CP 4020: Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning
Modified Syllabus and Reading Links

Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Design
School of City and Regional Planning
Summer 2019

Skip to: Main Books ∙ What Is Planning? ∙ A Brief History of Planning ∙ Zoning and Land Use in the United States ∙ Where Is the Public in Planning? ∙ Housing: Affordability and Gentrification ∙ Additional Information on Rent Control, Section 8 Housing, and Discrimination in Housing Markets ∙ Housing: Provision of Public Housing ∙ Environmental Planning: The Impacts of Development ∙ Environmental Planning: Parks and Greenspace ∙ Transportation: Auto-Dependent Development ∙ Transportation: Building, Funding, and Maintaining Public Transit ∙ Economic Development and the Growth of Cities ∙ Stadia, Festivals, and Other Megaprojects ∙ GIS and Urban Analytics ∙ Urban Design and City Form ∙ Community Development and Immigrant Communities ∙ Crime and Health ∙ Internationalizing Planning Knowledge ∙ Planning for All Bodies and All Abilities

Case Studies: The Minneapolis 2040 Plan ∙ The Globeville and Elyria-Swansea Neighborhoods of Denver, Colorado ∙ Urban Form in Monterrey, Mexico ∙ New York City’s Subways ∙ Indiana Enterprise Center in St. Joseph County, Indiana ∙ An Alternative Approach to Planning in Jackson, Mississippi

• Etienne, Harley F., and Faga, Barbara, eds., Planning Atlanta. New York: Routledge, 2014.

• Hall, Peter. Great Planning Disasters. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

• Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage Books, 1992.

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• Brasuell, James. “Searching for the Essence of Planning at the National Planning Conference.” Planetizen, April 14, 2019.

• Etienne, Harley F., and Faga, Barbara. “Chapter 1: Introduction.” From Planning Atlanta.

• Rittel, Horst W. J., and Webber, Melvin M. “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning.” Policy Sciences, Volume 4 (1973), pp. 155–169.

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• “Chapter 1: Introduction.” From The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

• “Chapter 3: London’s Motorways,” from Great Planning Disasters.

• Mumford, Eric. “Chapter 1: The Emergence of Modern Urbanism: European Cities in the Nineteenth Century,” and “Chapter 2: Cities in the Americas and the International Influence of the City Beautiful Movement.” From Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850 (Yale University Press, 2018).

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• Allen, Douglas. “Chapter 1: Learning from Atlanta.” From Planning Atlanta.

• Holeywell, Ryan. “Forget What You’ve Heard, Houston Really Does Have Zoning (Sort Of).” Urban Edge, September 8, 2015.

• Roy, Jessica. “From video game to day job: how ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners.” Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2019.

• Smart Growth America. Measuring Sprawl 2014. Report, August 2014.

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• Eplan, Leon S. “Chapter 8: The Genesis of Citizen Participation in Atlanta,” from Planning Atlanta.

• Faga, Barbara. “Chapter 9: Freedom Park: A Modern Day Battle,” from Planning Atlanta.

• Innes, Judith E., and Booher, David E. “Reframing public participation: strategies for the 21st century.” Planning Theory & Practice, Volume 5, No. 4 (2004), pp. 419–436.

• O’Sullivan, Fergus. “In Switzerland, Everyone’s an Urban Planner.” CityLab, April 30, 2019.

• Tyrnauer, Matt, dir. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (Altimeter Films, 2016).

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• Flisrand, Janne. “Minneapolis 2040’s Secret Sauce Was Engagement.” Streets.mn, December 10, 2018.

• Grabar, Henry. “Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation.” Slate, December 7, 2018.

• Minneapolis 2040 Official Home Page

• Nesterak, Max. “What’s new in the new Minneapolis 2040 plan?” MPR News, October 1, 2018.

• Palazzolo, Alan, and Mannix, Andy. “Find out how your block could change with the Minneapolis 2040 plan.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune, December 7, 2018.

• Planetizen.com’s “Minneapolis 2040” tag

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• Daniels, Ron. “Gentrification: The New ‘Negro Removal’ Program.” IBW21.org, November 26, 2018.

• Dobbins, Michael, “Chapter 10: Race and Class in Atlanta-Style Development: Promoting Inclusion and Justice,” from Planning Atlanta.

• Herbert, Christopher; Hermann, Alexander; and McCue, Daniel. “Measuring Housing Affordability: Assessing the 30 Percent of Income Standard.” Working Paper, Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, September 2018.

• Mock, Brentin, “Where Gentrification Is an Emergency, and Where It’s Not.” CityLab, April 5, 2019.

• Perry, Andre M.; Rothwell, Jonathan; and Harshbarger, David. “The devaluation of assets in black neighborhoods: The case of residential property.” Report, Brookings Institute, November 27, 2018.

• Zuk, Miriam; Bierbaum, Ariel H.; Chapple, Karen; Gorska, Karolina; Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia; Ong, Paul; and Thomas, Trevor. “Gentrification, Displacement and the Role of Public Investment: A Literature Review.” Working Paper 2015-05, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, August 2015.

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• AirBnB’s Non-Discrimination Policy

• Coble, Christopher. “Do Landlords Have to Accept Section 8?” FindLaw, July 2, 2015.

• Edelman, Benjamin; Luca, Michael; and Svirsky, Dan. “Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 9, No. 2 (April 2017), pp. 1–22.

• Kasakove, Sophie. “The Deceptive, Shameful, Ludicrously Funded War Against Rent Control.” The New Republic, October 18, 2018.

• Wiltz, Teresa. “Getting a Section 8 Voucher Is Hard. Finding a Landlord Willing to Accept It Is Harder.” Pew Trusts, August 31, 2018.

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• Boston, Thomas D. “Chapter 11: Public Housing Demolition and Neighborhood Revitalization,” from Planning Atlanta.

• Keating, Larry. “Redeveloping Public Housing.” Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 66, No. 4 (2000), pp. 384–397.

• Marshall, Colin. “Pruitt-Igoe: the troubled high-rise that came to define urban America.” The Guardian, April 22, 2015, .

• Schofield, Kevin. “Understanding Rent Control.” SCC Insight, April 25, 2019.

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• BenDor, Todd, Brozović, Nicholas, and Pallathucheril, Varkki George. “The Social Impacts of Wetland Mitigation Policies in the United States.” Journal of Planning Literature, Volume 22, Issue 4 (2008).

• Daniels, Thomas L. “A Trail Across Time: American Environmental Planning from City Beautiful to Sustainability.” Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 75, No. 2 (2009), pp. 178–192.

• Levy, Alon. “Growth and Environmentalism.” Pedestrian Observations, April 8, 2019.

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• Beaty, Kevin. “PHOTO Essay: Globeville and Elyria-Swansea live with a legacy of pollution.” Denverite, October 8, 2016.

• Booth, Michael. “Making Noise in Globeville and Elyria-Swansea.” Article for The Colorado Trust, September 12, 2018.

• Gardner, Natasha. “Welcome to Globeville.” 5280, November 2014.

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• Bloch, Sam. “Shade: An Urban Design Mandate.” Places Journal, April 2019.

• Garvin, Alexander. “Chapter 18: Atlanta’s BeltLine: The Emerald Necklace Shaping the City’s Future.” From Planning Atlanta.

• Noakes, Taylor C. “Montreal Tried to Close a Popular Park to Drivers. Why Didn’t It Work?” CityLab, April 9, 2019.

• Vargo, Jason. “Chapter 26: Planning for the Forest and the Trees: The City in a Forest.” From Planning Atlanta.

• Wolch, Jennifer R.; Bryne, Jason; and Newell, Joshua P. “Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’.” Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 125 (May 2014): 234–244.

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• APA 2015 National Excellence in Planning Awards: Tecnológico de Monterrey Urban Regeneration Plan

• Federal government of Mexico and National Institute of Women, Nuevo León. Programa de Igualdad de Género de la Secretaría de Desarrollo Sustentable del Estado de Nuevo León. Report published 2012.

• Guerra, Erick; Caudillo, Camilo; Monkkonen, Paavo; and Montejano, Jorge. “Urban form, transit supply, and travel behavior in Latin America: Evidence from Mexico's 100 largest urban areas.” Transport Policy, Volume 69 (2018), pp. 98-105.

• Mittermaier, Pascal. “Growing Greener in Mexico’s City of the Mountains.” Huffington Post, December 6, 2017.

• Monkonnen, Paavo; Comandon, Andre; Montejero Escamilla, Jorge Alberto; Guerra, Erick. “Urban sprawl and the growing geographic scale of segregation in Mexico, 1990–2010.” Habitat International, Volume 73 (2018), pp. 89–95.

• Peña, Sergio. “Recent Trends and Practice in Spatial Planning in Mexico: The Municipal Planning and Research Institutes.” Gestión y Política Pública, Volume 21, No. 2 (2012), pp. 407–449.

• Schneider, Annemarie; Woodcock, Curtis E. “Compact, Dispersed, Fragmented, Extensive? A Comparison of Urban Growth in Twenty-five Global Cities using Remotely Sensed Data, Pattern Metrics and Census Information.” Urban Studies, Volume 45, No. 3 (2008), pp. 659–692.

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• “Chapter 18: Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles,” from The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

• Ross, Catherine, “Chapter 14: Regional Growth, Transportation, and Congestion: The Atlanta Problem,” from Planning Atlanta.

• Shoup, Donald, “Chapter 1: The Twentieth-Century Parking Problem,” from The High Cost of Free Parking (American Planning Association, 2011).

• Shoup, Donald, “Parking Price Therapy,” Planning Magazine, October 2018, pp. 33–36.

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• “Chapter 5: San Francisco’s BART System,” from Great Planning Disasters.

• Paget-Seekins, Laurel, “Chapter 15: From Transit as a Social Service to Transit as Congestion Relief: The Failure of Transit Planning in Atlanta,” from Planning Atlanta.

• West, Harry, “Chapter 7: Building Transit in Atlanta: From Streetcars to MARTA,” from Planning Atlanta.

• Reed, Drew, “How Curitiba’s BRT stations sparked a transport revolution,” The Guardian, May 26, 2015.

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• Barro, Josh. “Why New York Can’t Have Nice Things.” New York Magazine, May 30, 2019.

• Finnegan, William. “Can Andy Byford Save the Subways?” The New Yorker, July 2, 2018.

• Kolker, Robert. “One Day, 625 Delays.” New York Magazine, February 23, 2016.

• Sargent, Joseph, dir. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Palomar Pictures, 1974).

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• Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth, and Stolarick, Kevin. “The Great Divide: Economic Development Theory Versus Practice—A Survey of the Current Landscape.” Economic Development Quarterly, Volume 25, No. 2 (2011), pp. 143–157.

• Levy, John M., “What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases.” Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 56, Issue 2 (1990), pp. 153–160.

• Molotch, Harvey. “The city as growth machine: Toward a political economy of place.” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 82, No. 2 (Sept. 1976), pp. 309–322.

• Saporta, Maria, “Chapter 12: The Evolution of the Business Leaders Who Built Modern Atlanta,” from Planning Atlanta.

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• The Antero Group. “St. Joseph County Northwest Industrial Logistics Center Project Summary.” May 4, 2018.

• Booker, Ted. “St. Joseph County has big plans for development near New Carlisle. A ditch is in the way.” South Bend Tribune, January 6, 2019.

• Booker, Ted. “Farmers, environmentalists raise concerns about ditch relocation plan in New Carlisle area.” South Bend Tribune, February 5, 2019.

• Booker, Ted. “A ‘secret’ land acquisition map? Plan showing ‘target’ properties worries New Carlisle farmers.” South Bend Tribune, March 15, 2019.

• Booker, Ted. “Elwood vs. New Carlisle: Could proposed industrial park backfire on St. Joseph County?” South Bend Tribune, March 24, 2019.

• Community Forum for Economic Justice. “Subsidies in Indiana and St. Joseph County: 2010-2015/16.”

• Indiana Enterprise center documents posted by St. Joseph County government

• Rea, Jeff. “Indiana Enterprise Center Development.” Press Release by the South Bend Regional Chamber, September 21, 2018.

• Weaver-Stoesz, Marlys. “Farmers Wary of New Carlisle Development Plans.” The Farmer’s Exchange, October 19, 2018.

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• DeCosta, Benjamin R., “Chapter 16: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: A City of Its Own,” from Planning Atlanta.

• deMause, Neil. “Why are Georgia taxpayers paying $700m for a new stadium?” The Guardian, September 29, 2017.

• “Chapter 2: London’s Third Airport,” from Great Planning Disasters.

• “Chapter 6: Sydney’s Opera House,” from Great Planning Disasters.

• Kahn, Michael. “How Atlanta’s Olympic Venues Are Faring, 20 Years Later.” Curbed Atlanta, July 19, 2016.

• Krohe, James, Jr. “Five-Ring Circus: Do Cities Win or Lose with the Olympic Games?” Planning, February 2010, pp. 8–13.

• Roark, Randal, “Chapter 19: The Legacy of the Centennial Olympic Games,” from Planning Atlanta.

• Zimbalist, Andrew. Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup. 2nd Edition. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press (2016).

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• Andris, Clio. “Measuring Geographic Pull Power: A Case Study of US College Athletic Teams.” The Professional Geographer, Volume 70, No. 3 (2018), pp. 476–490.

• Center for Government Excellence (GovEx), Johns Hopkins University. “Data Science Podcast Episode 33: Data Science Done Right.” March 17, 2017.

• Comber, Alexis; Brundson, Chris; and Green, Edmund. “Using a GIS-based network analysis to determine urban greenspace accessibility for different ethnic and religious groups.” Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 86 (2008), pp. 103–114.

• Matthews, Dylan. “The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics.” Vox, May 22, 2019.

• QGIS

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• Dunham-Jones, Ellen, and Williamson, June. “Dead and Dying Shopping Malls, Re-Inhabited.” Architectural Design, Volume 87, Issue 5, pp. 84–91.

• “Chapter 10: The need for aged buildings.” From The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

• Lynch, Kevin. “Chapter I: The Image of the Environment.” From The Image of the City (MIT Press, 1960).

• Sharp, Leslie N. “Chapter 5: Crazy Like the Fox: Atlanta’s Preservation Schizophrenia.” From Planning Atlanta.

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• Allen, Kathleen; Pasucal, Aixa; Prljaca, Lejla; and Watkins, Malik. When Extended Stay Becomes Home. Report published by LiveNorcross, May 2019.

• Cohen Morris, Rebekah. “Housing Displacement & Impacts on Local Schools.” Georgian Educator, March 13, 2019.

• Kim, Anna J.; Levin, Josh M.; and Botchwey, Nisha D. “Planning with Unauthorized Immigrant Communities: What Can Cities Do?” Journal of Planning Literature, Volume 33, Issue 1 (2018), pp. 3–16.

• Liu, Cathy Yang; Miller, Jonathan; and Wang, Qingfang. “Ethnic enterprises and community development.” GeoJournal, Volume 79, Issue 5 (October 2014), pp. 565–576.

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• Botchwey, Nisha; Lee, Susannah; Leous, Audrey; and Guhathakurta, Subhro. “Chapter 13: Neighborhood Quality of Life and Health in Atlanta.” From Planning Atlanta.

• Cozens, Paul, and Love, Terence. “A Review and Current Status of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED).” Journal of Planning Literature, Volume 30, Number 4 (2015), pp. 393–412.

• Kelling, George L., and Wilson, James Q. “Broken Windows: The police and neighborhood safety.” The Atlantic, March 1982.

• Wu, Yizheng; Rowangould, Dana; London, Jonathan K.; and Karner, Alex. “Modeling health equity in active transportation planning.” Volume 67 (February 2019), pp. 528–540.

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(These were the first three links given to students as part of an assignment to contribute to an annotated bibliography; the results, with commentary by me, are available on Medium.)

• Akuno, Kali. The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy. Malcom X Grassroots Movement & New Afrikan People’s Organization.

• Cooperation Jackson. “Reflections on 2018: A Year of Struggle, Lessons and Progress.” cooperationjackson.org, December 14, 2018.

• Gilbert, Katie. “The Socialist Experiment.” Oxford American, Issue 98 (Fall 2017).

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• Bosker, Bianca. “Why haven’t China’s cities learned from America’s mistakes?” The Guardian, August 20, 2014.

• Levy, Alon. “Why American Costs Are So High (Work-in-Progress).” Pedestrian Observations, March 3, 2019.

• The World Bank. Poland Catching-Up Regions 2: Podkarpackie and Świętokrzyskie: Towards More Efficient Spatial Planning. Report, May 2018.

• Yang, Zhenshan; Jia, Peng; Liu, Weidong; and Yin, Hongchun. “Car ownership and urban development in Chinese cities: A panel data analysis.” Journal of Transport Geography 58 (2017): 127–134.

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• National Conference of State Legislatures and AARP Public Policy Institute, “Aging in Place: A State Survey of Livability Policies and Practices.” Research Report, December 2011.

• Stafford, Lisa, and Baldwin, Claudia. “Planning Walkable Neighborhoods: Are We Overlooking Diversity in Abilities and Ages?” Journal of Planning Literature, Volume 33, Issue 1 (2018), pp. 17–30.

• Staples, Jamie, and Essex, Stephen. “Design, Disability and the Planning Challenge: The Reality of Living with Severely Disabled Children.” Planning Practice & Research, Volume 31, No. 3 (2016), pp. 327–346.

• This Little Miggy, “Accessible Dream Home Update: Universal Design.” November 5, 2018.

• Warner, Mildred E.; Homsy, George C.; and Morken, Lydia J. “Planning for Aging in Place: Stimulating a Market and Government Response.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 37, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 29–42.

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