Newark: Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

Newark Books and Dissertations Cunningham, J. T. (1966). Newark. New Jersey Historical Society: Newark. (A General History of Newark from 1666 to 1966.)

Drummond, J. O. (1979). Transportation and the Shaping of the Physical Environment in an Urban Place: Newark, 1820-1900. Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University: New York.

Franklin J., (1980) Race, Housing Value and Housing Abandonment: A Case Study of Newark. PhD Dissertation, Columbia University: New York (Includes a literature review of the economics of housing abandonment and an econometric study of abandonment using data collected by Sternlieb and Burchell.)

Groh, G. (1972). The Black Migration: The Journey to Urban America. Weybright and Talley: New York. (Chpt. 8, “Profile of a Ghetto” is about Newark in particular).

Hirsch, S. E. (1978). Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia.

Immerso, M. (1997). Newark’s Little Italy: The Vanished First Ward. Rutgers University Press and The Newark Public Library. (Little academic substance, but interesting general history of Italian life in Newark.)

Kaplan, H. (1963). Urban Renewal Politics: Slum Clearance in Newark. Columbia University Press: New York. (Urban Renewal from a political science point of view.)

Popper, S. H. (1952). Newark, N. J. 1890-1910: Chapters in the Evolution of an American Metropolis. PhD Thesis, New York University.

Price, C. A. (1975). The Afro-American Community of Newark, 1917-1947: A Social History. PhD Dissertation, Rutgers University New Brunswick.

Ralph, R. M. (1978). From Village to Industrial City: The Urbanization of Newark, New Jersey, 1830-1860. Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University.

Stellhorn, P. A. (1982). Depression and Decline: Newark, New Jersey: 1929-1941. PhD Dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. (Mostly a political account of Newark during the depression.)

Sternlieb, G. (1966). The Tenement Landlord. Urban Studies Center: Rutgers University: New Brunswick.

1/3 Sternlieb, G. and Burchell, R. W. (1973). Residential Abandonment: The Tenement Landlord Revisited. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University: New Brunswick.

General Urban Studies Garreau, J. (1992). Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. Anchor Books: New York.

Ford, L. R. (1994). Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows and Suburbs. John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.

Jackson, K. T. (1985). Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press: New York.

Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House: New York.

Jacobs, J. (1970). The Economy of Cities. Vintage: New York.

Mumford, L. (1961). The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. Harcourt: New York.

Warner, S. B. (1972). The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City. Harper and Row: New York.

New York/New York Region Burrows, E. G. and Wallace, M. (2000). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press: New York

Caro, R. (1975). The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Vintage: New York.

Doig, J. W. (2001). Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority. Columbia University Press: New York. (A history and biographies regarding the development of the PANYNJ)

Kammen, M. (1975). Colonial New York: A History. Oxford University Press: New York.

T. Kessner, (2003). Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900. Simon & Schuster: New York

Osofsky, G. (1996) Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York 1890-1930. 2nd Reprint edition. van R. Dee, Publisher: New York.

2/3 Shorto, R. (2004). The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. Doubleday: New York.Capital New York

Chicago Homer H. (1970). One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago. Arno Press: New York.

Willis, C. (1995). Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago. Princeton Architectural Press: Princeton.

Detroit Sugrue, T. (1996). The Origins of the Urban Crises: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton University Press: Princeton.