American Urban Reader

Steven Hunt Corey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies at Worcester State University, Worcester, MA.Lisa Krissoff Boehm is Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Honors Program at Worcester State University in Worcester, MA.  She is the author of Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968 (Routledge) and Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures. Tables, and Illustrations Foreword by John Bodnar Preface 　Part One: Definitions and PerspectivesEditors’ Introduction to Part One Essays1. Examining America’s Urban Landscape: From Social Reform to Social History (2010)Steven H. Corey and Lisa Krissoff Boehm2. The City in American Civilization (1949)Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.3. Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life:A Reevaluation of Definitions (1962, 1991)Herbert J. Gans 4. Beyond Blade Runner (1998)Mike Davis5. Crossing the City Line (1999)Robert A. OrsiDocuments1.1 The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York (1845)John H. Griscom1.2 Advice to Strangers (1876)Robert Macoy1.4 The Use of Sidewalks: Assimilating Children (1961)Jane Jacobs　Part Two: Urban Roots: Colonial Settlement and Westward ExpansionEditors’ Introduction to Part TwoEssays1. Boston and New York in the Eighteenth Century (1981)Pauline Maier2. Urban Life in Western America, 1790-1830 (1958)Richard C. Wade3. Pearls on the Coast and Lights in the Forest (1982)David R. GoldfieldDocuments2.1 A Model of Christian Charity (1630)John Winthrop2.2 Philadelphia in 1697Benjamin Bullivant2.3 Envisioning Great American Indian Cities (1813)Henry Marie Brackenridge　Part Three: The New City: Industry and Immigrants, 1820s-1920sEditors’ Introduction to Part ThreeEssays1. From Milling to Manufacturing:From Villages to Mill Towns (2001)John T. Cumbler2. Women in the Neighborhoods (1986)Christine Stansell3. Old and New Immigrants in Greater New York City, 1880 to World War I (1995)Frederick M. Binder and David M. Reimers4. Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of Urban Chinese America (1989)Ronald T. Takaki5. The Pullman Strike and Making Sense of an Age (1995)Carl SmithDocuments3.1 Vesey Slave Revolt, Charleston, South Carolina (1822)3.2. Tredegar and Armory Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia (1847)3.3 Riots, Louisville, Kentucky (1855)3.4 Debates on Chinese Immigration (1876)3.5 The Mixed Crowd (1890)Jacob Riis3.6. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, New York City (1911)　Part Four City Life From the Bottom Up, 1860s-1940sEditors’ Introduction to Part FourEssays1. The "Guns" of Gotham (2006)Timothy Gilfoyle2. The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth Century America (2007)Wendy Gamber3. Urban Culture and the Policing of the"City of Bachelors" (1994)George ChaunceyDocuments4.1 The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (1857)Thomas Butler Gunn4.2 Sister Carrie (1900)Theodore Dreiser4. 3 Strange Brother (1931)Blair Niles　Part Five: Managing the MetropolisEditors’ Introduction to Part FiveEssays1. The "Spoils of the Park" (1992)Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar2. New Deal City (1989)Thomas Kessner3. Messiah Mayors and the Gospel of Urban Hype (1990)Jon C. Teaford4. The Katrina Conspiracies:The Problem of Trust in Rebuilding an American City (2009)Arnold Hirsch and A. Lee LevertDocuments5.1 On the Social Uses of Central Park (1864)Frederic B. Perkins5.2 William Tweed’s Confession (1878). 5.3 Philadelphia: Corrupted and Contented (1903)Lincoln Steffens5.4 Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago (1913)Walter D. Moody5. 5 Hull-House, A Social Settlement (1894)Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr5.6 Growing up with a City (1926)Louise de Koven Bowen5.7 On the Way Up: Charlotte and Kansas City (1976)5.8 President Arrives in Alabama, Briefed on Hurricane Katrina (2005)　Part Six: The Urban EnvironmentEditors’ Introduction to Part SixEssays1. The Metabolism of the Industrial City:The Case of Pittsburgh (2002)Joel Tarr2. Houston: The Energy Metropolis (2007)Martin Melosi and Joseph Pratt3. The Emergence of Silicon Valley:High-Tech Development and Ecocide, 1950-2001 (2002)David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee ParkDocuments6.1 Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty (1965)President Lyndon B. Johnson6.2 Toxic Waste and Race in the United States (1987)United Church of Christ, 1987. Part Seven: Transportation & Physical MobilityEditors' Introduction to Part SevenEssays1. From Walking City to the Implementation of theStreet Railways (1962)Sam Bass Warner, Jr.2. The Subway and the City (1993)Clifton Hood3. Wishful Thinking: Downtown and the Automobile Revolution (2001)Robert FogelsonDocuments7.1 National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)7.2 "$14.6 Billion Later, Boston’s Big Dig Wraps Up,"Christian Science Monitor (2003)Seth Stern Part Eight: Urban Migrations and Social MobilityEditors’ Introduction to Part EightEssays1. The Second Ghetto and the Dynamics of Neighborhood (1983, 1998)Arnold Hirsch2. Making a Way out of No Way: African AmericanWomen and the Second Great Migration (2009)Lisa Krissoff Boehm3. The Great White Migration, 1945-1960 (2000)Chad Berry 4. Citizenship and Civil Rights, 1964-1974 (2009)Melanie Shell-WeissDocuments8.1 Tulsa Race Riots, 19218.2 Ku Klux Klan Initiation, Worcester, Massachusetts (1924)8.3 Zoot Suit Riots (1943)8.4 The Dollmaker (1954)Harriette Arnow8.5 Hunger of Memory (1982)Richard Rodriguez Part Nine: Race and the Post-War MetropolisEditors’ Introduction to Part NineEssays1. Class, Status and Residence:The Changing Geography of Black Detroit (1996)Thomas J. Sugrue2. White Noose (2003)Robert Self3. The Beginning of the End of the Modern Ghetto (2000)Sudhir Alladi VenkateshDocuments9.1 Housing Act of 1949 9.2 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955)Sloan Wilson9.3 Watts Riots, 19659.4 Urban Indians (1964-1969)9.5 Oakland Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Ten Point PlanOakland Black Panthers (1966)9.6 All Souls (1999)Michael Patrick MacDonald9.7 Address to the Nation on the Civil Disturbances in Los Angeles, California (1992)9. 8 Hispanic Communities and Urban Public Schools (2009)Arne Duncan 　Part Ten: Exurbia and Postindustrial CitiesEditors’ Introduction to Part TenEssays1. Commerce: Reconfiguring Community Marketplaces (2003)Lizabeth Cohen2. Inventing Las Vegas (2003)Hal Rothman3. Polo Ponies and Penalty Kicks (2005)Corey DolgonDocuments10.1 Garden Cities of To-Morrow (1902)Ebenezer Howard10.2 Looking Backward (1887)Edward Bellamy10.3 Charter of the New Urbanism (1996)Congress for the New Urbanism10.4 "American Murder Mystery," The Atlantic (2008)Hanna Rosin10.5 Reflecting Absence (2003)　BibliographyCopyright InformationIndex

'The volume serves as a very valuable introduction to the history of scholarship and research related to urban life in the US. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students and scholars of urban history, urban studies, and urban planning, all levels.' — Choice“With a rich mix of superb scholarship and diverse primary sources, The American Urban Reader questions key concepts of the American City and enables readers to make new connections among historical actors, events, technologies and theories.” — David Smiley, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Urban Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University“The American Urban Reader has it all--classic essays and cutting-edge scholarship combined with key primary documents that explore 400 years of American urban life, from John Winthrop’s ‘City on a Hill’ to post-Katrina New Orleans. Thoughtfully organized and transdisciplinary in its scope, this terrific volume is essential reading for students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning more about metropolitan America.”— Margaret O’Mara, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Washington“The American Urban Reader will certainly be timely in the era of Barack Obama. The urban vote was decisive in his amazing election.”— Ronald Takaki, author of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America“The editors have done a terrific job of collecting seminal primary, secondary, and theoretical essays on the history, the social life, and the form of the city from the colonial period to the postmodern metropolis. The reader will be useful for students of planning, urban studies, and history—indeed for any student interested in understanding the evolution of the metropolitan landscape.” — Eric Schneider, Urban Studies and History, University of Pennsylvania