SYLLABUS
The following books are available in the Temple Bookstore:
- Howard P. Chudacoff & Judith I. Smith, The Evolution of American Urban Society
- Alexander B. Callow, Jr., ed., American Urban History (AUH)
- Raymond A. Mohl, ed., The Making of Urban America (MUA)
Course Outline and Assignments
Part I: The City, 1865-1917
A. Introduction to the City
1) City Functions
2) City Locations and Hierarchy: Systems of Cities
Readings:
- Gideon Sjoberg, "The Origin & Evolution of Cities," AUH, pp. 6-16.
- Daniel Boorstin, "The Businessman as City Booster," AUH, pp. 94-101.
B. Changing City Structure
1) Walking City
2) Transformation to Streetcar City
Readings:
- Chudacoff & Smith, Evolution of American Urban Society, chap. 3
- Sam Bass Warner, "Philadelphia: The Private City," AUH, pp. 54-64.
- Stanley K. Schultz & Clay McShane, "To Engineer the Metropolis," MUA, pp. 81-98
C. The Peoples of the City
1) Patterns of Lower Class Life
2) Jobs, Residence, and Mobility
3) Ethnicity
Readings:
- Chudacoff & Smith, Evolution of American Urban Society, chap. 4
- Kathy Peiss, "Leisure and Labor," MUA, pp. 138-56
- Jon M. Kingsdale, "The 'Poor Man's Club': Social Functions of the Urban Working-Class Saloon," MUA, pp. 122-37
- David Ward, "The Making of Immigrant Ghettoes, 1840-1920," AUH, pp. 268-79
- Oscar Handlin, "Generations," AUH, pp. 280-96
- Rudolph J. Vecoli, "Formation of Chicago's 'Little Italies, MUA, pp. 157-69
- Thomas Kessner, "Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York, 1880-1915," AUH, pp. 297-308
D. Urban Politics
1. Voting Patterns and Issues
2. Structure of Political Organization
Readings:
- Robert Merton, "Latent Functions of the Machine," AUH, pp. 173-80
- Chudacoff & Smith, Evolution of American Urban Society, chap. 5
- Steven A. Riess, "Sports and Machine Politics in New York City, 1870-1920," MUA, pp. 99-121
E. Elites and Reform
1. Structure of Elite Life
2. Experts and Professions
3. Types of Urban Reform
Readings:
- Chudacoff & Smith, Evolution of American Urban Society, chap. 6
- Melvin G. Holli, "Varieties of Urban Reform,' AUH, pp. 191-209
F. An Overview: American Cities to World War I
Part II: The City, 1920 to Present
A. Streetcar City to Automobile City
1) Technology of Automobile & Electricity
2) City Spatial Patterns
Readings:
- Chudacoff & Smith, Evolution of American Urban Society, Chap. 7 (pp. 207-226)
- Roger Lotchin, "The Metropolitan-Military Complex in Comparative Perspective," MUA, pp. 202-213
B. Rise of African American Ghettoes
1. Black Life in Cities before World War I
2. The Great Migration and the Ghetto
Readings:
- Gilbert Osofsky, "Harlem Tragedy: An Emerging Slum," AUH, pp. 309-28
- John Bodnar, et. at., "Migration, Kinship, and Urban Adjustment: Blacks and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-30," MUA, pp. 170-88
C. Culture Conflict of the 1920s
1. Prohibition & Bootlegging: Law and Order
2. Youth Culture
3. Ku Klux Klan
Reading:
- Chudacoff & Smith, Evolution of American Urban Society, Chap. 7 (pp. 226-36)
D. The Great Depression
1. Impact of Depression
2. Federal Government and the Cities
Readings:
- Chudacoff & Smith, Evolution of American Urban Society, Chap. 7 (pp. 236-259)
- Raymond Mohl, "Trouble in Paradise: Race and Housing in Miami during the New Deal Era," MUA, pp. 214-227
E. Emergence of the New City: World War II and After
1. Changing Geography: Suburbs & Downtown
2. Urban Renewal and City Planning
3. Race and Ethnicity
4. Overview
Readings:
- Chudacoff & Smith, Evolution of American Urban Society, chap. 8
- Kenneth Jackson, "The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America,"MUA, pp. 228-251
- Michael P. Conzen, "American Cities in Profound Transition: The New Geography of the 1980s," MUA, pp. 277-92
- Herbert J. Gang, "The Failure of Urban Renewal," AUH, pp. 455-70
- Jeanne Lowe, "Race and Poverty in Cities," AUH, pp. 381-402
- Morris Janowitz, "Patterns of Collective Racial Violence," AUH, pp. 422-44
- Richard Wade, "America's Cities Are (Mostly) Better Than Ever"
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