392 Required Readings / Spring 2008 / Bryson

-- Required Books Available at RU's Bookstore --

Terrell Dixon, ed. City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature. Univ. of Georgia Press, 2002 (paper), ISBN 082032339X

Lois Wille. Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991 (2nd ed., paper), ISBN 0226898725

Sally A. Kitt Chappell. Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007 (paper), ISBN 0226101401

-- Other Required Readings --

In addition to the above texts, I provide numerous other readings in three ways: as a direct link to a document or website from the Weekly Schedule page, a downloadable selection within the Course Documents section of our 392 site, or a Xeroxed handout distributed in class.

-- Urban Nature / Chicago History and Literature: A Selected Bibliography --

This short bibliography lists books, articles, and websites related to the study of urban nature as well as to the history, literature, and environment of the Chicago region. Many of these sources are available through RU's library; others can be requested by interlibrary loan or accessed online. While this is not meant to be an exhaustive list about our seminar's focus, it can be one starting point for your own research.

Andrews, Clarence A. Chicago in Story: A Literary History. Iowa City, Iowa: Midwest Heritage Publishing Co., 1982.

Angle, Paul M. Prairie State: Impressions of Illinois, 1673-1967, By Travelers and Other Observers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Bennett, Michael. "From Wide Open Spaces to Metropolitan Places: The Urban Challenge to Ecocriticism." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 8.1 (Winter 2001): 31-52.

Bennett, Michael, and David W. Teague, eds. The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Bray, Robert. Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Bruegmann, Robert. Sprawl: A Compact History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Bryson, Michael. Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002.

Burnham, Daniel H. and Edward H. Bennett. Plan of Chicago. 1909. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.

Campbell, James. "Windy City Wilderness." Audubon 1.5 (Sept. 2001): 56.

Chicago Wilderness Journal. Chicago Region Biodiversity Council. Available online at <www.chiwild.org/pubprod/cwjournal/>.

Chicago Wilderness Magazine. Skokie, IL. Available in print and online at <www.chicagowildernessmag.org>.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.

-----. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.

-----. "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back To the Wrong Nature." In Uncommon Ground, ed. Cronon, 69-90.

-----, ed. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: Norton, 1996.

Dixon, Terrell, ed. City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.

Dubkin, Leonard. My Secret Places: One Man's Love Affair with Nature in the City. New York: David McKay, Inc., 1972.

Evans, Terry. Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait. Online photography exhibit. Openlands Project and Chicago Metropolis 2020. 27 September 2005. Accessed 9 October 2005. <http://revealingchicago.org/>

Gardner, Jean. Urban Wilderness: Nature in New York City. New York: Earth Environmental Group, 1988.

Glotfelty, Cheryl. "What Is Ecocriticism?" Defining Ecocritical Thought and Practice: Position Papers from the 1994 Western Literature Association Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 6 October 1994. Online. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. 1994. Accessed Nov. 2005. <http://www.asle.umn.edu/conf/other_conf/wla/1994/1994.html>.

Greenberg, Joel. A Natural History of the Chicago Region. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Grossman, James R., Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff, eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago. Michael P. Conzen, cartographic editor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Hill, Libby. The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2000.

Hoffman, John. A Guide to the History of Illinois. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Holden, Greg. Literary Chicago: A Book Lover's Tour of the Windy City. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2001.

Holingue, Scott (with Kenan Heise). Tales from an Urban Wilderness. Evanston: Chicago Historical Bookworks, 1994.

Hurt, James. Writing Illinois: The Prairie, Lincoln, and Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Jensen, Jens. Siftings. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1939.

Johnson, Elmer W. Chicago Metropolis 2020: Preparing Metropolitan Chicago for the 21st Century. Chicago: The Commercial Club of Chicago, 1999.

Kamin, Blair. Why Architecture Matters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Kennicott, Robert. "Catalogue of Animals Observed in Cook County, Illinois." Transactions of the Illinois State Agricultural Society 1 (1853-54): 577-595.

Light, Andrew. "Urban Wilderness." In Wild Ideas, ed. David Rothenberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Masters, Edgar Lee. The Tale of Chicago. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.

Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Moore, Barbara J., John D. Rogner, and Drew Ullberg. Nature and the River: A Natural Resources Report of the Chicago and Calument Waterways. Milwaukee: U. S. Department of Interior, 1998.

Moskovits, Debra, et al. "Chicago Wilderness: A New Force in Urban Conservation." Annals of the Missouri Botanic Garden 89 (2002: 153-63.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.

Peattie, Donald Culross. A Prairie Grove: A Naturalist's Story of Primeval America. New York: Literary Guild of America, 1938.

Pellow, David Naguib. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Pierce, Bessie Louise, ed. As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933.

Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Quaife, Milo Milton. Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835: A Study of the Evolution of the Northwestern Frontier, Together with a History of Fort Dearborn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1913.

-----. Chicago's Highways Old and New: From Indian Trail to Motor Road. Chicago: D. F. Keller and Co., 1923.

Short, John Rennie. Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Smith, Carl. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006. [Expansion of his digital essay "The Plan of Chicago" in the Encyclopedia of Chicago}

Sullivan, Jerry. An Atlas of Biodiversity. Chicago: Chicago Region Biodiversity Council, 2000.

-----. Hunting for Frogs on Elston, and Other Tales from Field and Street. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Swink, Floyd and Gerould Wilhelm. Plants of the Chicago Region. 4th edition. Indianapolis: Indiana Academy of Science, 1994.

Tallmadge, John. The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Teale, Edwin Way. Dune Boy: The Early Years of a Naturalist. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1943.

Thall, Bob. The New American Village. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

-----. The Perfect City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Thomson, Betty Flanders. The Shaping of America's Heartland: The Landscape of the Middle West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.

Washington, Sylvia. Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005.

Watts, May T. Reading the Landscape of America. New York: Macmillan, 1975

White, John. Ecological and Cultural Significance of the MacArthur Foundation's Property at The Grove: A Report to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Glenview Park District, and The Grove Heritage Association from the Conservation Fund. Smithsonian Institute, 1995.

Wilson, Elizabeth. "The Rhetoric of Urban Space." New Left Review 209 (Jan. 1995): 146-61.