Recommended Books on the Urban Mosaic

Blunt, Alison, and Robyn Dowling. 2006. Home. New York: Routledge. An insightful and concise examination of the concept and everyday experiences of home.

Crutcher, Michael E., Jr. 2010. Tremé: Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood. Athens: University of Georgia Press. A case study of a neighborhood in New Orleans where issues of race and gentrification come to the fore.

Ford, Larry. 2003. America’s New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. An interesting assessment of 16 contemporary American downtowns.

Harvey, David. 2003. Paris, Capital of Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2003. A revealing look at Paris during its mid-nineteenth-century political turmoil.

Hayden, Dolores. 2003. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000. New York: Pantheon. A critical historical treatment of American suburban development.

Lees, Loretta, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wylie. 2007. Gentrification. New York: Routledge. An overview of the major theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding gentrification.

Marshall, Richard. 2002. Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim. New York: Routledge. A fascinating and well-illustrated look at how global cities in the Asia Pacific Rim are creating and embodying a new urban vision.

Pattilo, Mary. 2007. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. An in-depth examination of the many conflicts faced by residents in an African-American Chicago community undergoing gentrification.