Schedule
Schedule
THE JUST CITY: INTRODUCING URBAN STUDIES
Thursday, January 25
First day of class.
Tuesday, January 30
Urban Studies and the "Urban Crisis."
Readings:
Susan S. Fainstein, "New Directions in Urban Theory," Urban Affairs Review 35 (2000): 451-478.
Fainstein & Campbell: Susan S. Fainstein & Scott Campbell, "Introduction: Theories of Urban Development and their Implications for Policy and Planning."
"Rehabilitating Robert Moses" (New York Times, January 28, 2007).
REQUIRED EVENT: Wednesday, January 31, 5 pm
Urban Talk @ Taylor Hall 203:
"The Just City."
Susan Fainstein, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Architecture.
The urban dimensions of social justice.
Readings:
Fainstein & Campbell: David Harvey, "Social Justice, Postmodernism, and the City."
Fainstein & Campbell: Roger Lawson & William Julius Wilson, "Poverty, Social Rights, and the Quality of Citizenship."
Fainstein & Campbell: Aaron W. Sachs, "Virtual Ecology: A Brief Environmental History of Silicon Valley."
Tuesday, February 6
Physical or social, macro or micro? Debates on urban causality.
Readings:
Lewis Mumford, "The Ideal Form of the Modern City, in The Lewis Mumford Reader, edited by D.L. Miller (Pantheon, 1986 [1952]), 162-175.
Fainstein & Campbell: William W. Goldsmith, "From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form."
Fainstein & Campbell: Neil Smith, "Gentrification, the Frontier, and the Restructuring of Urban Space."
Fainstein & Campbell: Saskia Sassen, "Cities in a World Economy."
Finally, go to Blackboard and review the Discussion Board: "Is the 'city in your head' a just one?"
Thursday, February 8
In-class exam.
URBAN HISTORY: LYDIA MURDOCH
Tuesday, February 13
The growth of the industrial city.
Readings:
Friedrich Engels, "The Great Towns," in The Condition of the Working Class in England (Penguin Books 1987 [1845]), 68-110.
Thursday, February 15
19th-century urban reform movements.
Readings:
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work (Dover Publications, 1968 [1861-62]), vol. 1, 1-46.
Charles Booth, "Booth Poverty Map," from LSE Library, Charles Booth Online Archive.
Tuesday, February 20
Gender and the Victorian city.
Readings:
Judith R. Walkowitz, "Introduction" and "Jack the Ripper," in City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (University of Chicago Press, 1992), 1-13, 191-228.
Thursday, February 22
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: NICHOLAS ADAMS
Tuesday, February 27
Alberti and the new role of architecture.
Readings:
Selections from Pius II, Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope: The Commentaries of Pius II, translated by F.A. Gragg; edited with introd. by L.C. Gabel; selected by Ruth Olitzky Rubinstein (New York, Putnam, 1959).
Building Pienza - the creation of the humanist town.
Readings:
Charles R. Mack, "From Corsignano to Pienza" and "Pienza as an Urban Statement," in Pienza: The Creation of a Renaissance City (Cornell Univ. Press, 1987), 17-42, 156-163.
Selection from Giancarlo Cataldi, Rilievi di Pienza (Alinea, 1985).
SPECIAL EVENT: Thursday, March 1, 5:30 pm
Campus lecture co-sponsored by Urban Studies @ Sanders Hall 212:
SPECIAL EVENT: Monday, March 5, 5:00 pm
An Urban Studies alumnae panel @ Learning and Teaching Center, Vassar College Library:
"What can you do with the major after graduation?"Tuesday, March 6
The reputation of Pienza - short term and long term.
Readings:
The Seaside Pienza Institute, "Pienza" (July 2002, pamphlet).
Karrie Jacobs, "Paradise, U.S.A." (Travel & Leisure, February 2007), 151-5, 174-8.
Fainstein & Campbell: Douglas Kelbaugh, "The New Urbanism."
Thursday, March 8
Take-home essay exam handed out, due in 24 hours.
SPRING BREAK: MARCH 11-24
URBAN SOCIOLOGY: LEONARD NEVAREZ
Tuesday, March 27
Urbanism versus community.
Natural ecology: ecological succession and climax
Urban ecology: natural areas of the city
The world's largest cities and urban areas in 2006 (City Mayors)
Readings:
Robert E. Park, "Community Organization and Juvenile Delinquency," in The City, edited by R.E. Park, E.W. Burgess and R.D. McKenzie (University of Chicago Press, 1925). 99-112.
Louis Wirth, "Urbanism as a Way of Life." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 1-24.
Thursday, March 29
The urban enclave.
Readings:
St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, "Bronzeville," in Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945), 379-97.
Mark Abrahamson, "Boston's Beacon Hill and Other Elite Enclaves," in Urban Enclaves: Identity and Place in America (St. Martin's, 1996), 19-32.
Jan Lin, "From Bachelor Society to Immigrant Enclave," in Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), 23-55.
Power and the urban business community.
Guest participant: Tim Koechlin, Dept. of Economics
Readings:
George F. Will, "Wealth Distribution and Equality" (Boston Globe op-ed, April 23, 1995).
Lipsey et al., "What Markets Do."
John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch, "Places as Commodities," in Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (University of California Press, 1987), 17-49.
Fainstein & Campbell: John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch, "The City as a Growth Machine."
David Gordon, “Left, Right and Center: An Introduction to Political Economy,” in The Imperiled Economy, edited by Robert D. Cherry (Union for Radical Political Economics, 1987), 9-24.
Thursday, April 5
URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY: LINTA VARGHESE
Tuesday, April 10
Anthropologists in the city.
Readings:
Fainstein & Campbell: Sharon Zukin, "Whose Culture? Whose City?"
Low, Tapin & Scheld, chap. 1.
Thursday, April 12
Use, planning and local communities.
Readings:
Low, Tapin & Scheld, chaps. 3 and 4.
Tuesday, April 17
Fieldwork report instructions given out.
Culture, history, and the making of urban public space.
Readings:
Low, Tapin & Scheld, chaps. 6, 7, 9.
View the Digital Tour of Poughkeepsie DVD.
Thursday, April 19
Doing urban fieldwork.
Readings:
Low, Tapin & Scheld, chap. 8.
Roger Sanjek (ed.), excerpt from Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthroplogy (Cornell University Press, 1990).
Leonard Nevarez's fieldnotes example [on Blackboard: Readings]
Tuesday, April 24
Due: fieldwork report.
Short in-class essay exam (based on your fieldwork report).
URBAN ECONOMICS: TIM KOECHLIN
Thursday, April 26
Global capitalism and the city.
Readings:
Paul Krugman, "The Death of Horatio Alger" (The Nation, January 4, 2004).
G. Mankiw, "The Cost of a 'Living Wage': we can't ignore the law of supply & demand."
Albelda, Drago & Shulman, Unlevel Playing Fields, pp. 79-80 (“The Keynesian Challenge").
Review readings from April 3.
Acting locally? Community and democracy in a global context.
Readings:
T. Williamson, D. Imbroscio and G. Alpervitz, Making a Place for Democracy: Local Democracy in a Global Era, Introduction, Chapter 1, Conclusion.
Thursday, May 3
Take-home essay exam handed out.
CONCLUSION
Tuesday, May 8
Take-home essay exam due.
Last day of class.
Wednesday, May 16
Final paper due: your Urban Studies manifesto.
