The American Urban Reader

Steven Hunt Corey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies at Worcester State University, Worcester, MA. Lisa Krissoff Boehm is Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Honors Program at Worcester State University in Worcester, MA.  She is the author of Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968 (Routledge) and Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration.  

 





Acknowledgments


List of Figures. Tables, and Illustrations


Foreword by John Bodnar


Preface











　


Part One: Definitions and Perspectives





Editors’ Introduction to Part One





Essays





1. Examining America’s Urban Landscape: From Social


Reform to Social History (2010)


Steven H. Corey and Lisa Krissoff Boehm





2. The City in American Civilization (1949)


Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.





3. Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life:


A Reevaluation of Definitions (1962, 1991)


Herbert J. Gans





4. Beyond Blade Runner (1998)


Mike Davis





5. Crossing the City Line (1999)


Robert A. Orsi





Documents





1.1 The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring


Population of New York (1845)


John H. Griscom





1.2 Advice to Strangers (1876)


Robert Macoy





1.4 The Use of Sidewalks: Assimilating Children (1961)


Jane Jacobs





　


Part Two: Urban Roots: Colonial Settlement and Westward Expansion


Editors’ Introduction to Part Two





Essays





1. Boston and New York in the Eighteenth Century (1981)


Pauline Maier





2. Urban Life in Western America, 1790-1830 (1958)


Richard C. Wade





3. Pearls on the Coast and Lights in the Forest (1982)


David R. Goldfield





Documents





2.1 A Model of Christian Charity (1630)


John Winthrop





2.2 Philadelphia in 1697


Benjamin Bullivant





2.3 Envisioning Great American Indian Cities (1813)


Henry Marie Brackenridge





　


Part Three: The New City: Industry and Immigrants, 1820s-1920s


Editors’ Introduction to Part Three


Essays





1. From Milling to Manufacturing:


From Villages to Mill Towns (2001)


John T. Cumbler





2. Women in the Neighborhoods (1986)


Christine Stansell





3. Old and New Immigrants in Greater New York City,


1880 to World War I (1995)


Frederick M. Binder and David M. Reimers





4. Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of


Urban Chinese America (1989)


Ronald T. Takaki





5. The Pullman Strike and Making Sense of an Age (1995)


Carl Smith


Documents





3.1 Vesey Slave Revolt, Charleston, South Carolina (1822)





3.2. Tredegar and Armory Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia (1847)





3.3 Riots, Louisville, Kentucky (1855)





3.4 Debates on Chinese Immigration (1876)





3.5 The Mixed Crowd (1890)


Jacob Riis





3.6. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, New York City (1911)


　


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


　


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)





　


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





　


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)





　


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