CONTENTS List of Figures xiii Acknowledgments xv Foreword by JOHN BODNAR xvii Preface xix PART I. DEFINITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES Editors' Introduction to Part I 1 Essays STEVEN H. COREY and LISA KRISSOFF BOEHM, Examining America's Urban Landscape: From Social Reform to Social History (2010) 3 ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, SR., The City in American Civilization (1949) 22 HERBERT J. CANS, Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions (1962,1991) 31 MIKE DAVIS, Beyond Blade Runner (1998) 41 ROBERT A. ORSI, Crossing the City Line (1999) 49 Documents 1-1 JOHN H. GRISCOM, The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York (1845) 58 1-2 ROBERT MACOY, Advice to Strangers (1876) 62 1-3 JANE JACOBS, The Use of Sidewalks: Assimilating Children (1961) 63 PART II. URBAN ROOTS: COLONIAL SETTLEMENT AND WESTWARD EXPANSION Editors' Introduction to Part II 67 Essays PAULINE MAIER, Boston and New York in the Eighteenth Century (1981) 69 RICHARD C. WADE, Urban Life in Western America, 1790-1830 (1958) 77 DAVID R. GOLDFIELD, Pearls on the Coast and Lights in the Forest: The Colonial South (1982)87 Documents 2-1. JOHN WINTHROP, A Model of Christian Charity (1630) 96 2-2. BENJAMIN BULLIVANT, Philadelphia in 1697 98 2-3. HENRY MARIE BRACKENRIDGE, Envisioning Great American Indian Cities (1813) 99 PART III. THE NEW CITY: INDUSTRY AND IMMIGRANTS, 1820s-1920s Editors'Introduction to Part III 105 Essays JOHN T. CUMBLER, From Milling to Manufacturing: From Villages to Mill Towns (2001) 107 CHRISTINE STANSELL, Women in the Neighborhoods (1986) 115 FREDERICK M. BINDER and DAVID M. REIMERS, Old and New Immigrants in Greater New York City, 1880 to World War I (1995) 123 RONALD T. TAKAKI, Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of Urban Chinese America (1989) 134 CARL SMITH, The Pullman Strike and Making Sense of the Age (1995) 141 Documents 3-1. Vesey Slave Revolt, Charleston, South Carolina (1822) 147 3-2. Tredegar and Armory Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia (1847) 148 3-3. Riots, Louisville, Kentucky (1855) 150 3-4. Debates on Chinese Immigration (1876) 152 3-5. JACOB Rns, The Mixed Crowd (1890) 155 3-6. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, New York City (1911) 158 PART IV. CITY LIFE FROM THE BOTTOM UP, 1860s-1940s Editors'Introduction to Part IV 161 Essays TIMOTHY GILFOYLE, The Guns of Gotham (2006) 163 WENDY GAMBER, The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America (2007) 173 GEORGE CHAUNCEY, Urban Culture and the Policing of the City of Bachelors (1994) 184 Documents 4-1. THOMAS BUTLER GUNN, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (1857) 195 4-2. THEODORE DREISER, Sister Carrie (1900) 197 4-3. BLAIR NILES, Strange Brother (1931) 202 PART V. MANAGING THE METROPOLIS Editors' Introduction to Part V 205 Essays ROY ROSENZWEIG and ELIZABETH BLACKMAR, The Spoils of the Park (1992)207 THOMAS KESSNER, New Deal City (1989)219 JOHN C. TEAFORD, Messiah Mayors and the Gospel of Urban Hype (1990) 229 ARNOLD R. HIRSCH AND A. LEE LEVERT, The Katrina Conspiracies: The Problem of Trust in Rebuilding an American City (2009) 239 Documents 5-1. FREDERIC B. PERKINS, On the Social Uses of Central Park (1864) 251 5-2. SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMAN AND WILLIAM M. TWEED, William Tweed's Confession (1878) 253 5-3. LINCOLN STEFFENS, Philadelphia: Corrupt and Contented (1903) 257 5-4. WALTER D. MOODY, Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago (1913) 261 5-5. JANE ADDAMS AND ELLEN GATES STARR, Hull-House, A Social Settlement (1894) 263 5-6. LOUISE DE KOVEN BOWEN, Growing up with a City (1926) 264 5-7. On the Way Up: Charlotte and Kansas City (1976) 266 5-8. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, President Arrives in Alabama, Briefed on Hurricane Katrina (2005) 269 PART VI. THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Editors' Introduction to Part VI 273 Essays JOEL A. TARR, The Metabolism of the Industrial City: The Case of Pittsburgh (2002)275 MARTIN V. MELOSI AND JOSEPH A. PRATT, Houston: The Energy Metropolis (2007) 287 DAVID NAGUIB PELLOW AND LISA SUN-HEE PARK, The Emergence of Silicon Valley: High-Tech Development and Ecocide, 1950-2001 (2002) 298 Documents 6-1. PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty (1965)308 6-2. COMMISSION FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (1987) 313 PART VII. TRANSPORTATION AND PHYSICAL MOBILITY Editors' Introduction to Part VII 321 Essays SAM BASS WARNER, JR., From Walking City to the Implementation of the Street Railways (1962) 324 CLIFTON HOOD, The Subway and the City (1993) 331 ROBERT FOGELSON, Wishful Thinking: Downtown and the Automotive Revolution (2001) 337 Documents 7-1. National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956) 348 7-2. SETH STERN, 14.6 Billion Later, Boston's Big Dig Wraps Up (2003) 350 Transportation Photo Essay 352 PART Yin. URBAN MIGRATIONS AND SOCIAL MOBILITY Editors' Introduction to Part VIE 357 Essays ARNOLD R. HIRSCH, The Second Ghetto and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Change (1983, 1998) 360 LISA KRISSOFF BOEHM, Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration (2009) 372 CHAD BERRY, The Great White Migration, 1945-1960 (2000) 383 MELANIE SHELL-WEISS, Citizenship and Civil Rights, 1964-1974 (2009) 391 Documents 8-1 Tulsa Race Riots, 1921 409 8-2 Ku Klux Klan Initiation, Worcester, Massachusetts (1924) 421 8-3 Zoot Suit Riots (1943) 422 8-4 HARRIETTE ARNOW, The Dollmaker (1954) 423 8-5 RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Hunger of Memory (1982) 424 PART DC RACE AND THE POST-WAR METROPOLIS Editors' Introduction to Part DC 429 Essays THOMAS J. SUGRUE, Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit (1996) 431 ROBERT O. SELF, White Noose (2003) 442 SUDHIR ALLADI VENKATESH, The Beginning of the End of a Modern Ghetto (2000) 455 Documents 9-1 Housing Act of 1949 465 9-2 SLOAN WILSON, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) 466 9-3 Watts Riots, August 11-15, 1965 469 9-4 ADAM FORTUNATE EAGLE, Urban Indians (1964-1969) 470 CONTENTS | 9-5 Oakland Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Ten Point Plan (1966) 472 9-6. MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD, All Souls (1999) 475 9-7. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, Address to the Nation on the Civil Disturbances in Los Angeles, California (1992) 478 9-8. ARNE DUNCAN, Hispanic Communities and Urban Public Schools (2009) 480 PART X. EXURBIA AND POSTTNDUSTRIAL CITIES Editors' Introduction to Part X 485 Essays LIZABETH COHEN, Commerce: Reconfiguring Community Marketplaces (2003)487 HAL ROTHMAN, Inventing Modern Las Vegas (2003) 499 COREY DOLGON, Polo Ponies and Penalty Kicks: Sports on the East End (2005) 510 Documents 10-1. EBENEZER HOWARD, Garden Cities of To-Morrow (1902)517 10-2. EDWARD BELLAMY, Looking Backward (1887)519 10-3. CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM, Charter of the New Urbanism (1996) 521 10-4. HANNA ROSIN, American Murder Mystery (2008) 524 10-5. MICHAEL ARAD AND PETER WALKER, Reflecting Absence (2003) 526 Reference and Suggested Bibliography 529 Copyright Information 547 Index 551