| 1 | The City as a Social, Legal, and Political Concept | Rowe, L. S. "The City in History." American Journal of Sociology 5, no. 6 (May 1900): 721-745.
Griffeth, Robert, and Carol G. Thomas. The City-State in Five Cultures. Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1981, pp. 181-204.
Frug, Gerald. City Making: Building Community Without Building Walls. Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 3-70, 113-142. | | 2 | The Nature and Historical Origins of Cities | Weber, Max. "The Nature of the City." In Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities by Sennett, Richard. Meredith Corporation, 1969, pp. 24-46.
Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. Harcourt, 1989; first edition 1961, pp. 315-431, 439-445. | | 3 | The City as Nation (and vice-versa) | Vale, Lawrence J. Architecture, Power, and National Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, chapters 3-5.
Trillo, Mauricio Tenorio. "1910 Mexico City: Space and Nation in the City of the Centenario." Journal of Latin American Studies 20, no. 1 (Feb 1996): 75-104. | | 4 | The City-Nation Nexus in Global Context | Abu-Lughod, Janet. Before European Hegemony: The world system AD 1250 to 1350. Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 51-131.
Tilly, Charles. Capital, Coercion, and European States: AD 990-1990. Blackwell, 1990, pp. 1-66.
Brenner, Neil. "Global Cities, 'Glocal' States: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary Europe." International Political Economy 5, no. 1 (1998): 1-37. | | 5 | Urban Utopias | Olmsted, Frederick Law. "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns."
Howard, Ebenezer. "The Town-Country Magnet."
Corbusier, Le. "A Contemporary City."
Wright, Frank Lloyd. "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan."
In The City Reader, by Richard Le Gates, and Frederick Stout. Routledge, 2003, pp. 309-330.
Smith, Car. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief. University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 177-270.
Suggested Readings
Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope. University of California Press, 2000, pp. 133-196.
Mazlish, Bruce. "A Tale of Two Enclosures: Self and Society as a Setting for Utopia." Theory, Culture, and Society 20, no. 1 (2003): 3-60. | | 6 | Cities in National Consolidation and Global Expansion | Helmer, Stephen. Hitler's Berlin: The Speer Plans for Reshaping the Central City. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985, pp. 27-48.
Ladd, Brian. "Nazi Berlin," and "Divided Berlin." In The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pages to be specified.
Speer, Albert. "Responsibility and Response." Journal of Architectural Education 32, no. 2 (1978).
Notaro, Anna. "Resurrecting an Imperial Past: Strategies of self-representation and 'masquerade' in fascist Rome (1934-1938)." In The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and experiencing the modern metropolis, by Neal Leach. Routledge, 2002, pp. 59-69.
Suggested Readings
Bose, Sumantra. Bosnia Afer Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention. Oxford University Press, 2002, chapter 3. | | 7 | Cities and Nationalism | Edelman, Murray. "Architecture, Spaces, and Social Order." In From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions. University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 73-90.
Blockmans, Wim P. "Reshaping Cities: The Staging of Political Transformation." Journal of Urban History 30, no. 1 (2003): 7-20.
Ghirardo, Diane. "Italian Architects and Fascist Politics: An Evaluation of the Rationalist's Role in Regime Building." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 39 (1980): 109-27.
Doordan, Dennis P. "The Political Content in Italian Architecture During the Fascist Era." Art Journal 43, no. 2 (summer 1983): 121-131.
Background Readings
Payne, Stanley G. "What do we mean by Fascism?" In Fascism: Comparisons and Definition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980. | | 8 | Rebuilding Nations by Reconstructing Cities | Wise, Michael Z. Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy. Princeton Architectural Press, 1998, pp. 57-80, 121-134.
Ladd, Brian. "Capital of the New Germany." In The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pages to be specified.
Strom, Elizabeth. Building the New Berlin: The Politics of Urban Development in Germany's Capital City. Lexington Books, 2001, pp. 159-222.
Leach, Neal. "Erasing the Traces: The 'denazification' of post-revolutionary Berlin and Bucharest," and "Erasing the Traces: the 'denazification' of post-apartheid Johannesburg and Pretoria." In The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and experiencing the modern metropolis. Routledge, 2002, pp. 80-100. | | 9 | Cities as Spaces for Democracy | Sennett, Richard. Spaces of Democracy. Harvard Design Review.
Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope. University of California Press, 2000, pp. 199-255.
Amin, Ash, and Nigel Thrift. Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Polity Press, 2002, pp. 131-159.
Davis, Diane. "In Search of the Public Sphere: Local, National, and International Influences in the Planning of Downtown Mexico City." Space and Culture (Forthcoming, 2004). | | 10 | Cities and World Peace | Corbusier, Le. "Standards," "Folly," "17 Acres," and "Battle Post." In UN Headquarters. New York: Reinhold, 1947, pp. 1-24, pp. 55-74.
Vale, Lawrence J. "Designing Global Harmony: Lewis Mumford and the United Nations Headquarters." In Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual. Edited by Thomas Hughes, and Agatha Hughes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 256-282. | | 11 | Scales of Agency in a Global World: Individuals, Cities, Nations, and Beyond
| Mitchell, William. Me ++. MIT Press, 2003, chapters 1 and 2.
Bunnel, Tim. "Cities for Nations? Examining the City-Nation-State Relation in Information Age Malaysia." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16.2 (Jun 2002): 284-298.
Borja, Jordi, and Manuel Castells. "Local and Global: Management of Cities in the Information Age." Earthscan Publications, 1997, pp. 90-118, 151-192, 204-226, and 254-255.
Brenner, Neil. "Urban Governance and the Production of New State Spaces in Western Europe, 1960-2000." Review of International Political Economy 11, no. 4 (2004). | | 12 | Cities and Representation in a Global Age | Appadurai, Arjun. "Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Post-national Geography." In The Anthropology of Space and Place - Locating Culture. Edited by Setha Low, and Denise Lawrence-Zuñiga. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 337-349.
Luke, Timothy W. "Codes, Collectives, and Commodities: Rethinking Global Cities as Metalogistical Spaces." In Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age. Edited by Louise Krause, and Patrice Petro. Rutgers University Press, 2003, pp. 157-174.
Sassen, Saskia. "Reading the City in a Global Digital Age: Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Politics." In Global Cities:Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age. Edited by Louise Krause, and Patrice Petro. Rutgers University Press, 2003, pp. 15-30.
Smith, Michael Peter. Transnational Urbanism. Published by Blackwell, 2001, pp. 123-183. | | 13 | Considering Jerusalem | |
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