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Reading List
The following list of books is intended to serve as a suggested list of readings for students applying to and/or enrolled in our M.A. in Community Planning. Enrolled students can access the publications via the UW Library system.
BOOKS
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Yerena, A. (2020). Not a Matter of Choice: Eliminating Single-Family Zoning. Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(1), 122–122.
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Anne Taufen Wessells (2017) Public reason and the planning academic, Planning Theory & Practice, 18:1, 163-167
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Ledwith, M. (2016). Community development in action: Putting Freire into practice (1st ed.). Bristol University Press.
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Green, G. P. (2015). Asset building & community development. Place of publication not identified: Sage Publications.
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Thomas, H. (1998). Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows. Urban Studies, 35(12), 2378+.
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Harvey, D. (1996). Justice, nature, and the geography of difference. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Publishers.
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Jackson, K. T. (1985). Crabgrass frontier: The suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
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Young, Iris (1990). Justice and the politics of difference. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
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Douglas S. Massey; Nancy A. Denton (1993). American Apartheid. Boston: Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Thomas Sugrue. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
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Omi, Michael; Winant, Howard (2015). Racial Formation in the United States, 3rd ed. New York: Routledge.
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Venkatesh, Sudhir. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets. 2008. Penguin Press.
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Sen, Rinku. Stir it Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy. 2003. Chardon Press
AUDIOVISUAL
- City So Real - National Geographic Documentary Series
- School of Urban Studies Debra Friednman Memorial Lecture
- Emergency Urbanism by Ananya Roy, Ph.D.
- Echos of a Chocolate City: Race, Aesthetics and Black Urbanism by Brandi T. Summers, Ph.D.
BOOKS
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Foglesong, R. E. (1986). Planning the capitalist city: The colonial era to the 1920s. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.
