Bibliography

Updated April 2019

*Bold indicates that the book is highly recommended.

General Books On Cities

Fogelson, Robert M.  Downtown:  Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950. (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2001).

Jacobs, Jane.  The Death and Life of Great American Cities. 50th Anniversary Edition  (New York:  Modern Library, 2011).

Knox, Paul (editor).  Atlas of Cities.  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014).

Kotkin. Joel. The City: A Global History.  (New York:  Random House, 2006).

Lynch, Kevin.  The Image of the City.  (Cambridge, Massachusetts:  The M.I.T. Press, 1960).

Marron, Catie.  City Squares:  Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World.  (New York:  HarperCollins Publishers, 2016).

Reader, John.  Cities.  (London:  William Heinemann, 2004.)

Smith, P.D. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age.  (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012).

Whyte, William H. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (New York: Project for Public Spaces, 2001).

History Of Cities

Braunfels, Wolfgang.  Urban Design in Western Europe:  Regime and Architecture, 900-1900.  (Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 1988). 

Individual Cities

CHICAGO

Deja, Thomas.  The Third Coast:  When Chicago Built the American Dream.  (New York:  The Penguin Press, 2013).

Gilbert, James.  Perfect Cities:  Chicago's Utopias of 1893.  (Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 1991).

DETROIT

Austin, Dan and Sean Doerr.  Lost Detroit:  Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins. (Charleston, South Carolina:  The History Press, 2010).

LeDuff, Charlie.  Detroit:  An American Autopsy (New York:  Penguin  Books, 2014).

Maraniss, David.  Once in a Great City:  A Detroit Story. (Simon & Schuster, 2015). 

Martelle, Scott.  Detroit {A Biography}.  (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012). 

LOS ANGELES

Banham, Reyner.  Los Angeles:  The Architecture of Four Ecologies.  (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1971).

Brunton, John.  L.A. Noir:  The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City. (New York: Harmony Books, 2009).

Caughey, John and Laree (Editors).  Los Angeles:  Biography of A City. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).

Clinton, Edmond J. III with Mark Viera.  Clifton’s and Clifford Clinton: A Cafeteria and a Crusader. (Santa Monica, California:  Angel City Press, 2015).

Cuff, Dana.  The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism.   (Cambridge:  The M.I.T. Press, 2000).

Davis, Margaret Leslie.  Bullocks Wilshire.  (Los Angeles:  Balcony Press, 1996).

Davis, Margaret Leslie.  Rivers in the Desert:  William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles.  (New York:  HarperCollins Publishers, 1993).

Davis, Mike.  City of Quartz:  Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New Edition.  (New York: Verso, 2006).

Deeper, Andrew.  Venice:  A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles.  (Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Estrada, William David.  The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space. (Austin:  University of Texas Press, 2008).

Faragher, John Mack.  Eternity Street:  Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles.  (New York:  W.W. Norton & Company, 2016). 

Fogelson, Robert M.  The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930.  (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1993).

Hayden, Dolores.  The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History.  (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1995).

George, Lynell.  After/Image:  Los Angeles Outside the Frame.  (Santa Monica, California:  Angel City Press, 2017).

Goldstone, Bud and Arloa Paquin Goldstone.  The Los Angeles Watts Towers.  (Los Angeles; Getty Publications, 1997).

Gumbrecht, Blake.  The Los Angeles River:  Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. (Baltimore: The  John Hopkins University Press, 2001).

Krist, Gary.  The Mirage Factory:  Illusion, Innovation and the Invention of Los Angeles. (New York:  Penguin Random House, 2018).

Morrison, Patt with Photographs by Mark Lamonica.  Rio L.A. -- Tales from the Los Angeles River. (Santa Monica, California: Angel City Press, 2001).

Musicant, Marlyn (Editor). Los Angeles Union Station.  (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2014).

Pulido, Laura, Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng.  A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.  (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012).

Roderick, Kevin.  Wilshire Boulevard:  Grand Concours of Los Angeles.  (Santa Monica, California:  Angel City Press, 2005).

Roman, James.  Chronicle of Old Los Angeles:  Exploring the Devilish History of the City of the Angels. (New York: Museyon, 2015).

Siusman, Doug.  Los Angeles Boulevard:  Eight X-Rays of the Body Politic. 25th Anniversary Edition. (San Francisco:  ORO Editions, 2014).

Surls, Rachel and Judith Gerber. From Cows to Concrete:  The Rise and Fall of Farming in Los Angeles. (Santa Monica, California:  Angel City Press, 2016).

Ulin, David L. Sidewalking:  Coming to Terms with Los Angeles.  (Oakland:  University of California Press, 2015).

Wakida, Patricia (Editor).  LA Attitudes:  An Angeleno’s Atlas.  (Berkeley: Heydey, 2015).

Waldheim, D.J.  Where We Are Now:  Notes from Los Angeles.  (Santa Monica, California:  Angel City Press, 2004).

NEW YORK

Calhoun, Ada.  St. Marks is Dead:  The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street.  (New York:  W.W. Norton & Company, 2016).

Halle, David and Elisabeth Tiso.  New York's New Edge:  Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far west Side. (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2014).

Homberger, Eric.  The Historical Atlas of New York City:  A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History, Revised and Updated.  (New York:  Henry Holt and Company, 2005).

Miller, Donald L.  Supreme City:  How Jazz Age manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2014).

Roberts, Sam.  Grand Central:  How a Train Station Transformed America.  (New York:  Grand Central Publishing, 2013).

Weil, Francois.  A History of New York (Jody Gladding, Translator).  (New York:  Columbia University Press, 2004).

Zukin, Sharon.  Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places.  (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

PORTLAND

Abbott, Carl.  Greater Portland:  Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest.  (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Abbott, Carl.  Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People.  (Corvallis:  Oregon State University Press, 2011).

Abbott, Carl.  Portland:  Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth Century City.  (Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1983).

Anderson, Heather Arndt.  Portland:  A Food Biography.  (Lanham, Maryland:  Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Banis, David and Hunter Shobe. Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas. (Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books, 2015).

King, Bart. An Architectural Guidebook to Portland. (Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press, 2007).

Lansing, Jewel.  Portland:  People, Politics, and Power.  (Corvallis:  Oregon State University Press, 2003).

MacColl, E. Kimbark (with Harry H. Stein).  Merchants, Money, & Power:  The Portland Establishment 1843-1913.  (Portland:  The Georgian Press, 1988).

Marlitt, Richard.  Nineteenth Street.  (Portland:  The Oregon Historical Society, 1968).

O'Donnell, Terence and Thomas Vaughan.  Portland:  An Informal History & Guide.  (Portland:  Oregon Historical Society, 1984).

Price, Larry (Editor).  Portland's Changing Landscape, Occasional Paper in Geography #4 (Portland:  Portland State University, 1987).

Snyder, Eugene E. Portland Names and Neighborhoods: Their Historic Origins. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1979)>

SAN FRANCISCO

Solnit, Rebecca.  Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

SIENA

Tylus, Jane.  Siena:  City of Secrets. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

VENICE

Madden, Thomas F. Venice:  A New History.  (New York: Viking, 2012).

Norwich, John Julius.  Paradise of Cities:  Venice in the 19th Century.  (New York:  Doubleday, 2003).

 
Architecture And Sacred Space

Dunlap, David.  From Abyssinian to Zion:  A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship.  (New York:  Columbia University Press, 2004).

Ball, Philip.  Universe of Stone:  A Biography of Chartres Cathedral.  (New York:  HarperCollins Publishers, 2008).

Kieckhefer, Richard.  Theology in Stone:  Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley.  (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004).

KIlde, Jeanne Halgren.  When Church Became Theater:  The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America.  (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2002). 

Taylor, Richard. How to Read a Church: A Guide to Images, Symbols and Meanings in Churches and Cathedrals.  (London:  Random House, 2003).

Urban Theology

Beaumont, Justin and Christopher Baker (editors).  Postsecular Cities: Space, Theory and Practice.  (London: Continuum Publishing, 2011).

Cargill, Robert R.  The Cities That Built the Bible.  (New York:  HarperCollins, 2016).

Cox, Harvey.  Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology.  (Simon & Schuster, 1984). 

Cox, Harvey. The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective (New York: Macmillan, 1965).

Garner, Rod.  Facing the City: Urban Mission in the 21st Century.  (Werrington, England: Epworth Press, 2004). 

Gorringe, T.J.  A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption.  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.)

Inge, John.  A Christian Theology of Place.  (Aldershot, England: Ashgate House, 2003).

Meeks, Wayne.  The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul.  Second Edition. (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003).

Rumsey, Andrew.  Parish:  An Anglican Theology of Place.  (London: SCM Press, 2017).

Ward, Graham.  Cities of God.  (London: Routledge, 2000).