Books On Urban Sociology

Urban Sociology

Beyond Metropolis : The Planning and Governance of Asia's Mega-Urban Regions
Book by Aprodicio A. Laquian

Gender And Planning: A Reader Book by Susan S. Fainstein, Lisa J. Servon (Editors)

Globalizing Taipei: The Political Economy Of Spatial Development (Planning History and the Environment Series) Urban Sociology Book by Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok (Editor)

Partnerships In Urban Planning: A Guide For Municipalities Book by Nabeel Hamdi, Michael Majale

Planning World Cities : Globalization, Urban Governance and Policy Dilemmas (Planning, Environment, Cities) Urban Sociology Book by Peter Newman, Andrew Thornley

The Most Segregated City In America: City Planning And Civil Rights In Birmingham, 1920-1980 Book by Charles E. Connerly

Designing Social Innovation: Planning, Building, Evaluating Urban Sociology - Bob Martens

How to Think About Social Problems: American Pragmatism and the Idea of Planning (Contributions in Political Science) Urban Sociology Book by Hilda Blanco

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Beyond Metropolis : The Planning and Governance of Asia's Mega-Urban Regions
Book by Aprodicio A. Laquian
"This is an outstanding work of research and synthesis."--Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Beyond Metropolis studies planning and governance in the regions surrounding the twelve cities in Asia with populations over ten million: Tokyo, Mumbai, Kolkata, Dhaka, Delhi, Shanghai, Jakarta, Osaka, Beijing, Karachi, Metro Manila, and Seoul. These regions are greater than cities plus suburbs: for almost all, urban development has sprawled into the surrounding countryside, enveloping villages, towns, and small and medium-sized cities, creating "extended metropolitan regions."
These areas are the centers of development for their countries: they represent huge markets; large and varied labor pools; and centers of politics, education, and culture. Beyond Metropolis examines these mega-urban regions in terms of governance and sustainability; water, transportation, and housing; and the twin questions of inner-city redevelopment and satellite area development. The author embraces, on one hand, unified regional planning and, on the other, cooperative efforts by urban residents for addressing their own problems. Beyond Metropolis builds on urban studies conducted during the 1990s under the Centre for Human Settlements at the University of British Columbia.

Gender And Planning: A Reader Book by Susan S. Fainstein, Lisa J. Servon (Editors)
Increasingly, experts recognize that gender has affected urban planning and the design of the spaces where we live and work. Too often, urban and suburban spaces support stereotypically male activities and planning methodologies reflect a male-dominated society.
To document and analyze the connection between gender and planning, the editors of this volume have assembled an interdisciplinary collection of influential essays by leading scholars. Contributors point to the ubiquitous single-family home, which prevents women from sharing tasks or pooling services. Similarly, they argue that public transportation routes are usually designed for the (male) worker’s commute from home to the central city, and do not help the suburban dweller running errands. Among various recommendations, contributors urge urban planners to provide opportunities that facilitate women’s needs, such as childcare on the way to work and jobs that are decentralized so that women can be close to their children.

Partnerships In Urban Planning: A Guide For Municipalities Book by Nabeel Hamdi, Michael Majale
Nabeel Hamdi is a consultant with long experience of urban development issues and is now attached to Oxford Brookes University, UK. Michael Majale is Lecturer in Overseas Development in the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.

Planning World Cities : Globalization, Urban Governance and Policy Dilemmas (Planning, Environment, Cities) Book by Peter Newman, Andrew Thornley
This internationally comparative text on urban planning covers both the global and regional context in which it takes place and the different combinations of issues confronting different types of cities. In contrast to existing texts the book considers both what have traditionally been regarded as "world cities" (London, New York, Tokyo) and a range of other important cities in the European, American and Asian regions.
Peter Newman is Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Governance, University of Westminster. Andy Thornley is Director of Regional and Urban Planning Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science.

The Most Segregated City In America: City Planning And Civil Rights In Birmingham, 1920-1980 Book by Charles E. Connerly
Daphne Spain, Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia
"This book is required reading for students seeking to understand the relationship between structure and agency at the local level."
What is less well known about Birmingham's racial history, however, is the extent to which early city planning decisions influenced and prompted the city's civil rights protests. The first book-length work to analyze this connection, "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980 uncovers the impact of Birmingham's urban planning decisions on its black communities and reveals how these decisions led directly to the civil rights movement.
Spanning over sixty years, Charles E. Connerly's study begins in the 1920s, when Birmingham used urban planning as an excuse to implement racial zoning laws, pointedly sidestepping the 1917 U.S. Supreme Court Buchanan v. Warley decision that had struck down racial zoning. Despite the fact that African Americans constituted at least 38 percent of Birmingham's residents, they faced drastic limitations to their freedom to choose where to live. When in the1940s they rebelled by attempting to purchase homes in off-limit areas, their efforts were labeled as a challenge to city planning, resulting in government and court interventions that became violent.
Connerly effectively uses Birmingham's history as an example to argue the importance of recognizing the link that exists between city planning and civil rights. His demonstration of how Birmingham's race-based planning legacy led to the confrontations that culminated in the city's struggle for civil rights provides a fresh lens on the history and future of urban planning, and its relation to race.

Designing Social Innovation: Planning, Building, Evaluating Book by Bob Martens
The design and functioning of urban environments is difficult and complex, and because of the competitive nature of urban planning today, it often does not have the input required from a variety of disciplines, ranging from psychologists and sociologists to architects and planners. Researchers from these areas are, however, uniquely placed to monitor success and advise on what works. This interdisciplinary volume does exactly that, with contributions by experts from around the world.

How to Think About Social Problems: American Pragmatism and the Idea of Planning (Contributions in Political Science) Book by Hilda Blanco
This thoughtful study has a two-fold purpose. The first is to examine the close relationship between the philosophy of American pragmatism and the idea of planning, and the second is to explore how to approach or think about recalcitrant social problems. Contemporary society's primary response to the issue of social problems is to turn to professional expertise. No sooner is a problem identified than a profession emerges to claim it. But intractable social problems, such as poverty or racism, show the limits of professional social inquiry.

Urban Sociology and Urban Planning  

Gottdiener, Mark (1994). The New Urban Sociology. McGraw-Hill.

Macionis, J. J., & Parrillo, V. N. (1998). Cities and Urban Life. Upper Saddle River, Urban Sociology Book by Prentice Hall.

Wilson, W. J. (1987). The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. University of Chicago Press.

Streetwise by Elijah Anderson, University of Chicago Press 1990.

Free Enterprise City by Joe Feagin, Rutgers University Press 1988.

Peter Hall. 1988. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and
Design in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basil Blackwell.

Peter Hall. 1998. Cities and Civilization.  Random House.

Lewis Mumford. 1961. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformation, and Its
Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace. Chapter 12: The Structure of Baroque Power.

John Landis 1997. A Choice Agenda. Fifty Years of City and Regional Planning at U.C.
Berkeley. Berkeley. NSQ Press.

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Urban Sociology Book by Basil Blackwell.

Peter Hall. 1998. Cities and Civilization. Urban Sociology Book by Random House.

Friedrich Engels. 1845. The Great Towns, reprinted from American Social Science
Association, in Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout, eds., The City Reader (1996).
Routledge..

Jon Peterson. 1983. The Impact of Sanitary Reform upon American Urban Planning,
1840-1890. in Donald A. Krueckeberg, editor, Introduction to Planning History in the
United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers
University.

Space, Knowledge and Power (Interview Conducted with Paul
Rabinow) in Neil Leacf ed., Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.

Leonnie Sandercock. 1998. Making the Invisible Visible. University of
California Press.

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Urban Sociology Book by Basil Blackwell.

Kenneth Jackson. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier. Oxford Press.

Clifton Hood. 1992. Subways, Transit, Politics, and Metropolitan Spatial Expansion. in
David Ward and Olivier Zunz, eds. The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-
1940. Johns Hopkins Press.

Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the
American Mettropolis. in Susan Hanson, ed., The Geography of Urban Transportation.
Guilford.

Manuel Castells. 1996. The Space of Flows. originally published as Chapter 6 in The Rise
of the Network Society. Blackwell.

Ebenezer Howard. 1898. “Author’s Introduction” and “The Town-Country Magnet.” pp.
345-53, reprinted from Garden Cities of To-morrow, in Richard T. LeGates and Frederic
Stout, eds., The City Reader (1996). Routledge.

Frank Lloyd Wright. 1935. “Broadacre City: A New Community Plan.” reprinted from
Architectural Record, in Richard T. LeGates, Routledge.

Le Corbusier. 1929. “A Contemporary City.” reprinted from The City of Tomorrow and
its Planning, in Richard T. LeGates, Routledge.

Eugenie Ladner Birch. 1983. Radburn and the American Planning Movement: The
Persistence of an Idea. in Donald Kruekeberg, ed., Introduction to Planning History in the
United States. CUPR Press.

Todd Bressi. 1994. Planning the American Dream. in Peter Katz, The New Urbanism.
McGraw-Hill.

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and The Decline of the American Dream. Urban Sociology Book by Northpoint Press.

The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City, 1890-1917. Urban Sociology Book by Greenwood Press.

Susan Wirka. 1996. The City Social Movement: Progressive Women Reformers and
Early Social Planning. in Planning the 20th Century American City, Mary Corbin Sies and
Christopher Silver, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press.

The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. University of California Press.

Dreaming the Rational City. MIT Press.

Marc Weiss. 1987. The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate
Industry and Urban Land Planning. Columbia University Press.

Regulating the Landscape: Real estate values, city planning, and
the 1916 zoning ordinance. in David Ward and Oliver Zunz, eds., The Landscape of
Modernity. The Russell Sage Foundation.

Christopher Silver. 1997. The Racial Origins of Zoning in American Cities. in June
Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf, eds., Urban Planning and the African American
Community. Sage Publications.

The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press.

Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence. Island Press.

Wilson, William H. 1983. Moles and Skylarks. in in Donald Krueckeberg, ed.,
Introduction to Planning History in the United States. CUPR Press.

Robert Fishman. 1992. The Regional Plan and the Transformation of the Industrial
Metropolis. in David Ward and Oliver Zunz, eds., The Landscape of Modernity. The Russell Sage Foundation.

Marc Weiss. 1987. The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate
Industry and Urban Land Planning. Columbia University Press.

A Socialist Housing Alternative for the United States. In Rachel Bratt, Chester Hartman, and Ann Meyerson, eds., Critical Perspectives on Housing. Temple University Press.

The Origins and Legacy of Urban Renewal. in Pierre Clavel and John Forester, editors, Urban and Regional Planning in an Age of Austerity. Pergamon.

Herbert Gans. 1968. People and Plans: Essays on Urban Problems and Solutions. Basic Books.

Jane Jacobs. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House.

Bernard Frieden and Lynne B. Sagalyn. 1989. Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds
Cities. The MIT Press.

Carl Abbott. 1996. Five Strategies for Downtown: Policy Discourse and Planning since
1943. in Planning the 20th Century American City, Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher
Silver, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Alan Altshuler 1983. The Intercity Freeway. in Donald A. Krueckeberg, ed., Introduction
to Planning History in the United States. CUPR Press.

Lisa Peattie. 1987. Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guyana. The University of Michigan Press.

Oscar Lewis. 1966. The Culture of Poverty. Scientific American.

Robert Halpern. 1995. Rebuilding the Inner City. Columbia University Press.

Alice O’Connor. 1999. Swimming Against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal Policy in
Poor Communities. in Ronald Ferguson and Edward Dickens, eds., Urban Problems and
Community Development. Brookings University Press.

June Manning Thomas. 1997. Model Cities Revisited: Issues of Race and Empowerment.
in June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf, eds., Urban Planning and the African
American Community. Sage Publications.

Robert Gottlieb. 1993. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American
Environmental Movement. Island Press.

Ian McHarg and Frederick Steiner. 1998. To Heal the Earth: Selected Writings of Ian L.
McHarg. Island Press.

Michael Porter. 1995. The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City. Harvard Business
Review (May-June).

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