Books:
- Edward Dimendberg, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity. Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Witold Rybczynski, Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities. Scribner, 2011.
- Sharon Zukin, The Naked City. Oxford University Press, reprint ed., 2011.
- Robert A. Beauregard, When America Became Suburban. University of Minnesota, 2006
- Paul Knox, Metroburbia, USA. Rutgers University Press, 2008
- Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, & Heather Boyer, Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change. Island Press, first ed., 2009.
Films:
- Naked City (1948)
- Chinatown (1974)
Short excerpts from the following (instructor’s reserve list):
- Paul and Percival Goodman, Communitas (1947)
- Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities (1938)
- Jane Jacobs, The Life and Death of Great American Cities (1961)
- M. Luccarelli, Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region (1995)
- Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow (2002)
- Ben A. Minteer, Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism & Environmental Thought (2009)
- M. Luccarelli & P.G. Røe, eds., Green Oslo (2013)