| I. Reading the City |
Clay, Grady. Close-Up: How to Read the American City. Chicago, 1980. |
| II. City and Region Over Time |
Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford, 1985.
Warner, Sam Bass. "A Brief History of Boston." In Krieger, Alex, ed. Mapping Boston. MIT Press, 2001. |
| III. City and Nature: Natural Processes as Agents of Change |
Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Granite Garden. Basic Books, 1984. |
| IV. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Envisioning and Shaping Future Cities |
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage, 1992.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. The West Philadelphia Landscape Project.
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| V. Boston Sites: Where Have They Been, Where Are They Headed |
Jacobs, Jane. "The Kind of Problem a City Is." In The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage, 1992.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Epilogue" In The Granite Garden. Basic Books, 1984. |
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