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• Neil Leach, "Introduction," The Hieroglyhpics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis (New York, 2002), 1-5.
• Roland Barthes, "Semiology and the Urban," in Rethinking Architecture, Neil Leach, ed. (New York, 1997), 165-172.
• Steve Pile, "What is real about cities," and "City Space and the Web of Dreams," Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagoria of City Life (London: Sage, 2005), 1-4, 50-52.

seeing cities

• Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (New York, 1972), passim.
• Henri Lefebvre, "Seen from the Window," Writings on Cities, 219-27
• Matteo Pericoli, The City out my Window: 63 Views on New York (NY: 2009), passim
• Pericoli city vignettes in NYTimes

  cf. Tahrir Square's place in Egypt's history, BBC News Middle East, 1 February 2011.

  NYTimes photos of protests in Tahrir Square, January 25 - February 2, 2011

  cf. Battle for Tahrir Square

• Tony Hiss, "Simultaneous Perception," The Experience of Place (New York, 1990), 3-26.

cf. "Fisher King" Grand Central dance scene

• Adrian Forty, "The City without Qualities," Architecture and the Sites of History: Interpretations of Buildings and Cities (New York, 1996), 304-315.

whose experience?

• Sharon Zukin, "A Child's Cartography," The Cultures of Cities (Malden: Blackwell, 1995), 196-201.
• Anne Conin and Liz Oakley-Brown, Editorial, "Urban Spaces: Gender, genre, mediation," Feminist Review, v. 96 (2010)

  cf. Rafia Zakaria, The Women in the Square, Human Rights Now, The Amnesty Int'l USA WebLog 2/9/11http://www.emersonkent.com/images/napoleon_power.jpg

moscow

• Marquis de Custine, Empire of the Czar, A Journey Through Eternal Russia [1839](New York, 1989), 393-413.

  cf. Napoleon's Invasion of Russia

  cf. Crackdown in Pearl Square, Bahrain, 2/17/11, Crackdown on protesters in Bahrain's Pearl Square, Protesters take over main square, protesters re-take Pearl Square 2/19, photos

  cf. Turmoil in Tripoli, Libya, Green Square, 2/22/11, photos of Green Square

• Kathleen Berton, Moscow: An Architectural History (New York, 1990), 10-34.
• Graeme Gilloch, "Benjamin's Moscow, Baudrillard's America," The Hieroglyphics of Space, 164-83.

st. petersburg

• Sidney Monas, "St. Petersburg and Moscow as Cultural Symbols," in Art and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Stavrou, ed. (Bloomington, 1983), 26-39).
• Solomon Volkov, St. Petersburg: A Cultural History (New York, 1995), 3-23.

• "Paris Yesterday," Michelin Guide to Paris, 16.
• Norma Evenson, "This Vast, Gilded Net," The Heritage of Haussmann," and "The Century Turns," Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978 (New Haven, 1979), 1-14, 15-24, 147-59.
• Greg Thomas, "Women in Public: the Display of Femininity in the Parks of Paris," The Invisible flaneuse? Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in 19th Century Paris, D'Souza and McDonough, eds (Manchester, 2006), 32-48.
• William Curtis, "Grands Projets: Monumentality and the Machinery of State," The Architectural Record, 187 (March 1990), 76-83.

cf. Bahrain protestors barricade streets w/rubble

Pearl Monument, Bahrain, torn down by government, March 18, 2011

Demolition of Pearl Monument on youtube

Bahrain destroys the Pearl Monument while UN looks other way

• Wolfgang Braunfels, "The Second and Third Rome," Urban Design in Western Europe (Chicago, 1988), 340-65.
• Anthony Tung, "The City that Devoured its Glory," Preserving the World’s Great Cities (New York, 2001), 29-50.

• Mitchell Bring and Josse Wayembergh, Japanese Gardens: Design and Meaning (New York, 1981), 2-5.
• Marc Keane, "The Physical Setting," Japanese Garden Design (Rutland, 1995), 30-33.
• Diane Durston, "Machinami: The Wooden Rowhouses of Kyoto," in Kyoto: Seven Paths to the Heart of the City (Kyoto, 1987), 3-6.

Update on machiya preservation

• Anthony Tung, "Reversing the Culture of Destruction: Kyoto," Preserving the World's Great Cities, 368-85.
• For comparison: Neil MacFarquhuar, "Mali City Rankled by Rules for Life in Spotlight, NY Times, 1/8/11, slideshow "The Great Mosque of Djenne," NYTimes, January 8, 2011
• Ting Chang, "Disorienting Orient: Duret and Guimet, Anxious Flaneurs in Asia, Invisible Flaneuse?, 65-78.

March 11 earthquake/tsunami:

Before and After pictures, ABC News/Google

The Aftermath in Japan, NYTimes day-by-day photos

Hiroshima before and after

Ishinomaki Journal: No Plans to Leave

Tight Web Saves Cut Off Japanese Villagers, March 23, 2011

• Barry Shelton, Learning from the Japanese City (New York, 1999), 10-11, 25-28, 38-43, 170-77.
• Nishi and Hozumi, "Castle Towns," What is Japanese Architecture? (Tokyo, 1983), 102-4
• Roland Barthes, "Center-City, Empty Center," and "No Address," Empire of Signs (New York, 1982), 30-37.
• Yoshinobu Ashihara, The Hidden Order: Tokyo through the Twentieth Century (Tokyo, 1992), 51-68.
• Henry D. Smith, "Sky and Water: The Deep Structures of Tokyo," Tokyo: Form and Spirit (Minneapolis, 1986), 23-35.
• Donald Richie, "Walking in Tokyo, Tokyo: Form and Spirit, 90-97.

• "Manhattan," The WPA Guide to New York City (NY, 1939; 82), 49-56.
• Paul Goldberger, "Introduction," "Rockefeller Center," "Bryant Park," The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan (New York, 1979), 72-4, 187-94, 3-4.
• Sharon Zukin, "Whose Culture, Whose City?" and "The Mystique of Public Culture," in Cultures of Cities, 30-34; 275-76.
• Paul Bennett, "An Island Unto Itself," Landscape Architecture, 89:7 (July 1999), 68-95.
• Mark Wigley, "Insecurity by Design," After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City, 69-86.

Exhibition Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Manhattan Grid, Arch. Record, December 2011

Alec Apelbaum, "New York's green grid" NYT 4/17/11

Bryant Park History

1811 Commisioner's Plan text documenting unequal widths of north-south avenues and relationship between 1811 plan and pre-exisiting property lines (e.g. along what would become Lexington Ave) and pre-established roads (e.g., Middle Road--later 5th, Park, and 6th). Lexington and Madison were not part of the 1811 plan, but added in the 1830s.

New York City 2001-2011

los angeles

• John Reps, "the Laws of the Indies," and "Mission, Presidio and Pueblo in California," Town Planning in Frontier America (Columbia, MO, 1980), 27-30, 41-47.
• Reyner Banham, "Views of Los Angeles," and "In the Rear-View Mirror," Ls Angeles: The Architecture of the Four Ecologies (Baltimore, 1973), 16-36.
• Frank Gehry, "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom," Experimental Architecture in Los Angeles (New York, 1991), 9-11.
• Charles Jencks, "The Heterogeneity of Los Angeles," Heteropolis; Los Angeles, the Riots, and the Strange Beauty of Hetero-Archtiecture (London, 1993), 23-44.

epiloque: are cities necessary?

• Sarah Chaplin and Eric Holding, Addressing the Post-urban: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Hieroglyphics of Space, 185-99.
• William J. Mitchell, "Smelling the Brie," and "The Wireless Grooves," in Placing Worlds: Symbols, Space, and the City (Cambridge, 2005), 77-82, 99-103.