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

1b - Introduction

Suggested:
*Howard Chudacoff and Judith Smith, The Evolution of American Urban Society
*Michael Conzen, The Making of the American Landscape
*J. E. Gordon, Structures, or Why Things Don't Fall Down

1c - Native Americans as Builders

*Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton, Native American Architecture, pp. 16-50, 93-111, 263-271, 352-369

Suggested:
*Patrick Malone, The Skulking Way of War (for fortified villages)
George F. MacDonald, Haida Monumental Art: Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands
George F. MacDonald, Ninstints: Haida World Heritage Site

2a - Plazas and Squares in Europe and America

*John Reps, The Making of Urban America, Chap. 2
Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World, pp.15-59

Suggested:
Paul Zucker, Town and Square: From the Agora to the Village Green
Roger Kennedy, Hidden Cities
William H. Morgan, Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States
Michael Coe, The Maya
Jorge Hardoy, Urban Planning in Pre-Columbian America

2b - Diffusion of Building Forms from Overseas

David P. Handlin, American Architecture, chap. 1

Suggested:
*Abbott L. Cummings, The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
James Deetz, In Small Things Forgotten
Dell Upton, ed., Roots
Brook Hindle, ed., Material Culture of the Wooden Age
Brook Hindle, ed., America's Wooden Age

3 - Diffusion of Urban Settlement Patterns From Overseas

**Reps, The Making of Urban America, pp. 75-87, 103-114, 140-192
Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World, Chaps. 3-4

Suggested:
Dora Crouch, et al, Spanish City Planning in North America
Upton, Roots
Edward Staski, ed. Living in Cities: Current Research in Urban Archaeology
Paul C. Johnson, ed., The California Missions

4 - Architecture, Urban Planning, and Building Technology to 1860

David P. Handlin, American Architecture, Chaps. 2-3
Mona Domosh, Invented Cities, Chap. 1
**Gwendolyn Wright, Building the Dream, Chaps. 2-3

Suggested:
*William H. Pierson, American Buildings and Their Architects, vol. 1, The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles
Charles E. Peterson, ed., Building Early America
Lawrence Kennedy, Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630
Nan Rothschild, New York City Neighborhoods: The 18th Century
Eric Holmberg, The Historical Atlas of New York City

5a - Long Weekend Break

5b - Factories and Industrial Communities

*William Pierson, American Buildings and Their Architects, vol. 2.1, Technology and the Picturesque, pp. 1-90
**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:
David Macaulay, Mill
Thomas Dublin, Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City
Robert Weible, ed., Lowell: The Continuing Revolution John Garner, The Model Company Town
John Armstrong, Factory Under the Elms
John Coolidge, Mill and Mansion

6a - Factories and Industrial Communities

John Stilgoe, Metropolitan Corridor, Chap. 3
*Patrick Malone and Charles Parrott, "Greenways in the Industrial City," in Patrick Malone, ed., Green Engineering: Parks and Promenades in the Industrial Community, special theme issue of IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, vol. 24, no. 1 (1998)

Suggested:
John Garner, ed., The Company Town
Stanley Buder, Pullman
Margaret Byington, Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town

6b - Parks and Promenades

Domosh, Invented Cities, Chap. 5
**Reps, The Making of Urban America, Chap. 12

Suggested:
*Malone, ed., Green Engineering
*Norman Newton, Design on the Land
*Roy Rozenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People: A History of New York's Central Park
Galen Cranz, The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America
Withold Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
Cynthia Ziatevsky, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System
David Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape

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

Domosh, Chaps. 2, 4
Handlin, American Architecture, Chap. 4
**Wright, Building the Dream, Chap. 6

Suggested:
Christine Rosen, The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America
Walter Muir Whitehill, Boston: A Topographical History
Daniel Bluestone, Constructing Chicago
Dell Upton, Architecture in the United States
James O'Gorman, Three American Architects
John Reps, Bird's Eye Views

The Mid Term Exam will be handed out Friday, March 10, at noon. It must be completed and delivered in class at 2:00 PM the following Monday, March 13.

8 - Mining Towns and the Distancing of Environmental Costs

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

Suggested:
*Patrick Malone, "Butte: Cultural Treasure in a Mining Town," in Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Winter, 1997)
*Duane Smith, Rocky Mountain Mining Camps
Duane Smith, Mining America: The Industry and the Environment
Elliott West, The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
Charles Hyde and Larry Lankton, Old Reliable
Larry Lankton, Cradle to Grave
Harry Caudill, Night Comes to the Cumberlands
Harry Caudill, My Land in Dying

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

John R. Stilgoe, Metropolitan Corridor, Chaps. 1-2, 4-8, 11
**Joel Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink, Chaps. XI-XII
NOTE: See also the H-Urban review of this book at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13103870699376

Suggested:
George R. Taylor, The Transportation Revolution
Sam Bass Warner, Streetcar Suburbs
Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier
Ronald Carlisle, ed., Canals and American Cities
Michael Flanagan, Stations: An Imagined Journey
Hans and April Halberstadt, Great American Train Stations

Spring Break

10 - Bridges

David McCullough, The Great Bridge

Suggested:
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 - From Model Company Towns to Garden Cities

*Margaret Crawford, Building the Workers' Paradise, Chaps. 3-5
**Wright, Building the Dream, Chap. 10

Suggested:
Newton, Design on the Land
John Garner, ed., The Company Town
Richard Candee, Atlantic Heights: A World War I Shipbuilder's Community

11b - Environmental Problems and City Beautiful Solutions

Rybczynski, City Life, Chaps 5-6
**Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink, Chaps. I, III-IV

Suggested:
**Reps, The Making of Urban America
William H. Wilson, The City Beautiful Movement
*Joel Tarr and Gabriel Dupuy, eds., Technology and the Rise of the Networked City
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

12 - Architecture and the Urban Landscape since 1893

(Guest Speakers: Morgan Grefe and Elizabeth Belanger)

Handlin, American Architecture, Chaps. 5-6
**Wright, Building the Dream, Chaps. 7-9
Domosh, Invented Cities, Chap. 3

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

13a - Visions of the Future

Handlin, American Architecture, Chap. 7
Rybczynski, City Life, Chap. 7
**Wright, Building the Dream, Chap. 12

Suggested:
Robert Fishman, Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century
Le Corbusier, The Radiant City

13b - Boston's West End: An Urban Renewal Case Study

*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
Kennedy, Planning the City Upon a Hill

Trip to Boston: Saturday, April 29

14a - The Skyscraper

Karl Sabbagh, Skyscraper: The Making of a Building

Suggested:
*David Macaulay, Underground
David Macaulay, Unbuilding
Mike Cherry, On High Steel
Jordy, American Buildings and their Architects, vol. 3, Progressive and Academic Ideals at the Turn of the Century
Paul Goldberger, The Skyscraper
John Tauranac, The Empire State Building

14b - Conclusion
Optional Papers Due at the Concluding Lecture

Reading Period:
Rybczynski, City Life, chaps. 8-10

Final Examination:   Thursday, May 18, 9AM