Books for Courses 2013

URBAN STUDIES BOOKS FOR COURSES 2013 PENGUIN GROUP USA 2 FEATURED TITLES FEATURED TITLES Kate Ascher THE HEIGHTS Anatomy of a Skyscraper “In this lushly illustrated book, Ms. Ascher meticulously and lucidly deconstructs the design of manmade towers from the foundation on up to the imperatives of physical and psychological security in a terror-conscious society.”—The New York Times. Penguin Press • 208 pp. • 978-1-59420-303-9 • $35.00 Penguin • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-312408-5 • $22.00 Paperback available November 2013 Edward Glaeser TRIUMPH OF THE CITY How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier A leading urban economist travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, elo- quent case for the city’s importance and splendor, offering inspir- ing proof that the city is humanity’s greatest creation and our best hope for the future. “Bursting with insights.”—The New York Times Book Review. Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-312054-4 • $16.00 TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURED TITLES ........................................2 URBAN HISTORY ..........................................9 CLASSICS OF URBAN LITERATURE ...........18 ART, DESIGN, & ARCHITECTURE .................4 AMERICAS .............................................9 COLLEGE FACULTY NEW YORK CITY .............................12 INFORMATION SERVICE ............................21 ENVIRONMENT .............................................5 ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST ............13 EUROPE ...............................................14 SCHOOL AND PERSONAL COPIES FOOD .............................................................6 ORDER FORM ..............................................23 CONTEMPORARY URBAN LITERATURE ...17 SOCIOLOGY & CULTURAL STUDIES............7 EXAMINATION COPIES ORDER FORM ......24 For more urban-related titles, please see our Art & Architecture, Geography, History and Sociology catalogs, available for download on us.penguingroup.com/subjectcatalogs URBAN STUDIES 2013 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) D denotes new or forthcoming title 3 FEATURED TITLES FEATURED TITLES Charlie LeDuff DETROIT An American Autopsy With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. “One cannot read Mr. LeDuff’s amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold eye he casts on hard truths... A little gonzo, a little gumshoe, some gawker, some good-Samaritan—it is hard to ignore reporting like Mr. LeDuff’s.”—The Wall Street Journal. “An edgy portrait of the decline, destruction, and possible redemption of his hometown….LeDuff writes with honesty and compassion about a city that’s destroying itself—and breaking his heart.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review). Penguin Press • 304 pp. • 978-1-59420-534-7 • $27.95 Thomas Dyja THE THIRD COAST When Chicago Built the American Dream A cultural history of Chicago at midcentury, with its incredible mix of architects, poli- ticians, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, and actors who helped shape modern America. “The Third Coast offers a deeper perspective, detailing Chicago’s midcentury contributions to literature, music, theater, photography, television and architecture… The book is an extraordinarily good read, with writing that sparkles.”—The Seattle Times. What’s a given now was often given by Chicago: high-rises, gospel and the blues, TV talk shows, Playboy, McDonalds, sketch comedy…Was it all dazzling coincidence or, as Dyja suggests, something in the water?”—Vanity Fair. “[A] robust cultural history….Dyja zooms in on the qualities Chicagoans value and does it better than anyone e l s e .” — The New York Times Book Review. Penguin Press • 384 pp. • 978-1-59420-432-6 • $29.95 Sudhir Venkatesh FLOATING CITY A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy Venkatesh journeys through the “vast invisible continent” of New York’s underground economy, an unseen world linking and strengthening the enormous diversity of a new global city in the throes of becoming. Floating City reveals the real winners and losers of the new economy, the thriving elites who pull the levers of power and the desperate laborers who always risk falling off the bottom. Propelled by Venkatesh’s interviews with hundreds of prostitutes, mad- ams, drug dealers, and immigrants, Floating City is the ultimate journey into the true workings of America’s most diverse and influential city. Penguin Press • 256 pp. • 978-1-59420-416-6 • $27.95 Paperback available September 2013 URBAN STUDIES 2013 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) D denotes new or forthcoming title 4 ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE Danny Danziger Harvey Green ART, DESIGN & MUSEUM WOOD ARCHITECTURE Behind the Scenes at the Craft, Culture, History Metropolitan Museum of Art Explores the history of a material that has been a central A unique oral portrait of the Met—its immense collec- part of human life for millennia. “In this carefully con- tion and the people who make it all possible—drawing structed, engrossing cultural history, Harvey Green Kate Ascher on interviews with everyone from the director to the tells us something new about wood on almost every D THE HEIGHTS security guards. page...[with] a woodworker’s reverence for its subtleties Anatomy of a Skyscraper Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-311426-0 • $17.00 and a historian’s eye for the contradictions of its life in Penguin Press • 208 pp. • 978-1-59420-303-9 • $35.00 the marketplace.”—Howard Mansfield, Author of The Penguin • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-312408-5 • $22.00 Simon Garfield Same Axe, Twice. See Featured Titles, page 2 Penguin • 496 pp. • 978-0-14-311269-3 • $20.00 D ON THE MAP THE WORKS A Mind-Expanding Exploration Anatomy of a City of the Way the World Looks Thomas Hine Using innovative graphic images combined with suc- Foreword by Dava Sobel POPULUXE cinct text explanations, this book describes the tech- Explores the unique way that maps relate and realign From Tailfins and TV Dinners to Barbie Dolls and nologies that keep cities functioning, as well as the our history—and reflect the best and worst of what Fallout Shelters: A Decade of Modern Design people who support them. “Both a reference guide and makes us human. Maps and illustrations throughout. The decade from 1954 to 1964 was an era of one of a geeky pleasure—a suitably obsessive love letter to “Simon Garfield’s new book is a rollicking sweep America’s great shopping sprees; in the newly created New York City.”—Time Out New York. through map history, packed with curiosities and writ- world of suburbia, everything a family owned was pro- Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-31170-9 • $23.00 ten with verve.”—Independent on Sunday (UK). visional: one always had the hope of being able to move Gotham • 464 pp. • 978-1-592-40779-8 • $27.50 up the ladder to something better. Thomas Hine calls it Edmond N. Bacon Gotham • 464 pp. • 978-1-592-40780-4 • $17.00 “Populuxe”—populism and popularity and luxury, plus Paperback available November 2013 DESIGN OF CITIES a totally unnecessary “e” to give it a little class; the word Revised Edition itself as synthetic as the world it describes. “The major contemporary work on urban design... Moses Gates Overlook • 196 pp. • 978-1-58567-910-2 • $25.00 Splendidly presented, filled with thoughtful and bril- D HIDDEN CITIES liant intuitive insights.”—The New Republic. Travels to the Secret Corners Phoebe Hoban Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-004236-8 • $48.00 of the World’s Great Metropolises; BASQUIAT A Memoir of Urban Exploration A Quick Killing in Art Warren Berger Gates describes his immersion in the worldwide sub- With a New Afterword by the Author CAD MONKEYS, DINOSAUR BABIES, culture of urban exploration; how he joined a world of “Compulsively readable...there is enormous value in it, AND T-SHAPED PEOPLE people who create secret art galleries in subway tunnels, especially in Hoban’s depiction of the glitzy 1980s art Inside the World of Design Thinking and break into national monuments for fun, and travel the world, which is sharply etched and deadly accurate.” How It Can Spark Creativity and Innovation globe sleeping in centuries-old catacombs and aban- —Patricia Bosworth, The New York Times Book Review. doned Soviet relics. “This fascinating book looks at how design, the mental Penguin • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-303512-1 • $18.00 Tarcher • 352 pp. • 978-1-58542-934-9 • $16.95 process of solving a specific problem, can be applied to A New York Times Notable Book all aspects of our life—and how the potential to be gov- erned by good design is inside all of us.”—Milwaukee Jonathan Glancey Hugh Honour, John Fleming, Journal Sentinel. Published in hardcover as Glimmer. THE STORY OF ARCHITECTURE & Nikolaus Pevsner Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311802-2 • $17.00 Features influential and innovative architects of every THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY age, along with their masterpieces, and shows the OF ARCHITECTURE AND Stewart Brand unique historical, geographical, and cultural elements LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE HOW BUILDINGS LEARN that have shaped the world’s greatest architecture. Fifth Edition What Happens After They’re Built DK • 240 pp. • 978-0-7894-9334-7 • $25.00 A major revision and expansion of what has long been “A stunning exploration of the design of design...will recognized as a basic reference in its field. This is a irrevocably alter your sense of place, space, and the highly readable work,

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