Prof. Price’s World Civilizations

Course Bibliography - Recommended Reading

A. Of General Interest – All Time Periods

Abu-Lughod, Janet L., Changing Cities. New York: Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 1991.

Hall, Peter, Cities in Civilization. New York: Fromm International, 2001.

Jellicoe, Geoffrey and Susan, The Landscapes of Man. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd. 1987.

Lynch, Kevin, The Image of the City. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1960.

Mumford, Lewis, The Culture of Cities. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1970.

_______________, The City in History. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1961.

Phillips, E. Barbara and Richard T. LeGates, City Lights: An Introduction to Urban Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. See also the updated volume City Lights: Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society (2^nd Edition) by E. Barbara Phillips. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Scientific American, Inc., Cities. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.

B. The Ancient World to 1500CE

Andrea, Alfred J, and James H. Overfield, Ed., The Human Record: Sources of Global History (Vol. I and II), 5^th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Aristotle, Basic Works of, Edited and with an introduction by Richard McKeon. New York: Random House, 1941.

Bacon, Edmund N., Design of Cities. New York: Viking Press, 1967.

Fava, Sylvia Fleis, Ed., Urbanism in World Perspective. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Inc, 1968.

Freund, Philip, Myths of Creation. Levittown, N.Y.: Transatlantic Arts, Inc., 1988.

Johnson, Oliver A. and James L. Halverson, Ed., Sources of World Civilization (Vol. I and II), 3^rd edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Republic of Plato, Translated, with notes and an interpretive essay by Allan Bloom. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1968.

Roberts, J.M., A Concise History of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Taylor, Timothy, The Prehistory of Sex. New York: Bantam, 1997.

C. From 1500CE to Present: The Modern City & Metropolis

Barnett, Jonathan, The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.

Benevolo, Leonardo, The Origins of Modern Town Planning. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1971.

Bourne, Larry S., Ed. Internal Structure of the City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Brunn, Stanley D., Maureen Hayes-Mitchell, & Donald J. Zeigler, Eds., Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development (4^th edition). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.

Choay, Francoise, The Modern City: Planning in the 19th Century. New York: George Braziller, 1969 .

Crahan, Margaret E. and Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, Eds., The City and The World: New York’s Global Future. New York: The Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 1997.

deSoto, Hernando, The Mystery of Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W.Norton and Co, Inc., 1999.

Fainstein, Susan G. and Norman I. Fainstein, Richard Child Hill, Dennis Judd and Michael Peter Smith, Restructuring the City: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment. New York: Longman, 1986.

Fishman, Robert. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977.

_________________, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1987.

Garvin, Alexander, The American City: What Works, What Doesn=t. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Goodman, Paul and Percival, Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (Vintage Books), 1960.

Hayden, Dolores, Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1976.

Kleniewski, Nancy, Cities, Change and Conflict. Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1997.

Liggett, Helen and David C. Perry, Spatial Practices. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1995.

McKenzie, Evan, Privatopia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.

Richards, J.M., An Architectural Journey in Japan. London: The Architectural Press, 1963.

Rybczynski, Withold, City Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Scott, Mel, American City Planning Since 1890. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1969.

Tunnard, Christopher and Henry Hope Reed, American Skyline. Boston: Houghlin Mifflin Co., 1956.

Warner, Sam Bass, Jr., The Urban Wilderness. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

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