URBAN SOCIOLOGY READING LIST
10/12/09
THEORY
Dear, Michael. 2001. From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Sage Publications.
Fischer, Claude. 1995. “The Subcultural Theory of Urbanism - A 20th Year Assessment” American Journal of Sociology 101:543-77.
Gottdiener, Mark and Joe Feagin. 1988. "The Paradigm Shift in Urban Sociology." Urban Affairs Quarterly 24(2):163-187.
Harvey, David. 1973. Social Justice and the City. Baltimore: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press.
Harvey, David. 1978. "The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework For Analysis.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2:101-131.
Harvey, David. 1997. “The Environment of Justice.” Pp. 65-99 in The Urbanization of Injustice, Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. New York: NYU Press.
Hawley, Amos H. 1978. “Urbanization as Process.” Pp. 3-26 in David Street (ed.), Handbook of Contemporary Urban Life.
Jacobs, Jane. 1961. Death and Life of Great American Cities, Part One (Ch. 2-6)
Logan, John and Harvey Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Massey, Douglas S. 2005. Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World. New York: W. W. Norton. Chapters 1,2,6,7
Miller, Donald S., editor. 1986. The Lewis Mumford Reader. New York: Pantheon Books. Part III – The City in Civilization and Part IV – They Urban Prospect (pp. 99- 242)
Park, Robert E. and ErnestW.Burgess. 1967. The City, Edited by M.Janowitz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Sassen, Saskia. 2000. "New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium." The British Journal of Sociology 51:143-159.
Smith, David. 1995. “The New Urban Sociology Meets the Old: Rereading Some Classical Human Ecology.” Urban Affairs Review 30(3):432-457.
Wirth, Louis. 1938. "Urbanism as a Way of Life" American Journal of Sociology 44:1-24.
Zukin, Sharon. 1991. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Berkeley: University of California Press (Chapters 1,7-8).
POLITICS OF GROWTH AND URBAN RESTRUCTURING
Dreier, Peter, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom. 2001. Place matters: Metropolitics for the twenty-first century. University of Kansas Press.
Fainstein, Susan. 1997. “Justice, Politics and the Creation of Urban Space.” Pp. 18-44 in The Urbanization of Injustice, Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. New York: NYU Press.
Galster, George, Royce Hanson, Michael R. Ratcliffe, Harold Wolman, Stephen Coleman, and Jason Freihage. 2001. “Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground: Defining and Measuring an Elusive Concept.” Housing Policy Debate 12:681-717.
Halle, David. 2003. New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society and Culture – A Comparative View. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Harding, Alan. 1996. “Is There a New Community Power and Why Should We Need One?” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 20:637-55.
Jackson, Kenneth. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of theUnited States. New York: OxfordUniversity Press.
Jaret, Charles, Ravi Ghadge, Lesley Williams Reid, and Robert M. Adelman. 2009.“The Measurement of Suburban Sprawl: An Evaluation.” City & Community 8:65-84.
Logan, John R. and KyleD.Crowder. 2002. "Political Regimes and Suburban Growth, 1980-1990." City & Community 1:113-135.
Logan, John R., RachelBridges Whaley, and KyleCrowder. 1997. "The Character and Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of Research" Urban Affairs Review, 32: 603-630.
Rosenbaum, James, Stefanie DeLuca, and Tammy Tuck. 2005. “New Capabilities in New Places: Low Income Black Families in Suburbia.” Pp. 150-175 in Xavierde SouzaBriggs (ed.), The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America.
SEGREGATION AND THE URBAN UNDERCLASS
Adelman, RobertM. 2005. “The Role of Race, Class, and Residential Preferences in the Neighborhood Racial Composition of Middle-Class Blacks and Whites,” Social Science Quarterly 86(1): 209- 228.
Alba, RichardD., JohnR.Logan, and BrianStults. 2000. “The Changing Neighborhood Contexts of the Immigrant Metropolis” Social Forces 79 (December): 587-621.
Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago:University of Chicago Press.
Bruch, Elizabeth E. and RobertD.Mare. 2006. "Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change." American Journal of Sociology 112:667-709.
Butler, John Sibley. 2005(1991).Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans. Albany: SUNY Press.
Charles, Camille Z. 2003. “The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation.” Annual Review of Sociology 29:167-207.
Clark, William A.V. and Sarah A. Blue. 2004. “Race, Class and Segregation Patterns in U.S. Immigrant Gateway Cities.” Urban Affairs Review39(6):667-688.
Crowder, Kyle D. and Scott South. 2008. “Spatial Dynamics of White Flight: The Effects of Local and Extra local Racial Conditions on Neighborhood Out-Migration.” American Sociological Review 73:792-812.
Ellen, Ingrid Gould. 1998. “Stable, Racial Integration in the Contemporary United States: An Empirical Overview” Journal of Urban Affairs 20: 27-42.
Ellis, Mark, Steven R. Holloway, RichardWright, and MargaretEast. 2007. "The Effects of Mixed-Race Households on Residential Segregation." Urban Geography28.
Fischer, Claude S., Gretchen Stockmayer, Jon Stiles, and Michael Hout. 2004. “Distinguishing the Geographic Levels and Social Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation, 1960-2000,” Demography 41(1): 37-59.
Fischer, Mary J. 2003. “The Relative Importance of Class and Race in Determining Residential
Outcomes in U.S. Urban Areas, 1970-2000.” Urban Affairs Review. 38(5): 669-696.
Friedman, Samantha. 2008. “Do Declines in Residential Segregation Mean Stable Neighborhood Racial Integration in Metropolitan America? A Research Note.” Social Science Research37(3):920-933.
Galster, George and Sean Killen. 1995. “The Geography of Housing Opportunity: A Reconnaissance and Conceptual Framework” Housing Policy Debate: 6:7-43.
Harris, David R. 1999. “ ‘Property Values Drop When Blacks Move In Because…’: Racial and Socioeconomic Determinants of Neighborhood Desirability.” American Sociological Review 64:461-79.
Iceland, John. 2004. “Beyond Black and White: Metropolitan residential segregation in multi-ethnic America.” Social Science Research 33:248-271.
Lacy, Karyn. 2007. “Black spaces, black places: Strategic Assimilation and Identity Construction in Middle-Class Suburbia.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 27(6):908-30.
Logan, John R. , Brian J. Stults and Reynolds Farley. 2004. "Segregation of Minorities in the Metropolis: Two Decades of Change" Demography 41(1): 1-22.
Krysan, Maria. 2002. “Whites Who Say They’d Flee: Who Are They, and Why Would They Leave?” Demography 39:675-96.
Krysan, Maria and Reynolds Farley. 2002. “The Residential Preferences of Blacks: Do They Explain Persistent Segregation?” Social Forces80:937-80.
Massey, Douglas, Michael White, and Voon-Chin Phua. 1996. “The Dimensions of Segregation Revisited” Sociological Methods and Research 25: 172-206.
Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. HarvardUniversity Press.
Massey, Douglas S. and MaryJ.Fischer. 1999. “Does Rising Income Bring Integration? New Results for Blacks, Hispanics and Asians in 1990.” Social Science Research 28:316-326.
O’Connor, Alice, Chris Tilly and Lawrence D. Bobo. 2001. Urban Inequality: Evidence From Four Cities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (Introductory Chapter and Chapter 4).
Orfield, Gary. 1996. “Segregated Housing and School Reform” Pp. 291-330 in Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education edited by Gard Orfield, Susan Eaton and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation. New York: Free Press.
Patillo-McCoy, Mary. 1999. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Rieder, Jonathan. 1985. Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapter 3.
South, Scott and Kyle Crowder. 1997. “Escaping Distressed Neighborhoods: Individual, Community, and Metropolitan Influences” American Journal of Sociology 102:1040-84.
Squires, Gregory D. and Charis E. Kubrin. 2005. “Priviledged Places: Race, Uneven Development, and the Geography of Opportunity in Urban America.” Urban Studies 42:47-68.
Tach, Laura M. 2009. “More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed-Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project.” City and Community 8(3):269-299.
Wilson, Frank Harold. 2004. Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City. Albany: SUNY Press.
Wilson, William J. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: the inner city, the underclass, and public policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, William J. 2009. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Yinger, John. 1998. “Housing Discrimination Is Still Worth Worrying About” Housing Policy Debate 9: 893-927.
INCORPORATION OF IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR IMPACTS
Alba, RichardD., NancyDenton, Shu-Yin Leung, and JohnR.Logan. 1995. "Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration: The New York City Region, 1970-1990” International Migration Review 29: 625-656.
Alba, RichardD., JohnR.Logan, BrianStults, GilbertMarzan, and WenquanZhang. 1999. “Immigrant Groups and Suburbs: A Reexamination of Suburbanization and Spatial Assimilation” American Sociological Review 64: 446-60.
Brown, Susan K. 2007. “Delayed Spatial Assimilation: Multigenerational Incorporation of Mexican-Origin Population in Los Angeles.” City and Community 6:193-209.
Chung, Angie Y. 2001. “The Powers that Bind: A Case Study on the Collective Bases of Coalition-Building in Post-Civil Unrest in Los Angeles.” Urban Affairs Review 37(2):205-226.
Horton, John. 1995. The politics of diversity: immigration, resistance, and change in Monterey Park, California. TempleUniversity Press.
Iceland, John and Melissa Scopilliti. 2008. “Immigrant Residential Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1990-2000.” Demography 45(1):79-94.
Kasinitz, Philip, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway. 2008. Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Chapters 1, 2, 4, 11).
Lin, Jan. 1998. “Globalization and the Revalorizing of Ethnic Places in Immigration Gateway Cities.” Urban Affairs Review 34(2):313-339.
Logan, John R., RichardD.Alba, and WenquanZhang. 2002. “Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los Angeles” American Sociological Review 67: 299-322.
Massey, Douglas S (ed.). 2008. New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (Chapters 1,2,4,10,14,15)
Portes, Alejandro. 1998. “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 24:1-24.
Rosenbaum, Emily and Samantha Friedman. 2007. The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York’s Housing Market. New York: New York University Press.
Sampson, Robert J. and Patrick Sharkey. 2008. “Neighborhood Selection and the Social Reproduction of Concentrated Racial Inequality.” Demography 45(1):1-29.
South, Scott J., KyleCrowder, and ErickChavez. 2005. “Migration and Spatial Assimilation among U.S. Latinos: Classic versus Segmented Trajectories.” Demography 42(3): 497-521.
Waldinger, Roger. 1996. Still the Promised City? African Americans and New Immigrants in Post-Industrial New York. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (Chapters 1-6).
Waters, Mary. 1999. Black identities: West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities. Harvard University Press. (Chapters 1,5,7,9)
Waters, Mary C. and Tomas R. Jimenez. 2005. “Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges.” Annual Review of Sociology 31: 105-125.
Yu, Zhou. 1998. “Beyond Ethnic Enclaves: Location Strategies of Chinese Producer Service Firms in Los Angeles.” Economic Geography 74(3):228-251.
COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela Kato Klebanov,, and Naomi Sealand. 1993. "Do Neighborhoods Influence Child and Adolescent Development?" American Journal of Sociology 99: 353-95.
Browning, Christopher R., SethL.Feinberg and RobertD.Dietz. 2004. “The Paradox of Social Organization: Networks, Collective Efficacy, and Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoods.” Social Forces 83(2): 503-534.
Clampet-Lundquist, Susan and Douglas S. Massey. 2008. “Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Reconsideration of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.” American Journal of Sociology 114(1):107-43.
Clark, William. 2008. “Reexamining the Moving to Opportunity Study and Its Contribution to Changing the Distribution of Poverty and Ethnic Concentration.” Demography 45:515-536.
Duneier, Mitch. 1999. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Freeman, Lance. 2006. There Goes the ‘Hood: Gentrification from the ground Up. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Gans, Herbert. 1982(1965). Urban Villagers. New York:The Free Press. (Chapters 1, 2, 5, 10 & postscript, 13, 14 & postscript).
Goering, John and Judith D. Feins (eds). 2003. Choosing a Better Life?Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press (Chapters 1, 4, 10, 13).
Gotham, Kevin Fox. 2002. “Beyond Invasion and Succession: School Segregation, Real Estate Blockbusting, and the Political Economy of Neighborhood Racial Transition.” City & Community 1:83-111.
Grannis, Rick. 2005. "T-Communities: Pedestrian Street Networks and Residential Segregation in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York." City and Community4:295-321.
Grannovetter, Mark. 1973. "The Strength of Weak Ties." American Journal of Sociology. 78:1360-1380.
Guest, Avery M., and SusanK.Wierzbicki. 1999. “Social Ties at the Neighborhood Level: Two Decades of GSS Evidence.” Urban Affairs Review 35:92-111.
Hampton, Keith, and Barry Wellman. 2003. “Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb.” City & Community 2:277-311.
Harding, David J. 2003. “Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on Dropping Out and Teenage Pregnancy.” American Journal of Sociology 109:676-719.
Lofland, Lynn. 1973. A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Low, Setha. 2004. Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. New York: Routledge . (Chapters: Prologue, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 11)
Mears, DanielP. and AvinashS.Bhati. 2006. "No Community is an Island: The Effects of Resource Deprivation on Urban Violence in Spatially and Socially Proximate Communities." Criminology 44:506.
Morenoff, JeffreyD., and RobertJ.Sampson. 1997. “Violent Crime and the Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Transition: Chicago, 1970-1990.” Social Forces 76:31-64.
Sampson, Robert and Stephen Raudenbush. 1999 . “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods” American Journal of Sociology 105, 3:603-651.
Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. “Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy.” Science 277:918-24.
Sampson, Robert J., JeffreyD.Morenoff and ThomasGannon-Rowley. 2002. "Assessing 'Neighborhood Effects': Social Processes and New directions in Research." Annual Review of Sociology 28:443-478.
South, Scott J. and KyleD.Crowder. 1999. “Neighborhood Effects on Family Formation: Concentrated Poverty and Beyond” American Sociological Review 64: 113-32.
South, Scott J. Kyle Crowder, and Jeremy Pais. 2008. “Inter-neighborhood Migration and Spatial Assimilation in a Multi-ethnic World: Comparing Latinos, Blacks and Anglos.” Social Forces 87: 415-443.
Suttles, Gerald. 1968. The Social Order of the Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapters 1, 2, 12)
Swaroop, Sapna and Jeffrey D. Morenoff. 2006. "Building Community: The Neighborhood Context of Social Organization." Social Forces 84:1665-1695.
Taylor, Monique M. 2002. Harlem: Between Heaven and Hell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Wellman, Barry. 1979. “The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers.” American Journal of Sociology 84:1201-31.
COMPARATIVE URBANIZATION AND GLOBAL CITIES
Abu Lughod, Janet. 1999. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles : America's global cities. University of Minnesota Press. (Overview, Introduction to each part, and Chapter 13)
Alderson, Arthur S. and Jason Beckfield. 2004. “Power and Position in the World City System.” American Journal of Sociology 109:811-851.
Bodnár, Judit. 1996. “He That Hath to Him Shall Be Given: Housing Privatization in Budapest after State Socialism” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20:616-36.
Bradshaw, York. 1987. "Urbanization and Underdevelopment." American Sociological Review 52:224-239.
Brockerhoff, Martin. 2000. An Urbanizing World. Population Bulletin. Vol. 55, No. 3. Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau.
Chen, Xiangming and Jiaming Sun. “Sociological Perspectives on Urban China: From Familiar Territories to Complex Terrains.” China Information 20, 3 (2006): 519-551.
Chiu, Stephen W.K. and Tai-lok Lui. 2004. “Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis: Hong Kong since the 1990s.” Urban Studies 41(10):1863-1888.
Davis, Kingsley. 1960. “The Origin and Growth of Urbanization in the World” American Journal of Sociology 60: 429-37.
Davis, Diane E. and Kian Tajbakhsh. 2005. “Globalization and Cities in Comparative Perspective.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29(1):89-91.
Gugler, Josef (ed.). 2004. World Cities beyond the West: Globalization, Development, and Inequality. Cambridge University Press (Chapters: Introduction, 1, 7, 8, 12 afterward).
Hill, Richard Child and June Woo Kim. 2000. “Global Cities and Developmental States: New York, Tokyo, and Seoul.” Urban Studies 37(12):2167-2195.
Kasarda, John and Crenshaw. 1991. “Third World Urbanization” Annual Review of Sociology 17:467-501.
Liang, Zai. 2001. “The Age of Migration in China.”Population and Development Review 27:499-524.
Liang, Zai, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por Chen. 2008. “Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations.” Pp. 205-225 in John R. Logan (ed.), Urban China in Transition. Blackwell.
Lin, Jan. 1998. Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change. University of Minnesota Press. (Chapters: Introduction, 3, 4, 7, 8)
Logan, John R., YanjieBian, and FuqinBian. 1999. “Housing Inequality in Urban China in the 1990s” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23:7-25.
Molotch, Harvey and Serena Vicari. 1988. “Three Ways to Build: The Development Process in the United States, Japan and Italy.” Urban Affairs Quarterly 24:188-214.
Orum, Anthony M. and Xiangming Chen. 2003. The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Pickvance, C.G.. 1994. “Housing Privatization and Housing Protest in the Transition from State Socialism: A Comparative Study of Budapest and Moscow” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 18:433-50.
Samers, Michael. 2002. “Immigration and the Global City Hypothesis: Towards an Alternative Research Agenda.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26:389-402.
Sassen, Saskia. 2006. Cities in a World Economy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. (Chapters 1-3, 7).
Smart, Alan. 2003. “Urbanization and the Global Perspective.” Annual Review of Anthropology 32:263-285.
White, James W. 1998. “Old Wine, Cracked Bottle? Tokyo, Paris, and the Global City Hypothesis.” Urban Affairs Review 33(4):451-477.
Zhou, Min and John R. Logan. 1996. "Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in Urban China" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20:400-21.
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