LibGuides: Library City: Practicing Curiosity: Books about Cities

City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by P. D. Smith
Call Number: HT111 .S55 2012

For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.3 billion people-is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers-the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future. The urban explorer will revel in essays on downtowns, suburbs, shantytowns and favelas, graffiti, skylines, crime, the theater, street food, sport, eco-cities, and sacred sites, as well as mini essays on the Tower of Babel, flash mobs, ghettos, skateboarding, and SimCity, among many others
The Blackwell City Reader by Gary Bridge (Editor); Sophie Watson (Editor)
Call Number: HT111 .B53 2010

ISBN: 9781405189828

Brings together a wide range of essential readings relating to the analysis and experience of cities across the globe. Selections are carefully gathered from a variety of academic disciplines ranging from architecture, sociology, and literature to cultural studies, philosophy, and even psychoanalysis to provide the most diverse perspectives and in-depth coverage of the field. The new edition incorporates major developments in the study of materialities and mobilities, two areas at the heart of many contemporary debates; it also features enhanced coverage on non-Western cities that reflect recent growth trends, especially in Asia, China, and India.
A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
Call Number: HT111 .B76 2013

ISBN: 9780393348866

Publication Date: 2014-04-21

Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. In a captivating blend of history and reportage, Daniel Brook travels to a series of major metropolitan hubs that were once themselves instant cities― St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and Mumbai―to watch their “dress rehearsals for the twenty-first century.” Understanding today’s emerging global order requires comprehending the West’s profound and conflicted influence on developing-world cities over the centuries.
The City Reader by Richard T. LeGates (Editor); Frederic Stout (Editor)
Call Number: HT151 .C586 2003

ISBN: 9780415271721

The third edition of the The City Reader juxtaposes the best of publications on the city. It has been extensively updated to reflect the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. Classic writings from such authors as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Le Corbusier, meet the best contemporary writings of Peter Hall, Saskia Sassen and Manuel Castells among others.
City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte; Paco Underhill (Foreword by)
Call Number: HT151 .W55 2009

ISBN: 9780812220742

Publication Date: 2009-08-25

For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it.
The Cultures of Cities by Sharon Zukin
Call Number: HT109 .Z85 1995

ISBN: 9781557864376

How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are constantly negotiated in the city's central spaces - the streets, parks, shops, museums, and restaurants - which are the great public spaces of modernity.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT167 .J33 1961

ISBN: 9780679741954

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey
Call Number: HN17.5 .H355 2012

ISBN: 9781781680742

Publication Date: 2013-04-09

Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change by Mike Lydon; Anthony Garcia; Andres Duany (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781610915267

Publication Date: 2015-03-17

In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, community-based projects--from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives--have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activists, planners, and policy-makers seeking to drive lasting improvements in their cities and beyond. These quick, often low-cost, and creative projects are the essence of the Tactical Urbanism movement.
Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities by Jeffrey Hou
Call Number: HT361 .I48 2010

ISBN: 9780415779661

Publication Date: 2010-05-27

In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities. With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world. Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles, street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces into temporary parks in San Francisco.
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion: 101 Things that Open and Close the City
Call Number: NA680 2015

The arsenal of exclusion / inclusion' is a book about 101 "weapons" that architects, planners, policy-makers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists and other urban agents use to restrict or promote access to the space of the city. The Arsenal includes minor, seemingly benign things like "no loitering" signs and bouncers, but also big, headline-grabbing entities like gated communities and eminent domain. It includes policies like inclusionary zoning and rent control, but also physical things like bombs and those armrests that they put on park benches to make sure homeless people don't get too comfortable.
Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism by Bryan Bell; Katie Wakeford
Call Number: NA2543.S6 E96 2008

ISBN: 9781933045788

Publication Date: 2008-10-01

Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford map an emerging geography of architectural activism--or "public-interest architecture". With 30 essays by practicing architects and designers, urban and community planners, historians, landscape architects, environmental designers and members of other fields, this volume presents recent work from around the world that illustrates the ways in which design can address issues of social justice.
The Art of Rebellion 2: World of Urban Art Activism by C100
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2590 .H862 2006

ISBN: 9783980990943

The Art of Rebellion 2 features an up to the minute international survey of street art, spotlighting dozens of new and unknown protagonists alongside many well known and respected artists who have been at it for years. Since the publication of the first volume, there has been a surge in street art activity and a growing awareness of the art form in the public eye; this volume takes the reader on a lush visual journey through that artistic explosion and features tons of new work with original styles, techniques and intent.

Automatic Cities: the Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art by Robin Clark
Call Number: N72.A75 C53 2009

ISBN: 9780934418713

Publication Date: 2009-11-30

Automatic Cities explores the psychological and metaphorical influence of architecture on contemporary visual art. The title of the exhibition refers to the Surrealist practices of automatic writing and automatic drawing, which sought to access individual creativity by tapping into the unconscious. The exhibition explores notions of architecture in the broadest sense, comprising images of sites and cities both built and unbuilt, rising from collective experience and imagination." "Automatic Cities includes works by 13 artists and one artists' collective hailing from 11 countries around the globe
Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 by Thomas Leslie
ISBN: 9780252094798

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy City's skyscrapers begins in the key period of reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1871 and concludes in 1934 with the onset of the Great Depression, which brought architectural progress to a standstill. During this time, such iconic landmarks as the Chicago Tribune Tower, the Wrigley Building, the Marshall Field and Company Building, the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Palmolive Building, the Masonic Temple, the City Opera, Merchandise Mart, and many others rose to impressive new heights, thanks to innovations in building methods and materials.
A Field Guide to Sprawl by Dolores Hayden; Jim Wark (Photographer)
Call Number: HT321 .H3856 2004

ISBN: 9780393731255

Publication Date: 2004-07-17

Sixty-nine aerial photographs, each paired with a definition, convey the impact of development and provide verbal and visual vocabulary needed by professionals, public officials, and citizens to critique uncontrolled growth in the American landscape. This "devil's dictionary" of American building accompanies a critique of metropolitan regions organized around unsustainable growth, where sprawling new areas of automobile-oriented construction flourish as older neighborhoods are left to decline.
Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space by Mark Shepard (Editor)
Call Number: NA2543.T43 S47 2011

ISBN: 9780262515863

Publication Date: 2011-02-18

Five teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine a variety of future interactions that take place as computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the city. "Too Smart City" employs city furniture as enforcers: a bench ejects a sitter who sits too long, a sign displays the latest legal codes and warns passersby against transgression, and a trashcan throws back the wrong kind of trash. "Amphibious Architecture" uses underwater sensors and lights to create a human-fish-environment feedback loop; "Natural Fuse" uses a network of "electronically assisted" plants to encourage energy conservation; "Trash Track" follows smart-tagged garbage on its journey through the city's waste-management system; and "Breakout" uses wireless technology and portable infrastructure to make the entire city a collaborative workplace.
Skyscraper Style: Art Deco, New York by Cervin Robinson; Rosemarie Haag Bletter
Call Number: NA3511.N48 R6

ISBN: 9780195018738

Publication Date: 1975-01-01

Detailed survey of architectural styles dating from the 1920's & 1930's by photographer Cervin Robinson, centering on 108 buildings found in New York City.

The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980 by Katherine A. Bussard; Alison Fisher; Gregory Foster-Rice
Call Number: N8217.C35 B87 2014

ISBN: 9780300207859

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and '70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performance artists, and filmmakers turned conditions of crisis into sites for civic discourse and artistic expression. The City Lost and Found explores photographic and cinematic responses to the changing fabric of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles that contributed to a reconsideration of cities in popular media and urban policy during this period. This book raises timely questions about the role of art within the social, political, and physical landscape of cities.
Art and the City by Nicolas Whybrow
ISBN: 9780857718822

Publication Date: 2010-10-30

Henri Lefebvre predicted that the future of art was urban. Art and the City adopts this statement as its cue, taking into account the performative and relational ‘turns'of art in more recent times. The book portrays what may be at stake in the emerging triangulation of art, the city and the rights of citizens, concentrating particularly on their mutual contingencies. It goes on to develop approaches to writing about artworks from the point of view of the spectator's first-hand encounter with them in urban contexts.
Art and the City by Anna Schindler (Text by); Weiwei Ai; Christoph Doswald (Editor); Markus Miessen (Text by); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Text by)
Call Number: N7148.65.P8 A77 2012

ISBN: 9783037642962

Art and the City explores the condition of public art in cities. Divided into two volumes shrinkwrapped together--one of color plates, the other of critical discussion--it includes works by artists such as Doug Aitken, Ai Weiwei, Los Carpinteros, Martin Creed, Frank Stella and Oscar Tuazon.
No Room to Move: Radical Art And The Regenerate City by Josephine Berry Slater; Anthony Iles
Call Number: N8846.G7 S53 2010

ISBN: 1906496420

As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders, Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making. Focusing on artists and consultants who have engaged critically with the exclusionary politics of urban regeneration, their analysis locates such practice within a schematic history of urban development's neoliberal mode. Breaking down into a report and collection of interviews, this investigation consistently focuses on the possibility and forms of critical public art within a regime that fetishises 'creativity'. How, they ask, is critical art shaped by its interaction with this aspect of biopolitical governance?
ABC DF: Diccionario gráfico de la Ciudad de México
Call Number: F1386 .A53 2001

ISBN: 9685467005

The inhabitants of one of the largest cities in the world are exposed to inexhaustible stimuli of all kinds. In the presence of such a vast amount of fortuitous and random information, the free and playful association of images triggered the decision to publish a book on the experience of living in the Federal District. One day the title came to us: ABCDF. Immediately thereafter the project became a dictionary, a repertory of images that referred to Mexico City, organized from A to Z. From the beginning we knew that this project was going to achieve its full dimension in three formats: the intimate experience of a book, the interactive experience with a CD and a collective experience. We envisioned the latter as an exhibition where the project would become a 3D space in which the spectator would find multiple references to his or her everyday life.
Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990 by Wim de Wit
Call Number: NA735.L55 O94 2013

ISBN: 9781606061282

The drawings, models, and images highlighted in the Overdrive exhibition and catalogue reveal the complex and often underappreciated facets of Los Angeles and illustrate how the metropolis became an internationally recognized destination with a unique design vocabulary, canonical landmarks, and a coveted lifestyle. This investigation builds upon the groundbreaking work of generations of historians, theorists, curators, critics, and activists who have researched and expounded upon the development of Los Angeles. In this volume, thought-provoking essays shed more light on the exhibition’s narratives, including Los Angeles’s physical landscape, the rise of modernism, the region’s influential residential architecture, its buildings for commerce and transportation, and architects’ pioneering uses of bold forms, advanced materials, and new technologies.
The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas by Peter Cook
Call Number: Main Lvl NA9095 .C66 2003

ISBN: 9781580931083

Publication Date: 2004-01-30

The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas is a survey of Peter Cook's career-long project to reinvigorate the city as we know it. A series of meditations on contemporary urban conditions in cities as diverse as Tokyo, Edinburgh, Houston, and Santa Monica, this volume also functions as an informal memoir in which Cook reveals the influences and motivations behind his seminal works for Archigram in the 1960s and early '70s, as well as more recent projects such as the biomorphic Kunsthaus, a contemporary-art exhibition space in Graz, Austria
Automatic Cities: the Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art by Robin Clark
Call Number: N72.A75 C53 2009

ISBN: 9780934418713

Publication Date: 2009-11-30

Automatic Cities explores the psychological and metaphorical influence of architecture on contemporary visual art. The title of the exhibition refers to the Surrealist practices of automatic writing and automatic drawing, which sought to access individual creativity by tapping into the unconscious. The exhibition explores notions of architecture in the broadest sense, comprising images of sites and cities both built and unbuilt, rising from collective experience and imagination." "Automatic Cities includes works by 13 artists and one artists' collective hailing from 11 countries around the globe

Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lower Lvl PZ7.J6 A4 1995

ISBN: 9780140559040

Publication Date: 1999-10-25

The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter "A"--while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring Ys. A 1996 Caldecott Honor book.
Henri's Walk to Paris by Saul Bass
Call Number: Lower Lvl PZ7.K67834 H4 2012

Henri’s Walk to Paris is the story of a young boy who lives in Reboul, France, who dreams of going to Paris. One day, after reading a book about Paris, he decides to pack a lunch and head for the city. “Like many of us Henri wants to see Paris. In Paris, there are thousands of buses. In Reboul, where Henri lives, there is only one bus. In Paris there are many parks and rows and rows of trees. The park in Reboul has only five trees. In Paris there are many zoos full of animals for the people to see. So one fine day Henri packs up some lunch and starts off to see all the things he had read about.” Along the way, Henri gets tired and falls asleep under a tree. And this is when the story gets really charming. What Henri sees, we see, in a flowing panorama of pictures conceived by the eminent graphic designer Saul Bass.
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De la Peña; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lower Lvl PZ7.P3725 L378 2015

ISBN: 9780399257742

Publication Date: 2015-01-08

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn’t he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty—and fun—in their routine and the world around them. This energetic ride through a bustling city highlights the wonderful perspective and comes to life through Matt de la Pena’s vibrant text and Christian Robinson’s radiant illustrations.
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Call Number: PZ7.B425 M3 1967

"Bemelmans' drawings have put an authentic Paris within the covers of this book." New York Times
Rome Antics by David Macaulay
Call Number: PZ7.M1197 R6 1997

A pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour through Rome. As we follow the path of this somewhat wayward bird, we discover that Rome is a place where past and present live side by side. It is a city that has been recycling itself for two thousand years, but unlike a museum, Rome displays its remarkable history without respect for chronology. A new electric bus travels over cobblestone streets just ten feet above the floor of an ancient stadium. Inscriptions from tombs and temples share wall space with neon. Every time a corner is turned there is a surprise, just as every turn of the page brings a new perspective.
The Sound of Silence by Katrina Goldsaito; Julia Kuo (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.G653 S68 2016

ISBN: 0316203378

Publication Date: 2016-08-02

Do you have a favorite sound?" little Yoshio asks. The musician answers, "The most beautiful sound is the sound of ma, of silence." But Yoshio lives in Tokyo, Japan: a giant, noisy, busy city. He hears shoes squishing through puddles, trains whooshing, cars beeping, and families laughing. Tokyo is like a symphony hall! Where is silence? Yoshio travels through the hustle and bustle of the city to find the most beautiful sound of all.
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Call Number: PZ7.R4726 T37 1991

ISBN: 0517885441

Publication Date: 1996-12-03

Tar Beach is a work of modern art translated into a children's picture book. The painted scene in the center of the quilt shows a Harlem rooftop on a starry night with four adults playing cards and with Cassie Louise Lightfoot and her brother, Be Be, lying on a blanket gazing at the sky. Cassie sees herself flying over the city lights; dreams of wearing the George Washington Bridge as a necklace; imagines giving her father the union building he is not allowed to join because of his half-black, half-Indian heritage; flies over the ice cream factory; and takes her little brother with her to the sky.
This Is Edinburgh by Miroslav Sasek
Call Number: PZ7.S37 E356 2006

ISBN: 0789313871

Publication Date: 2006-02-21

M. Sasek has captured the very spirit, pride, and grandeur of one of the noblest places on earth in This is Edinburgh, first published in 1961. Sasek is right at home in Scotland, with its famous sights, unique character, and iconic traditions of kilt and tartan, pipes and pipers, whisky and haggis.
This Is London by Miroslav Sasek
Call Number: PZ7.S37 L6 2004

Here this beloved illustrator shares his impressions of London with its beautiful buildings, historic monuments, bridges, parks, shops and Piccadilly Circus, black cabs, Horse Guards, and famed Underground. Sasek has cast his loving eye on London and the result are colorful, sophisticated pictures of one of the most exciting cities in the world, paired with a lively text that keeps a playful sense of fun while taking the reader to the highlights of one of the world’s great capitals.
This Is Munich by M. Sasek
Call Number: PZ7.S37 M865 2012

ISBN: 0789324261

Publication Date: 2012-02-14

Sasek introduces children—and many adults alike—to the ancient Bavarian capital. Stops include the New Town Hall, the Frauenkirche cathedral, and Munich’s most famous beer hall.

With bright pictures and snappy commentary, Sasek wittily captures all the fascinating things to do and see in this German seat of culture—This is Munich!
This Is New York by Miroslav Sasek
Call Number: PZ7 .S37 N4 2003

Everything about New York is big -- the buildings, the traffic jams, the cars, the stories, the Sunday papers. Here is the Staten Island Ferry, the Statute of Liberty, MacDougal Alley in Greenwich Village, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Harlem, Chinatown, Central Park. The brass, the beauty, the magic, This Is New York!
This Is Paris by Miroslav Sasek
Call Number: PZ7.S37 P3 2004

ISBN: 0789310635

With the same wit and perception that distinguished his charming books on London, New York, and San Francisco, here this famous Czech painter presents his impressions of Paris in This Is Paris, first published in 1959 and now updated for the 21st century. We see its famous buildings, its beautiful gardens, the museums, the sidewalk cafes, and the people who live there -- artists, the concierges, the flower girls, and even the thousands of cats. Take a tour along the banks of the Seine, or through the galleries of the Louvre, or to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Elegant, vivid pictures of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, This is Paris!
This Is Rome by Miroslav Sasek
Call Number: PZ7 .S37 R6 2007

This is Rome, first published in 1960, traces the history of Roman civilization to bring to life the Rome of the 60's. Sasek navigates Rome's busy, winding streets to visit such glorious historical landmarks as the statues of Michelangelo, Vatican City, the Pantheon, and the Fontana di Trevi-and to show us the eccentricities of modern Roman life, from its colorful trains, trams, and taxis to its chic espresso bars and pasta houses.
This Is San Francisco by Miroslav Sasek
Call Number: PZ7.S37 S37 1962

Publication Date: Lower Lvl PZ7.S37 S37 1962

Let the rumbling cable car tell you the story! And what a story: From the crookedest street in the world to the Peking ducks in Chinatown, San Francisco is easily one of the world's most enchanting cities. Illustrator Miroslav Sasek captures both the breathtaking landscape and the cosmopolitan flavor of the City by the Bay in This is San Francisco. First published in 1962, Sasek's jaunty, colorful illustrations will still dazzle kids and adults alike.
This Is Venice by M. Sasek
Call Number: PZ7.S37 V465 2005

ISBN: 9780789312235

Publication Date: 2005-02-22

This is Venice, first published in 1961, presents indelible impressions of romantic, watery Venice, where under a brilliant blue sky Sasek the gondolier navigates the winding canals to visit such famous and glorious landmarks as the Palazzo Grassi, Piazza San Marco, Doges Palace, and the Accademia di Belle Arti.
Urban Animals by Isabel T. Hill (Photographer)
Call Number: PZ7.H56 U7 2009

ISBN: 9781595722102

Publication Date: 2009-09-01

Come to the city and you will find, animals, animals of every kind! Discover donkeys on grilles, boars guarding stoops, and elephants supporting flagpoles. The fantastic architectural animals and playful illustrations in this rhyming book will introduce children to the fanciful world of our built environment. Isabel Hill draws on over 30 years of experience working in urban planning and historic preservation to offer a new perspective in cityscapes.

Addis Ababa -The Evolution of an Urban African Cultural Landscape by Ronald A. Reminick
ISBN: 9780773419001

Publication Date: 2010-01-01

As a relatively new urban landscape, Addis Ababa possesses a rich cultural history that continues to develop today. Drawing on numerous first-person accounts of Addis Ababa from its inception to the present day, as well as the author's own field research, this work traces the development of the city from a military camp to the fastest-growing city in Africa. This book presents a holistic and diachronic view of the city and sets the stage for further analysis as the urbanization of Addis Ababa continues to evolve.
Berlin: portrait of a city through the centuries by Rory MacLean
Call Number: DD860 .M25 2015

ISBN: 9781250074904

Publication Date: 2015-10-13

Berlin is all about volatility. Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by the Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Today it resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realized, and evils executed with shocking intensity. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low; few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Berlin tells the volatile history of Europe's capital over five centuries through a series of intimate portraits of two dozen key residents
A Cultural History of Madrid: Modernism and the Urban Spectacle by Deborah L. Parsons
ISBN: 9781859736463

Publication Date: 2003-05-01

A Cultural History of Madrid presents an urban and cultural history of the city from the turn of the century to the early 1930s. Parsons explores the interface between elite, mass and popular culture in Madrid while considering the construction of a modern madrileo identity that developed alongside urban and social modernization. In addition, the author examines the development of new urban-based art forms and entertainments such as the zarzuela, music halls and cinema, and considers their interaction with more traditional cultural identities and activities. In arguing that traditional aspects of culture were incorporated into the everyday life of urban modernity, Parsons shows how the boundaries between high and low culture became increasingly blurred as a new identity influenced by modern consumerism emerged.
Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939 by Ageeth Sluis
ISBN: 9780803293823

Publication Date: 2016-01-01

In Deco Body, Deco City, Ageeth Sluis explores the effects of changing gender norms on the formation of urban space in Mexico City by linking aesthetic and architectural discourses to political and social developments. Through an analysis of the relationship between female migration to the city and gender performances on and off the stage, the book shows how a new transnational ideal female physique informed the physical shape of the city. By bridging the gap between indigenismo (pride in Mexico's indigenous heritage) and mestizaje (privileging the ideal of race mixing), this new female deco body paved the way for mestizo modernity. This cultural history enriches our understanding of Mexico's postrevolutionary decades and brings together social, gender, theater, and architectural history to demonstrate how changing gender norms formed the basis of a new urban modernity.
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of a Modern City by Joan DeJean
Call Number: DC729 .D39 2014

ISBN: 9781608195916

Publication Date: 2014-03-04

In this compelling portrait of a city in transition, Joan DeJean shows that by 1700 Paris had become the capital that would transform forever our conception of the city and of urban life.
The Other Paris by Luc Sante
Call Number: DC715 .S3125 2015

ISBN: 9780374299323

Publication Date: 2015-10-27

In The Other Paris, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside--one populated by working and criminal classes that, though virtually extinct today, have shaped Paris over the past two centuries. Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses--from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps--Sante, whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour.
Stockholm: A Cultural and Literary History by Tony Griffiths
ISBN: 9781904955528

Publication Date: 2011-06-13

ituated on Lake Malaren on one of the world's most beautiful harbours, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized city-living since the time of the Vikings. Its medieval regal period saw the Vasa dynasty turn a small town in the shadow of Uppsala into the capital city of a dominant power in Europe and a major trading port. In the Napoleonic era Stockholm readjusted its priorities to establish itself as a centre of innovation, technical and social. While the city has suffered more than its fair share of disasters, Stockholm's cultural and commercial elite transformed it into a community which welcomed innovation and spread the fruits of its achievements far beyond its borders.
Tokyo : A Cultural and Literary History by Stephen Mansfield
ISBN: 9781904955511

Publication Date: 2009

From its origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the backstreets of districts that have inspired the setting for science fiction novels are wooden temples, fox shrines, mouldering steles and statues of Bodhisattvas that evoke a different age. The point where time past, present and future coexist, Tokyo's thirst for the contemporary is moderated by nostalgia for the past. As an urban laboratory where the cultures of the East and West are remixed into perceptibly Japanese forms, Tokyo embraces sudden transitions, constant flux and transformation.
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette
Call Number: F379.N55 S83 2009

ISBN: 9781556527302

Publication Date: 2008-01-01

New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance. The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans’s first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti.

A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
Call Number: HV6648 .M36 2016

ISBN: 9780374117269

Publication Date: 2016-04-05

A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. Studying architecture the way a burglar would, Geoff Manaugh takes readers through walls, down elevator shafts, into panic rooms, up to the buried vaults of banks, and out across the rooftops of an unsuspecting city. With the help of FBI Special Agents, reformed bank robbers, private security consultants, the L.A.P.D. Air Support Division, and architects past and present, the book dissects the built environment from both sides of the law.
X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life by John A. Adam
Call Number: HT151 .A288 2012

ISBN: 9780691154640

X and the City, a book of diverse and accessible math-based topics, uses basic modeling to explore a wide range of entertaining questions about urban life. How do you estimate the number of dental or doctor's offices, gas stations, restaurants, or movie theaters in a city of a given size? How can mathematics be used to maximize traffic flow through tunnels? Can you predict whether a traffic light will stay green long enough for you to cross the intersection? And what is the likelihood that your city will be hit by an asteroid? Filled with interesting and unusual observations about how cities work, X and the City shows how mathematics undergirds and plays an important part in the metropolitan landscape.
In the City: Drawings by Nigel Peake
Call Number: NC242.P37 A4 2014

ISBN: 9781616891541

Publication Date: 2013-10-29

In the City explores the visual details of a variety of urban metropolises, including Shanghai, New York, Antwerp, London, Paris, Oslo, Lausanne, Budapest, Istanbul, and San Francisco. These new drawings and paintings document the sights, sounds, shapes, and textures he absorbs as he wanders the streets without a map or sits in a cafe while waiting for a train. Peake's hand-drawn observations capture the colors, grids, surfaces, paths, reflections, rooftops, and other details--from reflections on windows and cracks in the pavement to the frayed posters on building walls. What emerges is a personal and universal portrait of a city in all its beautiful and intricate forms, structures, and patterns.
Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City by Anne Mikoleit; Moritz Pürckhauer
Call Number: HT166 .H535 2011

ISBN: 9780262016414

Publication Date: 2011-08-26

Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urban planner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons"--maxims, observations, and bite-size truths, followed by short essays--that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to the city, a primer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level.
Underground by David Macaulay (Illustrator)
Call Number: TD159.3 .M3

ISBN: 9780395340653

Publication Date: 1983-03-23

Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city.
Let There Be Neon by Rudi Stern
Call Number: TK4383 .S73

ISBN: 0944094163

This is the only book in which neon is studied both as a handcraft and artistic medium with its own expressive potential. The only comprehensive visual history of 100 years of neon, this will delight anyone interested in the contemporary arts.
Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig; Damon Murray; Vera Kavalkova-Halvarsson (Text by); Jonathan Meades (Foreword by); Stephen Sorrell (Editor)
Call Number: HE5620.B87 H47 2015

ISBN: 9780993191107

Publication Date: 2015-09-29

Photographer Christopher Herwig has covered more than 30,000km by car, bike, bus and taxi in 13 former Soviet countries discovering and documenting these unexpected treasures of modern art. From the shores of the Black Sea to the endless Kazakh steppe, these bus stops show the range of public art from the Soviet era and give a rare glimpse into the creative minds of the time.
Trash: by John Knechtel (Editor)
Call Number: N8237.8.R44 T73 2007

ISBN: 9780262113014

Publication Date: 2006-10-01

Ecological Urbanism by Gareth Doherty (Editor); Mohsen Mostafavi (Editor)
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT241 .E374 2010

ISBN: 9783037781890

Publication Date: 2010-04-01

While climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding the sustainability of the city are rarely addressed. An ecological approach is needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities. Ecological Urbanism considers the city using multiple instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary focus. The book brings together practitioners, theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policymakers, scientists and public health specialists, with the goal of providing a diverse and nuanced understanding of ecological urbanism and how it might evolve in the future.
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World by Catherine Tumber
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT153 .T86 2012

ISBN: 9780262016698

America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities -- Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others -- increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to be part of America's past, not its future. And yet, Catherine Tumber argues in this provocative book, America's gritty Rust Belt cities could play a central role in a greener, low-carbon, relocalized future.
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen
Call Number: Lower Lvl GF504.N7 O95 2009

ISBN: 9781594484841

Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan—the most densely populated place in North America—rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production.
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide by Stacy Pettigrew; Juan Martinez (Illustrator); Scott T. Kellogg
Call Number: Lower Lvl GF78 .K45 2008

ISBN: 9780896087804

Rhizome Collective transformed an abandoned warehouse in Austin, Texas, into a sustainability training center. This book provides city dwellers with step-by- step instructions for producing food, collecting water, managing waste, reclaiming land, and generating energy.
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen; Sagmeister Inc. Staff (Designed by); Bill McKibben (Introduction by)
Call Number: Lower Lvl HC79.E5 W676 2011

ISBN: 9780810997462

Publication Date: 2011-04-01

Five years after the initial publication of Worldchanging, the landscape of environmentalism and sustainability has changed dramatically. The average reader is now well-versed--even inundated--with green lifestyle advice. In 2011, green is the starting point, not the destination. This second edition of the bestselling book is extensively revised to include the latest trends, technologies, and solutions in sustainable living. More than 160 new entries include up-to-the-minute information on the locavore movement, carbon-neutral homes, novel transportation solutions, the growing trend of ecotourism, the concept of food justice, and much more.
Urban Green by Peter Harnik; Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781597268127

Publication Date: 2012-07-16

For years American urban parks fell into decay due to disinvestment, but as cities began to rebound—and evidence of the economic, cultural, and health benefits of parks grew— investment in urban parks swelled. The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently cited meeting the growing demand for parks and open space as one of the biggest challenges for urban leaders today. It is now widely agreed that the U.S. needs an ambitious and creative plan to increase urban parklands. Urban Green explores new and innovative ways for “built out” cities to add much-needed parks.
Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature by Jens Lachmund
ISBN: 9780262312424

Publication Date: 2013-01-04

Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of many cities. One of the emblematic examples of this now worldwide trend has been the German city of Berlin, where, since the 1970s, urban planning has been complemented by a systematic policy of'biotope protection'-- at first only in the walled city island of West Berlin, but subsequently across the whole of the reunified capital. In Greening Berlin, Jens Lachmund uses the example of Berlin to examine the scientific and political dynamics that produced this change. After describing a tradition of urban greening in Berlin that began in the late nineteenth century, Lachmund details the practices of urban ecology and nature preservation that emerged in West Berlin after World War II and have continued in post-unification Berlin.
Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future by Niles Eldredge; Sidney Horenstein
ISBN: 9780520958302

Publication Date: 2014-10-23

If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, Eldredge and Horenstein use New York City as a microcosm to explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity. They illuminate the mass of contradictions that cities present in embodying the best and the worst of human existence. The authors demonstrate that, though cities have voracious appetites for resources such as food and water, they also represent the last hope for conserving healthy remnants of the world's ecosystems and species.

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by Peter Moskowitz
Call Number: HT175 .M67 2017

ISBN: 9781568585239

The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance.
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century by D. W. Gibson
Call Number: HT177.N5 G53 2015

ISBN: 9781468308617

Over the last few years, journalists, policymakers, critics, and historians have all tried to explain just what it is that happens when new money and new residents flow into established neighborhoods, yet we've had very little access to the human side of the gentrification phenomenon. The Edge Becomes the Center captures the stories of the many kinds of people - brokers, buyers, sellers, renters, landlords, artists, contractors, politicians, and everyone in between - who are shaping and being shaped by the new New York City. In this extraordinary oral history, DW Gibson takes gentrification out of the op-ed columns and textbooks and brings it to life, showing us what urban change looks and feels like by exposing us to the voices of the people living through it. Drawing on the plainspoken, casually authoritative tradition of Jane Jacobs and Studs Terkel, The Edge Becomes the Center is an inviting and essential portrait of the way we live now.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Call Number: HD7287.96.U6 D47 2016

ISBN: 9780553447439

Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Mitchell Duneier
Call Number: HT221 .D86 2016

ISBN: 9780374161804

In this sweeping and original account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot comprehend the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the ghettos of Europe, as well as earlier efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
If You Lived Here... by Martha Rosler; Brian Wallis (Editor)
Call Number: N72 .S6 D57 no.6

ISBN: 0941920186

Publication Date: 1991-03-01

This volume documents the present crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists, through the medium of a Dia Foundation-sponsored art event and within the context of neighborhood organizations, have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation. Through essays, photographs, symposiums, architectural plans and the reproduction of works from the series of exhibitions organized by artist Rosler, the book serves a number of functions: it's a practical manual for community organizing; a history of housing and homelessness in New York City and around the country; and an outline of what a humane housing policy might encompass for the American city. Essays by Rosler, filmmaker Yvonne Rainer as well as contributions by social critic Marshall Berman and a variety of community activists, filmmakers, architects, artists, historians and social critics include discussion of issues such as whether artists have special housing needs, gentrification and displacement, and the conditions and causes of homelessness.
Naked City: The Dead and Life of Authentic Urban Places by Sharon Zukin
Call Number: HN80.N5 Z85 2010

ISBN: 9780199794461

Publication Date: 2011-05-13

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens.
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson
Call Number: HV4045 .W553 1997

ISBN: 9780679724179

Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society.
Detroit Disassembled by Andrew Moore
Call Number: F574.D48 A2 2010

ISBN: 9788862081184

Publication Date: 2010-04-30

No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in which the ordinary flow of time-or the forward march of the assembly line-appears to have been thrown spectacularly into reverse.

These books are overviews.The library also has books about individual artists such as Keith Herring, Banksy, Mario Ybarra Jr., etc.

The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by Rafael Schacter
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2590 .S34 2013

ISBN: 9780300199420

Publication Date: 2013-09-03
Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents by Nicholas Ganz
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2590 .G35 2009

ISBN: 9780810980495

Publication Date: 2009-09-01
Sensacional: Mexican Street Graphics by Juan Carlos Mena; Oscar Reyes
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2644 .M46 2002

ISBN: 1568983468

Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Street Logos by Tristan Manco
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2590 .M26 2004

ISBN: 9780500284698

Publication Date: 2004-05-17
Graffiti Brasil by Tristan Manco; Caleb Neelon; Lost Arts Media Staff
Call Number: Lower Lvl GT3913.33.A2 M33 2005

ISBN: 9780500285749

Publication Date: 2005-11-28
The Art of Rebellion 2: World of Urban Art Activism by C100
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2590 .H862 2006

ISBN: 9783980990943

The Art of Rebellion 2 features an up to the minute international survey of street art, spotlighting dozens of new and unknown protagonists alongside many well known and respected artists who have been at it for years. Since the publication of the first volume, there has been a surge in street art activity and a growing awareness of the art form in the public eye; this volume takes the reader on a lush visual journey through that artistic explosion and features tons of new work with original styles, techniques and intent.
Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City by Ivor L. Miller; Robert Farris Thompson (Foreword by)
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2638.N4 M55 2002

ISBN: 9781617036774

Publication Date: 2012-09-04
Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo by Annice Jacoby, '69 (Editor)
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2638.S36 S78 2009

ISBN: 9780810996359

Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Trespass - A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art by Carlo McCormick; Sara Schiller (Contribution by); Ethel Seno (Editor); Marc Schiller (Contribution by)
Call Number: Main Lvl ND2590 .M35 2010

ISBN: 9783836555487

Publication Date: 2015-06-17

Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture, and Sequence by Jörn Ahrens (Editor); Arno Meteling (Editor)
Call Number: PN6714 .C648 2010

ISBN: 9780826403896

Publication Date: 2010-03-11

Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc.) are all incorporated into comics. On the other hand, comics have unique abilities to capture urban space and city life because of their hybrid nature, consisting of words, pictures, and sequences. These formal aspects of comics are also to be found within the cityscape itself: one can see the influence of comic book aesthetics all around us today. With chapters on the very earliest comic strips, and on artists as diverse as Alan Moore, Carl Barks, Will Eisner and Jacques Tardi, Comics and the City is an important new collection of international scholarship that will help to define the field for many years to come.
Will Eisner's New York by Will Eisner; Neil Gaiman (Introduction by)
Call Number: PN6727.E4 A62 2006

ISBN: 9780393061062

Publication Date: 2006-10-17

With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents graphic fiction's greatest celebration of the Big Apple. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. This new hardcover presents a quartet of graphic works (New York, The Building, City People Notebook, and Invisible People) and features what Neil Gaiman describes as "tales as brutal, as uncaring as the city itself."
La Perdida by Jessica Abel
Call Number: PN6727.A245 P47 2006

ISBN: 9780375714719

Publication Date: 2008-05-20

Jessica Abel’s evocative black–and–white drawings and creative mix of English and Spanish bring Mexico City’s past and present to life, unfurling Carla’s dark history against the legacies of Burroughs and Kahlo. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, La Perdida–at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal–is a story about finding oneself by getting lost.
Pyongyang by Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher (Translator)
Call Number: PN6747.D446 P966 2005

ISBN: 9781897299210

Publication Date: 2007-05-01

In 2001, cartoonist Guy Delisle lived in the capital of North Korea for two months on a work visa for a French film company. In this remarkable graphic novel, Delisle recorded what he was able to see of the culture and lives of one of the last remaining totalitarian communist societies.
My New York Diary by Julie Doucet
Call Number: PN6727.D68 M9 1999

ISBN: 9781896597836

Publication Date: 2010-12-21

his beautifully produced volume collects two short stories, both set in Doucets native Montreal, and the long title piece, a tale of misbegotten bohemianism in latter-day Manhattan. The First Time records Doucets unromantic deflowering, soon after graduating from convent school, by an aging hippie. The great backgrounds, full of visual jokes, also contribute to Julie in Junior College, a hapless tale of her subsequent days in art school. The bulk of this b&w collection is made up of Doucets episodic New York diary, a memoir of her year in the city that begins in romantic bliss, builds to a messy breakup, and ends with her escape to Seattle. Endpaper photographs prove Doucets claim that her Washington Heights neighborhood is exceedingly grimy, not just in her deliberately messy drawings.
A. D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
Call Number: Upper Lvl PN6727.N553 A26 2009

ISBN: 9780375714887

Publication Date: 2010-08-24

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina. As beautiful as it is poignant, A.D. presents a city in chaos and shines a bright, profoundly human light on the tragedies and triumphs that took place within it.
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
Call Number: Upper Lvl PN6790.J34 A46813 2010

ISBN: 9781935429005

Publication Date: 2009-10-13

Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency’s motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira.
Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes
Call Number: PN6727.L8 B4 2008

ISBN: 9781896597294

Publication Date: 2000-06-01

Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a glowing shadow.
Fables by James Jean (Illustrator); Alex Maleev (Illustrator); Bill Willingham; Mark Buckingham (Cover Design by); Craig Hamilton (Artist); Steve Leialoha (Artist); Lan Medina (Artist)
Call Number: Upper Lvl PN6728.F33 W52 2002

ISBN: 9781401237554

Publication Date: 2012-05-22

When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the "mundys," their name for normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters created their own secret society that they call Fabletown. From their exclusive luxury apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side, these creatures of legend must fight for their survival in the new world.
Milt Gross' New York by Milt Gross (Artist, Cover Design by); Craig Yoe (Editor)
Call Number: Upper Lvl PN6727.G76 N49 2015

ISBN: 9781631401732

Publication Date: 2015-04-21

In a freewheeling tour of New York, Gross’ character Pop and his sidekick son blast through the East Side, The West Side, China Town and Harlem. The demented-duo roar through Yankee Stadium, The New York Public Library, and Coney Island! A "lost" graphic novel from one of the first graphic novelists: Milt Gross.
Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Call Number: Upper Lvl PN6790.J33 T38 2006

ISBN: 9781894937870

Publication Date: 2006-09-05

Abandon the Old in Tokyo is the second in a three-volume series that collects the short stories of Japanese cartooning legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, the first volume, The Push Man and Other Stories, debuted to much critical acclaim and rightfully placed Tatsumi as a legendary precursor to the North American graphic-novel movement. Abandon the Old in Tokyo continues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Tatsumi's maturation as a story writer.
750 Years in PARIS by Vincent Mahé (Illustrator)
Call Number: Upper Lvl PN6747.M34 S4 2015

ISBN: 9781907704932

Publication Date: 2015-11-03

A literary graphic novel unlike anything else on the racks, 750 Years tells the story of our time, focusing on one single building in France as it sees its way through the upheavals of history. Beginning in the thirteenth century and making its way towards today, this historically accurate story is the eagerly anticipated debut from Vincent Mahé.

Venezia: il Canal Grande by Fotografie di E. Fiorioli.
Call Number: Limited Editions-Main Lvl DG674.7 .Q33 1931

A 1931 souvenir book from Venice. Published in Venice this contains two accordion-folded photo books of the buildings along the Grand Canal.
Manhattan Unfurled by Matteo Pericoli
Call Number: Main Lvl NC257.P429 A4 2001

In Manhattan Unfurled, architect Matteo Pericoli turns his affection for the city into two continuous and continuously enchanting pen-and-ink drawings of the skyline. This unusual book comes in a linen slipcase and opens accordion-fashion into a 22-foot-long panorama, the east on one side, west on the other. As critic Paul Goldberger writes in the accompanying booklet, "Pericoli has given us the Manhattan skyline in all its awesome chaos, but he has rendered it readable and manageable."
Every Building on the Sunset Strip by Ed Ruscha
Call Number: Artists' Books TR654 .R872 1966

Ed Ruscha photograph's of the Sunset strip. Printing was limited to 5000 copies, numbered edition. Published in 1966, hard cover, kept in the silver mylar slip case. Artist's concept and design for this un-paginated, accordion-folded, black and white panoramic plates, printed as one continuous photograph across upper and lower sections of all pages. Approximately 27 inches long when fully-extended.
Absence by J. Meejin Yoon
Call Number: Main Lvl N7433.4.Y66 A27 2003

ISBN: 9780894390135

Each leaf of heavy paper stock has cut-out footprint of the World Trade Center. The first leaves consist of a single pinhole die-cut representing the antenna; the following one hundred and twenty leaves with two identical square die-cuts represent each floor of the towers, and the final leaf is a die-cut footprint of the financial district street grid surrounding the twin towers.
The City Within by Natalie Draz
Call Number: Artists Books N7433.4.D739 C58 2016

Publication Date: Women's Studio Workshop, 2016

The City Within is a kinetic bookwork exploring cartography and fantastical anatomy. Juxtaposing bird’s eye maps and hand-drawn street-level maps with a rib cage of text centered around Montreal’s downtown core, The City Within overlays the heart of a city with the interior body of a city dweller. Both a bookwork and a sculptural object, this multi-layered book is able to be read and explored through many pathways.
A Field Guide and Handbook to the High Line by Mark Dion; Jorge Colombo; Ethan Hauser
Call Number: Artists' Books N7433.4.D566 F5 2013

Publication Date: Printed Matter, 2013

A field guide and handbook of thoughts, musings, observations, case studies, and histories (alternative, conventional, and otherwise) on the elevated structure formerly and now known as the High Line of Manhattan.
A 19-2 View by Libby Scarlett
Call Number: Artists' Books N7433.4.S32 N56 2014

ISBN: 9781893125940

Publication Date: Women's Studio Workshop, 2015

A 19-2 View depicts the artist's observations of the fifteen balconies she overlooked from her apartment in the east of Amsterdam. After a request to take a photograph and meet a neighbour went by without a single reply, she made up stories of the inhabitants and their surroundings: the things they might have told her had they accepted her offer.Through modular circles cut into the pages, readers get a glimpse of each balcony, beginning with all fifteen illustrations on the first page. Each subsequent page is dedicated to one balcony and its narrative. Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on Mohawk 100 text paper. Blue cloth cover with title and decorative dots in gold. Digitally cut. 25.5 x 25.5 cm. Perfect bound.
96 Piccadillies by Dieter Roth
Call Number: Artists' Books N6888.R64 S3 1977

Publication Date: 1977

In the late 1960s, Rita Donagh, wife of Roth’s longtime friend and collaborator Richard Hamilton, gave the artist a postcard of London’s famous Piccadilly Circus. This unremarkable image is the basis for one of the artist’s best-known series of artworks, 6 Piccadillies. Roth enlarged and reproduced the image as a doublesided photolithograph, then transformed it through various interventions: overprinting it in Day-Glo colors, sub-merging it in a fog of translucent white, and almost completely erasing it with a layer of iron filings. 96 Piccadillies reproduces the artist’s paintings on postcards picturing the same landmark; the reproductions themselves can be separated and sent as postcards.
Further West by Jamie Lynn Schilling
Call Number: Artists' Books N7433.4 .S355 2010

Publication Date: 2010

Short stories about gentrification in West Philadelphia and the artist's own history in the area. Five bound books inserted in the main book. The covers were screen-printed, text blocks were photocopied, multi-section case with removeable pamphlet stitch signatures.

Urban Future Manifestos by Zvi Hecker; Kimberli Meyer
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT166 N64 2010

ISBN: 9783775727310

Publication Date: 2011-01-31

Urban Future Manifestos invites contributors from around the world to respond to the current and impending challenges facing the urban environment. Calling on planners, artists, architects, designers, activists and myriad other cultural practitioners, this publication offers a set of interdisciplinary statements that respond to urgent issues of growth and migration, economic and political theory, and gender dynamics and ecology, as they relate to contemporary cities across the globe. Contributors present their varying practices and intellectual approaches to the problems that are affecting them most.
A Country of Cities: a Manifesto for an Urban America by Vishaan Chakrabarti
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT384.U5 C42 2013

ISBN: 9781935202172

Publication Date: 2013-05-30

In A Country of Cities, author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs and decreased social mobility. If we develop them wisely in the future, our cities can be the force leading us into a new era of progressive and prosperous stewardship of our nation.
Brussels: A Manifesto Towards the Capital of Europe by Pier Vittorio Aureli; Mario Tronti
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT169.B42 B78 2007

ISBN: 9789056625528

Publication Date: 2007-07-01

Brussels- A Manifesto is a pamphlet that treats the city’s selfevident, hidden or forgotten qualities as building blocks for a tangible project that revolves around the relations between the European institutions and the city. By adopting this perspective, the pamphlet makes the discussion about the future of the European Union and its capital city concrete, palpable and accessible, rescuing it from a discourse that often remains abstract.
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
Call Number: Main Lvl NA735.N5 K66 1994

ISBN: 9781885254009

Publication Date: 1997-12-01

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture of congestion"--And its architecture.

Barcelona the Great Enchantress by Robert Hughes
Call Number: Lower Lvl DP402.B265 H87 2004

ISBN: 9781426201318

Publication Date: 2007-09-18

In Barcelona the Great Enchantress, Hughes crafts a personal tale of his nearly forty-year love affair with the Spanish metropolis, one of the most vibrant and fascinating cities in Europe. Hughes's deep knowledge of the city is evident—but it's his personal reflections of what Barcelona, its people, and its storied history and culture have meant to him over the decades that sets Barcelona the Great Enchantress apart from all others' books.
Calcutta by Amit Chaudhuri
Call Number: Upper Lvl PN6175.C53 C35 2015

ISBN: 9780307454669

Publication Date: 2015-04-14

In this vividly drawn and deeply personal portrait, acclaimed novelist Amit Chaudhuri chronicles the two years he spent revisiting Calcutta, the city of his birth. A mesmerizing narrative, the book takes readers into the heart of a metropolis relatively resistant to the currents of globalization. Moving through the city’s vibrant avenues and derelict alleyways, Chaudhuri introduces us to the homeless and the high society, describes its architecture and food, its sounds and smells, and its past and present politics. With rare candor and clarity, he combines memoir, reportage, and history to evoke all that is most particular and extraordinary about the city—and to explain his own passionate attachment to the place and its people.
Delhi By Heart by Raza Rumi
Call Number: Lower Lvl DS486.D3 R86 2013

ISBN: 9789350294185

Why, asks Raza Rumi, does the capital of another country feel like home? How is it that a man from Pakistan can cross the border into 'hostile' territory and yet not feel 'foreign'? Is it the geography, the architecture, the food? Or is it the streets, the festivals and the colours of the subcontinent, so familiar and yes, beloved. As he takes in the sights, from the Sufi shrines in the south to the markets of Old Delhi, from Lutyens' stately mansions to Ghalib's crumbling abode, Raza uncovers the many layers of the city. He connects with the richness of the Urdu language, observes the syncretic evolution of mystical Islam in India and its deep connections with Hindustani classical music so much a part of his own selfhood.
Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples by Dan Hofstadter
Call Number: Lower Lvl DG844.2 .H63 2005

ISBN: 9780375714283

Publication Date: 2006-12-05

In Falling Palace Dan Hofstadter brilliantly reveals Naples, from the dilapidated architectural beauty to the irrepressible theater of everyday life. We witness the centuries-old festivals that regularly crowd the city's jumbled streets, and eavesdrop on conversations that continue deep into the night. We browse the countless curio shops where treasures mingle with kitsch, and meet the locals he befriends.
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk; Maureen Freely (Translator)
Call Number: Lower Lvl DR723 .P36 2005

ISBN: 1400040957

Publication Date: 2005-06-07

A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become "modern" at the crossroads of East and West.
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Call Number: Lower Lvl DS486.B7 M44 2005

ISBN: 9780375703409

Publication Date: 2005-09-27

A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.
Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City by Choire Sicha
ISBN: 9780061914317

Publication Date: 2014-08-05

Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and power—in search of love and connection. After the Wall Street crash of 2008, the richest man in town is the mayor. Billionaires shed apartments like last season’s fashions, even as the country’s economy turns inside out. The young and careless go on as they always have, getting laid and getting laid off, falling in and out of love, and trying to navigate the strange world they traffic in: the Internet, complex financial markets, credit cards, pop stars, micro-plane cheese graters, and sex apps. A true-life fable of money, sex, and politics, Choire Sicha’s Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City turns our focus to a year in the life of a great city.

Asian Street Fashion by James Bent
Call Number: Main Lvl GT1370 .B46 2014

ISBN: 9780500544402

Publication Date: 2014-12-09
Fashion Tribes: Global Street Style by Daniele Tamagni
Call Number: Lower Lvl GT525 .T35 2015

ISBN: 9781419713903

Publication Date: 2015-10-13
Fresh Fruits by Shoichi Aoki; Lucy Mancini Newell (Designed by); Mark Sanders (Editor)
Call Number: Main Lvl TR679 .A555 2005

ISBN: 9780714845104

Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Fruits by Shoichi Aoki; Igor Zabel
Call Number: Main Lvl TR679 .A555 2001

ISBN: 9780714840833

Publication Date: 2001-01-06
Honolulu Street Style by Malie Moran
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781783203086

Publication Date: 2013-01-01
New York Look Book by Amy Larocca; Jake Chessum (Photographer)
Call Number: Main Lvl TR680 .L354 2007

ISBN: 9781595910363

Publication Date: 2007-09-03
Shanghai Street Style by Toni Johnson-Woods
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781783200009

Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s by Andi Harriman; Marloes Bontje
Call Number: Lower Lvl HM646 .H37 2014

ISBN: 9781783203529

Publication Date: 2014-10-15

Paris - New York - Shanghai by Hans Eijkelboom; Tony Godfrey
Call Number: Main Lvl TR647 .E327 2007

ISBN: 9781597110440

Publication Date: 2007-11-01

Dutch conceptual artist Hans Eijkelboom's work is very much in line with the deadpan, seemingly mechanistic note-taking of Ed Ruscha and Hans-Peter Feldman. In "Paris-New York-Shanghai," Eijkelboom creates a witty comparative study of three major contemporary metropolises, each selected for having been the cultural capital of its time--Paris during the nineteenth century; New York, the twentieth; and Shanghai, the twenty-first.
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer by Vivian Maier
Call Number: Main Lvl TR659.8 .M35 2011

ISBN: 9781576875773

Publication Date: 2011-11-16

Vivian Maier was a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide—from France to New York City to Chicago and dozens of other countries—and yet showed the results to no one. The photos are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all facets of city life in America’s post-war golden age.
New York by Beat Streuli (Photographer); Vincent Katz (Contribution by)
Call Number: TR659.8 .S77 2003

ISBN: Beat Streuli : New York City 2000-02

Publication Date: 2003-07-02

Into a world in disarray, with its propensity to wide-scale war increasing daily, come Beat Streuli's photographs of people on the streets of New York City, taken over the last few years, people wandering aimlessly or pressing ahead, all seemingly oblivious to the disaster that surrounds them. Of course, as individuals they are not at all oblivious. They are the intelligent, normal people who make up the populace of any urban center, exhibiting the variety of cultural background and dress that defines their particular moment in time. Nor are the pictures entirely oblivious. We have been trained to take artists at their image, and Streuli's images make use of an impassioned play of light and darkness that seems capable of taking in the diversity of lifes moments.
Open City: Street Photographs since 1950 by Kerry Brougher; Russell Ferguson
Call Number: Main Lvl TR654 .O733 2001

ISBN: 9783775710664

Publication Date: 2001-09-02

Street photography has a long and varied history, encompassing such artists as Walker Evans from the 1930s, Robert Frank from the 1950s, and Garry Winogrand from the 1970s, each of whom, along with other practitioners, siezed the medium as their own and extended it, creating something new. Open City brings together the work of 19 artists to examine the history of street photography over the course of the last half-century. It takes as its starting point photographers such as Lee Friedlander and William Klein, who were instrumental in the development of a radical new approach to documentary photography, aided by the increasing portablility of camera equipment.
Philip Lorca Dicorcia by Luc Sante (Text by); Pascal Dangin (Contribution by)
Call Number: Main Lvl TR659.8 .D53 2001

ISBN: 9783882434415

Publication Date: 2001-10-02

The photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia is best known for his elaborately staged scenes made to look like real life, in which he meticulously plans every element of a shot-lighting, pose, etc, before taking the photograph, creating the "ur" moment. This is conceptual photography with the veneer of the documentary. As such, his photographs have been integral to contemporary dialogues on street photography, portraiture and constructed versus spontaneous tableaus. His most recent body of work, titled Heads, is a departure from this method. Setting up shop in New York City, diCorcia took unstaged pictures of passers by that follow in the street photography tradition of Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan and Robert Frank. DiCorcia's work helps to redefine the genre, bringing street photography into our postmodern world.
Here and There by Helen Levitt (Photographer); Adam Gopnik (Foreword by)
Call Number: Main Lvl TR659.8 .L49 2003

ISBN: 9781576871652

Publication Date: 2004-01-01

Many of Helen Levitt's classic pictures of New York City are world-famous, but there are many more unknown Levitts, the bulk of which are the subject of this book. Here and There brings together 105 rarely-seen pictures chosen by the photographer herself. More than ninety of these photographs have never been published before." "During seven decades of picture making, Levitt occasionally photographed outside of New York (including an extended stay in Mexico City), but her chosen subject has always been the people and streets of her hometown.
Garry Winogrand by Leo Rubinfien (Editor); Sarah Greenough; Erin O'Toole; Tod Papageorge; Sandra S. Phillips
Call Number: Main Lvl TR647 .W56 2013

ISBN: 9780300191776

Publication Date: 2013-04-02

Widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) did much of his best-known work in Manhattan during the 1960s, becoming an epic chronicler of that tumultuous decade. But Winogrand was also an avid traveler and roamed extensively around the United States, bringing exquisite work out of nearly every region of the country. This landmark retrospective catalogue looks at the full sweep of Winogrand's exceptional career.
Daido Moriyama by Filippo Maggia (Editor); Daido Moriyama
Call Number: Main Lvl TR655 .M693 2010

ISBN: 9788857200613

Publication Date: 2010-11-09

The approximately 200 black-and-white images sketch out an original perspective on Japanese society, especially during the period from the 1950s to the '70s. During this time, he produced a collection of photographs -- Nippon gekijo shashincho -- which showed darker sides of urban life and relatively unknown parts of cities. In them, he attempted to show what was being left behind during the technological advances and increased industrialization in much of Japanese society.
Bruce Davidson: Subway by Bruce Davidson
Call Number: Main Lvl TR820.5 .D38 2003

ISBN: 9781597111942

Publication Date: 2011-09-30

Bruce Davidson's groundbreaking Subway, first published by Aperture in 1986, has garnered critical acclaim both as a documentation of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City and for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin. In Davidson's own words, the people in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks and closed off from each other.
Street Photography by Clive Scott
ISBN: 9780857735508

Publication Date: 2013-07-03

What exactly is street photography? From what viewpoint does it present its subjects, and how does this viewpoint differ from that of documentary photography? Looking closely at the work of Atget, Kertesz, Bovis, Rene-Jacques, Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier- Bresson and more, this elegantly written book, extensively illustrated with both well-known and neglected works, unpicks Parisian street photography's affinity with Impressionist art as well as its complex relationship with parallel literary trends and authors from Baudelaire to Philippe Soupault.
Naked City by Weegee
Call Number: Main Lvl TR820 .F45 1945

For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival.

Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker
ISBN: 9781597269728

Publication Date: Lower Lvl HE4211 .W27 2012

Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share. In Human Transit, Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services.
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT175 .S64 2012

ISBN: 0374285810

Publication Date: 2012-11-13

The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick. In this essential new book, Speck reveals the invisible workings of the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can all make the right choices for our communities.
City Cycling by John Pucher (Editor); Ralph Buehler (Editor)
Call Number: Lower Lvl GV1043.7 .C57 2012

ISBN: 9780262517812

Publication Date: 2012-10-12

City Cycling offers a guide to the urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to everyone. It reports on cycling trends and policies in cities in North America, Europe, and Australia, and offers information on such topics as cycling safety, cycling infrastructure provisions including bikeways and bike parking, the wide range of bike designs and bike equipment, integration of cycling with public transportation, and promoting cycling for women and children. City Cycling emphasizes that bicycling should not be limited to those who are highly trained, extremely fit, and daring enough to battle traffic on busy roads.
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
Call Number: Lower Lvl GV1044 .B97 2009

ISBN: 9780670021147

Since the early 1980s, renowned musician and visual artist David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them with him when traveling around the world. Byrne's choice was initially made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation, exhilaration, and connection it provided. This point of view, from his bike seat, became his panoramic window on urban life, a magical way of opening one's eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city's geography and population.
Pedestrian- and Transit-Oriented Design by Reid Ewing; Keith Bartholomew
ISBN: 9780874202694

Publication Date: 2013-03-01

Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly

Cities for People by Jan Gehl; Lord Richard Rogers (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781597265737

Publication Date: 2010-09-06

Synopsis: For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use-or could use-the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy.
Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space by Shirley Jordan (Editor); Christoph Lindner (Editor)
ISBN: 1474224415

Publication Date: 2016-02-25

Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.
Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of 'interruption' in global cities enables new understanding of the forms of space, experience, and community that are emerging in today's rapidly transforming urban environments.
Designing Urban Transformation by Aseem Inam
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT166 .I535 2014

ISBN: 9780415837699

Publication Date: 2013-12-10

What can urbanism be? -- Discovering the nexus: pragmatism, rural habitat and urbanism -- Beyond objects: city as flux -- Beyond intentions: consequences of design -- Beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act -- Transformations.
The Endless City by Deyan Sudjic
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT371.E53 2007

ISBN: 9780714848204

Publication Date: 2008-03-26

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the world is faced with an unprecedented challenge. It must address a fundamental shift in the world's population towards the cities, and away from mankind's rural roots. Over the course of two years, a group of internationally renowned professionals from a variety of different disciplines and backgrounds gathered together in six world cities to take stock of the new urban condition and to offer an approach to dealing with it. The result was a sometimes passionate, always challenging and informed debate on how architects, urbanists, politicians and policy makers can constructively plan the infrastructure and development of the endless city, to promote a better social and economic life for its citizens.
Good City Form by Kevin Lynch
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT166 .L96 1984

ISBN: 9780262620468

Lynch looks at connections between human values and the physical forms of cities, sets requirements for a normative theory of city form, reviews earlier physical images of what utopian communities might be, sees what is to be learned from hellish images, and helps us place city forms into one or another of three theoretic constructs: cosmic or ceremonial centers, the machine city, and the city as an organism. He tells us at some length how we might evaluate the 'goodness' of cities, speaks to the enduring issues of city size, growth, and conservation, and, having done all this, tells us about what his good city form might look like.
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
ISBN: 0374534888

Publication Date: 2014-10-07

Journalist Charles Montgomery explores the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, during an exhilarating journey through some of the world's most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a "sexy" bus to ease status anxiety in Bogotá; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day New York City; the activist who turned Paris's urban freeways into beaches; and an army of American suburbanites who have hacked the design of their own streets and neighborhoods.
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
Call Number: Main Lvl NA9108 .L9 1960

ISBN: 9780262620017

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form.
Living in the Endless City by Deyan Sudjic; Ricky Burdett
Call Number: Lower Lvl HT371 .L58 2011

ISBN: 9780714861180

Mumbai, Sao Paulo and Istanbul: each city is explored in a series of essays that address vital themes, from security to climate change, looking closely at the problems that face contemporary cities and examining a variety of solutions. Drawing on the work of scholars from all over the globe, this book will give the reader access to a wealth of ideas and data about Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Istanbul and, by extension, urban life across the globe. In addition to this close focus on each of the three cities, Living in the Endless City will feature analysis of surveys done in each city.
Public Libraries and Resilient Cities by Michael Dudley (Editor)
ISBN: 9780838996133

Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Urban Design since 1945: A Global Perspective by David Grahame Shane
Call Number: Main Lvl NA9095 .S53 2011

ISBN: 9780470515266

Publication Date: 2011-06-13

Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective reviews the emergence of urban design as a global phenomenon. The book opens with the urgent need to rebuild cities and re-house the millions of refugees living in camps and shantytowns at the end of the Second World War. Against this background, the book traces the collapse of the modernist, comprehensive state-planning schemes on both sides of the Iron Curtain as global corporations emerged, concentrating on networks and enclaves. It describes how Latin America and then Asia began a rapid urbanisation process, shifting the global urban centre away from Europe and overturning existing urban design models. This resulted in global megacities of an unprecedented scale, often with large associated shantytowns.

See also "Dérive" in Books about Mapping and Wayfinding.

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin
Call Number: Lower Lvl HQ1150 .E45 2017

ISBN: 9780374156046

The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a “determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.” Virginia Woolf called it “street haunting”; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York.
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
Call Number: Lower Lvl GV199.5 .N534 2009

ISBN: 1594484031

Publication Date: 2009-11-03

How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly universal aspect of what makes us humans, social creatures, and engaged with the world.
Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole
Call Number: Upper Lvl PR9387.9.C67 O64 2011

ISBN: 9780812980097

Publication Date: 2012-01-17

Teju Cole's Open City is a profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our country and our world. Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius wanders, reflecting on his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. He encounters people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey--which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.
Some Cities by Victor Burgin
Call Number: Main Lvl TR654 .B856 1996

ISBN: 9780948462894

Publication Date: 2004-10-03

"Our relations with cities are like our relations with people. We love them, hate them, or are indifferent toward them. On our first day in a city that is new to us, we go looking for the city. We go down this street, around that corner. We are aware of the faces of passers-by. But the city eludes us, and we become uncertain whether we are looking for a city, or for a person."
A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin
Call Number: Upper Lvl PN 75 .K3 W3 1951

ISBN: 9780156941761

Publication Date: 1969

Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to "americanca" -the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan.

Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness by Nathanael Johnson
Call Number: Lower Lvl QH541.5.C6 J64 2016

ISBN: 9781623363857

Publication Date: 2016-04-05

No matter where we live―city, country, oceanside, ormountains―there are wonders that we walk past every day. Unseen City widens the pinhole of our perspective by allowing us to view the world from the high-altitude eyes of a turkey vulture and the distinctly low-altitude eyes of a snail. The narrative allows us to eavesdrop on the comically frenetic life of a squirrel and peer deep into the past with a ginkgo biloba tree. Each of these organisms has something unique to tell us about our neighborhoods and, chapter by chapter, Unseen City takes us on a journey that is part nature lesson and part love letter to the world’s urban jungles. With the right perspective, a walk to the subway can be every bit as entrancing as a walk through a national park.
Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird by Andrew D. Blechman
Call Number: Lower Lvl GF78 .K45 2008

ISBN: 9780802143280

Publication Date: 2007-10-10

Andrew D. Blechman traveled across the United States and Europe to meet with pigeon fanciers and pigeon haters in a quest to find out how we came to misunderstand one of mankind’s most helpful and steadfast companions. Pigeons captures a Brooklyn man’s quest to win the Main Event (the pigeon world’s equivalent of the Kentucky Derby), as well as a convention dedicated to breeding the perfect bird. Blechman participates in a live pigeon shoot where entrants pay $150; he tracks down Mike Tyson, the nation’s most famous pigeon lover; he spends time with Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Pigeon Handler; and he sheds light on a radical “pro-pigeon underground’ in New York City. In Pigeons, Blechman tells for the first time the remarkable story behind this seemingly unremarkable bird.
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
Call Number: Lower Lvl QL795.R2 S85 2005

ISBN: 9781582344775

Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob.
Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn
Call Number: Lower Lvl QL684.N7 W55 1998

ISBN: 9780679758464

Publication Date: 1999-03-30

The scene of this enchanting (and true) story is the Ramble, an unknown wilderness deep in the heart of New York's fabled Central Park. There an odd and amiable band of nature lovers devote themselves to observing and protecting the park's rich wildlife. When a pair of red-tailed hawks builds a nest atop a Fifth Avenue apartment house across the street from the model-boat pond, Marie Winn and her fellow "Regulars" are soon transformed into obsessed hawkwatchers. The hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking saga of Pale Male and his mate as they struggle to raise a family in their unprecedented nest site, and the affectionate portrait of the humans who fall under their spell will delight and inspire readers for years to come.
Nature Watch Austin: Guide to the Seasons in an Urban Wildland by Lynne Weber (Illustrator, Photographer); Jim Weber (Illustrator, Photographer)
ISBN: 9781603444811

Publication Date: 2011-10-01

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If you find a title in Worldcat that is not held by Bennington College, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan by clicking on the "Request Item" button. Your book will be shipped from the lending library to Crossett Library, and you will receive an e-mail when it is ready for pickup.

Interlibrary loan access is included in your library account, and can be accessed here.

Find a great source we don't own? Try Interlibrary Loan!

You're working through the databases, searching the Internet, or using Worldcat and come across a great resource that has the perfect title and summary. You check our catalog and our other databases and unfortunately this book/article/music score/CD-ROM/8-Track is not owned by Bennington College. Don't worry, we have a plan for these cases - you can request it through Interlibrary Loan. In our databases you can click on the "Request through Interlibrary Loan" button, or by filling in the article, book, or other materials request form in Interlibrary Loan. Your item will either be scanned and e-mailed to you, sent to your ILL account, or sent to our library. You will then receive an e-mail when the item is available, and you can begin your celebratory dance. If you have never used Interlibrary Loan before to request an Interlibrary Loan, you can get information access your account here.