The City: Modernity

Alan Latham is a Professor of Human Geography at University College London. His research focuses on sociality, social infrastructure, and the public life of cities more generally. He has undertaken research in Germany, America, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Sweden on cities as diverse as Auckland, London, New York, Eugene (OR), Malmo, Berlin, and Champaign-Urbana. Before moving to UCL he held academic positions at the University of Southampton, and the University of Auckland.

• VOLUME ONE: THE MODERN CITY: EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENTPart One: Historical Development of Cities and UrbanisationThe Urban Revolution - V.G. ChildeThe Origin and Growth of Urbanization in the World - K. DavisUrbanization and the Economy in Preindustrial Societies: The Findings of Two Decades of Research - P. BairochThe Talk of the Town: Human Capital, Information, and the Growth of English Cities, 1861 to 1961 - C.J. Simon and C. NardinelliPart Two: Spatial Science and the Economic Dynamics of UrbanisationCity Hierarchies and the Distribution of City Size - M.J. BeckmannMegalopolis: Or the Urbanization of the North Eastern Seaboard - J. GottmanUrbanization and Counterurbanization in the United States - B. BerryIndustrialization, Initial Advantage, and American Metropolitan Growth - A. PredThe Valuable Inefficiencies and Impracticalities of Cities - J. JacobsPart Three: New Economic Accounts of Contemporary UrbanisationOn the Number and Location of Cities - P. KrugmanDiversity and Specialisation in Cities: Why, Where and When Does It Matter? - G. Duranton and D. PugaConsumer City - E.L. Glaeser, J. Kolko and A. SaizKnowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits: The Effects of Spillovers in the Boston Biotechnology Community - J. Owen-Smith and W.W. PowellBuzz: Face-to-Face Contact and the Urban Economy - M. Storper and A.J. VenablesVOLUME TWO: PLANNING, GOVERNING AND DESIGNING THE MODERN CITYPart One: Planning the Modern City: Infrastructure, Populations and BiopoliticsConstructing a City: The Cerdà Plan for the Extension of Barcelona - E. Aibar and W.E. BijkerTechnology and the City - J.W. Konvitz, M.H. Rose and J.A. TarrCity Building - S. CollierMaps, Blood and the City - P. JoyceThe ‘Swinish Multitude’: Controversies over Hogs in Antebellum New York City - C. McNeurPart Two: Critiquing Modern PlanningThe High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique - J.C. ScottPower, Nature, and the City. The Conquest of Water and the Political Ecology of Urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador: 1880–1990 - E. SwyngedouwThe Bacteriological City and Its Discontents - M. GandyPart Three: Planning, Architecture and OrderAmerican Suburbs/English Suburbs: A Transatlantic Comparison - R. FishmanSeeing Like a City: The Dialectic of Modern and Premodern Ways of Seeing in Urban Governance - M. ValverdeA Geography of Big Things - J.M. JacobsPart Four: New Directions in Urban Planning and GovernanceBringing Power to Planning Research One Researcher’s Praxis Story - B. FlyvbjergClose Encounters with Buildings - J. Gehl, L.J. Kaefer and S. ReigstadNew Directions in Planning Theory - S.S. FainsteinVOLUME THREE: CONSUMPTION, POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE IN THE MODERN CITYPart One: The Emergence of Popular Urban CultureTake It to the Streets - M. BermanPopular Culture in Seventeenth-Century London - P. BurkeThe Flaneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering - S. Buck-MorssModernity, Urbanism, and Modern Consumption - P.D. Glennie and N.J. ThriftPart Two: The Birth of Mass Communication and the Urban CrowdCult of Distraction: On Berlin’s Picture Palaces - S. Kracauer and T.Y. LevinMuseums and Mass Spectacle: The Musée Grévin as a Monument to Modern Life - V.R. SchwartzNightlife - W. SchivelbuschPart Three: Urban Leisure, Fashion, and ConsumptionMiddle-Class Parks and Working-Class Play: The Struggle over Recreational Space in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1870–1910 - R. Rosenzweig‘The Women of New York’: A Fashionable Moral Geography - M. Domosh‘The Halls of Temptation’: Gender, Politics, and the Construction of the Department Store in Late-Victorian London - E. RappaportPart Four: Department Store, Shopping Malls and New Consumption SpacesIs There an Urban History of Consumption? - L. CohenCityscapes: Consumption, Masculinities and the Mapping of London since 1950 - F. MortOnce-upon-a-Time in the Commodity World: An Unofficial Guide to Mall of America - J. GossShopping Malls, Consumer Culture and the Reshaping of Public Space in Egypt - M. AbazaVOLUME FOUR: MODERNITY, REPRESENTATION AND THE CITYPart One: The Street, Crowd, and the Urban GazeAgoraphobia: Spatial Estrangement in Georg Simmel and Siegfried Kracauer - A. VidlerMapping the Self: Gender, Space, and Modernity in Mid-Victorian London - L. NeadThe World as Exhibition - T. MitchellPart Two: Literature and the Urban ImaginationThe Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity - J. WolffVagabond in the Fugitive City: Hans Ostwald, Imperial Berlin and the Grossstadt-Dokumente - P. FritzscheWriting the Asphalt Jungle: Berlin and the Performance of Classical Modernity 1900–33 - A. VasudevanPart Three: Cinema, Movement, TechnologyPicturing American Modernity - K. WhisselAviation and the Aerial View: Le Corbusier’s Spatial Transformations in the 1930s and 1940s - M.C. BoyerUrban Mobility and Cinematic Visuality: The Screens of Los Angeles-Endless Cinema or Private Telematics - A. FriedbergPart Four: Maps, Memory, ImaginariesImagining the Modern City - J. DonaldThe Power of Place: “Claiming Urban Landscapes as People’s History” - D. HaydenPart Five: UtopiasA Lineal City in the Pampas: Politics, Materialization and Revolution in Wladimiro Acosta’s Vision for Buenos Aires - L. MinuhinReconstituting the Possible: Lefebvre, Utopia and the Urban Question - D. Pinder