INTRODUCTION

Thursday, January 23

THE CHICAGO SCHOOL

Tuesday, January 28

Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast & the Slum.

Thursday, January 30

Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast & the Slum (cont.).

"SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION" TODAY

Tuesday, February 4

William J. Wilson, "Ghetto-Related Behavior and the Structure of Opportunity," in When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (Knopf, 1997), 51-86.

James DeFilippis, "The Myth of Social Capital in Community Development," Housing Policy Debate 12 (2001), 781-806.

Thursday, February 6

Propose case study for Chicago School response.

MODERNIST PLANNING

Tuesday, February 11

3-5 page essay on your Chicago School response.

In-class video: "The City" (1939, dir. Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke).

DEBATES ON URBAN "VITALITY"

Thursday, February 13

Jacobs, The Death & Life of Great American Cities.

Tuesday, February 18

Jacobs, The Death & Life of Great American Cities (cont.).

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

URBAN PARADIGMS

Thursday, February 20

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

URBAN MARGINALITY: THE GHETTO

Tuesday, February 25

Proposal for paradigm city paper due.

The Ghetto: Bruce D. Haynes & Ray Hutchison (Introduction).

Thursday, February 27

The Ghetto: Loic Wacquant (chap. 1), Peter Marcuse (chap. 2).

"GHETTOES" IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Tuesday, March 4

Receive take-home midterm.

The Ghetto: Ernesto Castaneda (chap. 7), Alan Gilbert (chap. 8), Brasilmar Ferreira Nunes & Leticia Veloso (chap. 9).

Thursday, March 6

Take-home midterm due.

In-class video: "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" (2011, dir. Chad Freidrichs).

Claude Fischer, "The Public Housing Experiment" (Made in America [blog], January 14, 2014).

THE HARD CITY

Tuesday, March 25

Shephard & Smithsimon, The Beach Beneath the Streets: Part 1, "Introductory Notes to Part 2," chaps. 4, 6, 8.

URBAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM

Thursday, March 27

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

THE METABOLISM OF CITIES

Tuesday, April 1

"Pitfalls Abound in China's Push From Farm to City" (New York Times, July 13, 2013).

"New China Cities: Shoddy Homes, Broken Hope" (New York Times, November 9, 2013).

Ian Douglas, Cities: An Environmental History (I.B. Tauris, 2013), 1-22, 140-81.

Thursday, April 3

Annotated bibliography, individual research briefs for paradigm city project due.

URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

Tuesday, April 8

Written feedback on two group-members' research due.

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

URBAN GOVERNANCE

Thursday, April 10

Logan & Molotch, Urban Fortunes: chaps. 3-4.

Tuesday, April 15

Logan & Molotch, Urban Fortunes: chap. 5.

"China's Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities" (New York Times, June 15, 2013).

OPTIONAL FIELDTRIP

Wednesday, April 18, 3-6pm

Futurescape walking tour of Poughkeepsie with Gretchen Gano, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: "Technological Wayfinding in the City: A Workshop on Experimental Public Engagement in Futurescape City Tours." Bring a smart phone or digital camera.

THINKING LIKE A GROWTH MACHINE

Thursday, April 17

In-class capital investment role play.

Alternate: attend Futurescape workshop with Gretchen Gano, 8:30-10:15 am in location TBD.

Readings TBA.

THE SOFT CITY

Tuesday, April 22

Capital investment role play brief due.

Alternate: Futurescape memo due.

In-class video: "Joy Division" (2007, dir. Grant Gee).

Richard Lloyd & Terry Nichols Clark. "The City as an Entertainment Machine," Research in Urban Sociology: Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment 6 (2001): 357-378.

Thursday, April 24

Tom Barker, "Catalysing Our Cities," in Re-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization & Urban Spaces, edited by E. Grierson & K. Sharp (Intellect, 2013), 39-54.

Leonard Nevarez, "How Joy Division Came To Sound Like Manchester: Myth & Ways of Listening in the Neoliberal City," Journal of Popular Music Studies 25 (2013): 56-76.

The Ghetto: Sharon Zukin (chap. 6).

Tuesday, April 29

Group presentations for paradigm city project.

Thursday, May 1

Group presentations for paradigm city project (cont.).

Receive take-home final.

Tuesday, May 6

Take-home final due.

Monday, May 12 (study period)

Final research paper for paradigm city project due.