The City reader

How to study cities

The evolution of cities

The urbanization of the human population

The urban revolution

The polis

City origins and cities and European civilization

The great towns

Evolution and transformation: The American Industrial metropolis, 1840-1940

The drive-in culture of contemporary America

Beyond suburbia: The rise of the technoburb

Global city network

What is a city?

Urbanism as a way of life

The negro problems of Philadelphia, the question of earning a living, and color prejudice

The code of the street and decent and street families

Cities of color: The new racial frontier in California's minority-majority cities

The uses of sidewalks: Safety

Bowling alone: America's declining social capital

The creative class

Urban space

The growth of the city: An introduction to a research project

The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An intellectual history

What happened to gender relations on the way from Chicago to Los Angeles?

Social exclusion and space

Fortress L.A.

The causes of sprawl

Space of flows, space of places: Materials for a theory of urbanism in the information age

Urban politics, governance, and economics

Politics

Broken windows

The right to the city

A ladder of citizen participation

The city as a growth machine: Toward a political economy of place

The city as a distorted price system

The competitive advantage of the inner city

The new Arab city

Metropolitics and fiscal equity

Urban planning history and visions

Public parks and the enlargement of towns

Author's introduction and the town-country magnet

A contemporary city

Broadacre City: A new community plan

Spectral Kinshasa: Building the city through an arhitecture of woods

Towards sustainable development

Charter of the new urbanism

Green Manhattan: Everywhere should be more like New York

Urban planning theory and practice

The city of theory

Twentieth-century land use planning: A stalwart family tree

Planning in the face of conflict

Advocacy and pluralism in planning

Planning for sustainability in European cities: A review of practice in leading cities

Urban planning in Curitiba

Urbanism in the age of climate change

Hybrid planning cultures: The search for the global cultural commons

Making room for a planet of cities

Urban design and placemaking

What is placemaking?

The neighborhood unit

The city image and its elements

The design of spaces

Toward an urban design manifesto

Three types of outdoor activities, life between buildings, and outdoor activities and the quality of outdoor space

Resilient cities: Clarifying concept or catch-all cliche?

Placemaking and the future of cities

Cities in a global society

The impact of the new technologies and globalization on cities

Key findings and messages

From global cities to globalized urbanization

The place where everything changes

Chinese cities in a global society

The automobile, the city, and the new urban mobilities

Our urban species.

How to Study Cities / Richard LeGates

Urbanization of the Human Population / Kingsley Davis

Urban Revolution / V. Gordon Childe

Polis / H. D. F. Kitto

First-Person Accounts of Great Cities of the Medieval and Early Modern World / Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Bernal Diaz and Albrecht Durer

Great Towns / Friedrich Engels

Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America / Kenneth T. Jackson

Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb / Robert Fishman

What is a City? / Lewis Mumford

Urbanism as a Way of Life / Louis Wirth

Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital / Robert D. Putnam

Uses of Sidewalks: Safety / Jane Jacobs

"The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice" / W. E. B. Du Bois

From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos / William Julius Wilson

Whose Culture? Whose City? / Sharon Zukin

Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture / Frederic Stout

Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project / Ernest W. Burgess

Almost Perfect Town / John Brinckerhoff Jackson

Islamic City: Historic Myths, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance / Janet Abu-Lughod

Social Exclusion and Space / Ali Madanipour

Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography / Edward Soja

Fortress L.A. / Mike Davis

Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor / Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities / Saskia Sassen

Contested Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form / David Harvey

How to Study Urban Political Power / John Mollenkopf

Ladder of Citizen Participation / Sherry Amstein

Need for a New Vision for the Development of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas / Anthony Downs

Broken Windows / James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling

Competitive Advantage of the Inner City / Michael Porter

Center Cannot Hold / Michael Sorkin

Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns / Frederick Law Olmsted

"Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" / Ebenezer Howard

Contemporary City / Le Corbusier

Broadacre City: A New Community Plan / Frank Lloyd Wright

"Designing the Region" and "Designing the Region Is Designing the Neighborhood" / Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton

City of Theory / Peter Hall

Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree / Edward J. Kaiser and David R. Godschalk

Planning in the Face of Conflict / John Forester

Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning / Paul Davidoff

Green Urbanism and the Lessons of European Cities: 'The Vision of Green Urbanism' and 'Creating Green and Sustainable Cities in the United States: Lessons from Europe' / Timothy Beatley

"Author's Introduction," "The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares," and "The Enclosed Character of the Public Square" / Camillo Sitte

City Image and its Elements / Kevin Lynch

Design of Spaces / William H. Whyte

Toward an Urban Design Manifesto / Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard

What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work / Dolores Hayden

Post-City Age / Melvin M. Webber

European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy / Manuel Castells

Planning Sustainable and Livable Cities / Stephen Wheeler

Teleserviced City / William J. Mitchell.