Happy New Year Gep-eders! Thank you very much to everyone who made this list a rich one indeed. I apologize for clogging your inboxes in the beginning.
Great Urban thinkers/Urban Politics Reading list ● Ivan Illich ● Mike Davis (Planet of Slums) ● Paul Goodman ● Lewis Mumford (especially for City in History; The Culture Of Cities; Technics and Civilization). It was noted that Mumford also exchanged letters with Gandhi and worked with Rabindranath Tagore that may add dimension to Mumford’s contribution. ● Jane Jacobs ● Irving Altman ● Timothy Beatley ● William Cronin ● Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (collaborative work) ● Joel Garreau ● Dolores Hayden ● Setha Low ● Kevin Lynch ● John Reps ● Camillo Sitte ● William Whyte ● Teresa Caldeira (City of Walls) ● Hochstetler and Keck, Greening Brazil, Duke 2007 ● Javier Auyero ● Ramachandra Guha (Environmentalism: A Global History; India After Gandhi; This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India; How Much Should a Person Consume? Environmentalism in India and the United States) ● Robert Moses ● David Harvey (Social Justice and the City) ● Anil Agarwal (Anil Agarwal Reader) ● Suniat Narain ● Patrick Geddes (Cities in Evolution) Peter J. Jacques, Ph.D. Department of Political Science University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161356 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816-1356 Phone: (407) 823-2608 Fax: (407) 823-0051 http://ucf.academia.edu/PeterJacques