SYLLABUS

Numbered by Week:
a = Monday; b = Wednesday; c = Friday
* On Reserve
** On Reserve and Recommended in the Bookstore

1a.   Introduction

Suggested:

• *Howard Chudacoff and Judith Smith, The Evolution of American Urban Society
• *Michael Conzen, The Making of the American Landscape
• *McKenzie Woodward and Edward Sanderson, Providence
• *J. E. Gordon, Structures, or Why Things Don't Fall Down
• Christopher Tunnard and Henry Reed, American Skyline

1b.   Native Americans as Builders

• *Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton, Native American Architecture, pp. 16-50, 96-105, 263-271, 352-369


Suggested:

• Michael Coe, The Maya
• *Patrick Malone, The Skulking Way of War (for fortified villages)
• Jorge Hardoy, Urban Planning in Pre-Columbian America
• George F. MacDonald, Ninstints: Haida World Heritage Site

2.   Diffusion of Urban Settlement Patterns and Architecture from Europe

• **John Reps, The Making of Urban America, pp. 29-46, 78-87, 103-114, 140-192
• David P. Handlin, American Architecture, chap. 1


Suggested:

• Dora Crouch, et al, Spanish City Planning in North America
• *Abbott L. Cummings, The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725,
• James Deetz, In Small Things Forgotten
• Dell Upton, ed., Roots

3.   Architecture, Urban Planning, and Building Technology to 1820

• David P. Handlin, American Architecture, chap. 2
• Walter Muir Whitehill, Topographical History of Boston, chaps. I-III


Suggested:

• *William H. Pierson, American Buildings and Their Architects, vol. 1, The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles
• Brook Hindle, ed., Material Culture of the Wooden Age

4a.   Architecture and Building Technology, 1820-1860

• Handlin, American Architecture, chap. 3
• **Gwendolyn Wright, Building the Dream, chaps. 2-3


Suggested:

• *Robert Vogel, "Building in the Age of Steam," in Charles E. Peterson, ed., Building Early America
• *Brook Hindle, ed., America's Wooden Age

4b.   Factories and Industrial Communities

• William Pierson, American Buildings and Their Architects, vol. 2.1, Technology and the Picturesque, pp. 1-90


Suggested:

• Thomas Dublin, Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City
• Robert Weible, ed., Lowell: The Continuing Revolution
• John Coolidge, Mill and Mansion
• John Garner, ed., The Company Town

5a.   Long Weekend Break

5b.   Factories and Industrial Communities

• John Stilgoe, Metropolitan Corridor, chap. 3
• **Robert Gordon and Patrick Malone, The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America, pp. 87-108, 164-169, 297-335


Suggested:

• Patrick Malone, Canals and Industry
• David Macaulay, Mill
• Stanley Buder, Pullman
• John Garner, The Model Company Town

6a.   Parks and Promenades

• Walter M. Whitehill, Boston: A Topographical History, chaps. IV-VII
• **Reps, The Making of Urban America, chap. 12


Suggested:
• *Thomas Bender, Toward an Urban Vision
• Galen Cranz, The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America
• Roy Rozenzweig, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park
• Cynthia Ziatevsky, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System

6b.   Recreation for the Urban Masses - Lecture by Mark Herlihy (T.A.)

• **John Kasson, Amusing the Million


Suggested:

• Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
• Roy Rozenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920

7.   Architecture, Building Technology. and Urban Planning from 1860 to 1893

• Whitehill, A Topographical History of Boston, chap. VIII
• Handlin, American Architecture, chaps. 4-8
• **Wright, Building the Dream, chaps. 6-8
• **Reps, The Making of Urban America, pp. 497-525


Suggested:

• Daphne Spain, Gendered Spaces
• David Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America

The Mid Term Exam will be handed out Friday, 10 March, at noon. It must be completed and delivered in class at 11:00 AM the following Monday, 13 March.

8.   Mining Towns and the Distancing of Environmental Costs

• *Richard Francaviglia, Hard Places, pp. 3-167.
• **Gordon and Malone, The Texture of Industry, 124-132, 197-198, 210-217


Suggested:

• *Duane Smith, Rocky Mountain Mining Camps
• Larry Lankton and Charles Hyde, Old Reliable
• Harry Caudill, Night Comes to the Cumberlands
• Elliott West, The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier

9.   Transportation Systems and their Urban Impacts (Automobile in AC153)

• John R. Stilgoe, Metropolitan Corridor, chaps.


Suggested:
*George R. Taylor, The Transportation Revolution
• Sam Bass Warner, Streetcar Suburbs
• Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier
• Ronald Carlisle, ed., Canals and American Cities

SPRING BREAK

10.   Bridges

• David McCullough, The Great Bridge


Suggested:

• *"Structures," pamphlet from the Franklin Institute
• David Plowden, Bridges: The Spans of North America
• Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol
• Howard S. Miller, The Eads Bridge
• T. Allen Comp and Donald Jackson, Bridge Truss Types

11a.   Public Works, Utilities, and Environmental Concerns

• Stilgoe, Metropolitan Corridor, chap. 4
• *Joel Tarr, "Sewerage and the Development of the Networked City...," in Joel Tarr and Gabriel Dupuy, eds., Technology and the Rise of the Networked City


Suggested:

• *Martin Melosi, ed., Urban Public Policy
• Blake Nelson, Water for the Cities
• David Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meaning of a New Technology
• Mark Rose, Cities of Light and Heat

11b.   Boston's West End: An Urban Renewal Case Study

• Whitehill, Boston: A Topographical History, chap. IX
• *Sean M. Fisher and Carolyn Hughes, eds., The Last Tenement, articles by Gans, O'Connor, and Hartman


Suggested:

• Herbert Gans, Urban Villagers
• Thomas H. O'Connor, Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal
• James Q. Wilson, Urban Renewal
• Jane Kay, Lost Boston

12.   Architecture and Urban Planning since 1893

• Handlin, American Architecture, chaps. 5-7
• **Wright, Building the Dream, chaps. 9-12
• **Reps, The Making of Urban America, chap. 18


Suggested:

• *William Jordy, American Buildings and their Architects, vol. 3, Progressive and Academic Ideals at the Turn of the Century
• *Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities
• William H. Wilson, The City Beautiful Movement
• Stanley Schultz, Constructing Urban Culture: American Cities and Urban Planning
• Reyner Banham, A Concrete Atlantis
• Delores Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities
• Jon Teaford, The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America

13a.   The Skyscraper

• Karl Sabbagh, Skyscraper: The Making of a Building


Suggested:
• *David Macaulay, Underground
• *Mike Cherry, On High Steel
• *Ivars Peterson, "Reaching for the Sky," Science News, April 12, 1986
• David Macaulay, Unbuilding

13b.   Conclusion

Reading Period:  Look at the reserved (*) books you have not read on the suggested lists.

Final Examination:  9 AM Saturday, May 13.