Readings

Required Reading

• Hall, Peter. "Planning, Planners and Plans." In Urban and Regional Planning. 4th ed. Routledge, 2002, pp. 1–10. ISBN: 9780415217774. [Preview with Google Books]
• Speth, James Gustave. "Looking Into the Abyss." In The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 17–45.
• Webb, Molly. "Why Smart Cities Will Help Save the World," The Guardian, November 16, 2008.

Recommended Reading

• Garvin, Alexander. "Planning Now for the 21st Century." In Urban Planning Today. Edited by William S. Saunders. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Required Reading

• Fainstein, Susan, and Scott Campbell. "Theories of Urban Development and their Implications for Policy and Planning." In Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Fainstein and Campbell. Blackwell Publishers, 2002, pp. 1–15. ISBN: 9780631223450.
• Sandercock, Leonie.  "Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century." Journal of the American Planning Association 70, no. 2 (2004): 133–41.

Recommended Reading

• Ryan, Brent D. "Reading Through a Plan." Journal of the American Planning Association 77, no. 4 (2011): 309–27.

Required Reading

• Lefebvre, Henri. "From the City to Urban Society." In The Urban Revolution. University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp. 1–22. ISBN: 9780816641604. [Preview with Google Books]
• Webber, Melvin. "The Post-City Age." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard LeGates and Frederic Stout. Routledge, 2011, pp. 549–53. ISBN: 9780415556651.
• Friedmann, John, and John Miller. "The Urban Field." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 31, no. 4 (1965): 312–20.
• Soja, Edward, and Miguel Kanai. "The Urbanization of the World." In Living in the Endless City: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society. Edited by Richard Burdett and Deyan Sudjic. Phaidon Press, 2011, pp. 54–69. ISBN: 9780714861180.

Recommended Reading

• Gottmann, Jean. "How Large Can Cities Grow?" In Since Megalopolis: The Urban Writings of Jean Gottmann. Edited by Jean Gottman and Robert Alexander Harper. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, pp. 149–61. ISBN: 9780801839276.

Required Reading

• Frank, Adam. "The City as Engine: Energy, Entropy and the Triumph of Disorder," NPR Cosmos & Culture (radio series), August 21, 2012.
• Glaeser, Edward. "Urban Age: Electric City: Ed Glaeser—Economic Dynamics of the 21st Century Electric City." January 15, 2013. You Tube. Accessed December 6, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQDgvevjHE
• Humphries, Courtney. "Life in the Concrete Jungle." Nature 491, no. 22 (2012): 514–15.
• Armstrong, Rachel. "A Trip to the Living City of the Future," Fast Company, February 7, 2012.
• Lehrer, Jonah. "A Physicist Solves the City," New York Times, December 17, 2010,
• Boggs, Grace Lee, and Scott Kurashige. "Planting Seeds of Hope: How Sustainable Activism Transformed Detroit." Yes! Magazine, June 16, 2011.
• Gans, Herbert. "Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions." In The Urban Sociology Reader. Edited by Jan Lin and Christopher Mele. Routledge, 2005, pp. 42–50. ISBN: 9780415323420.

Recommended Reading

• Florida, Richard. "Why We Need a Better 'Science' of Cities," Atlantic Cities, September 28, 2012.
• Oppenheim, Leonora. "Can We Use Biomimicry to Design Cities? Janine Benyus Says Yes," Treehugger, June 3, 2010.

Required Reading

• Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Photography and the Art of Visual Thinking."
• Bateson, Gregory, and Margaret Mead. Balinese Character, Photographic Analysis. New York Academy of Sciences, 1942.
• Vergara, Camilo José. The New American Ghetto. Rutgers University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780813522098.

Required Reading

• Berger, Alan. "Drosscape." In The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Edited by Charles Waldheim. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, pp. 197–217. ISBN: 9781568984391. [Preview with Google Books]

Additional readings to be assigned by guest lecturer

Required Reading

• Fainstein, Susan. "Planning and the Just City." April 29, 2006. [Paper presented at Searching for the Just City conference, Columbia University]
• Yiftachel, Oren. "Re-engaging Planning Theory? Towards 'South-Eastern' Perspectives." Planning Theory 5, no. 3 (2006): 211–22.
• Young, Iris Marion. "City Life and Difference." In Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780691078328. [Preivew with Google Books]
• King, Mel. Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development. South End Press, 1999, pp. xv–xxix, 3–8 and 227–61. ISBN: 9780896081055.

Recommended Reading

• Roy, Arundhati. "The Greater Common Good." Frontline 16, no. 11 (1999).
• Jones, Van. "The Dual Crisis." In The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. HarperCollins, 2008, pp. 19–33.