Schedule, Topics and Readings
Week 1 INTRODUCTION
Week 2 UNDERSTANDING
CITIES
Cities
and Urban Life (CUL): Chapter 1 “Exploring the City”
Chapter
8 “Comparative Urbanism”
- Chapter
3, Posing the Questions, City Lights (e-reserves)
Week 3 IMAGES
AND SENSES
CUL:
Chapter 6 “Social Psychology: The Urban Experience”
- Lynch, Kevin. The Image
of the City (1961. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press): Chapter 1 “The Image of
the Environment” and
Chapter 3 “The City Image and Its Elements
Week 4 URBAN
NARRATIVES
Video:
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
- Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities.
1974. San Diego, Harcourt. Selections (e-reserves)
Class
Cancelled Wednesday, September 12
Assignment Due: Urban Experience, Due Friday, September 14, 5 PM
Week 5 IDEAL
URBAN FORM/URBAN DESIGN
- Lynch, Kevin. A Theory of GoodCity Form (1981.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Chapters 2 “What is
the Form
of the City, and How is it Made”; Chapter 3 “Between
Heaven and Hell”; Chapter 4 “Three
Normative Theories”;
Chapter 5 “But is a General Normative Theory Possible?”,
Chapter 6
“Dimensions of Performance”
Week 6 Urban
History
CUL:
Chapter 2 “Origins & Development”
Chapter
3 “Development of North American Cities”
Week 7 Urban
History
CUL:
Chapter 4 “Cities and Suburbs of the Twenty-First Century”
Chapter
14 “Planning the Urban Environment”
Week 8 Urban
Way of life
CUL:
Chapter 5 “Urban Sociology: Classic and Modern Statements”
CUL: Chapter 10 “Stratification and Social Class: Urban and
Suburban Lifestyles”
- Chapter
11, Discovering the Rules, City Lights (e-reserves)
Week 9 Urban
Systems & Typologies
CUL:
Chapter 7 “Geography and Spatial Perspectives: Making
Sense of Spaces”
-
Chapter 11 “Land Use Dynamics” Interpreting
the City: An Urban Geography (2nd edition, 1992.
New York:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
Exam: Exam
1, Wednesday 10/17
Week 10 Urban
Social Structures
CUL:
Chapter 11 “Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Urban Diversity”
-
Chapter 12 “Housing, Education, Crime: Confronting Urban Problems”
Week 11 City
Growth and Development
CUL:
Chapter 9 “The New Urban Sociology: The City and Capitalism”
Week 12 Urban
Politics
-Chapter 12 “The Skeleton of Power”,
City Lights; Chapter 13 “Bosses, Boodlers and Reformers”;
Chapter
14 “Getting Things Done” (e-reserves)
Week 13 Ideal
City Presentations
Week 14 Urban
Interventions
- Chapter 12 “Urban
Economic Development” Cities,
Change, Conflict: A Political
Economy of Urban Life Kleniewski,
Nancy. Wadsworth: United States. (e-reserves)
- Chapter 18 “Urban Economic Development” City
Economics. Harvard University Press.
Cambridge: 2005.
pp. 531-551. (e-reserves)
Week 15 Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 16 Transnational
Urban Spaces
CUL:
Chapter 13 “Cities in the Developing World”
Final
Paper Due, Friday 12/7, 5 PM, Mailbox
Exam Week: Exam 2, 1:30-4:30 PM,
Thursday, December 13
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