Recommended Reading
Background titles on cities, urban form, and urban technology. None of these are assigned. The assigned readings, by syllabus week, are on the readings page .
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
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The New Science of Cities
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Inventing Future Cities
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The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City
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New York New York New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation
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The Cost of New York City's Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project
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The Rise of the Creative Class
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
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Preparing for the Future: A Commercial Development Strategy for New York City
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Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land Use Regulation
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Cool Deals of 2010: Sale and Development of the MTA's West Side Railyards
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The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History
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City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
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The Image of the City
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The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World
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The Seduction of Place: The City in the 21st Century
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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia