Schedule
20th-CENTURY TRADITIONS
MODERNITY AND THE CITY January 23 First day of class.
January 28 Readings: Simmel, Georg. 2003 [1903]. "The Metropolis and Mental Life." Pp. 11-19 in The City Cultures Reader, 2d ed., edited by M. Miles, T. Hall and I. Borden. New York: Routledge.
URBAN ECOLOGY January 30 Readings: Burgess, Ernest W. 2019 [1925]. "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project." Pp. 47-62 in The City, edited by R.E. Park and E.W. Burgess. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
February 4 Readings: Park, Robert E. 2019 [1925]. "The Mind of the Hobo: Reflections Upon the Relation between Mentality and Locomotion." Pp. 156-160 in The City, edited by R.E. Park and E.W. Burgess. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Zorbaugh, Harvey W. 1976 [1929]. "The Gold Coast" and "The Slum." Pp. 46-68 and 127-158 in The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
THE COMMUNITY SURVEY February 6 Readings: Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro, chaps. 1-5.
February 11 Readings: Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro, chaps. 6-9, 11, 13-16, 18.
February 13
February 18 First set of essays due.
DEBATES ON URBAN COMMUNITY February 20 Readings: Gans, Herbert. 1962. "The Italians of the West End: Place, Class, Culture, and Social Structure" and "The Peer Group Society in Process. Pp. 17-41 and 197-226 in The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans. New York: Free Press. Hunter, Albert J. and Gerald D. Suttles, Gerald. 1972. "The Expanding Community of Limited Liability." Pp. 44-81 in G.D. Suttles,The Social Construction of Communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
February 25 Readings: Wilson, William J. 1997. "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos" and "Ghetto-Related Behavior and the Structure of Opportunity." Pp. 3-24 and 51-86 in When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Knopf.
THE URBAN GROWTH MACHINE February 27 Readings: Nevarez, Leonard. 2011. "Urban Political Economy." Pp. 665-666 in The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer and J.M. Ryan. Walden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Logan & Molotch, Urban Fortunes, chaps. 1-2
March 3 Readings: Logan & Molotch, Urban Fortunes, chaps. 3-5, pp. 209-228, 292-296.
March 5 Second set of essays due.
21st-CENTURY DIRECTIONS Spring break: March 8-22 Read Hunter & Robinson, Chocolate Cities over the break.
PLACE AND RACE Monday, March 23 Attend Theo Greene campus lecture
March 24 Readings: Hunter, Marcus Anthony and Zandria F. Robinson. 2018. Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
March 26 Readings: Pattillo, Mary. 2005. "Black Middle-Class Neighborhoods." Annual Review of Sociology 31: 305-329.
URBAN CRIME AND POLICING March 31 Readings: Duck, Waverly. 2015. No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
April 2 Readings: Duck, No Way Out (cont.).
April 7 Readings: Stuart, Forrest. 2014. "From 'Rabble Management' to 'Recovery Management': Policing Homelessness in Marginal Urban Space." Urban Studies 51(9): 1909-1925.
April 9
April 14 Third set of essays due.
URBAN HOUSING CRISES April 16 Readings: Desmond, Matthew. 2012. "Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty." American Journal of Sociology 118(1): 88-133.
April 21 Readings: Nevarez, Leonard. 2003. "Gentrification." Pp. 543-546 in Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by K. Christensen and D. Levensen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Smith, Neil. 2010 [1979]. "Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People." Pp. 71-85 in The Gentrification Debates, edited by J. Brown-Saracino. New York: Routledge. Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2017. "Explicating Divided Approaches to Gentrification and Growing Income Inequality." Annual Review of Sociology 43: 515-539.
SEXUALITY AND SPACE April 23 Readings: Stillwagon, Ryan and Amin Ghaziani. 2019. "Queer Pop-Ups: A Cultural Innovation in Urban Life." City and Community 18(3): 874-895.
'CREATIVE' URBANISM April 28 Readings: Lloyd, Richard. 2006. "Grit as Glamour." Pp. 75-100 in Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City. New York: Routledge.
April 30 Readings: Douglas, Gordon C.C. 2018. "Individualizing Civic Responsibility" and "The Spatial Reproduction of Inequality." Pp. 45-71 and 97-128 in The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism. New York: Oxford University Press.
May 5 Fourth set of essays due.
Tuesday, May 12 (last day of study period) Book review due. |