American Urban History II

Readings

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction	No readings
2	Parks	Blodgett, Geoffrey. “Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform.” Journal of American History 62, no. 4 (1976): 869–89. Stewart, Ian R. “Politics and the Park.” New York Historical Society Quarterly (1977): 124–55. Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., and Theodora Kimball, eds. Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park. MIT Press, 1973, pp. 18-67. ISBN: 9780262650069. Rosenzweig, Roy. Chapter 5 in Eight Hours For What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920. Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780521313971. [Preview with Google Books] Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., and Theodora Kimball Hubbard, eds. Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903. Nabu Press, 2011, pp. 451–65. ISBN: 9781178699555.
3	Amusement Parks	Coney Island. PBS., 1991. (Film) Kasson, John. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. Hill and Wang, 1978. ISBN: 9780809001330. Peiss, Kathy. Chapter 5 in Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780877225003. Findlay, John M. Chapter 2 in Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. University of California Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780520084353.
4	First discussion of Term Papers	No readings
5	Suburbs	“Palos Verdes Protective Restrictions.” Palos Verdes Bulletin 4 (1928): 4–5. Fogelson, Robert M. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930. Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780300108767.
6	Tenements	Lubove, Roy. Chapters 2, 4, and 5 in The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City 1890-1917. Greenwood Press, 1974. ISBN: 9780837174877. Riis, Jacob. Chapters 1–8, and 21 in How the Other Half Lives. Bedford, 1996. ISBN: 9780312117009. Flagg, Ernest, and Robert A. Woods. “The New York Tenement-House Evil and Its Cure.” In Poor in Great Cities: Their Problems and What Is Doing to Solve Them. Ayer, 1971, pp. 370–92. ISBN: 9780405031311. Newman, Oscar. Chapter 2 in Defensible Space; Crime Prevention Through Urban Design. Macmillan, 1973. ISBN: 9780020007500. Freedman, Jonathan. Chapters 1 and 5 in Crowding and Behavior. W. H. Freeman, 1975. ISBN: 9780716707509.
7	Second discussion of term papers	No readings
8	Skyscraper	Goldberger, Paul. Chapter 1 in The Skyscraper. Knopf, 1983. ISBN: 9780394715865. Schuyler, Montgomery. American Architecture and Other Writings. Edited by William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe. Belknap Press, 1961, pp. 442–52. ISBN: 9780674019003. Fogelson, Robert M. Chapter 3 in Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950. Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780300098273. Neil, J. M. “Paris or New York? The Shaping of Downtown Seattle, 1903-14.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 75, no. 1 (1984): 22–33. Civic Development Department, Chamber of Commerce of the United States. “Economic Height of Buildings: The Skyscraper Attacked and Defended.” Washington, DC, 1927, pp. 3–31.
9	Department Stores	Tarr, Joel A. “The Chicago Anti-Department Store Crusade of 1897.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 64, no. 2 (1971): 161–72. Barth, Gunther. City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 110–47. ISBN: 9780195031942. [Preview with Google Books] Benson, Susan Porter. Chapters 3–4 in Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940. University of Illinois Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780252060137. [Preview with Google Books] Boorstin, Daniel J. Chapter 10 in The Americans: The Democratic Experience. Random House, 1973. ISBN: 9780394487243. Leach, William. True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society. Basic Books, 1980, pp. 222–37. ISBN: 9780465087556.
10	Supermarkets	“Piggly Wiggly Contract Requirements, Etc.” Piggly Wiggly Home Office. Memphis, 1919. Keats, John. What Ever Happened to Mom’s Apple Pie? Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 101–7 and 127–34. ISBN: 9780395242988. Packard, Vance. Chapter 10 in The Hidden Persuaders. Pocket, 1984. ISBN: 9780671531492. Sicilia, David B. “Supermarket Sweep.” Audacity (1997): 11–9. Longstreth, Richard. Chapter 4 in The Drive-in, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914–1941. MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780262621427. [Preview with Google Books]
11	Public Baths	Williams, Marilyn Thornton. “Philanthropy in the Progressive Era: The Public Baths of Baltimore.” Maryland Historical Magazine, 1977, 118–31. ———. “New York City’s Public Baths.” Journal of Urban History 7, no. 1 (1980): 49–81. Wilkie, Jacqueline S. “Submerged Sensuality: Technology and Perceptions of Bathing.” Journal of Social History 19, no. 4 (1986): 649–64. Bushman, Richard L., and Claudia L. Bushman. “The Early History of Cleanliness in America.” Journal of American History 74, no. 4 (1988): 1213–38. Hoy, Suellen. Chapter 4 in Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness. Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780195111286. [Preview with Google Books] Gerhard, Wm. Paul. “The Modern Rain-Bath.” American Architect and Building News, February 10, 1894, 67–9.
12	Zoos	Horowitz, Helen. “The National Zoological Park: ‘City of Refuge’ or Zoo?” Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (1973–1974): 405–29. ———. “Seeing Ourselves Through the Bars: A Historical Tour of American Zoos.” Landscape 25, no. 2 (1981): 12–9. Turner, James. Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780801866777. Berger, John. About Looking. Vintage, 1992, pp. 1–26. ISBN: 9780679736554.
13	Cemeteries	Aries, Philippe. “The Reversal of Death: Change in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies.” In Death in America. Edited by David Stannard. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974, pp. 134–58. ISBN: 9780812210842. French, Stanley. “The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mt. Auburn and the Rural Cemetery Movement.” American Quarterly 26, no. 1 (1974): 37–59. Farrell, James J. Chapter 4 in Inventing the American Way of Death 1830–1920. Temple University Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780877221807. Sloane, David Charles. Chapter 7 in The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780801851285. Kasson, John F. Chapter 5 in Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America. Hill and Wang, 1990. ISBN: 9780809034703. Schuyler, David A. The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780801832314.
14	Conclusion	No readings