The City, Revisited
Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York
The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of twentieth-century urban development are relevant for studying the twenty-first-century metropolis.
The City, Revisited is a major contribution to the history of thought on the three largest cities in the United States and a state-of-the-art appraisal of U.S. urban theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This remarkable volume not only provides much additional insight into the history and development of Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, the contributors both encapsulate and expand upon urban theories that will prove exceptionally useful to those interested in understanding patterns of development in other cities as well, both in the United States and around the world.
David Gladstone, University of New Orleans
The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of twentieth-century urban development are relevant for studying the twenty-first-century metropolis.
Contributors: Janet Abu-Lughod, Northwestern U and New School for Social Research; Robert Beauregard, Columbia U; Larry Bennett, DePaul U; Andrew A. Beveridge, Queens College and CUNY; Amy Bridges, U of California, San Diego; Terry Nichols Clark, U of Chicago; Nicholas Dahmann, U of Southern California; Michael Dear, U of California, Berkeley; Steven P. Erie, U of California, San Diego; Frank Gaffikin, Queen’s U of Belfast; David Halle, U of California, Los Angeles; Tom Kelly, U of Illinois at Chicago; Ratoola Kunda, U of Illinois at Chicago; Scott A. MacKenzie, U of California, Davis; John Mollenkopf, CUNY; David C. Perry, U of Illinois at Chicago; Francisco Sabatini, Ponticia Universidad Católica de Chile; Rodrigo Salcedo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago; Daphne Spain, U of Virginia; Costas Spirou, National-Louis U in Chicago.
The City, Revisited is a major contribution to the history of thought on the three largest cities in the United States and a state-of-the-art appraisal of U.S. urban theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This remarkable volume not only provides much additional insight into the history and development of Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, the contributors both encapsulate and expand upon urban theories that will prove exceptionally useful to those interested in understanding patterns of development in other cities as well, both in the United States and around the world.
David Gladstone, University of New Orleans
As theory books go, this one is refreshingly free of jargon and full of specifics.
Planning Magazine
Contents
Part I. Revisiting Urban Theory
1. Theorizing the City
Dennis R. Judd
2. Grounded Theory: Not Abstract Words but Tools of Analysis
Janet Abu-Lughod
3. The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess: Same City, Different Visions
Daphne Spain
Part II. The View from Los Angeles
4. Urban Politics and the Los Angeles School of Urbanism
Michael Dear and Nicholas Dahmann
5. The Sun Also Rises in the West
Amy Bridges
6. From the Chicago to the L.A. School: Whither the Local State?
Steven P. Erie and Scott A. MacKenzie
Part III. The View from New York
7. The Rise and Decline of the L.A. and New York Schools
David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge
8. School Is Out: The Case of New York City
John Hull Mollenkopf
9. Radical Uniqueness and the Flight from Urban Theory
Robert A. Beauregard
Part IV. The View from Chicago
10. The New Chicago School of Urbanism and the New Daley Machine
Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly
11. The New Chicago School: Notes Towards a Theory
Terry Nichols Clark
12. The Mayor among His Peers: Interpreting Richard M. Daley
Larry Bennett
13. Both Center and Periphery: Chicago’s Metropolitan Expansion and the New Downtowns
Costas Spirou
Part V. The Utility of U.S. Urban Theory
14. The City and Its Politics: Informal and Contested
Frank Gaffikin, David C. Perry, and Ratoola Kundu
15. Understanding Deep Urban Change: Patterns of Residential Segregation in Latin American Cities
Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo
16. Studying Twenty-First Century Cities
Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly
Contributors
Index
