| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Classical foundations | Durkheim, Emile. "Division of Labour in Society." In Sociology: An Introduction: From the Classics to Contemporary Feminists. Edited by Gordon Bailey and Noga Gayle. Don Mills, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 121-134. ISBN: 9780195409406. Aldous, Joan, Emile Durkheim, and Ferdinand Tonnies. "An Exchange between Durkheim and Tonnies on the Nature of Social Relations, with an Introduction by Joan Aldous." The American Journal of Sociology 77, no. 6 (1972): 1191-1200.  Simmel, Georg. "The Metropolis and Mental Life." In The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Edited by Kurt H. Wolff. New York, NY: Free Press, 1964, pp. 409-424. ISBN: 9780029289204.
Weber, Max. "The Nature of Cities." In The City. New York, NY: Free Press, 1966. ISBN: 9780029342107. Merrifield, Andy. "Karl Marx: Commodities and Cities with Sober Senses." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 13-30. ISBN: 9780415933490.
Additional core readings
Tilly, Charles. "Misreading, Then Rereading, Nineteenth-century Social Change." In Social Structures: A Network Approach. Edited by Barry Wellman and Stephen Berkowitz. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 332-358. ISBN: 9780521286879. Redfield, Robert. "The Folk Society." The American Journal of Sociology 52, no. 4 (1947): 293-308.
Additional suggested readings
Tonnies, Ferdinand. Community and Society. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2002. ISBN: 9780486424972. Marx, Karl. "The Commodity" and "The Process of Exchange." Chapters 1 and 2 in Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 1992. ISBN: 9780140445688. Engels, Friedrich. The Conditions of the Working Class in England. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780192836885. |
| 3 | Cities, industrialization, and socio-spatial change | Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1961. ISBN: 9780156180351. Merrifield, Andy. "Frederick Engels: Backstreet Boy in Manchester." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 31-48. ISBN: 9780415933490. ———. "Walter Benjamin: The City of Profane Illumination." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 49-70. ISBN: 9780415933490. Howard, Ebenezer. "The Town-country Magnet." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 309-316. ISBN: 9780415770842. Wright, Frank Lloyd. "Board-acre City: A New Community Plan." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 325-330. ISBN: 9780415770842. Tilly, Charles. "The Chaos of the Living City." In An Urban World. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 86-107.
Additional core readings
Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1961. ISBN: 9780156180351. Sennett, Richard. Families against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984, pp. 59-149. ISBN: 9780674292260. Warner, Sam Bass. "If All the World Were Philadelphia: A Scaffolding for Urban History, 1774-1930." In An Urban World. Edited by Charles Tilly. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 315-331.
Additional recommended readings
Sjoberg, Gideon. The Preindustrial City: Past and Present. New York, NY: Free Press, 1965. ISBN: 9780029289808. Benjamin, Walter. "Paris, Capital of the Twentieth Century." In The Arcades Project. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780674008021. Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780393308792. |
| 4 | The Chicago school / human ecology | Wirth, Louis. "Urbanism as a Way of Life." The American Journal of Sociology 44, no. 1 (1938): 1-24. Park, Robert E. "The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment." The American Journal of Sociology 20, no. 5 (1915): 577-612. Burgess, Ernest W. "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project." In The City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 47-62. ISBN: 9780226646114. McKenzie, Roderick. "The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community." In The City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 63-79. ISBN: 9780226646114. Milgram, Stanley. "The Experience of Living in Cities." Science 167 (1970): 1461-1468.
Additional core readings
LaFarge, Albert. The Essential William H. Whyte. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780823220267. Maier, Richard. "The Civic Bond." In An Urban World. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 382-405.
Other suggested readings
Harris, Chauncy D., and Edward L. Ullman. "The Nature of Cities." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 242 (Nov 1945): 7-17. Hoyt, Homer. The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities. Washington, DC: U.S. Federal Housing Administration, 1939. |
| 5 | The urban ethnographic tradition |
Reading group 1
Gans, Herbert J. Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780029112403. Whyte, William Foote. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780226895451.
Reading group 2
Gans, Herbert. The Levittowners. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780231055710. Seeley, John, Alexander Sim, and Elizabeth Loosley. Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life. New York, NY: John Wiley, 1963.
Both groups
Whyte, William H. "The Design of Spaces. In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 429-436. ISBN: 9780415770842.
Additional core readings
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, NY: Modern Library, 1993. ISBN: 9780679600473.
Other suggested readings
Liebow, Elliot. Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. Hughes, Everett. French Canada in Transition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Clark, Samuel D. The Suburban Society. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1966. ISBN: 9780802013774. Vidich, Arthur, and Joseph Bensman. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780252068904. |
| 6 | Urban / social ecology | Gans, Herbert. "Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Re-evaluation of Definitions." In People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 51-69. ISBN: 9780231074032. Michelson, William, and Willem van Vliet. "Theory and the Sociological Study of the Built Environment." In Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Edited by Riley Dunlap and William Michelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 33-69. ISBN: 9780313268083. Abrentzen, Sherry. "Socio-Behavioral Qualities of the Built Environment." In Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Edited by Riley Dunlap and William Michelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 70-95. ISBN: 9780313268083. Alonso, William. "The Historic and the Structural Theories of Urban Form: Their Implications for Urban Renewal." In An Urban World. Edited by Charles Tilly. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 441-446. Fischer, Claude S. "Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism." The American Journal of Sociology 80, no. 6 (1975): 1319-1341. Granovetter, Mark S. "The Strength of Weak Ties." The American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (1973): 1360-1380.
Additional suggested readings
Michelson, William. Man and His Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1970. ISBN: 9780201047257. Lynch, Kevin. "The Pattern of the Metropolis." In An Urban World. Edited by Charles Tilly. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974, pp. 298-315. Hawley, Amos. Human Ecology: A Theoretical Essay. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780226319841. Wellman, Barry. "The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers." The American Journal of Sociology 84, no. 5 (1979): 1201-1231. Wellman, Barry, and Scot Wortley. "Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support." The American Journal of Sociology 96, no. 3 (1990): 558-588.
Other suggested readings
Fischer, Claude. To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982, chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, and 10. ISBN: 9780226251387. ———. "Bowling Alone: What's the Score?" Social Networks 27, no. 2 (2005): 155-167. Michelson, William. Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780195021448. Hawley, Amos. Human Ecology: A Theory of Community Structure. New York, NY: Ronald Press Co., 1950. ISBN: 9780826039200. Festinger, Leon, Stanley Schachter, and Kurt Back. Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950. Rae, Douglas W. City: Urbanism and Its End. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780300107746. |
| 7 | Capitalism and urban dynamics | Merrifield, Andy. "Henri Lefebvre: The Urban Revolution." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 71-92. ISBN: 9780415933490. ———. "Manuel Castells: The City of Althusser and Social Movements." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 113-132. ISBN: 9780415933490. ———. "David Harvey: The Geopolitics of Urbanization." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 133-157. ISBN: 9780415933490. ———. "Marshall Berman: A Marxist Urban Romance." In Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 157-173. ISBN: 9780415933490. Sawers, Larry. "New Perspectives on Urban Political Economy." In Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy. Edited by William Tabb and Larry Sawers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp 3-20. ISBN: 9780195033083. Gordon, David. "Capitalist Development and the History of American Cities." In Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy. Edited by William Tabb and Larry Sawers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp 54-81. ISBN: 9780195033083.
Additional core readings
Saunders, Peter. Urban Politics: A Sociological Interpretation. London, UK: Hutchinson Educational, 1984, pp. 66-136. ISBN: 9780091531119. Castells, Manuel. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Edited by Ida Susser. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002, part 1. ISBN: 9780631219330.
Other suggested readings
Lefebvre, Henri. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780816641604. David, Harvey. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780801831447. |
| 8 | Elites, political power, and urban dynamics | Logan, John, and Harvey Molotch. "The City as a Growth Machine." Chapter 10 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450. Squires, Gregory. "Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City." Chapter 11 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450. Smith, Neil. "Gentrification, the Frontier, and the Restructuring of Urban Space." Chapter 12 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450. Painter, Joe. "Regulation Theory, Post-Fordism and Urban Politics." Chapter 5 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450.
Additional core readings
Mollenkopf, John. The Contested City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780691022208.
Other suggested readings
Katznelson, Ira. City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780226426730. Fainstein, Susan. The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001. ISBN: 9780700611331. Friedland, Roger. Power and Crisis in the City: Corporations, Unions, and Urban Policy. New York, NY: MacMillan, 1982. ISBN: 9780333260760. Logan, John, and Harvey Molotch. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520254282. Abu-Lughod, Janet. From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1994. ISBN: 9781557865250. |
| 9 | From class to race, ethnicity, and culture | Zukin, Sharon. "Whose Culture, Whose City." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 136-146. ISBN: 9780415770842. Wilson, William Julius. "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 126-135. ISBN: 9780415770842. Hannigan, John. "Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Post-modern Metropolis." Chapter 14 in Readings in Urban Theory. Edited by Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780631223450. Davis, Mike. "Fortress L.A." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 201-205. ISBN: 9780415770842. Merrifield, Andy. "Social Justice and Communities of Difference: A Snapshot from Liverpool." In The Urbanization of Justice. Edited by Eric Swyngedouw and Andy Merrifield. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780814755761.
Additional core readings
Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005, part 2 and 3. ISBN: 9780691121864.
Other suggested readings
Castells, Manuel. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Edited by Ida Susser. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002, part 2. ISBN: 9780631219330. Katz, Michael. The "Underclass" Debate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780691006284. Zukin, Sharon. The Cultures of Cities. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 1996. ISBN: 9781557864376. Davis, Mike. City of Quartz. London, UK: Pimlico, 1998. ISBN: 9780712666237. Klinenberg, Eric. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780226443225. |
| 10 | New technologies and the city | Wellman, Barry. "The Network Community: An Introduction." In Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999, pp. 1-48. ISBN: 9780813368214. Wellman, Barry, and Milena Gulia. "Net-surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities." In Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999, pp. 331-366. ISBN: 9780813368214. Calhoun, Craig. "Community without Propinquity Revisited: Communications Technology and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere". Sociological Inquiry 68, no. 3 (1998): 373-379. Kraut, Robert, Michael Patterson, Vicki Lundmark, Sara Kiesler, Tridas Mukophadhyay, and William Scherlis. "Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-being?" American Psychologist 53, no. 9 (1998): 1017-1031. Hampton, Keith, and Barry Wellman. "Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb." City and Community 2, no. 4 (2003): 277-311. Matei, Sorin, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach. "Real and Virtual Social Ties: Connections in the Everyday Lives of Seven Ethnic Neighborhoods." American Behavioral Scientist 45, no. 3 (2001): 550-564.
Additional core readings
Hampton, Keith. "Grieving for a Lost Network: Collective Action in a Wired Suburb." The Information Society 19 (2003): 417-428. Webber, Melvin. "Order in Diversity: Community without Propinquity." In Cities and Space: The Future Use of Urban Land. Edited by J. Lowdon Wingo. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963, pp. 23-54. Wellman, Barry. Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780813368214.
Other suggested readings
Fischer, Claude. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780520086470. Ling, Rich. The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 2004. ISBN: 9781558609365. Katz, James E., and Ronald E. Rice. Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262112697. |
| 11 | Globalization and cities | Sassen, Saskia. "The Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Cities." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 212-220. ISBN: 9780415770842. Smith, Michael Peter. "Transnationalism and the City." In The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City. Edited by Robert Beauregard, Sophie Body-Gendrot and Line Beauregard. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. ISBN: 9780761914853. DeFilippis, James. Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 17-60. ISBN: 9780415945257.
Additional core readings
Sassen, Saskia. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691070636. Levitt, Peggy. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520228139.
Other suggested readings
Clark, David. Urban World/Global City. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780415320986. Drainville, Andre. Contesting Globalization: Space and Place in the World Economy. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 9780415319300. Marcuse, Peter, and Ronald Van Kempen. Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 9780631212904. Sites, William. Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780816641567. King, Anthony D. Global Cities: Post-imperialism and the Internationalization of London. New York, NY: Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 9780415062411. |
| 12 | From cities in global context to the post-modern (or pre-modern?) city | Beauregard, Robert. "City of Superlatives." City and Community 2, no. 3 (2003): 183-216. Soja, Edward. "Taking L.A. Apart: Towards a Post-modern Geography." In The City Reader. Edited by Richard Legates and Frederick Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007, pp. 189-200. ISBN: 9780415770842. King, Anthony D. Global Cities: Post-imperialism and the Internationalization of London. New York, NY: Routledge, 1991, pp. 3-155. ISBN: 9780415062411.
Additional core readings
Sandercock, Leonie. Cosmopolis II: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century. London, UK: Continuum, 2003, pp. 85-153. ISBN: 9780826464637. Dear, Michael. From Chicago to L.A.: Re-visioning Urban Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001. ISBN: 9780761920953. Davis, Mike. Planet of Slums. New York, NY: Verso, 2007. ISBN: 9781844671601. |
| 13 | Advanced urban social theory | Harvey, David. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 1-61, 125-184. ISBN: 9780801831447. ———. Spaces of Hope. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 133-181, 233-256. ISBN: 9780520225787. ———. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, pp. 207-328, 329-438. ISBN: 9781557866813. Castells, Manuel. The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979, pp. 113-259. ISBN: 9780262530354. ———. City, Class and Power. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780312139919. Lefebvre, Henri. "The Right to the City." In The Production of Space. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1991. ISBN: 9780631181774. ———. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780816641604. Berman, Marshall. All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York, NY: Penguin, 1988. ISBN: 9780140109627. Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2002, pp. 1-26, 871-892. ISBN: 9780674008021. ———. "A Berlin Chronicle." In Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings. Vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2005. ISBN: 9780674017467. |