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J.
Mark Souther, Ph.D.
Rhodes Tower 1904
Department of History
Cleveland State University
Spring Semester 2007
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Required
Texts
Catherine Cocks, Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the
United States, 1850-1915 (Berkeley: University of California Press,
2001).
George G. Foster, New York by Gas-light and Other Urban Sketches,
ed. Stuart M. Blumin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth,
1820-2000 (New York: Vintage Books, 2004).
Alison Isenberg, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the
People Who Made It (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives (New York: Dover, 1971).
Thomas J. Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality
in Postwar Detroit, Revised ed. (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2005).
Additional articles and book chapters are available on Electronic Course
Reserve (ECR). All are PDF files. The computer lab on the fourth floor
of Main Classroom Building offers free printing. You should always bring
a copy of any required reading to class on the day for which it is assigned.
This
image from Peaceful Shaker Village, a late-1920s promotional
booklet for the planned Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Shaker Heights, shows
fanciful houses in the clouds, ostensibly linked to downtown Cleveland
as symbolized by the Terminal Tower. It suggests a hopeful vision of an
urban future in which downtown and suburb could coexist harmoniously—a
vision which proved illusive.
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