Course Outline -- Week 5

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2000

Wk 5 – Industrialization, Urbanization

Tarr, Search for the Ultimate Sink, pp. xxix-xlvii, 1-35, 103-178 (V)

Gottlieb, Robt., "Urban and Industrial Roots," ch. 2 (pp. 47-80) in Forcing the Spring (V)

Noble, C., "Introduction"; "The Political Economy of Workplace Regulation," ch. 1 (pp. 19-38); "Before OSHA," ch. 2 (pp. 39-67), in Liberalism at Work (V)

Mumford, "The Paleotechnic Phase," ch. 4 in Technics and Civilization (V)

Stine, Jeffery K. and Joel A. Tarr. 1998. "At the Intersection of Histories: Technology and the Environment," Technology and Culture 39(4):601-640. [Online] Available: <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v039/39.4stine.html>.

Abu-Lughod, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities

Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

M. Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

M. Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Gregory, Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community

Gugler, ed., Cities in the Developing World

Harvey, Social Justice and the City

Inoguchi, et al., eds. Cities and the Environment

Jonas and Wilson, eds., The Urban Growth Machine

Latour, Aramis or the Love of Technology

Logan and Molotch, Urban Fortunes

Luccarelli, Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region

Marcuse, P., et al., eds. Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?

Newman and Kenworth, Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence

Pazzoli, Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability

Scott and Soja, eds., The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century

Wachs and Crawford, eds., The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment, and Daily Urban Life