The readings listed below are suggested to accompany the activities in this module.  Because of copyright restrictions and cost, the readings have not been reproduced for the on-line version of this module.  Instead, it is suggested that you access these readings through your library and put them on reserve for your students. Some of the readings, as indicated below, are available in the printed version of the module available through the Association of American Geographers.
 

Unit 1:  Suggested Readings 

• Collins, Charles O. and Steven L. Scott. 1993. Air pollution in the valley of Mexico. The Geographical Review 83, 2 (April): 119-133.

• United Nations Environmental Programme and the World Health Organization. 1992. Urban air pollution in megacities of the world. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, chapter 2 (p 7-13) and chapter 8 (155-164).

• Gilbert, Alan. 1994. Viva the city. Geographical (June): 17-20.

• Bartone, Carl. 1991. Environmental challenge in the Third World. Journal of the American Planning Association (Autumn): 411-415.

• Vujakovic, Peter. 1995. Making posters. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 19, 2 (July): 251-256.

• World Resources Institute. 1996. World resources 1996-97: A guide to the global environment. The urban environment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-149.

Unit 2:  Suggested Readings 

• Frey, William H. 1995. Immigration and internal migration -- ‘Flight’ from US metro areas: Toward a new demographic balkanization. Urban Studies 32 (May).

• Sassen, Saskia. 1992. Why migration? NACLA Report on the Americas, 26,1 (July): 14-19.

• Defreitas, Gregory. 1994. Fear of foreigners: Immigrants as scapegoats for domestic woes. Dollars and Sense (January/February): 8-9, 33-35.  (Provided in the printed version of the module.)

• Linden, Eugene. 1991. Lost tribes, lost knowledges. Time (September 23): 46-54.

• Trueheart, Charles and Dennis McAuliffe. 1995. Indians demand power, economic benefits as free markets sweep the hemisphere. The Washington Post (September 11): A1.

Unit 3:  Suggested Readings 

• Donaldson, Thomas. 1994. Global business must mind its morals. The New York Times (13 February): F11.

• Ballinger, Jeffrey. 1993. The new free-trade heel. In R. Jackson, ed. Annual Editions: Global Issues 1993/94. Guilford, CT:  The Duskin Publishing Co., pp. 130-131. Published originally in Harper’s, August 1992, pp. 46-47.

• La Botz, Dan. 1993. Manufacturing poverty: The maquiladorization of Mexico. Multinational Monitor (May): 18-23.

• The Economist. 1996. Cities: Fiction and fact. (8 June): 44-45.