City 250: some books:
Bird's Eye Views : Historic Lithographs Of North American Cities
John W. Reps c1998
Cities Of The American West : A History Of Frontier Urban Planning
John W. Reps c1979
Cities Of The Mississippi : Nineteenth-Century Images Of Urban Development
John W. Reps ; With Modern Photographs From The Air By Alex MacLean
c1994
The Forgotten Frontier : Urban Planning In The American West Before 1890
John W. Reps 1981
**
The Making Of Urban America; A History Of City Planning In The United States
by John W. Reps
1965
Monumental Washington; The Planning And Development Of The Capital Center,
by John W. Reps
1967
Saint Louis Illustrated : Nineteenth-Century Engravings And Lithographs Of A Mississippi River
Metro
John W. Reps 1989
Tidewater Towns: City Planning In Colonial Virginia And Maryland,
by John W. Reps
[1972]
Town Planning In Frontier America
by John W. Reps
1969
Views And Viewmakers Of Urban America : Lithographs Of Towns And Cities In The United
States And Can
John W. Reps 1984
Washington On View : The Nation's Capital Since 1790
John W. Reps c1991
Alongshore
John R. Stilgoe
c1994
Borderland : Origins Of The American Suburb, 1820-1939
John R. Stilgoe
c1988
Common Landscape Of America, 1580 To 1845
c1982
Metropolitan Corridor : Railroads And The American Scene
John R. Stilgoe
Discovering The Vernacular Landscape
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
c1984
The Interpretation Of Ordinary Landscapes : Geographical Essays
by J. B. Jackson ... [Et Al.] ; D. W. Meinig, Editor
1979
Landscape In Sight : Looking At America, John Brinckerhoff Jackson ;
Edited By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz c1997
The Necessity For Ruins, And Other Topics
by John Brinckerhoff Jackson c1980
A Sense Of Place, A Sense Of Time
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
c1994
**
American Space
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
**
HT 111
The city assembled : the elements of urban form through history
Spiro Kostof ; with the collaboration of Greg Castillo ; original drawings by Richard Tobias
**
Scully, Vincent
American Architecture and Urbanism, New York, 1969
David Goldfield and Blaine Brownell, Urban America: A History, 2nd ed. Houghton, Mifflin,
1990.
Jon Teaford, The Twentieth-Century American City. 2nd ed. Johns Hopkins, 1993.
Hayden, Dolores
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1995
Michael Conzen, The Making of the American Landscape
David Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in NineteenthCentury America
Chudacoff, H.P., and J.E. Smith.
The Evolution of American Urban Society. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1994 (4th ed.
Henry Binford, The first suburbs: Residential communities on the Boston periphery, 1815-1860
(1985)
Michael H. Ebner, Creating Chicago's North Shore: A suburban history (Chicago, 1988)
Joel Tarr, Transportation innovation and changing spatial patterns: Pittsburgh, 1850-1910 (1972)
**
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass frontier: Suburbanization of the United States (1985)
Bernard J. Frieden & Lynne B. Sagalyn, Downtown. Inc.: How America builds cities (1990)
Joel Garreau, Edge city: Life on the new frontier (1991)
Jane Jacobs, The death and life of great American cities (1961)
Sam B. Warner
Streetcar Suburbs; The Process of Growth in Boston 1870-1900
Gary Nash, The Urban Crucible. Harvard, 1979
John S. Adams. 1988. Housing America in the 1980s. New York: Russell Sage. A useful
compendium of information.
HT 123
Urban legacy : the story of America's cities
by Diana Klebanow, Franklin L. Jonas, and Ira M. Leonard
New York : New American Library, c1977
HT 123
The urbanization of modern America : a brief history
Zane L. Miller, Patricia M. Melvin
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1987
HT 123 / Z 5942
Urban history : a guide to information sources
John D. Buenker, Gerald Michael Greenfield, William J. Murin ; pref. by Howard P. Chudacoff
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1981
Z 5942
The history of urban planning in the United States : an annotated bibliography
by Martin Gellen
Chicago, Ill. : CPL Bibliographies, [1983]
HT 167
Planning the capitalist city : the colonial era to the 1920s
by Richard E. Foglesong
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1986
HT 167
Dreaming the rational city : the myth of American city planning
M. Christine Boyer
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1983
HT 123
American cities in the growth of the nation
Constance McL Green.
[London] : University of London, Athlone Press, 1957.
HT 167
The mysteries of the great city : the politics of urban design, 1877-1937
John D. Fairfield.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1993.
HT 151
The American city
[by] Stuart Alfred Queen [and] David Bailey Carpenter
New York : McGraw-Hill, 1953
HT 151
The American city; an outline of its development and functions,
by Henry C. Wright
Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916
HT 123
The American city: an urban geography
by] Raymond E. Murphy
New York : McGraw-Hill, [1966]
HT 123
The American city: historical studies
[compiled by] James F. Richardson
Waltham, Mass., Xerox College Pub. [1971, c1972]
HT 123
American skyline : the growth and form of our cities and towns
[by] Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed ; drawings by John Cohen
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955
Weiss, Marc A.
The Rise of The Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land
Planning.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Mullings, Leith, ed.
Cities of the United States: Case Studies in Urban Anthropology.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Machor, James L.
Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Vance, James E., Jr.
The Continuing City: Urban Morphology in Western Civilization.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Hoffman, Alexander von.
Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
[Jamaica Plain, Boston]
Rose, Mark H.
Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America.
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Silver, Christopher, and John V. Moeser.
The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968.
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
Trotter, Joe William, Jr
River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley
Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1998.
Vickers, Graham.
Key Moments in Architecture: The Relationship Between Man, Buildings and Urban Growth as
Seen in the Metropolis Through the Ages.
New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1999.
Wermiel, Sara E.
The Fireproof Building: Technology, Public Safety, and Urban Growth in America, 1790-1911.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Johnson, James H., and Colin G. Pooley.
The Structure of Nineteenth-Century Cities.
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
Lees, Andrew.
Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Ford, Larry R.
Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Domosh, Mona.
Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York and Boston.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Marshall, Alex.
How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Rosen, Christine Meisner.
The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America.
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Schuyler, David.
The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth Century America.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Wise, Kelly, ed.
City Limits: Images of Boston in Transition.
Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1987.
Bottles, Scott L.
Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.
Plunz, Richard A.
A History of Housing in New York City.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Hawes, Elizabeth.
New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City (1869-1930).
New York, NY: Knopf, 1993.
Blumin, Stuart M.
The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
McShane, Clay.
Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City.
Columbia History of Urban Life. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Hakutani, Yoshinobu, and Robert Butler, eds.
The City in African-American Literature.
Madison, PA: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.
Drum, Anthony M.
City-Building in America.
Gillette, Howard, Jr., ed.
Southern City, National Ambition: The Growth of Early Washington, D.C., 1800-1860.
Washington, DC: American Architectural Foundation & Center for Washington Area Studies,
George Washington University, 1995.
Stevick, Philip.
Imagining Philadelphia: Traveler's Views of the City from 1800 to the Present.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Longstreth, Richard.
City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 19201950.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.
Ward, David, and Olivier Zunz, eds.
The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Lehan, Richard
The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.
Hanchett, Thomas W
Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Gandelsonas, Mario.
X-Urbanism: Architecture and the American City.
New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
R.P. Horwitz,
The Strip,
(Lincoln, NE, 1985).
M. P. Conzen,
Making of the American Landscape
(Boston, 1990).
D. Ward,
Cities and Immigrants: A Geography of Change in 19th Century America
(London, 1971).
HT 167
The urban idea in colonial America
Sylvia Doughty Fries
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1977
HT 167
Constructing urban culture : American cities and city planning, 1800-1920
Stanley K. Schultz
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1989
HT 119
Cities, the forces that shape them
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design
New York : Rizzoli, c1982
HT 123
The city: a study of urbanism in the United States
by Stuart Alfred Queen ... and Lewis Francis Thomas .
New York and London, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1939
HT 153
Close-up, how to read the American city
Grady Clay
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980
HT 123
The geography of American cities
Risa Palm
New York : Oxford University Press, 1981
HT 123
A history of urban America
[by] Charles N. Glaab [and] A. Theodore Brown
New York : Macmillan, [1967]
HT 123
Strauss, Anselm Leonard, 1916Images of the American city
[New York] : Free Press of Glencoe, [1961]
q 333.77
Land uses in American cities
[by] Harland Bartholomew, assisted by Jack Wood
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955
HN 559
Landscapes of power : from Detroit to Disney World
Sharon Zukin
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991
HT 127
The myth of the North American city : continentalism challenged
Michael A. Goldberg and John Mercer
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1986
E 168
Peculiarities of American cities
By Captain Willard Glazier .
Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, 1886
BMC RBR
Phelps' hundred cities and large towns of America : with railroad distances throughout the United
States, maps of thirteen cities, and other embellishments
New York : Phelps, Fanning, 1853
HD 7293
Residential patterns in American cities, 1960
by Philip H. Rees
Chicago : University of Chicago, Dept. of Geography, 1979
HT 123
Urban growth and city-system development in the United States, 1840-1860
Allan Pred
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980
PS 228
Makers of the city
Lewis F. Fried
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1990
HT 123
America becomes urban : the development of U.S. cities & towns, 1780-1980
Eric H. Monkkonen
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988
HT 123
American towns : an interpretive history
David J. Russo
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2001
E169
The rise of the city, 1878-1898,
by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
New York, The Macmillan company, 1933
HC 105
The spatial dynamics of U.S. urban-industrial growth, 1800-1914; interpretive and theoretical
essays
[by] Allan R. Pred
Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1966]
E 169
Baker, Nina Brown, 1888- ,
Ten American cities: then and now
Illus. by Josephine Haskell
New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1949]
HT 123
Andrews, Richard Bruce
Urban growth and development
New York, Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp., 1962
NA 9105
City life : urban expectations in a new world
Witold Rybczynski
New York : Scribner, c1995
COMPILATIONS:
T14.5 .A45 1999
The American cities and technology reader : wilderness to wired city
edited by Gerrylynn K. Roberts.
London ; New York : Routledge in association with The Open University, 1999.
HT 123
American cities : a collection of essays
series editor, Neil Shumsky.
New York : Garland Pub., 1996Contents:
v. 1. Urbanization and the growth of cities
v. 2. The physical city
v. 3. Politics and government
v. 4. The economy
v. 5. The working class and its culture
v. 6. Transportation and communication
v. 7. Social structure and social mobility
v. 8. Institutional life.
HT 123
American cities and towns : historical perspectives
edited by Joseph F. Rishel.
Pittsburgh, PA : Duquesne University Press, c1992
1
Plantation to City Charter: The Rise of Urban New England, 1630-1873 / Harold
A. Pinkham, Jr. 14
2
The Great Brothel Dousing: Leisure, Reform and Urban Change in Antebellum
Pittsburgh / Scott C. Martin
26
3
Mobility and a Catastrophic Event: Who Moves After the Town Burns Down? /
Robert M. Preston
39
4
Beyond the Great City: Finding and Defining the Small City in Nineteenth
Century America / Maureen Ogle
48
5
The Other Migration: The Foundations of African American Suburban
Settlement, 1880-1930 / Leslie E. Wilson, Valerie S. Hartman 67
6
Middletown Reindustrializes: The Case of Muncie, Indiana / Dwight W. Hoover
96
7
An Urban-Rural Dimension of the Scopes Trial / Burton W. Folsom
109
8
Mistaken Identity: Putting the John Reber Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area
into Historical Context / David R. Long 123
9
Preparing for Armageddon: The Role of the City in Civil Defense Planning
During World War II / Robert Earnest Miller
143
10
A Clash of Priorities: The Federal Government and Dallas Airport Development,
1917-1964 / Robert B. Fairbanks
164
11
Erastus Corning, 2nd and Politics in Albany, New York, 1942-1983 / Ivan D.
Steen
HD 3885
Infrastructure and urban growth in the nineteenth century.
Chicago, Ill. : Public Works Historical Society, c1985
From city to metropolis : infrastructure and residential growth in urban Chicago / Ann
Durkin Keating.
Space, economic growth and the public works revolution in New York / Eugene P.
Moehring
Building the urban infrastructure in the nineteenth century : an introduction / Joel A. Tarr.
HT 123
The challenge of the city, 1860-1910,
edited with an introd. by Lyle W. Dorsett
Ronald Carlisle, ed., Canals and American Cities
Nineteenth-Century Cities, ed. Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett (Yale, 1969)
Elizabeth Huttman and Willem van Vliet, eds. 1988. Handbook of Housing and the Built
Environment in the United States. New York: Greenwood. An American reference work.
Jon Pynoos et al., eds., 1973. Housing Urban America. Chicago: Aldine. Although dated, this still
contains many useful analytical articles.
C.R.Stimpson, et al., eds. Women and the American City. Chicago: Chicago University Press. An
early, influential collection of feminist writings on housing and cities.
R.Bratt et al. eds. 1986. Critical Perspectives on Housing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
An excellent collection of readings from a broadly 'radical' point of view.
Cities in American history.
Edited, with introductions, by Kenneth T. Jackson and Stanley K. Schultz
New York, Knopf [1972]
HT 123
Cities of our past and present : a descriptive reader
New York : Wiley, [1964]
HT 123
The urbanization of America; an historical anthology,
edited with introductions by Allen M. Wakstein
Boston, Houghton-Mifflin [1970]
HT 123
American urban history; an interpretive reader with commentaries.
Edited by Alexander B. Callow, Jr
New York, Oxford University Press, 1973
HT 167
Introduction to planning history in the United States
edited by Donald A. Krueckeberg
New Brunswick, N.J. : Center for Urban Policy Research, c1983
HT 123
Internal structure of the city : readings on urban form, growth, and policy
edited by Larry S. Bourne
New York : Oxford University Press, 1982
HT 123
The Manipulated city : perspectives on spatial structure and social issues in urban America
edited by Stephen Gale, Eric G. Moore
Chicago : Maaroufa Press, c1975
HT 123
McKelvey, Blake, 1903- comp
The city in American history
London, Allen and Unwin; New York, Barnes and Noble [1969]
HT 123
City life, 1865-1900; views of urban America.
Edited by Ann Cook, Marilyn Gittell [and] Herb Mack
New York, Praeger [1973]
HT 123
The Making of urban America
Raymond A. Mohl, editor
Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1988
HT 123
Still, Bayrd
Urban America; a history with documents
Boston, Little, Brown [1974]
HT 123
Urban America in historical perspective.
Edited by Raymond A. Mohl & Neil Betten
New York, Weybright and Talley [1970]
--The diverging paths of American urban history, by D. W. Hoover
.--Colonial Philadelphia: the environment of private opportunity, by S. B. Warner, Jr.
--Economic development and social structure in colonial Boston, by J. A. Henrietta.
--Poverty in colonial New York City, by R. A. Mohl.
--The mechanics of Revolutionary Charleston, 1760-1776, by R. Walsh
.--The working classes of the pre-industrial city, by D. Montgomery
.--Immigrants and tenements in New York City, 1825-1863, by R. Ernst.
--Canals, railroads, and urban rivalries, by J. Rubin.
--Slavery in the cities, by R. C. Wade
.--Patterns of mid-nineteenth-century urbanization in the Middle West, by B. Still.
--The emergence of industrial cities, by B. McKelvey.
--Urbanization, migration, and social mobility in late-nineteenth-century America, by S.
Thernstrom.
--Urbanism and the church, by H. Wish.
--Boss Cox's Cincinnati: a study in urbanization and politics, 1880-1914, by Z. L. Miller.
--Pullman: town planning and social control in the gilded age, by s. Buder
[continued]
--Italians in urban America: a study in ethnic adjustment, by H. S. Nelli.
--Megalopolis: the main street of the Nation, by J. Gottmann.
--American political parties and the rise of the city, by C. N. Degler.
--The city in the great Depression, by I. Besrnstein.
--The urbanization of Negroes in the United States, by R. Farley.
--Black Chicago: the making of a Negro ghetto, by A. H. Spear.
--Puerto Ricans in perspective: the meaning of migration to the mainland, by J. P.
Fitzpatrick.
--Welfare problems of the cities, by A. J. Naparstek and G. T. Martin, Jr.
--Summary, Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
.--The frustrations of urban planning, by L. Mumford
INTERNATIONAL:
International history of city development
[by] E. A. Gutkind
[New York] Free Press of Glencoe [1964Mumford, Lewis, 1895The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1961]
Edition
H. Carter,
An Introduction to Urban Historical Geography,
(London, 1983),
Vance, James E., Jr.
The Continuing City: Urban Morphology in Western Civilization.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Waterhouse, Alan.
Boundaries of the City: The Architecture of Western Urbanism.
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1993.
The continuing city : urban morphology in Western civilization
James E. Vance, Jr
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1990
HT 111
The form of cities
D. I. Scargill
New York : St. Martin's Press, c1979
How Cities Grew; The Historical Sociology Of Cities,
by Jean Comhaire And Werner J. Cahnman
1965
International History Of City Development / [By] E. A. Gutkind
Hilberseimer, Ludwig
The nature of cities : origin, growth, and decline, pattern and form, planning problems
Chicago : P. Theobald, 1955
Paul Hohenberg and Lynn Lees, The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994. Revised edition.
Harvard, 1995.
Pacione, Michael, ed.
Progress in Urban Geography.
London: Croom Helm, 1983.
Gottdiener, Mark.
The Social Production of Urban Space.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1985.
Carter, Harold.
An Introduction to Urban Historical Geography.
Baltimore, MD: Edward Arnold, 1983.
Carter, Harold.
The Study of Urban Geography.
3d ed. Baltimore, MD: Edward Arnold, 1981.
Ross, Robert J. and Gerald J. Telkamp, eds.
Colonial Cities: Essays on Urbanism in a Colonial Context.
Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic, 1985.
Harvey, David.
The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Lees, Andrew.
Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1985.