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Introduction.
CITIES AS MODERNITY: THE GERMAN SCHOOL
Thursday, September 6
Max Weber, "The Nature of the City." Pp. 23-46 in Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities, edited by R. Sennett. Appleton-Century-Croft, 1969. [HAND-OUT]
Tuesday, September 11
Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life." Pp. 324-339 in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, edited by K. H. Wolff. Free Press, 1950. [HAND-OUT]
Wednesday, September 12, 5:30 pm
POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT DAY: Urban Studies talk.
Thursday, September 13
Regular class is cancelled; instead, please attend rescheduled Urban Talk at 5:30 (note: time is different from regularly scheduled class):
RESCHEDULED FROM PREVIOUS DAY: Urban Studies talk at Taylor 203. Judit Bodnár, Department of History and Sociology, Central European University, Budapest, and Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies, Rutgers University: "In Search of Unity: (New) Claims on Urban Space."
Judit Bodnár, "On Fragmentation, Urban and Social." Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment 6(2001): 173-93. [HAND-OUT]
CITY AS ECOLOGY: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 18
Ernest W. Burgess, "The Growth of the City." Pp. 47-62 in The City, edited by R. E. Park, E. W. Burgess, and R. D. McKenzie. University of Chicago Press, 1925. [HAND-OUT]Roderick D. McKenzie, "The Ecological Approach to the Study of Human Community." Pp. 63-79 in The City, edited by R. E. Park, E. W. Burgess, and R. D. McKenzie. University of Chicago Press, 1925. [HAND-OUT]
Thursday, September 20
Field trip of Poughkeepsie: meet in front of Main Building at 3 pm (10 minutes earlier than regularly scheduled class).
Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum.
Tuesday, September 25
Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum.
Thursday, September 27
In class video: The City (1939).
WHAT MAKES A CITY VITAL? DEBATES IN PLANNING
Tuesday, October 2
Albert Hunter, "Community Mislaid." Paper presented at the 1997 meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada. [HAND-OUT]
Recommended reading
Thursday, October 4
Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Recommended reading
Jane Jacobs still helping to shape cities (by Associated Press, CNN.com, November 23, 2000).
A Queens Park's Past Shapes its Future (by David W. Dunlap, New York Times, August 26, 2001).
Tuesday, October 9
Assignment 1 due: community study of Poughkeepsie.
Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.Herbert Gans, "City Planning and Urban Realities." Commentary 33(1962): 170-175. [HAND-OUT]
Recommended exercise
"People with similar lifestyles tend to live near one another," claims the You Are Where You Live! website (maintained by the Claritas marketing group). Enter the zip code from your current (non-Vassar) neighborhoods to see what demographic clusters also live nearby. How do your findings reflect Gans' theories on social factors of community?
Thursday, October 11
Midterm.
SPRING BREAK: October 15-19
Tuesday, October 23
Davis, Magical Urbanism.
Thursday, October 25
Aristotle, Books VIII-IX of "Nichomachean Ethics." Pp. 1058-1069 in The Basic Works of Aristotle. Random House, 1941. [HAND-OUT]
Recommended reading
Harvey Molotch, "The City as a Growth Machine." American Journal of Sociology 82(1976): 309-322.
David Harvey, "The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis." Pp. 1-31 in The Urbanization of Capital. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. [on reserve]
WHOSE CITY? URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Tuesday, October 30
Stephen L. Elkin, "Urban Political Economies." Pp. 36-60 in City and Regime in the American Republic. University of Chicago Press, 1987. [HAND-OUT]Dennis R. Judd and Todd Swanstrom, "The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities." Pp. 243-270 in City Politics. Harper Collins, 1994. [HAND-OUT]
Recommended reading
Gregory Squires, "Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City." In Readings in Urban Theory, edited by S. Campbell and S. Fainstein. Blackwell, 1996.
Tuesday, November 6
In class video: New York Cleans Up (1999).Bust or Not, S.F. Still Rules Net (by Brad King, Wired News, April 21, 2001).
Dot-com culture clash (by Barbara Kelley, Salon.com, Aug. 23, 2000).
Reviving Main Street, or Living in the Past? (by Joel Kotkin, New York Times, October 15, 2000).
Recommended reading
Manuel Castells, "The International Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism." In Readings in Urban Theory, edited by S. Campbell and S. Fainstein. Blackwell, 1996.
Saskia Sassen, "The Global City." In Readings in Urban Theory, edited by S. Campbell and S. Fainstein. Blackwell, 1996.
Thursday, November 8
In class assignment: capital investment role-play.
Resources for role-play
Yahoo! Real Estate: Neighborhood Information
SPACES OF POWER AND RESISTANCE: URBAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Tuesday, November 13
Capital investment role-play brief due at beginning of class.
Mele, Selling the Lower East Side, chap. 1, skim through chaps. 2-5.
Recommended reading
Tuesday, November 13, 5:30 PM
Urban Studies talk at Spitzer Auditorium, Sanders Hall. David Harvey, Anthropology Department, City University of New York: "Geographical Knowledges/Political Powers."
Thursday, November 15
Mele, Selling the Lower East Side, chaps. 6-8.Andres Duany, "Gentrification and the Paradox of Affordable Housing." Unpublished paper, Nov. 2000.
Recommended reading
Tip of the Dot-Com Backlash? (by Chris Oakes, Wired News, Mar. 24, 2000)
Tuesday, November 20
Michel Foucault. "Panopticism." Pp. 195-228 in Discipline and Punish. Vintage Books, 1979. [HAND-OUT]Mele, Selling the Lower East Side, chap. 9.
Recommended reading
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY: Thursday, November 22
Tuesday, November 27
Sharon Zukin, "Space and Symbols in an Age of Decline." Pp. 43-59 in Re-Presenting the City, edited by A. D. King. New York University Press, 1996. [HAND-OUT]Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century." Pp. 14-26 in The Arcades Project. Belknap Press, 1999. [HAND-OUT]
BUILDING (POST)MODERN PLACES
Thursday, November 29
Nan Ellin. "Themes of Postmodern Urbanism." Pp. 154-204 in Postmodern Urbanism. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. [HAND-OUT]Rem Koolhaus, "Singapore Songlines: Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa." Pp. 1008-1089 in S, M, L, XL. 2d ed. Monacelli Press, 1998. [HAND-OUT]
Recommended reading
Intern at Large: Target (by Laurel Charles, Loud Paper, vol. 3, no. 1, no date given).
Friday, November 30, 2:00-4:00 PM
Optional web-authoring workshop at Vassar library's Media Cloisters.
James Howard Kunstler, "Home From Nowhere" (from The Atlantic, September 1996).Ross, The Celebration Chronicles.
Recommended reading
Charter of the New Urbanism (from the Congress of New Urbanism website).
Thursday, December 6
Ross, The Celebration Chronicles.
THE FUTURE OF URBAN THEORY
Tuesday, December 11
Assignment due: class presentation of websites.
Receive take-home final exam questions.
The New Urban Studies: Los Angeles scholars use their region and their ideas to end the dominance of the "Chicago School" (by D.W. Miller, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 18, 2000).
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