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All readings with full bibliographical citations are included in the coursepack for this course, unless otherwise hyperlinked or noted. |
CITIES: THE CAULDRON OF MODERNITY?
Introduction.
Thursday, September 4
Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life." Pp. 324-339 in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, translated and edited by K. H. Wolff. Free Press, 1950.
URBAN ECOLOGY: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 9
Ernest W. Burgess, "The Growth of the City." Pp. 85-97 in Papers and Proceedings, Eighteenth Annual Meeting, American Sociological Society. Volume XVIII: The Trend of Population.University of Chicago Press, 1924.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.
URBAN ECOLOGY: THE QUESTION OF COMMUNITY
Thursday, September 11
In-class tour of Poughkeepsie.
Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum.
Tuesday, September 16
Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum.
Thursday, September 18
Albert Hunter, "Community Mislaid." Paper presented at the 1997 meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada.
DEBATES IN PLANNING: MODERNISM
Tuesday, September 23
Finish Zorbaugh and Hunter readings.
Thursday, September 25
Assignment 1 due: community study of Poughkeepsie.
In class video: The City (1939).
DEBATES IN PLANNING: URBAN VITALITY
Tuesday, September 3
Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, chaps. 1-12.
Recommended reading
Jane Jacobs still helping to shape cities (by Associated Press, CNN.com, November 23, 2000).
DEBATES IN PLANNING: THE SOCIOLOGICAL RESPONSE
Thursday, October 2
Receive midterm study guide over the weekend.
Herbert Gans, "City Planning and Urban Realities." Commentary 33(1962): 170-175.
Tuesday, October 7
John Logan and Harvey Molotch, "Places as Commodities." Pp. 17-49 in Urban Fortunes. University of California Press, 1987.
URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: THE GROWTH MACHINE
Thursday, October 9
Midterm.
Tuesday, October 14
Nevarez, New Money, Nice Town, chap. 1.Todd Swanstrom, "The Politics of Default." Pp. 154-177 in The Crisis of Growth Politics. Temple University Press, 1985.
Political economy versus urban political economy
Thursday, October 16
In class assignment: capital investment role-play.
Nevarez, New Money, Nice Town, chap. 4.Hannigan, Fantasy City: chap. 6.
FALL BREAK: October 20-24
Tuesday, October 28
Capital investment role-play brief due.
Nevarez, New Money, Nice Town, chaps. 5-8.
URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: SPATIAL RESTRUCTURING
Thursday, October 30
Manuel Castells, "Information Technology, the Restructuring of Capital-Labor Relationships, and the Rise of the Dual City." Pp. 285-313 in The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory, edited by Ida Susser. Blackwell, 2002.
Nevarez, New Money, Nice Town, chaps. 2-3.Richard Florida, "Rebuilding Lower Manhattan for the Creative Age." Prepared for the Regional Plan Association and the Civic Alliance. April 26, 2002. [PDF file: you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download this.]
THE CULTURAL TURNS: POSTMODERNISM
Thursday, November 6
Nan Ellin. "Themes of Postmodern Urbanism." Pp. 154-204 in Postmodern Urbanism. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.Postmodernism
THE CULTURAL TURNS: SEMIOTICS
Tuesday, November 11
M. Gottdiener, "The Political Economy of Postmodernism: The Signs of Growth." Pp. in Postmodern Semiotics. Blackwell, 1995."The High-Stakes Game of the Name" (New York Times, July 27, 2003). [REGISTRATION REQUIRED]
Thursday, November 13
Hannigan, Fantasy City: Introduction, chap. 4.
CITIES OF THE FUTURE: THE SYMBOLIC ECONOMY
Tuesday, November 18
Hannigan, Fantasy City: chaps. 1-3.
Wednesday, November 19, 4:30 pm
SPECIAL SESSION: web-authoring workshop in the Computer Center's Digital Media Lab.
Thursday, November 20
Leong, Sze Tsung,"...And Then There Was Shopping." Pp. 129-155 in Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, edited by C. J. Chung et al. Taschen, 2001.Hannigan, Fantasy City: chap. 5.
Tuesday, November 25
Sharon Zukin, "Whose Culture? Whose City?" Pp. 1-47 in The Cultures of Cities. Blackwell, 1995.Hannigan, Fantasy City: chaps. 7, 10.
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY: Thursday, November 27
CITIES OF THE FUTURE: GENTRIFICATION
Tuesday, December 2
Andres Duany, "Gentrification and the Paradox of Affordable Housing." Unpublished paper, Nov. 2000.
Thursday, December 4
Assignment due: class presentation of websites.
CITIES OF THE FUTURE: NEW URBANISM
Tuesday, December 9
Receive take-home final.
James Howard Kunstler, "Home From Nowhere" (from The Atlantic, September 1996).
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