Soc/Urbs 200, Changing Cities
Fall 2003
Bibliography of supplementary readings
Ocean Howell, The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New
Public Space. Urban Action 2001, 64-96.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Ch 2, The uses of sidewalks:
safety. pp. 29-41, 50-54. NY: Vintage Books, 1961.
John M. Levy, Urban America: Processes and Problems. Ch 2: The American city in the
nineteenth century, 9-20, Ch 3: The emergence of metropolitan America. 23-53.
NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000
john powell and Kathleen Graham, Urban Fragmentation as a Barrier to Equal
Opportunity. Ch 7 from Rights at Risk: Equality in an Age of Terrorism.
Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights, Biennial Report, 2002. pp. 79-97.
cccr.org
Duany, Andres, Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth, and Speck, Jeff. Suburban Nation: The Rise of
Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Point Press,
2000. Ch 1: What is Sprawl, and Why? pp. 3-20.
Edward Glaeser and Jesse Shapiro, City Growth and the 2000 Census: Which
Places Grew, and Why. Brookings Institution: Center on Urban and Metropolitan
Policy. May 2001. pp. 1-14. brookings.org
Michael Doherty and Meryl Block, The Revitalization of the Fillmore. Urban Action
2001, pp. 55-63
Hartman, Chester. City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2002. Ch 1, The Larger Forces, pp. 1-14.
Ch 23, High Rises and the Anti-Highrise Movement, pp. 289-324.
TODCO Corporate History and Timeline. url: todco.org/corporatehistory.html;
todco.org/timeline.html. 8 pp.
Association of Bay Area Governments, Smart Growth Strategy: Regional
Livability Footprint Project, Briefing Book. August 2001. abag.ca.gov. pp. 1-10.
Association of Bay Area Governments, Smart Growth Strategy: Regional
Livability Footprint Project, Final Report, October 2002.
The Vision Up Close; An Analysis of One Smart Growth Scenario. pp. 20-31
PolicyLink and The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities,
Promoting Regional Equity. A Framing Paper. November 2002. 32pp.