American Urban Reader

Immigration (1876) 3.5 The Mixed Crowd (1890) Jacob Riis 3.6. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, New York City (1911) a Part Four City Life From the Bottom Up, 1860s-1940s Editors' Introduction to Part Four Essays 1. The "Guns" of Gotham (2006) Timothy Gilfoyle 2. The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth Century America (2007) Wendy Gamber 3. Urban Culture and the Policing of the "City of Bachelors" (1994) George Chauncey Documents 4.1 The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (1857) Thomas Butler Gunn 4.2 Sister Carrie (1900) Theodore Dreiser 4. 3 Strange Brother (1931) Blair Niles a Part Five: Managing the Metropolis Editors' Introduction to Part Five Essays 1. The "Spoils of the Park" (1992) Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar 2. New Deal City (1989) Thomas Kessner 3. Messiah Mayors and the Gospel of Urban Hype (1990) Jon C. Teaford 4. The Katrina Conspiracies: The Problem of Trust in Rebuilding an American City (2009) Arnold Hirsch and A. Lee Levert Documents 5.1 On the Social Uses of Central Park (1864) Frederic B. Perkins 5.2 William Tweed's Confession (1878). 5.3 Philadelphia: Corrupted and Contented (1903) Lincoln Steffens 5.4 Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago (1913) Walter D. Moody 5. 5 Hull-House, A Social Settlement (1894) Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr 5.6 Growing up with a City (1926) Louise de Koven Bowen 5.7 On the Way Up: Charlotte and Kansas City (1976) 5.8 President Arrives in Alabama, Briefed on Hurricane Katrina (2005) a Part Six: The Urban Environment Editors' Introduction to Part Six Essays 1. The Metabolism of the Industrial City: The Case of Pittsburgh (2002) Joel Tarr 2. Houston: The Energy Metropolis (2007) Martin Melosi and Joseph Pratt 3. The Emergence of Silicon Valley: High-Tech Development and Ecocide, 1950-2001 (2002) David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park Documents 6.1 Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty (1965) President Lyndon B. Johnson 6.2 Toxic Waste and Race in the United States (1987) United Church of Christ, 1987. Part Seven: Transportation & Physical Mobility Editors' Introduction to Part Seven Essays 1. From Walking City to the Implementation of the Street Railways (1962) Sam Bass Warner, Jr. 2. The Subway and the City (1993) Clifton Hood 3. Wishful Thinking: Downtown and the Automobile Revolution (2001) Robert Fogelson Documents 7.1 National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956) 7.2 "$14.6 Billion Later, Boston's Big Dig Wraps Up," Christian Science Monitor (2003) Seth Stern Part Eight: Urban Migrations and Social Mobility Editors' Introduction to Part Eight Essays 1. The Second Ghetto and the Dynamics of Neighborhood (1983, 1998) Arnold Hirsch 2. Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration (2009) Lisa Krissoff Boehm 3. The Great White Migration, 1945-1960 (2000) Chad Berry 4. Citizenship and Civil Rights, 1964-1974 (2009) Melanie Shell-Weiss Documents 8.1 Tulsa Race Riots, 1921 8.2 Ku Klux Klan Initiation, Worcester, Massachusetts (1924) 8.3 Zoot Suit Riots (1943) 8.4 The Dollmaker (1954) Harriette Arnow 8.5 Hunger of Memory (1982) Richard Rodriguez Part Nine: Race and the Post-War Metropolis Editors' Introduction to Part Nine Essays 1. Class, Status and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit (1996) Thomas J. Sugrue 2. White Noose (2003) Robert Self 3. The Beginning of the End of the Modern Ghetto (2000) Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Documents 9.1 Housing Act of 1949 9.2 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) Sloan Wilson 9.3 Watts Riots, 1965 9.4 Urban Indians (1964-1969) 9.5 Oakland Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Ten Point Plan Oakland Black Panthers (1966) 9.6 All Souls (1999) Michael Patrick MacDonald 9.7 Address to the Nation on the Civil Disturbances in Los Angeles, California (1992) 9. 8 Hispanic Communities and Urban Public Schools (2009) Arne Duncan a Part Ten: Exurbia and Postindustrial Cities Editors' Introduction to Part Ten Essays 1. Commerce: Reconfiguring Community Marketplaces (2003) Lizabeth Cohen 2. Inventing Las Vegas (2003) Hal Rothman 3. Polo Ponies and Penalty Kicks (2005) Corey Dolgon Documents 10.1 Garden Cities of To-Morrow (1902) Ebenezer Howard 10.2 Looking Backward (1887) Edward Bellamy 10.3 Charter of the New Urbanism (1996) Congress for the New Urbanism 10.4 "American Murder Mystery," The Atlantic (2008) Hanna Rosin 10.5 Reflecting Absence (2003) a Bibliography Copyright Information Index