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 Fachleiter Seminar 2000
"The City in the Twenty-First Century"

 Conference Reader:
a bibliography of selected materials

Patterns of Urban Development
blue button David R. Goldfield, Introduction, Urban America - A History, 2nd edition, 1991, p. 1-7
blue button David R. Goldfield, see above, Chapter 13: Central City and Out-Town: The Metropolitan Shift, p. 410-446
blue button Eli Ginzberg, The Changing Urban Scene: 1960- 1990 and Beyond, p. 33- 47
blue button Henry G. Cisneros, ed., The Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, NY 1993
blue button Pietro S. Nivola, Are Europe’s Cities Better ?, Public Interest, Washington, Fall 1999, p. 73-84
blue button Michael Pollan, The Triumph of Burbopolis, The New York Times, April 9, 2000

Environmental Issues and Initiatives
blue button Al Gore, The Clinton/Gore Administration: Livable Communities For the 21st Century, January 11, 1999
blue button President’s Council, Sustainable Development: A Wave of Local Innovation, Green Cities Electronic Journal, May 1999
blue button Thomas B. Stoel Jr., Refining in Urban Sprawl, May 1999
blue button Jodie T. Allen, Sprawl, From Here to Eternity, U.S. News & World Report, 9/6/99, p. 22-27
blue button Gregg Easterbrook, Suburban Myth, p. 18- 22, The New Republic, Washington, March 15, 1999
blue button Steven Hayward, Legends of the Sprawl, Policy Review no. 91, September / October 1998, p. 26-32
blue button Alan Ehrenhalt, Sprawl, Passion, and Common Sense, Governing, April 2000, p. 6-8

Urban Design / New Urbanism
blue button Congress for the New Urbanism, New Urbanism Basics.
blue button Lawrence University, WI, New Urbanism.
blue button Congress for the New Urbanism, In the News: Vice President Al Gore,Election Coverage, Debate.
blue button Peter Calthorpe, Beyond Norman Rockwell, The Denver Post, April 26
blue button Peter Katz / Vincent, Jr. Scully, The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, Amazon.com’s Book Store, December 1993 – book reviews
blue button Roberta Brandes Gratz with Norman Mintz, Conclusion: Back From The Edge, p. 325- 347, In Cities Back from the Edge. New Life for Downtown, New York 1998

Issues of Social Equity
blue button Daisy Frye Reed and Michael D. Davis, Social Reconstructionism for Urban Students, The Clearing House, May / June 1999, p. 291-294
blue button Michael Casserly, Urban Public Schools on the Comeback, The Education Digest, February 1999
blue button Nat Henthoff, Rescuing Kids from Bad Schools, The Village Voice, New York, April 27, 1999
blue button Hispanic, Community Organizations Revitalize Latino Neighborhoods, Hispanic, vol. 12, April 4, 1999
blue button Raymond A. Mohl, Blacks and Hispanics in Multicultural America: A Miami Case Study, The Making of Urban America, 2nd edition, 1997, p.283-302

The New Global Economy
blue button Jorge Wilheim, Urbanization and Globalization, The UNESCO Courier, vol. 52, June 6, 1999, p. 36
blue button Saskia Sassen, Preface, Cities in a World Economy, Pine Forge Press, New York, 1994
blue button Saskia Sassen, (see above), Chapter 1: Place and Production in the Global Economy, p. 1-8
blue button Carl Abbott, The International City Hypothesis - An Approach to the Recent History of U.S. Cities, Journal of Urban History, November 1997, p. 28-52
blue button U.S. Department of Labor, Executive Summary: Futurework - Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century
blue button Joel Kotkin, The Future of the Center: The Core City in the New Economy
blue button Appendix: Tables to The State of the Cities 1999

Political Challenges & Policy Response
blue button Harold Meyerson, Why Liberalism Fled the City and How it Might Come Back., American Prospect, no. 37, March/April 1998, p. 46-55
blue button Elliott D. Sclar and Walter Hook, The Importance of Cities in the International Economy, p. 48- 80, Henry G. Cisneros, ed., Intertwined Destinies: Cities and the Nation, 1993
blue button U.S. Department of Housing and Development (HUD) The State of the Cities 1999
blue button Denver Mayor Wellington E. Webb, Remarks, New Traditions Biennial Conference - Berlin, March 19, 2000
blue button U.S. Department of Housing and Development (HUD) Comments on the 1998 State of the Cities Report,
blue button Bob Gurwitt, The State Vs. Sprawl, Governing, January 1999, p. 18-23

The Culture(s) of the City / The City as Cultural Text
blue button Thomas Pynchon, A Journey Into the Mind of Watts, New York Times Magazine, June 12, 1966, p. 3-12
blue button Chaim Potok, Culture Confrontation in Urban America: A Writer’s Beginnings, p. 162-167, Literature and the Urban Experience, Michael C. Jay & Ann Chalmers Watt, eds., Rutgers University Press, 1981
blue button Joyce Carol Oates, Imaginary Cities: America, p.11-33 Literature and the Urban Experience – Essays on the City and Literature, 1981
blue button Elizabeth Wilson, Chapter 1: Into the Labyrinth, p. 1- 11, The Sphinx in the City - Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women, UCLA Press Berkeley, 1991
blue button Tom Wolfe, Stalking the Billion - Footed Beast, Harper’s Magazine, May 1989, p. 45-56

 
The below listed links and bibliography had been provided before the conference:

Useful Internet Links:

American Studies Web; links to cities and regions at http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/region.html#city
Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy at Brookings Institution.
Selected Internet Sites (from "Green Cities. Environmental Urban Solutions")
Urban Futures Program. A project of Reason Public Policy Institute

Selected Bibliography:

Davis, Mike. City of Quarz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (London/New York: Verso, 1990).
Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear. Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Metropolitan Books, 1998) choose one chapter and link to from....http://cs.oberlin.edu/students/pjaques/etext/davmurbancont/index.html
http://usnews.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa081798.htm
Green Cities. Environmental Urban Solutions. Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State, March 2000.
Hakutani, Yoshinobu and Robert Butler, eds. The City in African-American Literature (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1995).
Helbrecht, Ilse, "The Creative Metropolis. Services, Symbols and Spaces",
Paper presented at the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS), Grainau 1998.
Holston, James, ed. Cities and Citizenship (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999).
Holsten, James and Arjun Appadurai, "Cities and Citizenship", Public Culture 8.2 (Winter 1996)
Holtz Kay, Jane. Asphalt Nation, How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1997)
Judd, Dennis R. and Paul P. Kantor, eds. Politics of Urban America. 2 vols. (1998)
Lehan, Richard Daniel. The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History (Berkley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998).
Rotella, Carlo. October Cities. The redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998).
Sassen, Saskia. The Global City (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
Scruggs, Charles. Sweet Home. Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
Wilson, William Julius. When Work Disappears, The World of theNew Urban Poor (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).
Zukin, Sharon . The Cultures of Cities (Cambridge, MA/Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995).
Zukin, Sharon. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (Berkley: University of California Press, 1991)
Conference theme paper and abstracts from papers for the Global City-Regions Conference in Los Angeles, October 21-23, 1999.

Creative Works on 'the City' (randomly selected)

Didion, Joan.  Miami (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987)
McInerney, Jay. Bright Lights, Big Cities. A Novel (Vintage Books, 1984)
Miller, John, ed. Chicago Stories. Tales of the City (Chronicle Books, 1993).
Millhauser, Steven.  Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Crown Publisher, 1996)
Vidal, Gore.  Washington, D.C. A Novel (Modern Library, 1999)
Wolfe, Tom.  The Bonfire of the Vanities (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1990)
Wolfe, Tom.  A Man in Full (Farrar Straus & Giroux;, 1998)