ARC590/690 History of Cities Part IV: The Modern World

Benjamin, et al. Walter Benjamin and Architecture. Routledge, 2010.

Buder, Stanley. Visionaries and Planners: the Garden City Movement and the Modern Community. Oxford University Press, 1990.

Hardy, Dennis. From Garden Cities to New Towns Campaigning for Town and Country Planning, 1899-1946. E & FN Spon, 1991.

Cohen, et al. Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Europe., Berghahn Books, 2008.

Hopkins, Andrew, et al. Baldassare Longhena, 1597-1682. Electa, 2006.

Howard, Ebenezer, and Frederic J. Osborn. Garden Cities of to-Morrow. Faber and Faber, 1965.

Millon, et al. The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe, 1600-1750. Rizzoli, 1999.

Rishel, Joseph Francis. American Cities and Towns: Historical Perspectives. Duquesne University Press, 1992.

Zimmerman, Susan, et al. Urban Life in the Renaissance. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989.

Zirpolo, Lilian H. Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Deupi, Victor. “Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba. Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754–1828.” Colonial Latin American Review 25, no. 4.

 

Note: Many of the databases and/or article links referenced in this guide require CaneID authentication through the the UM Library system unless denoted by the "open access" symbol. 

Architecture & City Planning Cornell University
Rare and Manuscript Collections 

NYC Planning
Since adoption of the country’s first Zoning Resolution in 1916, New York City has played a seminal role in the history and development of planning and zoning. This rich history is captured through decades of planning reports, land use maps and historic photographs documenting a changing urban landscape. Many of these documents serve as a critical resource for the Department, for the City and for the planning profession.

*Temporarily available through Hathi Trust with Cane ID.

Marsh, Benjamin Clarke, 1877-1952, and George B. (George Burdett) Ford. An Introduction to City Planning: Democracy's Challenge to the American City. New York, 1909.

Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920, Charles Henry Wacker, and Chicago Plan Commission. Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago. 2d ed. [Chicago: Printed by Calumet publishing company], 1916.

Lewis, Nelson Peter, 1856-1924, and Harold MacLean Lewis. The Planning of the Modern City: a Review of the Principles Governing City Planning. 2d ed., rev. New York: Wiley, 1923.

Nolen, John, 1869-1937. New Towns for Old: Achievements In Civic Improvement In Some American Small Towns And Neighborhoods. Boston, Mass.: Marshall Jones company, 1927.

*Unwin, Raymond. Town Planning in Practice : An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.