The American Urban Reader: History and Theory (Routledge Readers in History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415803942 ISBN 13: 9780415803946

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial settlement and western expansion to post-industrial cities and the growth of the suburbs. Each of the chronologically and thematically organized chapters includes thoughtfully selected scholarly essays from historians, social scientists and journalists, which are supplemented by relevant primary documents that offer more nuanced perspectives and convey the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the study of the urban condition. A comprehensive companion website offers valuable further reading, compelling supplementary links, slideshows of additional images, and a dialogue opening blog written by one of the authors.

Lisa Krissoff Boehm and Steven H. Corey together bring thirty-five years of classroom experience in urban studies and history, and have selected a range of work that is dynamically written and carefully edited to be accessible to students and appropriate for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how American cities have developed.

For additional information and classroom resources please visit The American Urban Reader companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415803984.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Hunt Corey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies at Worcester State University, Worcester, MA.

Lisa Krissoff Boehm is Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Honors Program at Worcester State University in Worcester, MA.  She is the author of Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968 (Routledge) and Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration.

 

Review:

'The volume serves as a very valuable introduction to the history of scholarship and research related to urban life in the US. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students and scholars of urban history, urban studies, and urban planning, all levels.' 
― Choice

“With a rich mix of superb scholarship and diverse primary sources, The American Urban Reader questions key concepts of the American City and enables readers to make new connections among historical actors, events, technologies and theories.”
― David Smiley, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Urban Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University

“The American Urban Reader has it all--classic essays and cutting-edge scholarship combined with key primary documents that explore 400 years of American urban life, from John Winthrop’s ‘City on a Hill’ to post-Katrina New Orleans. Thoughtfully organized and transdisciplinary in its scope, this terrific volume is essential reading for students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning more about metropolitan America.”
― Margaret O’Mara, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Washington

“The American Urban Reader will certainly be timely in the era of Barack Obama. The urban vote was decisive in his amazing election.”
― Ronald Takaki, author of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

“The editors have done a terrific job of collecting seminal primary, secondary, and theoretical essays on the history, the social life, and the form of the city from the colonial period to the postmodern metropolis. The reader will be useful for students of planning, urban studies, and history―indeed for any student interested in understanding the evolution of the metropolitan landscape.” 
― Eric Schneider, Urban Studies and History, University of Pennsylvania

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415803942
• ISBN 13: 9780415803946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Krissoff Boehm Lisa, Corey Steven H.