Required Texts

 These required books are available at the campus bookstore:

1. Harvey Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum. University of Chicago Press, 1929.
[ISBN: 0226989456]

2. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage, 1961.
[ISBN: 067974195X]

3. Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism. Verso, 2000.
[ISBN: 185984328X]

4. Christopher Mele, Selling the Lower East Side. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
[ISBN: 0816631824]

5. Andrew Ross, The Celebration Chronicles. Ballantine, 1999.
[ISBN: 0345417526]

Other required readings will be handed out in class or made available on the Internet (see the schedule for hyperlinks). All non-Internet readings are also available at the library's reserve room.

 

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