The American urban reader : history and theory Place matters: definitions and perspectives Pre Columbian and European foundations From British to American cities Ways of city life 1820s 1920s From party bosses to federalism: the evolution of urban government The urban environment Traversing and transforming urban space: transportation & planning Urban migrations race and social mobility Race and borderlands in the post war metropolis Postindustrial cities. The American Urban Reader Second Edition brings together the most exciting and cutting edge work on the history of urban forms and ways of life in the evolution of the United States from pre colonial Native American Indian cities colonial European settlements and western expansion to rapidly expanding metropolitan regions the growth of suburbs and post industrial cities. Each chapter is arranged chronologically and thematically around scholarly essays from historians social scientists and journalists that are supplemented by relevant primary documents which offer more nuanced perspectives and convey the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the study of the urban condition. Building upon the success of the First Edition and responding to increasingly polarized national discourse in the era of the Donald Trumps presidency The American Urban Reader Second Edition highlights both the historical urban rural divide and the complexity and deeply woven salience of race and ethnic relations in American history. Lisa Krissoff Boehm and Steven H. Corey who together hold forty five years of classroom experience in urban studies and history and have selected a range of work that is dynamically written and carefully edited to be accessible to students and appropriate for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how American cities have developed