The schedule is subject to change. Changes will be announced by email, in class, and/or on this website.
All assigned readings and viewings must be completed by the beginning of class on the assigned day. Readings will be distributed in class in hard copy form and are available as PDFs for download. Films are available for streaming as links from this page or, in some cases, on Blackboard.
Date | Topics / Assignments / Readings / Multimedia |
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F 1/25 | 1. Course overview |
Tu 1/29 | 2. Urban revolution V. Gordon Childe, "The Urban Revolution," Town Planning Review 21:1 (1950), pp. 3-17 |
| F 2/1 | 3. Urban revolution retrospective; project introduction Film: Pier Paolo Pasolini, dir., Medea (1969) (film, 110 minutes). See Multimedia on class Blackboard site to view. |
Tu 2/5 | 4. Moving in the city: flâneur Watch trailers of film Flâneurs: Street Rambles:
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F 2/8 | 5. Observing the built environment William H. Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1979) (film, 58 minutes). See Multimedia on the course Blackboard site to stream online, or download it from Dropbox (800+MB) |
| Tu 2/12 | No classes held -- Holiday |
| F 2/15 | 6. Class canceled -- instructor out of town Review the media for your assigned monumental building (see Multimedia on Blackboard). Prepare for your walking tour assignment |
Tu 2/19 | 7. Another way of moving in the city: flâneuse |
F 2/22 | 8. **Walking tour -- location TBA** Observing the city, observing ourselves |
Tu 2/26 | 9. Cities, states, politics, and power: Athens in the classical era **Walking tour response due** |
F 3/1 | 10. Tourists, pilgrims and monumental architecture: Religions in the city of Jerusalem Melanie Holcomb and Barbara Drake Boehm, "Trade and Tourism in Medieval Jerusalem," and "Experiencing Sacred Art in Jerusalem," in Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016) |
Tu 3/5 | 11. Networked urban spaces: Trade, commerce, villages, and cities in imperial China Lloyd Eastman, Ch. 1, "Population: Growth and Migration," (pp. 3-14), Ch. 4, "Agriculture: An Overview," (excerpt, pp. 62-71) and Ch. 6, "Commerce in the Late Imperial Period: The Instruments of Trade," (excerpt, pp. 101-123) in Family, Fields, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550-1949 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988) |
F 3/8 | 12. A "commercial revolution": Business relationships in imperial China Madeleine Zelin, "Chinese Business Practice in the Late Imperial Period," Enterprise & Society 14:4 (2013), pp. 769-93 |
Tu 3/12 | 13. An industrial revolution and a metropolitan revolution: Manchester, UK, in the 19th century |
F 3/15 | 14. Manchester and the roots of Marxist criticism |
Tu 3/19 | 15. Midterm exam |
F 3/22 | 16. Lab: Demographic research (class meets in library, classroom TBA) **OBS due beginning of class** |
Tu 3/26 | 17. Descriptive and Critical Social Science Views of Urban Life David Harvey, "The Right to the City," in Le Gates and Stout, ed., The City Reader, 6th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2016) |
F 3/29 | 18. Documenting and managing urban "disorder" James Q. Wilson and George R. Kelling, "Broken Windows," (originally published 1982) in Le Gates and Stout, ed., The City Reader, 6th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2016) |
Tu 4/2 | 19. Jane Addams and settlement houses: A different approach to metropolitan "problems" Jane Addams, Ch. 8, "The Problems of Poverty," in Twenty Years at Hull-House (New York: Macmillan, 1921) Daphne Spain, "The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess: Same City, Different Visions," in Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson, ed., The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011) |
F 4/5 | 20. Solving the metropolitan "problem" in NYC Peter Derrick, Ch. 5, "The Dual System of Rapid Transit," and Ch. 7, "Impact of the Dual System" in Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York (New York: NYU Press, 2001) |
Tu 4/9 | Class cancelled |
F 4/12 | 21. "Motor boys": claiming the city for cars Watch film: "Futurama at 1939 NY World's Fair" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sClZqfnWqmc Clay McShane, Ch. 10, "The Motor Boys Rebuild Cities" in Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (New York: Columbia UP, 1994) |
Tu 4/16 | 23. Sexuality, race, and urban desires: Harlem in the 20th century George Chauncey, Ch. 9, "Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem" (selected Harlem excerpts), in Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994) Ivan Monforte, "House and Ball Culture Goes Wide," The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Sep/Oct 2010, Vol.17(5), pp.28-30 |
F 4/19 -F 4/26 | No classes held (Spring Recess) |
Tu 4/30 | 24. "Hustlers" in "public" neighborhoods Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matthew Lasner, "Introduction," in Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2015), excerpt, pp. 1-12 Lilian Knorr, "Hip-Hop and Subsidized Housing," ibid., pp. 239-44 Jay-Z, Decoded (2010), excerpts on Genius.com |
F 5/3 | 25. Immigration and the metropolis: Chinatown in the 20th century Jan Lin, Ch. 1, "From Bachelor Society to Immigrant Enclave," in Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998) Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976) (film, 30 minutes); watch on Blackboard |
Tu 5/7 | 26. The logic of the capitalist city: a "gay" privatized park? Friends of the High Line, "The High Line, 2006" (film, 6 minutes, https://youtu.be/uRp8z4rLj-Q) Joshua David and Robert Hammond, High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011), excerpts |
F 5/10 | 27. The Right to the City revisited: Gentrification and public policy Philip DePaolo and Sylvia Morse, Ch. 3, "Williamsburg: Zoning Out Latinos," in Angotti and Morse, ed., Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City (New York: Terreform, 2016) |
Tu 5/14 | 28. Group presentation prep |
Tu 5/21 | **FInal presentations in classroom 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.** |
| W 5/22 | **No meeting; final paper due on Turnitin 11:59 p.m.** |
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