Below are sections of my reading list that I compiled for my preliminary/qualifying exams in Human Geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am indebted to many professors and colleagues in graduate seminars and conferences who directed me to these excellent sources. This is not meant to be an exhaustive or definitive list. I have selected sources that I wanted to read and those that closely resonated with my own research interests. I hope it is useful for other students and scholars of Human Geography and allied disciplines. Many thanks to Prof. Kris Olds for his comments and guidance.

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URBAN GEOGRAPHY

Key Debates in Urban Geography

• Harvey, D. (2009[1973]). Social Justice and the City.

• Jonas, A.E.G., McCann, E., & Thomas, M. (2015).  Urban geography: A critical introduction. Wiley-Blackwell.

• Mumford, L. 1996[1937]. What is a City, In: LeGates, R. and Stout, F. eds. The City Reader. London: Routledge, 183-188 P

• Wirth, L. 1938. ‘Urbanism as a way of life’. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 1-24

• Ogborn, Miles (1998) Spaces of Modernity: London’s Geographies 1680-1780, New York: Guilford Press.

• Dear, M., 2002. Los Angeles and the Chicago School: invitation to a debate. City & Community, 1(1), pp.5-32.

• Merrifield, A. (2002) Metromarxism, London: Routledge.

• Brenner, N. 2009. What is Critical Urban Theory? City 13 (2–‐3): 198–207.

• Christophers, B.2011. Revisiting the Urbanization of Capital. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 101 (6):1347–1364.

• Simone, AbdouMaliq, and Edgar Pieterse (2017) New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times, Cambridge: Polity Press.

• Brenner, Neil (2019) New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question, New York: Oxford University Press.

• Brenner, N. (2018). Debating planetary urbanization: For an engaged pluralism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(3), 570–590. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818757510

World/Global Cities and Ordinary/Postcolonial/Southern Cities

• Friedmann, J., and Wolff, G. (1982) ‘World city formation: an agenda for research and action’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 3: 309-344.

• King, A. (1990) Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-Economy, London: Routledge.

• Sassen, S. 1996. Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims, Public Culture, 8, 205-223

• AMIN A. and GRAHAM S. (1997) The ordinary city, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 22, 411–429. doi:10.1111/j.0020-2754.1997.00411.x

• Abu-Lughod, Janet (1999) New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

• Robinson, J. (2002) ‘Global and world cities: a view from off the map’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 26(3): 531-554.

• Mbembe, A, Nuttall, S (2004) Writing the world from an African metropolis. Public Culture 16: 347–372.

• Robinson, J. (2006). Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development.

• Legg, S., & McFarlane, C. (2008). Ordinary Urban Spaces: Between Postcolonialism and Development. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 40(1), 6–14. https://doi.org/10.1068/a40104

• Roy, A. 2009. The 21st Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory. Regional Studies 43, 819-830

• Bunnell, T., & Maringanti, A. (2010). Practising urban and regional research beyond metrocentricity. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,34(2), 415–420. doi: 1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00988.x

• Roy, A., and A. Ong (eds) (2011) Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global, Wiley Blackwell.

• Susan Parnell & Jennifer Robinson(2012) (Re)theorizing Cities from the Global South: Looking Beyond Neoliberalism, Urban Geography, 33:4, 593-617, DOI: 2747/0272-3638.33.4.593

• Eric Sheppard, Helga Leitner & Anant Maringanti(2013) Provincializing Global Urbanism: A Manifesto, Urban Geography, 34:7, 893-900, DOI: 1080/02723638.2013.807977

• Leitner, H. and Sheppard, E. (2016), Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities. Int J Urban Regional, 40: 228-235. doi:1111/1468-2427.12277

• Robinson, J. and Roy, A. (2016), Debate on Global Urbanisms and the Nature of Urban Theory. Int J Urban Regional, 40: 181-186. doi:1111/1468-2427.12272

• Peck, J.(2015) Cities beyond Compare?, Regional Studies, 49:1, 160-182, DOI: 1080/00343404.2014.980801

• Roy, A. (2015), Who’s Afraid of Postcolonial Theory?. Int J Urban Regional, 40: 200-209. doi:1111/1468-2427.12274

• Storper, M., & Scott, A. J. (2016). Current debates in urban theory: A critical assessment. Urban Studies, 53(6), 1114–1136. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016634002

• Lawhon, M. and Truelove, Y.(2019). Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways, and possibilities for a more global urban studies. Urban Studies. DOI 10.1177/0042098019829412.

• Keil, Roger (2017) Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In, Medford, MA: Polity Press.

• Oswin, Natalie (2019) Global City Futures: Desire and Development in Singapore, Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Urban Marginality/Informality/Politics

• Harvey, D. 2003. “The right to the city.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

• Davis, M. (2004) ‘Planet of slums’, New Left Review, Mar-Apr: 5-34.

• Roy, A. (2011). “Slumdog cities: Rethinking subaltern urbanism”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

• Hsing, You-tien (2012) The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China, New York: Oxford University Press.

• Ghertner, Asher (2015) Rule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Bou Akar, Hiba (2018) For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Urban Assemblages, Networks, and Infrastructures

• Kaika, M. and Swyngedouw, E. (2000), Fetishizing the modern city: the phantasmagoria of urban technological networks. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24: 120-138. doi:1111/1468-2427.00239

• Graham and Marvin, 2001. Splintering Urbanism. London: Routledge.

• McFarlane, C, Rutherford, J (2008) Political infrastructures: Governing and experiencing the fabric of the city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32(2): 363–374.

• Kooy, M. and K Bakker. 2008. “Technologies of Government: Constituting Subjectivities, Spaces, and Infrastructures in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32 (2): 375-391.

• Larkin, B. 2008. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham &London: Duke University Press.

• McFarlane, C. (2011). “Assemblage and critical urbanism”. City, Volume 15-Issue 2.

• Brenner, N., Madden, D. and Wachsmuth, D. 2011. Assemblage Urbanism and the Challenges of Critical Urban Theory, City, 15(2), 225-240 P

• Simone, A. M.(2011) The surfacing of urban life, City, 15:3-4, 355-364, DOI: 1080/13604813.2011.595108

• Chattopadhyay, A. 2012. Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Larkin, B. 2013. The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology2013 42:1, 327-343

• Amin, Ash. 2014. “Liv`ely Infrastructure.” Theory, Culture & Society 31 (7–8): 137–61.

• Easterling, Keller. 2014. Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. Verso Books

• Gandy, Matthew (2014) The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity and the Urban Imagination, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fabric-space https://muse.jhu.edu/book/35772

• CHU, J.Y. (2014), When infrastructures attack: The workings of disrepair in China. American Ethnologist, 41: 351-367. doi:1111/amet.12080

• Mitchell, T. 2014. “Introduction: life of infrastructure.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 34:3, 437-439.

 

• Harvey, P. & Knox, H. 2015. Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

• Howe, Cymene, Lockrem, Jessica, Appel, Hannah, Hackett, Edward, Boyer, Dominic, Hall, Randal, Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, Pope, Albert, Gupta, Ahkil, Rodwell, Elizabeth, Ballestero, Andrea, Durbin, Trevor, el-Dahdah, Farès, Long, Elizabeth and Mody, Cyrus (2015) Paradoxical infrastructures: ruins, retrofit, and risk, Science, Technology, & Human Values, 41: 547–65.

• Shelton, Taylor, Matthew Zook, and Alan Wiig (2015) The ‘actually existing’ smart city, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8, 13-25.

• Wiig, Alan (2015) The urban, infrastructural geography of ‘The Cloud’. https://medium.com/vantage/the-urban-infrastructural-geography-of-the-cloud- 1b076cf9b06e

• Colllier, Christopher Mizes, Von Schnitzler. 2016. Public Infrastructures/ Infrastructural Publics. Issue 7 (July 2016) of Limn. https://limn.it/preface-public-infrastructures-infrastructural-publics/

• Addie, Jean-Paul (2016) Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(3), 273- 285.

• Amin, A., and N. Thrift (2017) Seeing Like a City, Cambridge: Polity Press.

• Anand, N. 2017. Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. Durham & London: Duke University Press.

• Anand, N., Gupta, A. & Appel, H. (eds.). 2018. The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham: Duke University Press.

 

• Arefin, M. R. (2019), Infrastructural Discontent in the Sanitary City: Waste, Revolt, and Repression in Cairo. Antipode, 51: 1057-1078.

• Michael R. Glass, Jean-Paul D. Addie & Jen Nelles(2019)Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism,Regional Studies,53:12,1651-1656