The City Reader
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The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series. It has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as urban history, placemaking, sustainable urban development, globalization, resilience, artificial intelligence in planning cities, climate change, the world city network, the impact of technology on cities, cities in Africa, and urban theory.
The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world, globalization, and the global city system of the future. The plate sections have been more than doubled to include 101 plates. The eighth edition includes fifty-eight generous selections: forty-seven from the seventh edition, one from the sixth edition, and ten new selections, including four newly written exclusively for the eighth edition.
This new edition retains classic writings by authors such as Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, H. D. F. Kitto, Le Corbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Louis Wirth, and Peter Hall as well as the best contemporary writings of, among others, David Harvey, Manuel Castells, Michael Batty, Sara Meerow, Fulong Wu, Saskia Sassen, Richard T. LeGates, Michael E. Smith, John McWhorter, and a co-authored selection by Xuefei Ren and Roger Keil.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781040364567
- 9781032857114
- ePub
- 8
- Richard T. LeGates
- English
- 2025-11-28
- 100
- 2
- 2
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Comments on the City Reader
- Contents
- Lists of Plates
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: “How to Study Cities”
- Part 1 The Evolution of Cities
- Introduction
- “The Urbanization of the Human Population”
- “The Urban Revolution”
- “The Earliest Cities”
- “The Polis” from The Greeks
- “City Origins” and “Cities and European Civilization”
- “The Great Towns”
- “The Automobile, the City, and the NewUrban Mobilities”
- “Globalizing Cities”
- Plate Section 1: The Evolution of Cities
- Part 2 Urban Culture and Society
- Introduction
- “The Urban Drama”
- “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”
- “Winning the Race”
- “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital”
- “The City that Lost its Soul”
- Plate Section 2: “Urban Culture and Society”
- Part 3 Urban Space
- Introduction
- “The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project”
- “Gender and Urban Space”
- “The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety”
- “Social Exclusion, Space, and Time”
- “Bright vs. Blurred Boundaries: Second-Generation Assimilation and Exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States”
- “The Causes of Sprawl”
- Networks of Outrage and Hope
- “Making Room for a Planet of Cities”
- Plate Section 3: “Urban Space”
- Part 4 Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics
- Introduction
- “Politics”
- “The Right to the City”
- “A Ladder of Citizen Participation”
- “The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City”
- “The City as a Growth Machine: Towards a Political Economy of Place”
- “The City as a Distorted Price System”
- “Metropolitics and Fiscal Equity”
- Plate Section 4: “Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics”
- Part 5 Urban Planning History and Visions
- Introduction
- “Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns”
- Garden Cities of To-morrow
- “A Contemporary City”
- “Broadacre City: A New Community Plan”
- “The Charter of the New Urbanism”: The Congress for the New Urbanism
- “Green Manhattan: Everywhere Should Be More Like New York”
- “The Almost Perfect Town”
- Plate Section 5: “Urban Planning History and Visions”
- Part 6 Urban Planning Theory and Practice
- Introduction
- “The Smart City”
- “The City of Theory”
- “The Uses of Planning Theory”
- “Planning in the Face of Conflict”
- “Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning”
- “Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search for the Global Cultural Commons”
- “Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe’s Central Urban Issues”
- Urban Resilience
- Plate Section 6: “Urban Planning: Theory and Practice”
- Part 7 Urban Design and Placemaking
- Introduction
- “Urban Design”
- “What is Placemaking?”: Project for Public Spaces
- “The Design of Spaces”
- “The Neighborhood Unit”
- “The City Image and its Elements”
- “An Urban Design Manifesto”
- “Designing Inclusive Healthy Places”
- “Three Types of Outdoor Activities”, “Life Between Buildings”, and “Outdoor Activities and the Quality of Outdoor Space”
- Plate Section 7: “Urban Design and Placemaking”
- Part 8 Urban Futures and Global Challenges
- Introduction
- “The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities”
- “Planning as Statecraft: A Perspective on State Entrepreneurialism in China”
- “AI-Driven Urban Planning: From Planning Support to Plan-Making”
- “World Cities, or a World of Ordinary Cities?”
- Plate Section 8: Urban Futures and Global Challenges
- Illustration Credits
- Copyright Information
- Index