Cities, Urban Form
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Are there any instances of cities which are not parts of states (perhaps just limited to that city and its immediate environs)? — Come to think of it, are there states without cities? Not necessarily permanent capitals, mind you, but some cities?
- Recommended:
- Guillermo Algaze, "The Sumerian Takeoff", Structure and Dynamics 1:1 (2005): 2 [From the abstract: "Economic geographers correctly note that regional variations in economic activity and population agglomeration are always the result of self-reinforcing processes of resource production, accumulation, exchange, and innovation. This article proposes that essentially similar forces account for the emergence of the world's earliest cities in the alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Souther Mesopotamia), sometime during the second half of the fourth millennium BC."]
- Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman and Anthony Venables, The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade
- Vernon Henderson, Zmarak Shalizi and Anthony J. Venables,"Geography and Development," Journal of Economic Geography 1 (2001): 81--105 [Yes, that's my father.]
- Stephen Johnson, The Ghost Map
- Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
- Paul Krugman, The Self-Organizing Economy
- Scott Page, "On the Emergence of Cities", Journal of Urban Economics 45 (1998): 184--208 [Preprint: SFI working paper 98-08-075]
- John Quiggin, "Cities, Connections and Cronyism", Australian Public Policy Program Working Paper: P06_3
- Charles Tilly, "Cities, states, and trust networks: chapter 1 of Cities and States in World History", Theory and Society 39 (2010): 265--280 href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109061">cs.CY/0109061
- Marc Van De Mieroop, The Ancient Mesopotamian City [Review in BMCR; my comments]
- Modesty forbids me to recommend:
- CRS, "Scaling and Hierarchy in Urban Economies", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) submitted, arxiv:1102.4101
- To read:
- Peter Allen, Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems: Models of Complexity
- Alex Anas, Richard Arnott and Kenneth A. Small, "Urban Spatial Structure," Journal of Economic Literature 36 (1998): 1426--1464
- Elsa Arcaute, Erez Hatna, Peter Ferguson, Hyejin Youn, Anders Johansson and Michael Batty, "City boundaries and the universality of scaling laws", arxiv:1301.1674
- Michael Batty, Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals
- Daniel Brook, A History of Future Cities
- Grady Clay Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape
- George L. Cowgill, "Origins and Development of Urbanism: Archaeological Perspective", Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004): forthcoming
- Paolo Crucitti, Vito Latora and Sergio Porta, "Centrality Measures in Urban Networks", physics/0504163
- Claude S. Fischer, To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City
- Oscar Gelderblom, Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250--1650
- Anique Hommels, Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change
- Yannis M. Ioannides, From Neighborhoods to Nations: The Economics of Social Interactions
- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities [I've read an awful lot about this book...]
- Justin Jennings, Globalizations and the Ancient World
- Spiro Kostof, The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History
- Miriam Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon and Morris Low, Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution
- Jennifer S. Light, From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America
- G. Malescio, N. V. Dokholyan, S. V. Buldyrev and H. Eugene Stanley, "Hierarchical Organization of Cities and Nations," cond-mat/0005178
- Roderick J. McIntosh, The Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape
- William B. Meyer, The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism
- Sergio Porta, Paolo Crucitti, Vito Latora
- "The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Dual Approach", cond-mat/0411241
- "The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach", physics/0506009
- Gilbert Rozman
- Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
- Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo
- Todd Sinai and Joel Waldfogel, "Geography and the Internet: Is the Internet a Substitute or a Complement for Cities?" [PDF via Prof. Sinai]
- Michael Storper, Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development
- Paul Wheatley, The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh through the Tenth Centuries
- Roger White, Guy Engelen and Inge Uljee, Modeling Cities and Regions as Complex Systems: From Theory to Planning Applications
- Rainer E. Zimmermann, Anna Socia and Giorgio Colacchio, "Reconstructing Bologna. The City as an Emergent Computational System --- A Study in the Complexity of Urban Structures. Part I: The Basic Idea and Fundamental Concepts," nlin.AO/0109025
