INTRODUCTION
Thursday, January 26
THE CHICAGO SCHOOL
Tuesday, January 31
Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum, chaps. 1-4.
Thursday, February 2
Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum, chaps. 5-8.
Tuesday, February 7
Propose case study for Chicago School response.
Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum, chaps. 9-11.
Alana Semuels, "No, Most Black People Don’t Live in Poverty—or Inner Cities," The Atlantic, October 12, 2016.
CAMPUS LECTURE: Tuesday, February 7, 6-8pm
Matthew Desmond, Villard Room.
"SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION" TODAY
Thursday, February 9
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.
VISIONS OF MODERN PLANNING
Tuesday, February 14
3-5 page essay on your Chicago School response.
In-class video: "The City" (1939, dir. Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke).
PLANNING FOR URBAN VITALITY: JANE JACOBS
Thursday, February 16
Jacobs, The Death & Life of Great American Cities, chaps. 1-6.
Nathaniel Rich, "The Prophecies of Jane Jacobs," The Atlantic, November 2016.
Tuesday, February 21
Jacobs, The Death & Life of Great American Cities, chaps. 7-12.
"Oakland Fire Leads to Crackdown on Illegal Warehouses Nationwide," New York Times, December 8, 2016.
(HOW) DOES PLANNING MATTER?
Thursday, February 23
Jacobs, The Death & Life of Great American Cities, chaps. 13-16.
Herbert Gans, "City Planning and Urban Realities," Commentary 33 (1962): 170-5.
Tuesday, February 28
Proposal for paradigm city paper due.
POWER & PROFIT: URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Thursday, March 2
Logan & Molotch, Urban Fortunes, chaps. 1-2.
THE GHETTO & OTHER URBAN STIGMAS
Tuesday, March 7
Receive take-home midterm.
Loic Wacquant, "A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Cosure: A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto," in The Ghetto, edited by Ray Hutchison & Bruce D. Haynes (Westview, 2012), 1-32.
Alan Gilbert, "On the Absence of Ghettos in Latin American Cities," in The Ghetto, edited by Ray Hutchison & Bruce D. Haynes (Westview, 2012), 191-224.
Thursday, March 9
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 URBAN GROWTH MACHINE
Tuesday, March 28
Logan & Molotch, Urban Fortunes, chaps. 3-5.
Thursday, March 30
Annotated bibliography, individual research briefs for paradigm city project due.
In-class capital investment role play.
DEBATES ON GENTRIFICATION
Tuesday, April 4
Capital investment role play brief due.
Lees et al., Planetary Gentrification, chaps. 1-3.
Thursday, April 6
Lees et al., Planetary Gentrification, chaps. 4, 7-8.
BODIES IN SPACE: URBAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Tuesday, April 11
Michel Foucault, "Docile Bodies" and "Panopticism," in Discipline and Punish (Pantheon, 1977), 135-69, 195-228.
Thursday, April 13
Michel DeCerteau, "General Introduction" and "Walking in the City," in The Practice of Everyday Life (University of California Press, 1984), xi-xxiv, 91-110.
Nazgol Bagheri, "The Emancipated Flaneuse in Tehran's Shopping Malls," in Walking in Cities, edited by Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell (Temple University Press, 2016), 83-99.
Tuesday, April 18
James H. Spencer, "'Do-Your-Timers' African Style: Addis Ababa, the Unlikely Capital of Africa," in Globalization & Urbanization (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), 95-123.
SEX AND THE (GLOBAL) CITY
Thursday, April 20
Phil Hubbard, "On the Town: Pleasure and Leisure in the Nocturnal City," in Cities and Sexuality (Routledge, 2012), 119-145.
Alexander J. Reichl, "Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space," in Understanding the City, edited by John Eade & Christopher Mele (Blackwell, 2002), 363-378.
Tuesday, April 25
Benedicto, Under Bright Lights.
Thursday, April 27
Benedicto, Under Bright Lights (cont.).
Tuesday, May 2
Group presentations for paradigm city project.
Thursday, May 4
Group presentations for paradigm city project (cont.).
Receive take-home final.
Tuesday, May 9
Take-home final due.
Tuesday, May 16 (study period)
Final research paper for paradigm city project due. |
