| 1 |
Introduction |
Schurch, Thomas. "Reconsidering Urban Design: Thoughts about its Definition and Status as a Field or Profession." Journal of Urban Design 4, 1 (1999): 5-28. |
| 2 |
Viewpoints on the City |
Clay, Grady. "Introduction, Word Game, Fixes." In Close Up. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 11-37.
Jackson, J. B. "The Strangers Path." In Landscapes. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1952, pp. 92-106.
Lynch, Kevin. "City Image and Its Elements." Image of the City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1960, pp. 46-90. |
| 3 |
The Forces that Made Boston |
Lynch, Kevin. "Form Values in Urban History." In A Theory of Good City Form. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984, pp. 5-36.
Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston: A Topographical History. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1975. On reserve in Rotch Library; entire book is a general reference for Exercise 1. |
| 4 |
The Market |
Morrill, Richard. "The Urban System and Urban Structure." In The Spatial Organization of Society. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press, 1974, pp. 155-174. |
| 5 |
Social Forces |
Jacobs, Jane. "The Uses of City Neighborhoods." In The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Pp. 112-140.
Sklar, Holly. "Creating a Sustainable Urban Village: The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative" and "Real Insurance." Orion 15, 4 (Autumn 1996): 28-38. |
| 6 |
Case Study: Boston's West End |
Gans, Herbert. "The West End: An Urban Village" and "Redevelopment of the West End." In The Urban Villagers. New York: London Free Press, 1982, pp. 3-41, 281-304.
Newsclips on Lowell Square Project (various sources), 1996-7.
The West Ender (newspaper of former residents; distributed in Class). |
| 7 |
The Public Will |
Sutcliffe, Anthony. "Grand Design." In The Autumn of Central Paris. London: Edward Arnold, 1970, pp. 11-42.
Caro, Robert. "The Warp on the Loom." In The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Knopf, 1974, pp. 615-636.
Tierney, John. "This Years Model." NY Times Magazine, August 7, 1994. |
| 8 |
The Public Wish |
Barnett, Jonathan. "Designing Cities without Designing Buildings." In An Introduction to Urban Design. New York: Harper and Row, 1982, pp. 57-97.
Kayden, Jerold S. "Record." In Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001, pp. 43-59.
Muschamp, Herbert. "Reaching for Power over Streets and Sky." New York Times, May 28, 2000, pp. 1. |
| 9 |
Case Study: Growth Management |
Jaffee, Martin, AICP. "Performance Zoning - A Reassessment." Land Use Law and Zoning Digest 45, 3 (March 1993): 3-9. |
| 10 |
Public/Private Partnerships |
Frieden, Bernard, and Lynne Sagalyn. Entrepreneurial Cities and Maverick Developers, Deal Making Getting and Spending Downtown, Inc. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990, pp. 107-154.
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, and Tridib Banerjee. Urban Design Downtown. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1998, pp. 103-148. |
| 11 |
Field Visit: BRA |
Campbell, Robert. "After the Big Dig, the Big Question: Where's the Vision?" In Boston Globe. May 26, 2002.
———. "Beyond the Big Dig National Panel Recommendations." In Boston Globe. May 30, 2002.
Boston Redevelopment Authority. Seaport Public Realm Plan. Boston, 1999.
On reserve in Rotch Library
Review Big Dig website prior to the BRA field visit. |
| 12 |
Walking Tour of Providence/Waterfire |
Bunnell, Gene. "Providence, Rhode Island: An Old City Reconnects with Its Past and Finds Its Future." "Chapter 4 in Making Places Special: Stories of Real Places Made Better by Planning. 2002. |
| 13 |
The Traditional City |
Reps, John W. "New Towns in New England." In Town Planning in Frontier America. Columbia: U. of Missouri Press, 1980, pp. 100-117.
———. "Carolina and Georgia." In Town Planning in Frontier America. Columbia: U. of Missouri Press, 1980, pp. 162-180.
Kunstler, James Howard. "Home from Nowhere." In The Atlantic Monthly. September, 1996, pp. 43-66.
Krier, Leon. "Master Plan for Poundbury Development in Dorchester." In Prince Charles and the Architectural Debate. AD, 1994, pp. 46 55.
"The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh Visit Poundbury." Press Release, Friday, March 8, 1998.
Baer, William C. "General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans." Journal of the American Planning Association (Summer 1997): 329-343. (To be distributed in class.) |
| 14 |
Case Study: Design Standards |
Ben-Joseph, Eran. "The Future of Standards and Rules in Shaping Place: Re-engineering the Urban Genetic Code." American Association of Civil Engineers and Journal of Urban Planning and Development. (Forthcoming.)
Southworth, Michael, and Eran Ben-Joseph. "Street Standards and the Shaping of Suburbia." Journal of the American Planning Association 61, 1 (Winter 1995): 65-81.
Ben-Joseph, Eran. "Changing the Residential Street: Adapting the Shared Street (Woonerf) Concept to the Suburban Environment." Journal of the American Planning Association 61, 4 (Autumn 1995): 504-515. |
| 15 |
Case Study: Capitol Cities |
Vale, Lawrence. "Capital and Capitol." In Architecture, Power, and National Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 1-43. |
| 16 |
The City as a Work of Art |
Barnett, Jonathan. "The Monumental City." In The Elusive City. New York: Harper and Row, 1986, pp. 5-62.
Krier, Rob. "Reconstructing Devastated Spaces with Examples from the Center of Stuttgart." In Urban Space . London: Academy Editions, 1991, pp. 89-111.
Sitte, Camillo. "City Planning According to Artistic Principles." Translated by George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins, originally published in 1899. New York: Random House, 1965, pp. 3-19, 83-111. |
| 17 |
The Efficient City |
Bush, Donald. "The World of Tomorrow" and "The Working Day." In The Streamlined Decade. New York: Brazillier, 1975, pp. 154-170.
Corbusier, Le. "A Contemporary City." In The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning . London: Architectural Press, 1928, pp. 158-194.
Campanella, Thomas J. "The Visible City." In Metropolis. March, 1995.
Fischler, Raphael. "The Metropolitan Dimension of Early Zoning: Revisiting the 1916 New York City Ordinance." Journal of the American Planning Association 64, 2 (Spring 1998): 170-188. |
| 18 |
Case Study: Redeveloping Cities |
"The Widening of Ping an Avenue: Making Decisions about Historic Preservation." Kennedy School of Government, October 12, 1998.
Wu, Liangyong. "The City of Beijing in Historic Perspective." In Rehabilitating the Old City of Beijing: A Project in the Ju'er Hutong Neighbourhood. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999, pp. 3-15.
"Appetite for Destruction." Time(Asia) 157, 9 (March 5, 2001). |
| 19 |
The City in Nature |
Ward, Stephen V., ed. "The Garden City Introduced." In The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. London: E & FN Spon, 1992, pp. 1-27.
Turner, Tom. City as Landscape: A Post-Postmodern View of Design and Planning. London: E & FN Spon, 1996, pp. 179-207.
Ibelings, Hans. The Artificial Landscape: Contemporary Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture in the Netherlands. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2000, pp. 40-47.
Lee, Chang-Moo, and Kun-Hyuck Ahn. "Is Kentlands Better than Radburn? The American Garden City and New Urbanist Paradigms." Journal of the American Planning Association 69, 1 (Winter 2003): 50-71. |
| 20 |
Case Study: The End of Suburbia? |
Fishman, Robert. "The American Garden City: Still Relevant?" In The Garden City: Past Present and Future. London: E&FN Spon, 1994, pp. 146-164.
O'Hehir, Andrew. "Soul of the Suburb." |
| 21 |
The Secure City |
Zinganel, Michael. "Crime Does Pay! How Security Technology, Architecture and Town Planning are Powered by Crime." Archis (March 2002): 44-50.
Burke, Matthew. "The Pedestrian Behaviour of Residents in Gated Communities." Australian, Walking the 21st Century- 20th to 22nd February 2001. Perth, Western Australia, Conference, 2001, pp. 139-149.
Low, Setha. "Unlocking the Gated Community." In Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. New York and London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 7-26.
"National Capital Planning Commission." In The National Capital Urban Design and Security Plan. Washington, DC: NCPC, 2002. (Skim) |
| 22 |
The Virtual City |
Mitchell, William J. "Prologue: Urban Requium" and "March of the Meganets." In E-topia. Cambridge: MIT, 1999, pp. 3-29. |
| 23 |
The Information City |
Harvey, David. "Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition." In The Condition of Postmodernity. Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 285-307.
Soja, Edward W. "Inside Exopolis: Scenes from Orange County." In Variations on a Theme Park. New York: Noonday, 1995, pp. 94-122.
Sorkin, Michael. "See You in Disneyland." In Variations on a Theme Park. New York: Noonday, 1995.
"Step Through the Gateway to Tomorrow: Seoul's Digital Media City." Seoul: Strategic Development Institute, 2000. (Skim)
Frenchman, Dennis, Michael Joroff, et al. "Seoul Digital Media Street." Seoul: Strategic Development Institute, 2003. |
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The Good City |
Lynch, Kevin. "Between Heaven and Hell." In A Theory of Good City Form. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984, pp. 51-72. |
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