Notes

Preface: On the High Line

 1. Hallo, W., ‘Antediluvian Cities’, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Volume 23, no. 3, 1971, p. 57.

 2. Rousseau, J.-J., www.memo.fr/en/dossier

 3. Rae, D., Urbanism and its End, Yale University Press, 2003, p.225.

Chapter 1: What is a City?

 1. Jacobs, J., The Economy of Cities, Pelican, 1972, p. 42.

 2. Polo, M., The Travels of Marco Polo, www.gutenberg.org, Book 2, Chapter 11

 3. Jacobs, J., The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Modern Library, 1993, pp. 66–70.

 4. Batty, M., Complexity in City Systems: Understanding, Evolution and Design, UCL Working Paper 117, March 2007, p. 2.

 5. Weaver, W., ‘Science and Complexity’, American Scientist 36, 1948.

 6. Ibid.

 7. Jacobs, J., 1993, p. 50.

 8. Koolhaas, R. et al, Mutations, ACTAR, 2000, p. 11.

 9. Granovetter, M., ‘The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited’, Sociological Theory, Volume 1,1983, p. 2.

 10. Lehrer, J., ‘A Physicist Solves the City’, New York Times, 17 December 2010.

 11. Ibid.

 12. Bettencourt, L. and West, G., ‘A Unified Theory of Urban Living’, Nature, 21 October 2010.

 13. Lehrer, J., 17 December 2010.

 

Chapter 2: Inside the Beehive

 1. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10321233

 2. Preston, C., The Bee, Reaktion Books, 2006, p. 55.

 3. Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1 Scene 2, pp. 188–92.

 4. Preston, C., 2006, p. 57.

 5. Hollis, L., The Phoenix: The Men Who Made Modern London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, p. 339.

 6. Jacobs, J., 1993, p. 40.

 7. Seeley, T. D., Beehive Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 5.

 8. Hobbes, T., Leviathan, Kindle Edition, Chapter 13, paragraph 9.

 9. Ai Weiwei, ‘The City: Beijing’, Newsweek, 28 August 2011.

 10. Hack, K., Margolin, J.-L. et al, Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City, NUS Press, 2010, p. 337.

 11. Wood, A. T., Asian Democracy in World History, Routledge, 2004, p. 82.

 12. Clark, G. and Moonen, T., ‘The Business of Cities: City Indexes in 2011’, www.thebusinessofcities.com, pp. 12–3.

 13. Hack, K., Margolin, J.-L. et al, 2010, p. 325.

 14. ‘Singapore Faces Life without Lee’, New York Times, 15 May 2011.

 15. Ibid.

 16. www.ida.gov.sg/Aboutus/20100611163838.aspx

 17. Hack, K., Margolin, J.-L. et al, 2010, p. 375.

 18. Ifill, G., The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, Doubleday, 2009, p. 143.

 19. www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/nyregion/mayor-cory-booker-says-he-felt-terror-in-fire-rescue.html?ref=corybooker

 20. www.big.dk/projects/tat/

 21. Dailey, K., ‘Cory Booker’s Snowspiration’, Newsweek, 27 January 2011.

 22. Coleman, E., From Public Management to Open Governance: A New Future or the More Things Change the More They Stay the Same, dissertation, University of Warwick, April 2011, p. 37.

 23. Ibid., p. 36.

 24. Ibid., p. 38.

Chapter 3: Building Between Buildings

 1. Squires, N., ‘Scientists Investigate Stendhal Syndrome’, Daily Telegraph, 28 July 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7914746/Scientists-investigate-Stendhal-Syndrome-fainting-caused-by-great-art.html

 2. Barney, S. A. et al, The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, CUP, 2006, Book XV.

 3. Mairet, P., Pioneer of Sociology: The Life and Letters of Patrick Geddes, Lund Humphries, 1957, p. 184.

 4. Ibid., p. 185.

 5. Hollis, L., The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011, p. 310.

 6. Le Corbusier, Essential Le Corbusier: L’Esprit Nouveau Articles, Architectural Press, 1998, p. 8.

 7. Ibid., p. 45.

 8. Hall, P., Cities of Tomorrow, Blackwell, 2002, p. 222.

 9. Le Corbusier, 1998, p. xxv.

 10. Ibid., p. 227.

 11. Jencks, C., Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture, Allen Lane, 1973, p. 74.

 12. Flint, A., Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City, Random House, 2011, p. 37.

 13. Ibid., p. 43.

 14. Rybczynski, W., Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities, Scribner, 2011, p. 55.

 15. Flint, A., 2011, p. 87.

 16. Ibid., p. 145.

 17. Rybczynski, W., 2011, p. 59.

 18. Jacobs, J., 1993, p. 5.

 19. Whyte, W., City: Rediscovering the Centre, Doublday, 1988, p. 3.

 20. Ibid., p. 7.

 21. Ibid., p. 57.

 22. Ibid., p. 9.

 23. Tellinga, J., from talk, 12 November 2010, International New Town Conference, www.newtowninstitute.org

 24. Gehl, J. and Koch, J., Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space, Island Press, 2011, p. 29.

 25. Gehl, J. and Gemzoe, L., New City Spaces, Danish Architectural Press, 2003, p. 54.

 26. Ibid., p. 58.

 27. ‘The Origin of the Power of Ten’, www.pps.org/reference/poweroften

 28. Tactical Urbanism, Volume 1, pp.1–2.

Chapter 4: A Creative Place

 1. www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010–11/04/david-cameron-silicon-roundabout

 2. travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel/23bilbao.html

 3. www.guggenheimbilbao.es/uploads/area_prensa/notas/en/PR_Results_2010.PDF

 4. www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/arts/design/01isla.html

 5. Bettencourt, L., Lobo, J. et al, Growth Innovation, Scaling and the Pace of Life in Cities, PNAS, 16 April 2007, p. 7, 303.

 6. Schama, S., The Embarrassment of Riches, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 347

 7. Ibid., p. 303.

 8. UN, Creative Economy, UN, 2010, p. 38.

 9. Florida, R., Who’s Your City?, Basic Books, 2008, p. 99.

 10. Moretti, E., The New Geography of Jobs, Houghton Mifflin, 2012, Introduction.

 11. Florida, R., 2008, p. 3.

 12. Ibid., p. 71.

 13. www.londonlovesbusiness.com/comment/the-debate-is-tech-city-working

 14. www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/12/stuck-or-content/770

 15. Sassen, S., Urban Age Project, LSE, 2011, p. 56.

 16. www.techhub.com/about.html

 17. www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/27/tech-city-digital-startups-shoreditch

 18. Nathan, M., 2012, pp. 109–10.

Chapter 5: Rebooting the Community

 1. Novak, M. and Highfield, R., Super Cooperators: Beyond the Survival of the Fittest, Canongate, 2011, introduction.

 2. www.economist.com/node/21541709

 3. Jaffe, E., 21 March 2012, www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/03/why-people-cities-walk-fast/1550

 4. Jacobs, J., 1993, pp. 77–8.

 5. Griffith, P., Norman, W., O’Sullivan, C. and Ali, R., Charm Offensive: Cultivating Civility in 21st-Century Britain, Young Foundation, 2011, p. 25.

 6. Ibid.

 7. Lindsay, G., ‘Demolishing Density in Detroit’, Fast Company, 5 March 2010.

 8. www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/undergraduate/introsoc/simmel.html

 9. Smith, D., The Chicago School: A Liberal Critique of Capitalism, Macmillan Education, 1988, p. 123.

 10. Sorkin, M., Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, Reaktion Books, 2009, p. 89.

 11. CEQR Technical Manual, March 2010.

 12. Wilson, J. Q. and Kelling, G. L., ‘Broken Windows’, Atlantic Monthly, 1982, from www.manhattan-institute.org

 13. Bratton, W. and Tumin, Z., Collaborate or Perish: Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World, Crown Business, 2012, Chapter 1.

 14. Nagy, A. R. and Podolny, J., ‘William Bratton and the NYPD’, Yale School of Management, Yale Case 07-015, 12 February 2008, p. 14.

 15. www.economist.com/node/12630201

 16. Putnam, R., Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, 2001, p. 115.

 17. Ibid., p. 19.

 18. Minton, A., Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st-Century City, Penguin, 2009, p. 21.

 19. Griffiths, R., The Great Sharing Economy, Cooperatives UK, Penguin, 2012, p. 1.

 20. Ibid., pp. 4–11.

 21. www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city

 22. www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture

 23. www.theuglyindian.com

Chapter 6: Trust in the city

 1. www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1221799

 2. Ibid.

 3. Ibid.

 4. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/23/obama-trayvon-martin-tragedy

 5. Jacobs, J., 1993, p. 73.

 6. Fukuyama, F., Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, Penguin, 1996, p. 7.

 7. Putnam, R., 2001, p. 137.

 8. Uslaner, E., The Moral Foundations of Trust, CUP, 2002, p. 33.

 9. www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/15/Trust-in-Professions.aspx

 10. www.gallup.com/poll/122915/trust-state-government-sinks-new-low.aspx

 11. www.gallup.com/poll/149906/Supreme-Court-Approval-Rating-Dips.aspx

 12. www.gallup.com/poll/122897/Americans-Trust-Legislative-Branch-Record-Low.aspx

 13. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8159141.stm

 14. Norris, C., McCahill, M. and Wood, D., The Growth of CCTV: A Global Perspective, Surveillance and Society, www.surveillance-and-society.org/cctv.htm

 15. NYCLU, Fall 2006, p. 2.

 16. Graham, S., Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, Verso, 2011, p. xv

 17. Graham, S., ‘Olympics 2012 security: welcome to lockdown London’, www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/mar/12/london-olympics-security-lockdown-london

 18. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/4294693.stm

 19. www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/jun/20/highereducationprofile.academicexperts

 20. Graham, S., 2011, p. 263.

 21. arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/08/53-of-mobile-users-happy-to-hand-over-location-data-for-coupons.ars

 22. www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/new-years-contest-panopticon-metaphor-internet-things---why-not-if-it-were-opposite

 23. Goodyear, S., ‘Do Gated Communities Threaten Society?’, 11 April 2012, www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/04/do-gated-communities-threaten-society/1737

 24. Wilkinson, R. and Pickett, K., The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, Penguin, 2010, p. 62.

 25. Dorling, D., So You Think You Know About Britain, 2011, p. 73.

 26. Milanovic, B., The Haves and the Have-Nots, Basic Books, 2012, p. 72.

 27. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/30/nyregion/where-the-one-percent-fit-in-the-hierarchy-of-income.html?ref=incomeinequality

 28. UN-Habitat, State of the World Cities 2011–12, UN-Habitat, 2011, p. 74.

 29. Ferrari Ballas, M., ‘Transportation Barriers of the Women of Pudahuel’, Santiago Planning Forum, 13/14, 2009, p. 124.

 30. Berg, N., ‘Why China’s Urbanisation Isn’t Creating a Middle Class’, 29 February 2012, www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/02/why-chinas-urbanization-isnt-creating-middle-class/1357

 31. Lefebvre, H. (ed. Elden, S. and Kofman, E.), Key Works, Continuum, 2003, p. 7.

 32. Harvey, D., introduction to Lefebvre, H., 1991, p. 158.

 33. Lefebvre, H., trans. Nicholson-Smith, D., The Production of Space, Blackwell, 1991, p. 494

 34. pmarcuse.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/blog-10-the-changes-in-occupy-and-the-right-to-the-city

 35. Harvey’s lecture can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKXt6lTTD4

 36. Mullins, C., Festival on the River: The Story of the Southbank, Penguin, 2010, p. 48.

 37. Burnham, S., Trust Design, Part Four, ‘Public Trust’ Supplement to Volume 30, 2011, p. 7, ww.w.premsela.org

 38. scottburnham.com/projects

Chapter 7: Walking in Dharavi

 1. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11854177

 2. Roy, A., ‘Capitalism: A Ghost Story’, Outlook India, 26 March 2012, www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280234

 3. Kasarda, J. and Lindsay, G., Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next, Penguin, 2011, p. 6.

 4. Hollis, L., 2011, pp. 268–9.

 5. Riis, J., 1889, Chapter 6, www.bartleby.com/208

 6. UN-Habitat, The Challenge of the Slums, UN-Habitat, 2003, p. 10.

 7. Perlman, J., Favela: Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro, OUP, 2010, p. 321.

 8. Harber, A., Diepsloot, Jonathan Ball, 2012, p. 12.

 9. Ibid., p. 62.

 10. Neuwirth, R., Stealth of Nations, Pantheon Books, 2011, p. 18.

 11. Ibid., p. 19.

 12. Saunders, D., Arrival City, Vintage, 2011, Preface.

 13. Arputham, J., Developing New Approaches for People-centred Development, Environment and Urbanisation, 2008, p. 320.

 14. Ibid., pp. 332–3.

 15. Ibid.

 16. Ibid.

 17. articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/08/

 18. Echanove, M. and Srivastava, R., The Slum Outside, URBZ.net, 20 April 2011, p. 1.

 19. de Soto, H., The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Bantam Press, 2000, pp. 301–2.

 20. Burra, S., Community-based, Built and Managed Toilet Blocks in Indian Cities, Environment and Urbanisation, 2003, p. 20.

 21. Mehta, S., The Urban Age, LSE, 2011, p. 107.

 22. Neuwirth, R., Shadow Cities, Routledge, 2004, pp. 133–4.

 23. www.iisd.org/50comm/commdb/desc/d16.htm

 24. Brand, S., Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, Atlantic Books, 2010, p. 26.

 25. www.forbes.com/2010/06/15/forbes-india-jockin-arputham-poverty-alleviation-opinions-ideas-10-arputham_2.html

 26. www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/urbz-crowdsourcing-the-city

 27. www.airoots.org

 28. www.airoots.org/2009/09/the-tool-house-expanded

Chapter 8: Maximum City

 1. Engels, F., The Condition of the Working Class in England, www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch04.htm

 2. Jordan Smith, D., ‘Cellphones, Social Inequality and Contemporary Culture in Nigeria’, Canadian Journal of African Studies, no. 3, 2006, p. 500.

 3. Aker, J. and Mbiti, B., ‘Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa’, Centre for Global Development Paper 211, June 2010, p. 2.

 4. Ibid., p. 3.

 5. Florida, R., 7 December 2011, www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2011/12/how-twitter-proves-place-matters/663

 6. www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/07/bbm-rioters-communication-method-choice

 7. www.democracynow.org/2011/2/8/asmaa_mahfouz_the_youtube_video_that

 8. Nunns, A. and Idle, D., Tweets from Tahrir, OR Books, 2011, p. 208.

 9. Ibid., p. 210.

 10. Ibid.

 11. UN Commission on Human Rights, Report from OHCHR Fact-finding Mission to Kenya, 6–28 February 2008, 19 March 2008, p. 16.

 12. vimeo.com/9182869

 13. david.tryse.net/googleearth/

 14. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eIPM6D-LOg&feature=player_embedded#

 15. Ratti, C., ‘Smart, Smarter, Smartest Cities’, MIT TV, 19 April 2011, techtv.mit.edu/collections/senseable/videos/12257-smart-smarter-smartest-cities

 16. Townsend, A., ‘Blended Reality: What Would Jane Jacobs Think of Facebook’, 12 June 2007, www.planetizen.com/node/28807

 17. Southerton, D. G., Chemulpo to Songdo IBD: Korea’s International Gateway, 2009, p. 103.

 18. Post, N., ‘Liveable Cities Get Smarter’, Engineering News Record, 12 December 2011, p. 34.

 19. Arthur, C., The Thinking City, BBC Focus, January 2012, p. 56.

 20. Townsend, A., Maguire, R. et al, A Planet of Civic Laboratories, Institute for the Future, 2011.

 21. IBM Institute for Business Value, How Smart is Your City?, 2009, p. 3.

 22. Ibid., p. 12.

 23. Ibid., p. 13.

 24. Ratti, C., ‘Raising the Cloud’, raisethecloud.org/#project

Chapter 9: Moving Around

 1. Hammer, J., ‘The World’s Worst Traffic Jam’, Atlantic, July/August 2012, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/world-8217-s-worst-traffic-jam/9006/#.T_wqIdE_-qE.email

 2. www.tsp.gatech.edu/sweden/compute/cpu.htm

 3. Adamatzky, A. et al, ‘Are motorways rational from slime mould’s point of view?’ ArXiv, 13 March 2012, p. 1.

 4. Peter, P. F., Time, Innovation and Mobilities, Routledge, 2006, p. 154.

 5. Mayor, J. and Coleman, B., The Social and Emotional Benefits of Good Street Design, Brighton and Hove City Council/Civitras, August 2011, p. 27.

 6. www.chinasignpost.com/2011/01/dying-for-a-spot-chinas-car-ownership-growth-is-driving-a-national-parking-space-shortage

 7. Owen, D., Green Metropolis, Riverhead, 2010, p. 48.

 8. Transport for London, Travel in London: Key Trends and Developments, report no. 1, TfL, 2009, pp. 2–3.

 9. Walker, J., Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit can Enrich our Communities, Island Press, 2011, Introduction.

 10. McKibben, B., Hope, Human and Wild, Milkweed Editions, 2007, p. 64.

 11. Rhinehart, N., ‘Public Spaces in Bogotá: An Introduction’, University of Miami Inter-America Law Review, Winter 2009, p. 200.

 12. Ibid., p. 201.

 13. www.pps.org/articles/epenalosa-2

 14. www.planetizen.com/node/17468

 15. Rhinehart, N., 2009, p. 203.

 16. Cain, A.,  ‘Applicability of Bogotá’s Transmilenio BRT System to the United States’, National Bus Rapid Transit Institute, May 2006, pp. 41–2.

 17. www.pps.org/articles/epenalosa-2

 18. Thompson, C., ‘Why New Yorkers Last Longer’, 13 August 2007, nymag.com/news/features/35815/index1.html

 19. www.walkonomics.com/blog/2011/04/getting-our-obese-cities-walking-again

 20. Florida, R., ‘America’s Most Walkable Cities’, 10 December 2010, www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/12/americas-most-walkable-cities/67988/

 21. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7590210/Expressway-roads-along-Seine-to-be-closed-after-40-years.html

 22. www.preservenet.com/freeways/FreewaysPompidou.html

 23. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/02/paris-seine-riverside-expressway-pedestrian

Chapter 10: How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take To Change A City?

 1. Corner, J., ‘Lifescape – Fresh Kills Parkland’, www.nyc.gov/freshkills park

 2. Lehrer, J.,  2010.

 3. Glaeser, E. and Kahn, M., The Greenness of Cities, National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2008, p. 30.

 4. Florida, R., ‘Why Young Americans…’, 10 April 2012, www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/04/why-young-americans-are-driving-so-much-less-than-their-parents/1712

 5. Kahn, M., 2010, Chapter 1.

 6. Vidal, J., ‘Masdar City – a Glimpse of the Future in the Desert’, 26 April 2011, www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/26/masdar-city-desert-future

 7. Moore, M., ‘Chinese move to the eco-city of the future’, 18 March 2012, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9151487/Chinese-move-to-their-eco-city-of-the-future.html

 8. Williams, A. and Donald, A., The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs, Pluto Press, 2011, p. 137.

 9. www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/about/about.shtml

 10. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikestats.shtml#crashdata

 11. transalt.org/about

 12. www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/realestate/commercial/for-those-who-pedal-to-work-a-room-to-store-their-bikes.html

 13. ‘Greener, Greater New York’, April 2011, p. 3.

 14. Williams, A. and Donald, A., 2011, p. 141.

 15. Beavan, C., No Impact Man, Piatkus, 2011, p. 183.

 16. Ibid., p. 190.

 

Chapter 11: A Place Called Home

 1. Jackson, A., London’s Metroland, Capital Transport Publishing, 2006, p. 59.

 2. www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html

 3. Williams, A. and Donald, A., 2011, p. 59.

 4. Ehrlich, P., Population Bomb, Ballentine Books, 1968, p. 1.

 5. Pearce, F., Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash, Eden Project Books, 2010, Introduction.

 6. Williams, A. and Donald, A., 2011, p. 63.

 7. Ibid., p. 39.

 8. UNFPA Youth Supplement, 2007, p. 7.

 9. Florida, R., Gulden, T. and Mellender, C., The Rise of the Mega-Region, Martin Prosperity Institute, October 2007, p. 2.

 10. superflex.net/tools/superkilen

 11. vimeo.com/14679640

 12. Davis, M., Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City, Verso, 2001, p. 67.

 13. Sassen, S., 2001, p. 333.

 14. www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=238966

 15. Wealth Report, KnightFrank/Citiprivatebank.com, 2012, p. 17.

 16. Clark, G. and Moonen, T., The Honor Chapman Report: London 1991–2012: The Building of a World City, April 2012, pp. 28–36.

 17. Arkarasprasertkul, N., Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism, www.scholar.harvard.edu/non/publications, 2008, p. 44.

 18. Campanella, T., The Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Revolution and What it Means For the World, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, Introduction.