Book List

The following texts are available at the Penn Book Center, 130 South 34th Street (SW corner of 34th and Sansom). All books are also on reserve in the Fine Arts Library.

Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. [HT384.U5 J33 1985]

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. 1961. Reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1992. [NA 9108.J3]

James F. O'Gorman, ABC of Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. [NA2530 .O36 1998]

A bulkpack containing additional required readings is available at Wharton Reprographics in the basement of Steinberg-Dietrich (Locust Walk between 36th and 37th).

Bulkpack Bibliography

Condit, Carl. "New Forms in Traditional Materials." Chap. 3 in The Chicago School of Architecture; a History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1964. [NA735.C4 C6 1964]

Landau, Sarah Bradford and Carl Condit. "The Skyscraper Comes of Age, 1900-1910." Chap. 10. Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. [NA6232 .L36 1996]

*Flower, Linda. "Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing." In The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, edited by Gary Tate and Edward Corbett, 1st ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Frampton, Kenneth. "Territorial Transformations: Urban Developments 1800-1909." Chap. 2 in Modern Architecture: A Critical History. 3rd ed., rev. and exp. Thames and Hudson, 1992. [NA500 .F75 1992]

Mohl, Raymond A. "Streetcars, Skyscraper, and Urban Space." Chap. 2 in The New City: Urban America in the Industrial Age, 1860-1920. The American History Series, ed. John Hope Franklin and Abraham S. Eisenstadt. Arlington Heights, Il : Harlan Davidson, 1985. [HT 123 M58 1985]

Thomas, George E. "Frank Furness: The Flowering of an American Architect." Chap. 1 in Frank Furness: The Complete Works. 2nd ed., rev. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. [NA737.F84 A4 1996]

Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler. "Life in Paris and Return to America", and "Professional Life." Chaps. 3 & 4 in Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works. 1888. Reprint, New York, Dover Publications, 1969. [NA737.R5 V3 1969]

O'Gorman, James F. "Work." Chap. 2 in H.H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. [NA737.R5 O36 1987]

Condit, Carl W. "Adler and Sullivan." Chap. 8 in The Chicago School of Architecture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Sullivan, Louis H. "An Oasis," "Function and Form (I)." In Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings. Rev. ed. 1918. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1979. [NA2560 .S82 1979]

O'Gorman, James F. "Muse, Master, Man", "The Prairie House." Introduction & Chap. 6 in Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. [NA710 .O35 1991]

Wright, Frank Lloyd. "Building the New House", "Simplicity", "Plasticity", "The Nature of Materials." An Autobiography. 1932. Reprint, New York: Horizon Press, 1977. [NA737.W7 A3 1977]

Riis, Jacob A. "The Down-Town Back Alleys." Chap. 4 in How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York. 1890. Reprint, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. [HV4046.N6 R55 1970]

"Immigrant Testimonies, c. 1900." In Major Problems in American Urban History, edited by Howard P. Chudacoff. Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994. [HT 123 M385 1994]

Boyer, Paul. "Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action." Chap. 16 in Urban Masses and Moral Order, 1820-1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. [HT123 .B69]

Butler, Robert. "The City as Liberating Space in Life and Times of Frederick Douglass." In The City in African-American Literature, edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler. London: Associated University Press, 1995. [PS169.C57 C58 1995]

Stansell, Christine. "Female Work and Poverty." Chap. 1 in City of Women; Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. [HD6096 N6 S8 1987]

Rosenzweig, Roy and Elizabeth Blackmar. " 'The Great Rendezvous of the Polite People.' " Chap. 8 in The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. [F128.65.C3 R67 1992]

"Frederick Law Olmsted Advocates Parks as Cures for Urban Malaise, 1870." In Major Problems in American Urban History, edited by Howard P. Chudacoff. Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994. [HT 123 M385 1994]

Ebner, Michael H. "The Late Nineteenth-Century Suburb: Creating a Suburban Ethos for Chicago's North Shore, 1855-1900." Chap. 3 in Two Centuries of American Planning, edited by Daniel Schalffer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988. [HT 167 T8 6 1988b]

*indicates that this text is on reserve as a desk pamphlet

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