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Race and the Built Environment Guide

Urban Design Articles

Baum, Howell S. 2004. “Smart Growth and School Reform: What If We Talked about Race and Took Community Seriously?” Journal of the American Planning Association 70 (1): 14–26.  Available online via Taylor & Francis.

Bayor, Ronald H. “The Second Ghetto: Then and Now.” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 3 (January 1, 2003): 238–42.  Available online via Sage.

Brabec, Elizabeth, and Sharon Richardson. "A Clash of Cultures: The Landscape of the Sea Island Gullah.Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 151-67. Available online via JSTOR.

Dotson, Olon F. “Fourth World Theory: The Evolution Of...” Buildings: An Open Access Journal for the Built Environment 4, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 155–94.  Available open access online.

Fishman, Robert. “Detroit and the Acceleration of History.” Log, no. 37 (January 1, 2016): 32–48.  Available online via JSTOR.

Galster, George C., and Erin Godfrey. 2005. “By Words and Deeds: Racial Steering by Real Estate Agents in the U.S. in 2000.” Journal of the American Planning Association 71 (3): 251–68.  Available online via Taylor & Francis.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. “Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis.” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 3 (March 1, 2003): 233–37.  Available online via Sage.

Graziul, Chris, Nathan Frey, and John R Logan. “Neighborhood Formation in St. Louis, 1930.” Environment and Planning B, Urban Analytics and City Science, November 1, 2018, 1157–74.  Available online via Sage.

Grey, Jennifer. “Social Practice and the Laissez-Faire Metropolis: Dwight Perkins in Chicago, 1895-1915.” Architecture_MPS: Architecture_Media_Politics_Society 5, no. 1 (May 1, 2014).  Available online via ScienceOpen.

Guffey, Elizabeth E. “Knowing Their Space: Signs of Jim Crow in the Segregated South.” Design Issues 28, no. 2 (January 1, 2012): 41–60.  Available online via JSTOR.

Hirsch, Arnold R. “Second Thoughts on the Second Ghetto.” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 3 (March 1, 2003): 298–309.  Available online via Sage.

Hirt, Sonia. 2015. “The Rules of Residential Segregation: US Housing Taxonomies and Their Precedents.” Planning Perspectives: PP 30 (3): 367–95.  Available online via Taylor & Francis.

Hise, Greg. "Identity and Social Distance in Los Angeles.Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 45-60. Available online via JSTOR.

Horiuchi, Lynne. "Object Lessons In Home Building: Racialized Real Estate Marketing In San Francisco.Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 61-82. Available online via JSTOR.

Hum, Tarry. 2010. “Planning in Neighborhoods with Multiple Publics: Opportunities and Challenges for Community-Based Nonprofit Organizations.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 29 (4): 461–77.  Available online via Sage.

Lawson, Laura. 2007. “Parks as Mirrors of Community: Design Discourse and Community Hopes for Parks in East St. Louis.” Landscape Journal 26 (1): 116–33.  Available online via UW Press or via JSTOR.

Low, Setha. “Incorporation and gated communities in the greater metro-Los Angeles region as a model of privatization of residential communities.” Home Cultures 5 no. 1 (2008): 85-108.  Available online via Taylor & Francis.

McKee, Guian A. “Liberal Ends through Illiberal Means: Race, Urban Renewal, and Community in the Eastwick Section of Philadelphia, 1949-1900.” Journal of Urban History 27, no. 5 (July 1, 2001): 547–83.  Available online via Sage.

Mohl, Raymond A. “The Second Ghetto Thesis and the Power of History.” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 3 (March 1, 2003): 243–56.  Available online via Sage.

Montrie, Chad. 2005. “From Dairy Farms to Housing Tracts: Environment and Race in the Making of a Memphis Suburb.” Journal of Urban History 31 (2): 219–40.  Available online via Sage.

Nightingale, Carl H. “A Tale of Three ‘Global’ Ghettos: How Arnold Hirsch Helps Us Internationalize U.S. Urban History.” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 3 (March 1, 2003): 257–71.  Available online via Sage.

Östh, John, and William AV Clark. “Measuring Isolation across Space and over Time with New Tools : Evidence from Californian Metropolitan Regions.” Environment and Planning B, Urban Analytics and City Science, November 1, 2018, 1038–54.  Available online via Sage.

Palm, Kristin. “Public Enemy No. 1: Why America Loves to Fear Detroit.” Metropolis 22, no. 7 (March 1, 2003): 74, 76.  Available in print in the RWU Architecture Library.

Pluecker, John. “Flashpoints on the Road to Black and Brown Power: Sites of Struggle in Houston in the 1960s and 70s.” Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston, no. 82 (January 1, 2010): 30–31.  Available in print in the RWU Architecture Library.

Pritchett, Wendell E. “Race and Community in Postwar Brooklyn: The Brownsville Neighborhood Council and the Politics of Urban Renewal.” Journal of Urban History 27, no. 4 (May 1, 2001): 445–70.  Available online via Sage.

Ranganathan, Malini. “Rule by Difference: Empire, Liberalism, and the Legacies of Urban ‘Improvement.’” Environment and Planning A, no. 7 (October 1, 2018): 1386–1406.  Available online via Sage.

Ross, Catherine L, and Nancey Green Leigh. “Planning, Urban Revitalization, and the Inner City: An Exploration of Structural Racism.” Journal of Planning Literature 14, no. 3 (February 1, 2000): 367-380.  Available online via Sage. 

Satter, Beryl. 2017. “Structural Injustice : A (Teenage) Primer.” Harvard Design Magazine, no. 44 (January): 120–26.  Available in print in the RWU Architecture Library.

Schildt, Chris. 2011. “The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting: Insurgent Histories and the Development of a New Suburban Praxis.” Berkeley Planning Journal 24 (1): 141–49.  Available online via U.C.eScholarship.org.

Self, Robert. “‘To Plan Our Liberation’: Black Power and the Politics of Place in Oakland, California, 1965-1977.” Journal of Urban History, no. 6 (September 1, 2000): 759–92.  Available online via Sage.

Seligman, Amanda Irene. “What Is the Second Ghetto?” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 3 (March 1, 2003): 272–80.  Available online via Sage.

Sugrue, Thomas J. “Revisiting the Second Ghetto.” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 3 (March 1, 2003): 281–90.  Available online via Sage.

Thompson, Heather Ann. “Making a Second Urban History.” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 3 (March 1, 2003): 291–97.  Available online via Sage.

Wacquant, Loïc. "Designing Urban Seclusion in the Twenty-First Century: The 2009 Roth-Symonds Lecture.Perspecta 43 (2010): 164-75. Available online via JSTOR.