Vagel C. Keller, Jr., Ph.D.

Suggested Readings in U.S. Urban History


Nelson Blake, Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1956).

John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995).

Christine Boyer, Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983).

Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1930 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978).

Stanley Buder, Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

Don H Doyle, New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860 - 1910 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1990).

Kenneth Fox, Better City Government: Innovation in American Urban Politics, 1850 - 1937 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977).

Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America (1985)

Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias, Of Cabbages and Kings County : Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn (2000)

Clay McShane, "Transforming the Use of Urban Space: A Look at the Revolution in Street Pavements, 1880 - 1924," Journal of Urban History 5 (May 1979): 279 - 307.

Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, "The Centrality of the Horse in the Nineteeth-Century American City," in The Making of Urban America, 2d. Edition, ed. Raymond A. Mohl (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1997).

Eugene P. Moehring, Public Works and the Patterns of Urban Real Estate Growth in Manhattan, 1835-1894 (New York, 1977).

Eric H. Monkkonen, America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780 - 1980 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).

Maureen Ogle, All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840 - 1890 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Anthony M. Orum, City Building in America (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1995).

Jon Peterson, "The Impact of Sanitary Reform Upon American Urban Planning, 1840 - 1890," Journal of Social History 13 (Fall): 83 - 104.

Christine Meisner Rosen, The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of Growth in America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986).

Stanley K. Schultz, Constructing Urban Culture: American Cities and City Planning, 1800 - 1920 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).

Stanley K. Schultz and Clay McShane, "To Engineer the Metropolis: Sewers, Sanitation, and City Planning in Late-Ninteenth Century America," Journal of American History 65 (September 1978): 389-411.

Anthony Sutcliffe, Towards the Planned City: Germany, Britain, the United States and France 1780 - 1914 (New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc, 1981).

Joel A. Tarr, Transportation, Innovation, and Changing Spatial Patterns in Pittsburgh, 1850-1934 (Chicago: Public Works Historical Society, 1978).

________, "The Evolution of the Urban Infrastructure in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in Royce Hanson, ed., Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1984), 4 - 66.

________, "Water and Wastes: A Retrospective Assessment of Wastewater Technology, 1800 - 1932," in Joel Tarr The Search for the Ultimate Sink (Akron, OH: The University of Akron Press, 1996), 111 - 130.

________, "From City to Suburb: The Moral Influence of Transportation Technology," in The Search for the Ultimate Sink, 309 - 322.

Sam Bass Warner, Jr., The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).

William H. Wilson, The City Beautiful Movement (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).


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