Tuesday, September 4

Introduction. 

MODERNITY: THE GERMAN SCHOOL

Thursday, September 6

Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life," The Sociology of Georg Simmel, translated and edited by K. H. Wolff, Free Press, 1950, 324-39.

URBAN ECOLOGY: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL

Tuesday, September 11

Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum.

 

Thursday, September 13

Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum.

For Poughkeepsie fieldwork this weekend:

A Digital Tour of Poughkeepsie (2005).

Leonard Nevarez, "A Poughkeepsie School of Urban Studies," Gathering Voices (Vassar College faculty blog), March 5, 2012.

 

COMPARATIVE URBANISM

Tuesday, September 18

Louis Wirth, "Urbanism as a Way of Life," American Journal of Sociology 44(1938): 1-24.

Jennifer Robinson, "Re-Imagining the City Through Comparative Urbanism: On (Not) Being Blasé," Ordinary Cities, Routledge, 2006, 41-64.

Neil Brenner, "Stereotypes, Archetypes, and Prototypes: Three Uses of Superlatives in Contemporary Urban Studies," City & Community 2(2003): 205-16.

DEBATES IN PLANNING: MODERNISM 

Thursday, September 20

Community study of Poughkeepsie due.

In-class video: The City (1939).

DEBATES IN PLANNING: URBAN VITALITY 

Tuesday, September 25

Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Thursday, September 27

Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

 

DEBATES IN PLANNING: THE SOCIOLOGICAL RESPONSE 

Tuesday, October 2

Research plan for paradigm city project due.

Receive take-home midterm questions.

Herbert Gans, "City Planning and Urban Realities," Commentary 33(1962): 170-5.

 

 

Thursday, October 4

Take-home midterm due.

In-class video: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011).

THE GHETTO: TRADITIONAL MODELS

Tuesday, October 9

Hutchison & Haynes, The Ghetto: Introduction, chapters by Loïc Wacquant, Peter Marcuse, Bruce D. Haynes.

THE GHETTO? DEVELOPING WORLD CITIES

Thursday, October 11

Hutchison & Haynes, The Ghetto: chapters by Alan Gilbert, Brasilmar Ferreira Nunes & Leticia Veloso, AbdouMaliq Simone, Michael Agier.

FALL BREAK: October 13-21

Tuesday, October 23

Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers.

Panic Seizes India as a Region's Strife Radiates (New York Times, August 17, 2012).

Thursday, October 25

Individual research brief for paradigm city project due.

URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: INTRODUCTION

Tuesday, October 30

Written feedback on two group-members' research due.

Logan & Molotch, Urban Fortunes, chaps. 1-2.

CASE STUDIES IN URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: MANCHESTER

Thursday, November 1

Owen Hatherley, "Introduction: The Change We See" and "Manchester: So Much To Answer For," A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Verso, 2010, vii-xxxv, 115-56.

Recommended viewing:

Joy Division (2007).

Thursday, November 1: campus lecture by Dave Haslam

URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: THE GROWTH MACHINE

Tuesday, November 6

Logan & Molotch, Urban Fortunes, chaps. 3-5.

Thursday, November 8

In-class assignment: capital investment role-play (brief due after class by midnight).

Readings for role-play exercise.

Tuesday, November 13

Group presentations for paradigm city project.

Thursday, November 15

Group presentations for paradigm city project (cont.).

THE CULTURAL TURN: URBAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM 

Tuesday, November 20

Michel Foucault, "Docile Bodies" and "Panopticism," Discipline and Punish, Pantheon, 1977, 135-69, 195-228.

 

 

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY: Thursday, November 22

Tuesday, November 27

Michel DeCerteau, "General Introduction" and "Walking in the City," The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, 1984, xi-xxiv, 91-110.

URBAN BODIES, DISCIPLINED AND LIBERATED

Thursday, November 29

Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities.

"In Central Park, a Birders' Secluded Haven Comes With a Dark Side" (New York Times, September 13, 2012).

Tuesday, December 4

Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities.

Thursday, December 6

Annotated bibliography and "billboard" for paradigm city project due.

Receive take-home final questions.

Tuesday, December 11 

Take-home final due.

Monday, December 17 (exam week)

Final research paper for paradigm city project due.