11.489 | Fall 2005 | Graduate

The Growth and Spatial Structure of Cities

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Introduction
Part I: Historical and Analytical Foundations
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Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961, pp. 446-474. ISBN: 0156180359.

Jacobs, Jane. The Economy of Cities. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1970, pp. 123-144. ISBN: 039470584X.

3 Jacobs, Jane. The Economy of Cities. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1970, pp. 145-202. ISBN: 039470584X.
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Marcuse, Peter. “The Partitioned City in History.” In Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space. Edited by Peter Marcuse and Ronald Van Kempen. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 11-34. ISBN: 019829719X.

Van Kempen, Ronald. “The Academic Formulations: Explanations for the Partitioned City.” In Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space. Edited by Peter Marcuse and Ronald Van Kempen. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 35-58. ISBN: 019829719X.

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Harvey, David. “The Urbanization of Capital.” The Urbanization of Capital. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 185-226. ISBN: 080183144X.

Molotch, Harvey. “The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place.” American Journal of Sociology 82: 309-330.

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Cox, Kevin. “Ideology and the Growth Coalition.” In Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later. Edited by Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 21-36. ISBN: 0791442608.

Gilbert, Melissa. “Place, Politics, and the Production of Urban Space: A Feminist Critique of the Growth Machine Thesis.” In Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later. Edited by Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 73-92. ISBN: 0791442608.

Jessop, Bob, Jamie Peck, and Adam Tickell. “Retooling the Machine: Economic Crisis, State Structuring, and Urban Politics.” In Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later. Edited by Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 141-162. ISBN: 0791442608.

Part II: Industrializing Cities in Form and Function
7 Harvey, David. Paris Capital of Modernity. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 107-152. ISBN: 041594421X.
8 Jones, Gareth Stedman. Outcast London. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1984, pp. 159-214. ISBN: 0394725476.
9 Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis. New York, NY: W.W. Cronon, 1992, pp. 23-96. ISBN: 0393308731.
10 Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis. New York, NY: W.W. Cronon, 1992, pp. 97-147, 263-310. ISBN: 0393308731.
11 Fogelson, Robert. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 20-38, 44-111. ISBN: 0300090625.
12 Fogelson, Robert. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 112-192, 218-248. ISBN: 0300090625.
Part III: Industrial and Post-industrial Cities in Form and Function
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Gordon, David. “Capitalist Development and the History of American Cities.” In Marxism and the Metropolis. Edited by William K. Tabb and Larry Sawers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 21-53. ISBN: 0195033086.

Sellers, Jefferey M. “Urbanization and the Social Origins of National Policies Toward Sprawl.” In Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States. Edited by Harry Richardson. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2004. ISBN: 0754637891.

14 Mollenkopf, John. The Contested City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN: 0691022208.
15 Mollenkopf, John. The Contested City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN: 0691022208.
16 Gottdiener, Mark. Planned Sprawl: Private and Public Interests in Suburbia. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1977, pp. 13-66. ISBN: 0803905939.
17 Gottdiener, Mark. Planned Sprawl: Private and Public Interests in Suburbia. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1977, pp. 67-146. ISBN: 0803905939.
18 Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 4-88. ISBN: 0691058881.
19 Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 179-271. ISBN: 0691058881.
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Schiffer, Sueli Ramos. “Economic Restructuring and Urban Segregation in Sao Paolo.” In Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space. Edited by Peter Marcuse and Ronald Van Kempen. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 143-166. ISBN: 019829719X.

Scott, Alan. “Industrial Urbanism in Late Twentieth-Century California.” In From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Edited by Michael Dear. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002, pp. 163-186. ISBN: 0761920951.

Part IV: The Global City in Form and Function
21 Sassen, Saskia. The Global City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0691070636.
22 Sassen, Saskia. The Global City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0691070636.
23 Graham, Stephen, and Simon Marvin. Telecommunications and the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 1-46, 123-170. ISBN: 0415119030.
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Graham, Stephen, and Simon Marvin. Telecommunications and the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 311-336. ISBN: 0415119030.

Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 1-54. ISBN: 0691091595.

Part V: Planning Challenges
25 Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 101-170. ISBN: 0691091595.
26 Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 171-312. ISBN: 0691091595.
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Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 313-346. ISBN: 0691091595.

Graham, Stephen, and Simon Marvin. Telecommunications and the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 337-384. ISBN: 0415119030.

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