INTRODUCTION
Wednesday, January 17
THE CHICAGO SCHOOL
Monday, January 22
Neil Brenner, "Stereotypes, Archetypes, and Prototypes: Three Uses of Superlatives in Contemporary Urban Studies," City & Community 2.3 (2003): 205-216.
Harvey Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum (University of Chicago Press, 1929), chaps. 1-2.
Wednesday, January 24
Zorbaugh: choose one of chaps. 3-8 to present in class, then all read chap. 11.
"SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION" IN POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES
Monday, January 29
Propose case study for your Chicago school response.
Frank Harold Wilson, "The Social and Moral Order of the Black Community." In Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City (SUNY Press, 2004), 97-124.
William H. Frey, "Today's Suburbs are Symbolic of America's Rising Diversity: A 2020 Census Portrait," Brookings (blog), June 15, 2022.
THE GHETTO & OTHER URBAN STIGMAS
Wednesday, January 31
Loic Wacquant, "A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure: A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto," in The Ghetto, edited by Ray Hutchison & Bruce D. Haynes (Westview, 2012), 1-32.
Alan Gilbert, "On the Absence of Ghettos in Latin American Cities," in The Ghetto, edited by Ray Hutchison & Bruce D. Haynes (Westview, 2012), 191-224.
VISIONS OF MODERN PLANNING
Monday, February 5
Chicago school response due.
In-class film: "The City" (1939, dir. Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke).
Wednesday, February 7
Robert Fishman, "Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier" (1982), in Readings in Planning Theory, 4th ed., edited by Susan S. Fainstein and James DeFillipis (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), 23-50.
James C. Scott, "Authoritarian High Modernism" (1996), in Readings in Planning Theory, 4th ed., edited by Susan S. Fainstein and James DeFillipis (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), 75-93.
URBAN DESIGN FOR VITAL CITIES
Monday, February 12
Jane Jacobs, The Death & Life of Great American Cities (Vintage, 1961), chaps. 1-6.
Wednesday, February 14
Jacobs: chaps. 7-12.
Herbert Gans, "City Planning and Urban Realities," Commentary 33 (1962): 170-5.
Monday, February 19
Plan for paradigm city research due.
Kyle Chayka, "The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same," The Guardian, January 16, 2024.
Sharon Zukin, Naked City (Oxford University Press, 2010), Introduction and chap. 3.
URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Wednesday, February 21
John Logan and Harvey Molotch, Urban Fortunes (University of California Press, 2007), chaps. 1-2.
Monday, February 26
Receive take-home midterm questions.
Logan and Molotch: chaps. 3-5.
Wednesday, February 28
Take-home midterm due.
In-class capital investment role play.
March 2-17: SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 18
Capital investment role play brief due.
David Harvey, "The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2.1-3 (1978): 101-131.
David Harvey, "From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism," Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography 71.1 (1989): 3-17.
PLANETARY URBANIZATION
Wednesday, March 20
Annotated bibliography and individual research briefs for paradigm city project due.
Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid, “Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban?” City 19.2-3 (2015): 151-182.
URBAN IMPLOSIONS & EXPLOSIONS
Monday, March 25
Neil Smith, "Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban 'Regeneration' as Global Urban Strategy," in Frontiers of Capital, edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey (Duke University Press, 2006), 191-208.
Peter Marcuse, "De-spacialization and Dilution of the Ghetto: Current Trends in the United States," in The Ghetto, edited by Ray Hutchison & Bruce D. Haynes (Westview, 2012), 129-187.
Wednesday, March 27
Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales, "Introduction: 'Gentrification' — A Global Urban Process?" in Global Gentrifications, edited by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales (Policy, 2015), 1-18.
Global Gentrifications: choose one from chaps. 2-21 to present in class.
Monday, April 1
Fulong Wu and Roger Keil, "Beyond Suburban Stereotypes: Urban Peripheries in the Twenty-First Century," in After Suburbia, edited by Roger Keil and Fulong Wu (University of Toronto Press, 2022), 3-35.
Wednesday, April 3
After Suburbia: choose one from chaps. 4, 7, 8, 10, 16, 18, 19, or 20 to present in class, then all read chap. 21.
PARADIGM CITIES
Monday, April 8
Group presentations for paradigm city project.
Wednesday, April 10
Group presentations for paradigm city project (cont.).
URBAN POST-STRUCTURALISM
Monday, April 15
Michel Foucault, "Docile Bodies" and "Panopticism," in Discipline and Punish (Pantheon, 1977), 135-69, 195-228.
Wednesday, April 17
Phil Hubbard, "Introducing Cities and Sexuality," in Cities and Sexuality (Routledge, 2012), 1-32.
Monday, April 22
Michel DeCerteau, "General Introduction" and "Walking in the City," in The Practice of Everyday Life (University of California Press, 1984), xi-xxiv, 91-110.
Nazgol Bagheri, "The Emancipated Flaneuse in Tehran's Shopping Malls," in Walking in Cities, edited by Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell (Temple University Press, 2016), 83-99.
POST-COLONIAL CRITIQUES
Wednesday, April 24
Rob Shields, "Decolonizing Suburban Research," in After Suburbia: Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Roger Keil and Fulong Wu (University of Toronto Press, 2022), 229-255.
Azam Khatam and Oded Haas, "Interrupting Planetary Urbanization: A View From Middle Eastern Cities," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36.3 (2018): 439-455.
Rajyashree N Reddy, "The Urban Under Erasure: Towards a Postcolonial Critique of Planetary Urbanization," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36.3 (2018): 529-539.
Heather McLean, "In Praise of Chaotic Research Pathways: A Feminist Response to Planetary Urbanization," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36.3 (2018): 547-555.
Monday, April 29
Final research paper for paradigm city project due.
Receive take-home final questions.
Tuesday, May 7 (last day of study period)
Take-home final due. |
