: Do They
Explain Persistent Segregation?” Social Forces 80:937-80.
Massey, Douglas, Michael White, and Voon-Chin Phua. 1996. “The Dimensions of Segregation
Revisited” Sociological Methods and Research 25: 172-206.
Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making
of the Underclass. Harvard University Press.
Massey, Douglas S. and Mary J. Fischer. 1999. “Does Rising Income Bring Integration? New
Results for Blacks, Hispanics and Asians in 1990.” Social Science Research 28:316-326.
O’Connor, Alice, Chris Tilly and Lawrence D. Bobo. 2001. Urban Inequality: Evidence From
Four Cities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (Introductory Chapter and Chapter 4).
Orfield, Gary. 1996. “Segregated Housing and School Reform” Pp. 291-330 in Dismantling
Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education edited by Gard
Orfield, Susan Eaton and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation. New York: Free
Press.
Patillo-McCoy, Mary. 1999. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle
Class. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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Rieder, Jonathan. 1985. Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberation.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapter 3.
South, Scott and Kyle Crowder. 1997. “Escaping Distressed Neighborhoods: Individual,
Community, and Metropolitan Influences” American Journal of Sociology 102:1040-84.
Squires, Gregory D. and Charis E. Kubrin. 2005. “Priviledged Places: Race, Uneven
Development, and the Geography of Opportunity in Urban America.” Urban Studies
42:47-68.
Tach, Laura M. 2009. “More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes,
and the Mixed-Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project.” City and
Community 8(3):269-299.
Wilson, Frank Harold. 2004. Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City. Albany: SUNY Press.
Wilson, William J. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: the inner city, the underclass, and public
policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, William J. 2009. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. W.W.
Norton and Company, Inc.
Yinger, John. 1998. “Housing Discrimination Is Still Worth Worrying About” Housing Policy
Debate 9: 893-927.
INCORPORATION OF IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR IMPACTS
Alba, Richard D., Nancy Denton, Shu-Yin Leung, and John R. Logan. 1995. "Neighborhood
Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration: The New York City Region, 1970-1990”
International Migration Review 29: 625-656.
Alba, Richard D., John R. Logan, Brian Stults, Gilbert Marzan, and Wenquan Zhang. 1999.
“Immigrant Groups and Suburbs: A Reexamination of Suburbanization and Spatial
Assimilation” American Sociological Review 64: 446-60.
Brown, Susan K. 2007. “Delayed Spatial Assimilation: Multigenerational Incorporation of
Mexican-Origin Population in Los Angeles.” City and Community 6:193-209.
Chung, Angie Y. 2001. “The Powers that Bind: A Case Study on the Collective Bases of
Coalition-Building in Post-Civil Unrest in Los Angeles.” Urban Affairs Review 37(2):205226.
Horton, John. 1995. The politics of diversity: immigration, resistance, and change in Monterey
Park, California. Temple University Press.
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Iceland, John and Melissa Scopilliti. 2008. “Immigrant Residential Segregation in U.S.
Metropolitan Areas, 1990-2000.” Demography 45(1):79-94.
Kasinitz, Philip, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway. 2008. Inheriting
the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press (Chapters 1, 2, 4, 11).
Lin, Jan. 1998. “Globalization and the Revalorizing of Ethnic Places in Immigration Gateway
Cities.” Urban Affairs Review 34(2):313-339.
Logan, John R., Richard D. Alba, and Wenquan Zhang. 2002. “Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic
Communities in New York and Los Angeles” American Sociological Review 67: 299-322.
Massey, Douglas S (ed.). 2008. New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of
American Immigration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (Chapters 1,2,4,10,14,15)
Portes, Alejandro. 1998. “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology.”
Annual Review of Sociology 24:1-24.
Rosenbaum, Emily and Samantha Friedman. 2007. The Housing Divide: How Generations of
Immigrants Fare in New York’s Housing Market. New York: New York University Press.
Sampson, Robert J. and Patrick Sharkey. 2008. “Neighborhood Selection and the Social
Reproduction of Concentrated Racial Inequality.” Demography 45(1):1-29.
South, Scott J., Kyle Crowder, and Erick Chavez. 2005. “Migration and Spatial Assimilation
among U.S. Latinos: Classic versus Segmented Trajectories.” Demography 42(3): 497-521.
Waldinger, Roger. 1996. Still the Promised City? African Americans and New Immigrants in
Post-Industrial New York. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (Chapters 1-6).
Waters, Mary. 1999. Black identities: West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities.
Harvard University Press. (Chapters 1,5,7,9)
Waters, Mary C. and Tomas R. Jimenez. 2005. “Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New
Empirical and Theoretical Challenges.” Annual Review of Sociology 31: 105-125.
Yu, Zhou. 1998. “Beyond Ethnic Enclaves: Location Strategies of Chinese Producer Service
Firms in Los Angeles.” Economic Geography 74(3):228-251.
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COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela Kato Klebanov,, and Naomi Sealand. 1993. "Do
Neighborhoods Influence Child and Adolescent Development?" American Journal of
Sociology 99: 353-95.
Browning, Christopher R., Seth L. Feinberg and Robert D. Dietz. 2004. “The Paradox of Social
Organization: Networks, Collective Efficacy, and Violent Crime in Urban
Neighborhoods.” Social Forces 83(2): 503-534.
Clampet-Lundquist, Susan and Douglas S. Massey. 2008. “Neighborhood Effects on Economic
Self-Sufficiency: A Reconsideration of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.”
American Journal of Sociology 114(1):107-43.
Clark, William. 2008. “Reexamining the Moving to Opportunity Study and Its Contribution to
Changing the Distribution of Poverty and Ethnic Concentration.” Demography 45:515536.
Duneier, Mitch. 1999. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Freeman, Lance. 2006. There Goes the ‘Hood: Gentrification from the ground Up.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Gans, Herbert. 1982(1965). Urban Villagers. New York: The Free Press. (Chapters 1, 2, 5, 10
& postscript, 13, 14 & postscript).
Goering, John and Judith D. Feins (eds). 2003. Choosing a Better Life?Evaluating the Moving to
Opportunity Social Experiment. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press (Chapters 1, 4,
10, 13).
Gotham, Kevin Fox. 2002. “Beyond Invasion and Succession: School Segregation, Real Estate
Blockbusting, and the Political Economy of Neighborhood Racial Transition.” City &
Community 1:83-111.
Grannis, Rick. 2005. "T-Communities: Pedestrian Street Networks and Residential Segregation
in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York." City and Community 4:295-321.
Grannovetter, Mark. 1973. "The Strength of Weak Ties." American Journal of Sociology.
78:1360-1380.
Guest, Avery M., and Susan K. Wierzbicki. 1999. “Social Ties at the Neighborhood Level:
Two Decades of GSS Evidence.” Urban Affairs Review 35:92-111.
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Hampton, Keith, and Barry Wellman. 2003. “Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet
Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb.” City & Community 2:277311.
Harding, David J. 2003. “Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of
Neighborhood Poverty on Dropping Out and Teenage Pregnancy.” American Journal of
Sociology 109:676-719.
Lofland, Lynn. 1973. A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space. Prospect
Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Low, Setha. 2004. Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress
America. New York: Routledge . (Chapters: Prologue, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 11)
Mears, Daniel P. and Avinash S. Bhati. 2006. "No Community is an Island: The Effects of
Resource Deprivation on Urban Violence in Spatially and Socially Proximate
Communities." Criminology 44:506.
Morenoff, Jeffrey D., and Robert J. Sampson. 1997. “Violent Crime and the Spatial Dynamics of
Neighborhood Transition: Chicago, 1970-1990.” Social Forces 76:31-64.
Sampson, Robert and Stephen Raudenbush. 1999 . “Systematic Social Observation of Public
Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods” American Journal of
Sociology 105, 3:603-651.
Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. “Neighborhoods and
Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy.” Science 277:918-24.
Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. "Assessing
'Neighborhood Effects': Social Processes and New directions in Research." Annual
Review of Sociology 28:443-478.
South, Scott J. and Kyle D. Crowder. 1999. “Neighborhood Effects on Family Formation:
Concentrated Poverty and Beyond” American Sociological Review 64: 113-32.
South, Scott J. Kyle Crowder, and Jeremy Pais. 2008. “Inter-neighborhood Migration and Spatial
Assimilation in a Multi-ethnic World: Comparing Latinos, Blacks and Anglos.” Social
Forces 87: 415-443.
Suttles, Gerald. 1968. The Social Order of the Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(Chapters 1, 2, 12)
Swaroop, Sapna and Jeffrey D. Morenoff. 2006. "Building Community: The Neighborhood
Context of Social Organization." Social Forces 84:1665-1695.
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Taylor, Monique M. 2002. Harlem: Between Heaven and Hell. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press.
Wellman, Barry. 1979. “The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers.”
American Journal of Sociology 84:1201-31.
COMPARATIVE URBANIZATION AND GLOBAL CITIES
Abu Lughod, Janet. 1999. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles : America's global cities.
University of Minnesota Press. (Overview, Introduction to each part, and Chapter 13)
Alderson, Arthur S. and Jason Beckfield. 2004. “Power and Position in the World City System.”
American Journal of Sociology 109:811-851.
Bodnár, Judit. 1996. “He That Hath to Him Shall Be Given: Housing Privatization in Budapest
after State Socialism” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20:616-36.
Bradshaw, York. 1987. "Urbanization and Underdevelopment." American Sociological Review
52:224-239.
Brockerhoff, Martin. 2000. An Urbanizing World. Population Bulletin. Vol. 55, No. 3.
Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau.
Chen, Xiangming and Jiaming Sun. “Sociological Perspectives on Urban China: From Familiar
Territories to Complex Terrains.” China Information 20, 3 (2006): 519-551.
Chiu, Stephen W.K. and Tai-lok Lui. 2004. “Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis:
Hong Kong since the 1990s.” Urban Studies 41(10):1863-1888.
Davis, Kingsley. 1960. “The Origin and Growth of Urbanization in the World” American
Journal of Sociology 60: 429-37.
Davis, Diane E. and Kian Tajbakhsh. 2005. “Globalization and Cities in Comparative
Perspective.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29(1):89-91.
Gugler, Josef (ed.). 2004. World Cities beyond the West: Globalization, Development, and
Inequality. Cambridge University Press (Chapters: Introduction, 1, 7, 8, 12 afterward).
Hill, Richard Child and June Woo Kim. 2000. “Global Cities and Developmental States: New
York, Tokyo, and Seoul.” Urban Studies 37(12):2167-2195.
Kasarda, John and Crenshaw. 1991. “Third World Urbanization” Annual Review of Sociology
17:467-501.
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Liang, Zai. 2001. “The Age of Migration in China.” Population and Development Review
27:499-524.
Liang, Zai, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por Chen. 2008. “Urbanization in China in the 1990s:
Patterns and Regional Variations.” Pp. 205-225 in John R. Logan (ed.), Urban China in
Transition. Blackwell.
Lin, Jan. 1998. Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change. University of
Minnesota Press. (Chapters: Introduction, 3, 4, 7, 8)
Logan, John R., Yanjie Bian, and Fuqin Bian. 1999. “Housing Inequality in Urban China in the
1990s” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23:7-25.
Molotch, Harvey and Serena Vicari. 1988. “Three Ways to Build: The Development Process in
the United States, Japan and Italy.” Urban Affairs Quarterly 24:188-214.
Orum, Anthony M. and Xiangming Chen. 2003. The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and
Historical Perspective. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Pickvance, C.G.. 1994. “Housing Privatization and Housing Protest in the Transition from State
Socialism: A Comparative Study of Budapest and Moscow” International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research 18:433-50.
Samers, Michael. 2002. “Immigration and the Global City Hypothesis: Towards an Alternative
Research Agenda.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26:389-402.
Sassen, Saskia. 2006. Cities in a World Economy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
(Chapters 1-3, 7).
Smart, Alan. 2003. “Urbanization and the Global Perspective.” Annual Review of Anthropology
32:263-285.
White, James W. 1998. “Old Wine, Cracked Bottle? Tokyo, Paris, and the Global City
Hypothesis.” Urban Affairs Review 33(4):451-477.
Zhou, Min and John R. Logan. 1996. "Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing
in Urban China" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20:400-21.
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