1. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
   The Experience of Modernity
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
   
2. Banned Books
   Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   
3. Banning Cars from Manhattan
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1961
   By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
4. The Economy of Cities
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   
5. The Empire City
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   
6. Home!
   A Bioregional Reader
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
7. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
   Great Cities of North America Since 1600
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
8. Rats
   A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2004
   An engrossing account of a year spent hanging out in a Manhattan alley.
9. '68: The Year of the Barricades
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
   
10. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
11. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
12. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
    

Experts on New York City in the Sources Directory

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art