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The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York

Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson

Abstract

The chapters in this book 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.

Keywords: intellectual history, The City, urban development, twentieth century, twenty-first century metropolis, architecture

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780816665754
Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816665754.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Dennis R. Judd, editor

Dick Simpson, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Part I Revisiting Urban Theory

1 Theorizing the City

Dennis R. Judd

2 Grounded Theory

Janet Abu-Lughod

3 The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess

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

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

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

Terry Nichols Clark

12 The Mayor among His Peers

Larry Bennett

13 Both Center and Periphery

Costas Spirou

Part V The Utility of U.S. Urban Theory

14 The City and Its Politics

Frank Gaffikin, Dcavid C. Perry, and Ratoola Kundu

15 Understanding Deep Urban Change

Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo

16 Studying Twenty-first Century Cities

Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly

End Matter

Contributors

Index