The Sustainable City
   

Required Texts

Stephen Wheeler and Timothy Beatley, eds.  The Urban Sustainable Development Reader, 2nd edition.  New York:  Routledge, 2009.  ISBN 978-0-415-45382-0.  (Available at the RU bookstore.)
Chicago Wilderness, An Atlas of Biodiversity, 2000.  Available in digital format (pdf) or hardcopy at http://www.chiwild.org/pubprod/atlas/index.cfm (free).  Print copy distributed in class.

Other Required Readings

In addition to the above texts, we provide numerous other readings as direct links to a document or website from the Weekly Schedule page, or as downloadable selections (Word or pdf files) within the Weekly Readings section of our Bb site. 

 

Selected Bibliography

This short bibliography lists books, articles, and websites related to sustainability and the urban environment, with an added focus on 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.

Adelson, G., et al.  Environment:  An Interdisciplinary Anthology.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2008. 

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

Appelbaum, Stanley.  The Chicago World's Fair of 1893:  A Photographic Record.  New York:  Dover, 1980.

Bachrach, Julia.  City in a Garden:  A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2001.

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

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

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.

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

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>.

City of Chicago.  Chicago River Agenda.  June 2005.  Available online.

-----.  Chicago's Water Agenda.  2003.  Available online. 

Condit, Carl.  Chicago, 1910-29:  Building, Planning, and Urban Technology.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1973.

-----.  Chicago, 1930-70:  Building, Planning, and Urban Technology.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1974.

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.

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.

Gottlieb, Robert.  Reinventing Los Angeles:  Nature and Community in the Global City.  Cambridge:  MIT Press, 2007.

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.

Hedeen, Stanley.  The Mill Creek:  An Unnatural History of an Urban Stream.  Cincinnati:  Blue Heron Press, 1994.

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.

Hudson, John C.  Chicago:  A Geography of the City and Its Region.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Jackson, Kenneth T.  Crabgrass Frontier:  The Suburbanization of the United States.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1985.

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.

Jones, Van.  The Green Collar Economy:  How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems.  New York:  HarperOne, 2008.

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.

Kibul, Paul Stanton, ed.  Rivertown:  Rethinking Urban Rivers.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 2007.

Lowe, David, ed.  The Great Chicago Fire in Eyewitness Accounts and 70 Contemporary Photographs and Illustrations.  New York:  Dover, 1979.

Mayer, Harold M.,  and Richard C. Wade.  Chicago:  Growth of a Metropolis.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1969.

McNeill, J. R.  Something New under the Sun:  An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 2000.

Mega, Voula.  Sustainable Development, Energy and the City:  A Civilisation of Visions and Actions.  New York:  Springer, 2005.

Melosi, Martin.  The Sanitary City:  Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

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 Calumet 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.

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

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

Platt, Rutherford, Rowan A. Rowntree, and Pamela C. Muick, eds.  The Ecological City:  Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity.  Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.

Platt, Rutherford, ed.  The Humane Metropolis:  People and Nature in the 21st Century City.  Cambridge:  MIT Press, 2006.

Portney, Kent E.  Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously.  Cambridge:  MIT Press, 2003.

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]

Solzman, David.  The Chicago River:  An Illustrated History and Guide to the River and Its Waterways.  2nd edition.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2006. 

Spirn, Anne Whiston.  The Granite Garden:  Urban Nature and Human Design.  New York:  Basic Books, 1985.

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.

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

Warner, Sam Bass.  The Urban Wilderness:  A History of the American City.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1995.

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.

Wille, Lois.  Forever Open, Clear, and Free:  The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront.  2nd ed.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1991. 

Zimring, Carl A.  Cash for Your Trash:  Scrap Recycling in America.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press, 2005.

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