Recommended Reading

ROMAN CITY
Mark Power, The Roman Forum: A View, Cambridge architecture journal : Scroope
seven. 1995-1996. Available on shared drive.
(Cambridge : Cambridge Architecture Journal, Scroope, 1995)
Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 8,
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVIII.htm#_Toc3637709
Owens, E. J., The City in The Greek and Roman World (London: Routledge, 1991).
Tomlinson, Richard, From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient
City (London, New York: Routledge, 1992).
Rykwert, Joseph, The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome,
Italy and the Ancient World (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988).
Ward-Perkins, J. B., Cities of Ancient Greece and Italy: Planning in Classical
Antiquity (London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1974).

MEDIEVAL CITY
Absolutely essential:
Benevolo, Leonardo, The History of the City (London: Scolar Press, 1980). Chapter 6,
'European Cities during the Middle Ages'.
Morris, A. E. J., History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolutions (London:
Longman, 1994). Chapter 4, 'Medieval Towns'.
Mumford, Lewis, The City in History (New York: MJF Books, 1989). Chapters 9 and
10, pp. 282 - 324.
Highly recommended:
Hindle, Brian, Medieval Town Plans (Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1990).
Lilley, K. D., City and Cosmos: The Medieval World in Urban Form. (London:
Reaktion, 2009).


RENAISSANCE CITY
Absolutely essential:
Benevolo, Leonardo, The History of the City (London: Scolar Press, 1980). Chapters
7, 8.
Morris, A. E. J., History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolutions (London:
Longman, 1994). Chapter 5 The Renaissance, particularly pp. 157 - 179
Highly recommended:
Alberti, Leon Battista, On the Art of Building in Ten Books (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 1988 [first published mid fifteenth century]).
Eaton, Ruth, Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)built Environment (London:
Thames and Hudson, 2001).
Henry, John, The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science, Studies in
European History Series (Palgrave, 2002).
Mumford, Lewis, The City in History (London: Penguin Books, 1991). Chapters 9,
10, 11.

RENAISSANCE GARDEN
Absolutely essential:
Coffin, David, The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1979). Chapter 2, The Vatican Retreat of the Church Dignitary,
Chapter 9, The Golden Age.
David Dernie, The Villa dEste at Tivoli, (London: Academy editins, 1996).
Rivers, Isabel, Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry (London:
Routledge, 1994).
Highly recommended:
Coffin, D.R. (2003). Pirro Ligorio. The Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian. Penn State
Press. (on order)
Jellicoe, Geoffrey, The Italian Gardens of the Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1986).
Morgan, Luke, Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth Century
Landscape Design (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
Mosser, Monica and G. Teyssot, Eds., The History of Garden Design: The Western
Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day (London: Thames & Hudson,
1991).
Van der Ree, Paul, Gerrit Smienk and Clemens M. Steenbergen. Italian Villas and
Gardens (Munich: Prestel 1992).

BAROQUE CITY
Absolutely essential:
Bacon, Edmund, Design of Cities (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967), pp. 117-141.
Benevolo, Leonardo, The History of the City (London: Scolar Press, 1980).
Chapter 8, Italian Cities during the Renaissance.
Morris, A. E. J., History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolutions (London:
Longman, 1994). Chapter 5.
Highly recommended:
Kostof, Spiro, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings through History
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1991). Chapter 4, The Grand Manner, pp. 209-
277.
Krautheimer, Richard, The Rome of Alexander VII: 1655-1667 (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1985).
Wittkower, Rudolph, Studies in the Italian Baroque (London: Thames and Hudson,
1975). Chapter 1, pp. 10-18; Chapter 2, pp.54-60; Chapter 3, pp.62-82.

BAROQUE GARDEN
Brix, Michael, The Baroque Landscape: Andr Le Ntre and Vaux le Vicomte (New
York: Rizzoli, 2004).
Hunt, J. D., Garden and Grove: the Italian Renaissance Garden and the English
Imagination1600-1750 (London: Dent, 1986).
Steenbergen, Clemens and Wouter Reh, Architecture and Landscape: the Design
Experiment of the Great European Gardens and Landscapes (Basel, 2003).
Weiss, Allen, Mirrors of Infinity: the French Formal Garden and 17th-Century
Metaphysics (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995).
Weiss, Allen, Unnatural Horizons: Paradox and Contradiction in landscape Architcture, (New York:
Princeton Architectural Press, 1998)

ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN
Dixon Hunt, John and Peter Willis, The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape
Garden 1620-1820 (London: Elek, 1975). Introduction.
Leatherbarrow, David, Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and
Architecture, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
National Trust, Stourhead Landscape Garden (Bromley: National Trust, 2000).
Woodbridge, Kenneth, The Stourhead Landscape: Wiltshire (London: National Trust,
2002).

GEORGIAN LONDON
Absolutely Essential:
McKellar, Elizabeth, The Birth of Modern London, 1660-1720 (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1999).
Rasmussen, S.E., London: The Unique City (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982).
Chapters 9 and 11.
Summerson, John, Georgian London (New Haven: Yale University Press for the Paul
Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2003). Chapter 7, 'Whig and Tory
Landowners', Chapter 9, 'The Spirit of Improvement'.
Highly recommended:
Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd, The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2012).
Longstaff-Gowan, Todd, The London Town Garden (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2001). Chapter 8, Garden Squares.


NINETEENTH CENTURY PARIS AND BARCELONA
Bacon, Edmund, Design of Cities (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967). Chapters on
London and Paris.
Benjamin, Walter, Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century, in Reflections, ed. by
Peter Demetz (New York: Schocken Books, 1986).
*Benevolo, Leonardo, The European City (Oxford: Blackwell,1993). Chapter entitled
The Industrial City.
Benevolo, Leonardo, The History of the City (London: Scolar Press, 1980), Chapters
entitled The Setting of the Industrial City and The Post-Liberal City.
*Busquets, Joan, Barcelona: the urban evolution of a compact city (Boston: Harvard
University and Nicolodi, 2005).
Harvey, David, Paris, Capital of Modernity (Oxford: Routledge, 2005).
*Periton, Diana , The Coupe Anatomique, Journal of Architecture, 9, (2004), 289-
304.
*Pinkney, David, Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1958).

THE GARDEN CITY AND BROADACRE CITY
Absolutely essential:
*Hall, Peter, Cities of Tomorrow: an Intellectual History of Urban Planning and
Design in the Twentieth Century (Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2002). Chapter
4, The City in the Garden.
*Howard, Ebenezer, Garden Cities of Tomorrow (London: Faber and Faber, 1960).
Author's Introduction, pp. 41-49. Also available in Richard T LeGates; The City
Reader, (London : Routledge, 2011)
Highly recommended:
Ebenezer Howard Sir, To-morrow : a peaceful path to real reform
1850-1928. ;Peter Hall 1932 March 19-; Dennis Hardy; Ward, Colin.
(London ; New York : Routledge,2003)
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City, ed. by David De Long (Weil am Rhein: Vitra
Design Museum; Milan: Skira, 1998), pp.15-42.
Johnson, Donald, Frank Lloyd Wright versus America: the 1930s (Cambridge,
Mass : MIT Press, 1990). pp. 108-148.

THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT
Best, Geoffrey, Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-75 (London: Fontana Press, 1979).
Davies, Philip, Lost London 1870-1945 (Amersham: Transatlantic Press).
Mearns, Andrew,The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry into the Condition of
the Abject Poor (Leicester: Leicester University Press; New York: Humanities Press,
1970 [first published 1883]).
Thomson, John, and Adolphe Smith, Street Life in London (London: Sampson Low,
Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877) <LSE digital library -
http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/streetlifeinlondon>

THE MODERN CITY
*Banham, Reyner, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, (London: The
Architectural Press, 1960). Chapter 4.
*Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (London: Thames
and Hudson, 1980). Part II, Chapters 10, 20; Part III, Chapter 3.
*Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow and its Planning, trans. by Frederick Etchells
(London: Architectural Press, 1947).
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, trans. by Frederick Etchells (London:
Architectural Press, 1987).
Curtis, William, Modern Architecture since 1900 (London: Phaidon Press, 1986).
*Curtis, William, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms (London: Phaidon Press, 2006).
Mumford, Lewis, The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its
Prospects (New York: MJF Books, 1989, first published 1961).
Mumford, Eric, The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (Cambridge,
Mass:The MIT Press, 2000).
Pinder, David, Visions of the City (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). Chapter
3.

THE GLOBAL CITY
*Adam, Robert, The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: The Impact of Politics,
Economics and Social Change on Architecture and Urban Design since 1990
(Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012).
*The Global Cities Reader, ed. by Neil Brenner and Rob Keil (Abingdon: Routledge,
2006)
Fainstein, Susan, The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and
New York (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994).
Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the Worlds Games, 1896-2012, ed. by
John Gold and Margaret Gold (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007).
Hamnett, Chris, Unequal City: London in the Global Arena (Abingdon: Routledge,
2003).
*Sassen, Saskia, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2001).
*Sklair, Leslie, Iconic Architecture and Capitalist Globalization, City: Analysis of
Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, series 1, 10 (2006), 21-47.

THE SUSTAINABLE/ RESILIENT CITY
Barton, Hugh, Geoff Davies and Richard Guise, Sustainable Settlements: a Guide for
Planners, Designers and Developers (University of the West of England and the
Local Government Management Board, 1995).
Sustainable Communities: The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods, ed. by Hugh
Barton (London: Earthscan, 1999).
Coyle, Stephen, Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action
Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011).
Davis, J. and S. Uffer. Evolving Cities: Resilient Urban Form and the Governance of
Resilience (LSE Cities, 2013) < http://lsecities.net/objects/research-projects/resilient-
urban-form-and-governance>
**Pickett, S.T.A., M.L Cadenasso and B. McGrath. Resilience in Ecology and Urban
Design: linking theory and practice for sustainable cities (New York: Springer, 2013).
*Roaf, Susan, David Crichton and Fergus Nicol, Adapting Buildings and Cities for
Climate Change: a 21st Century Survival Guide (Amsterdam; Oxford: Elsevier
Architectural Press, 2005).
The Urban Taskforce, Towards an Urban Renaissance (London: Department of
the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1999).
*Vale, Lawrence and Thomas Campanella, The Resilient City: How Modern Cities
Recover from Disaster (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). Williams, Katie,
Elizabeth Burton and Mike Jenks, Eds., Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (London:
E. & F. N. Spon, 1999).

* Note: Essential Reading
** Note: can be borrowed from Juliet Davis if not in the library

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