American Urban History II

SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: No readings

Stewart, Ian R. “Politics and the Park.” New York Historical Society Quarterly (1977): 124–55.

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., and Theodora Kimball Hubbard, eds. Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903 . Nabu Press, 2011, pp. 451–65. ISBN: 9781178699555.

Kasson, John. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century . Hill and Wang, 1978. ISBN: 9780809001330.

Peiss, Kathy. Chapter 5 in Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York . Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780877225003.

Findlay, John M. Chapter 2 in Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 . University of California Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780520084353.

SES #: 4 · TOPICS: First discussion of Term Papers · READINGS: No readings

“Palos Verdes Protective Restrictions.” Palos Verdes Bulletin 4 (1928): 4–5.

Fogelson, Robert M. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930 . Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780300108767.

Lubove, Roy. Chapters 2, 4, and 5 in The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City 1890-1917 . Greenwood Press, 1974. ISBN: 9780837174877.

Riis, Jacob. Chapters 1–8, and 21 in How the Other Half Lives . Bedford, 1996. ISBN: 9780312117009.

Flagg, Ernest, and Robert A. Woods. “The New York Tenement-House Evil and Its Cure.” In Poor in Great Cities: Their Problems and What Is Doing to Solve Them . Ayer, 1971, pp. 370–92. ISBN: 9780405031311.

Newman, Oscar. Chapter 2 in Defensible Space; Crime Prevention Through Urban Design . Macmillan, 1973. ISBN: 9780020007500.

Freedman, Jonathan. Chapters 1 and 5 in Crowding and Behavior . W. H. Freeman, 1975. ISBN: 9780716707509.

SES #: 7 · TOPICS: Second discussion of term papers · READINGS: No readings

Goldberger, Paul. Chapter 1 in The Skyscraper . Knopf, 1983. ISBN: 9780394715865.

Schuyler, Montgomery. American Architecture and Other Writings . Edited by William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe. Belknap Press, 1961, pp. 442–52. ISBN: 9780674019003.

Fogelson, Robert M. Chapter 3 in Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 . Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780300098273.

Civic Development Department, Chamber of Commerce of the United States. “Economic Height of Buildings: The Skyscraper Attacked and Defended.” Washington, DC, 1927, pp. 3–31.

Boorstin, Daniel J. Chapter 10 in The Americans: The Democratic Experience . Random House, 1973. ISBN: 9780394487243.

Leach, William. True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society . Basic Books, 1980, pp. 222–37. ISBN: 9780465087556.

“Piggly Wiggly Contract Requirements, Etc.” Piggly Wiggly Home Office. Memphis, 1919.

Keats, John. What Ever Happened to Mom’s Apple Pie? Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 101–7 and 127–34. ISBN: 9780395242988.

Packard, Vance. Chapter 10 in The Hidden Persuaders . Pocket, 1984. ISBN: 9780671531492.

Sicilia, David B. “Supermarket Sweep.” Audacity (1997): 11–9.

Williams, Marilyn Thornton. “Philanthropy in the Progressive Era: The Public Baths of Baltimore.” Maryland Historical Magazine , 1977, 118–31.

Gerhard, Wm. Paul. “The Modern Rain-Bath.” American Architect and Building News , February 10, 1894, 67–9.

Turner, James. Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780801866777.

Berger, John. About Looking . Vintage, 1992, pp. 1–26. ISBN: 9780679736554.

Aries, Philippe. “The Reversal of Death: Change in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies.” In Death in America . Edited by David Stannard. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974, pp. 134–58. ISBN: 9780812210842.

Farrell, James J. Chapter 4 in Inventing the American Way of Death 1830–1920 . Temple University Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780877221807.

Sloane, David Charles. Chapter 7 in The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History . Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780801851285.

Kasson, John F. Chapter 5 in Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America . Hill and Wang, 1990. ISBN: 9780809034703.

Schuyler, David A. The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America . Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780801832314.

SES #: 14 · TOPICS: Conclusion · READINGS: No readings