UPCD 611 - Syllabus- Fall
The City in History 2014
Instructor Information
Instructor:
Phone (M):
Phone (W):
Office Hours:
Luis.Aponte-Parés, PhD.
Luis.Aponte@umb.edu
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617-287-7286
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semester, I will communicate with you via your UMB email account. You may have e-mail redirected from
your official UMass Boston address to another e-mail address at your own risk. The University will not be
responsible for the handling of e-mail by outside vendors or by departmental servers.
Course Information
Course Title:
The City in History
Prerequisites:
No prerequisites.
Prerequisite Skills:
Familiarity with electronic resources.
Course Description:
Cities are man-made transformations of the natural landscape; have been central to human activity; and a
fundamental human creation to all societies since the earliest civilizations. Cities have had different forms,
functions, and symbolic meanings. Cities are also born, mature, and die.
The History and Theory of the City is organized into three parts. First is an overview of the idea of cities
throughout history. The second explores the link between industrialization and urbanization (the causal
relationship for the rise of industrial cities -- the case of European and US cities), and urbanization without
industrialization in former European colonies in Africa, Latin America and Asia (particularly during the
Twentieth Century leading to the rise of Mega-cities in so-called developing countries). The third centers on
theoretical reflections on cities as the fundamental development theaters, e.g., the spatial formations for
the production of all social, economic, political, cultural and technological arenas of societies (with a
particular focus on four US cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami). Each of these cities may be
representative of different periods in US urban history, and also being the “models” giving rise for much of
urban theory in the USA. The course we will identify key thinkers, events, theories shaping the History and
Theory of Cities.
You are advised to retain a copy of this syllabus in your personal files for use when applying for future
degrees, certification, licensure, or transfer of credit.
Technical Requirements: Familiarity with electronic sources.
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Required Text(s): (All course material available through Healey Library either electronically or on course
reserves).
Abrahamson, M. (2006). Urban Enclaves. Identity and Place in the World. New York, Worth Publishers.
Adelman, J., & Aron, S. (1999). From borderlands to borders: Empires, nation-states, and the peoples in
between in North American history. The American Historical Review, 104(3), 814-841.
Brenner, N. (1998). "Global cities, glocal states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in
contemporary Europe." Review of International Political Economy 5(1): 1-37.
Castells, M. (1994). "European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy." New Left Review
204(March/April 1994): 18-32
Cox, O. C. (1964). "The Preindustrial City Reconsidered*." The Sociological Quarterly 5(2): 133-144.
Crawford, M. (1995). Building the Workingman's Paradise. The Design of American Company Towns. New
York: Verso.
Dear, M., Ed. (2002). From Chicago to L.A. Making Sense of Urban Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE
Publications.
Fainstein, S. S. (2005). Cities and Diversity Should We Want It? Can We Plan For It? Urban Affairs Review,
41(1), 3-19.
Frantz, D. and C. Collins (1999). Celebration, U.S.A. Living in Disney's Brave New Town. New York, Henry
Holt and Company.
Friedmann, J. (1986). "The world city hypothesis." Development and Change 17(1): 69-83.
Gans, H. (2005). "Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions." The urban
sociology reader: 42.
Gilfoyle, T. J. (1998). White cities, linguistic turns, and Disneylands: The new paradigms of urban history.
Reviews in American History, 26(1), 175-204.
Gotham, K. F. (2000). Urban space, restrictive covenants and the origins of racial residential segregation in a
US city, 1900–50. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24(3), 616-633.
Harris, N., W. De Wit, et al. (1993). Grand illusions: Chicago's World's Fair of 1893, Chicago Historical Society
Chicago
Helbock, R. W. (1968). "New Towns in the United States." Professional Geographer 20(4): 242-.
Hines, T. S. (1972). "The imperial façade: Daniel H. Burnham and American architectural planning in the
Philippines." Pacific Historical Review 41(1): 33-53.
Jackson, K. T. (1985). Crabgrass Frontier. The Suburbanization of the United States. New York, Oxford
University Press.
Jargowsky, P. A. (1997). Poverty and Place. Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City. New York, Russell Sage
Foundation.
Leslie-Johnson, D. (2002). "Origin of the Neighbourhood Unit." Planning Perspective 17(2002): 227-245.
Lewis, E. (1995). Connecting memory, self, and the power of place in African American urban history.
Journal of Urban History, 21(3), 347-371.
Malamud, M. (2000). "The Imperial Metropolis: Ancient Rome in Turn-of-the-Century New York." Arion
7(3): 64-108.
Marcuse, P. (1978). "Housing policy and the myth of the benevolent state." Social Policy 8(4): 21-26.
Marcuse, P. (1985). "Gentrification, abandonment, and displacement: Connections, causes, and policy
responses in New York City." Wash D.C. UJ Urb. & Contemp. L. 28: 195.
Marcuse, P. (1993). "What's So New About Divided Cities?*." International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research 17(3): 355-365.
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Marcuse, P. (1997a). "The ghetto of exclusion and the fortified enclave. New patterns in the United States."
American Behavioral Scientist 41(3): 311-326.
Marcuse, P. (1997b). "The enclave, the citadel, and the ghetto: what has changed in the post-Fordist U.S.
City." Urban Affairs Review 33(2): 228-.
Marcuse, P. (1998). "Space over time: The changing position of the black ghetto in the United States."
Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 13(1): 7-23.
Marcuse, P. (2000a). "The language of globalization." Monthly Review – New York - 52(3): 23-27.
Marcuse, P. (2004). "Threat of Terrorism and the Right to the City." Fordham Urb. LJ 32: 767.
Marcuse, P. (2005). "Enclaves yes, ghettos no." Desegregating the city: Ghettos, enclaves, and inequality:
15-30.
Massey, D. S. and N. A. Denton (1993). American Apartheid. Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
Mele, C. (2000). "The materiality of urban discourse rational planning in the restructuring of the early
twentieth-century ghetto." Urban Affairs Review 35(5): 628-648.
Miller, Z. L. and P. M. Melvin (1987). The Urbanization of Modern America. A Brief History. New York,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publisher.
Park, R. E. and E. W. Burgess (1984). The City. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Reps, J. W. (1965). The Making of Urban America. A History of City Planning in the United States. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press.
Riis, J. A. (1890). How the other half lives: Studies among the tenements of New York. New York, Charles
Scribner’s Sons.
Roy, A. (2009). The 21st-century metropolis: new geographies of theory. Regional Studies, 43(6), 819-830.
Sassen, S. (2001). The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, Princeton University Press.
Sassen, S. (2002). "Locating cities on global circuits." Environment and Urbanization 14(1): 13-30.
Sjoberg, G. (1960). The preindustrial city: past and present, Free Press New York.
Sjoberg, G. (1965). "The origin and evolution of cities." Scientific American 213(3): 54-63.
Sjoberg, G. (1955b). "The preindustrial city." American Journal of Sociology: 438-445.
Sjoberg, G. (1963). "The rise and fall of cities: a theoretical perspective." International Journal of
Comparative Sociology 4(2): 107-120.
Smith, R. C. (1955). "Colonial Towns of Spanish and Portuguese America." Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians 14(4): 3-12.
Smith, N. (2002). "New globalism, new urbanism: gentrification as global urban strategy." Antipode 34(3):
427-450.
Sorkin, M., Ed. (1992). Variations on a Theme Park. The New American City and the End of Public Space.
New York, Hill and Wang.
Wirth, L. (1938). "Urbanism as a Way of Life." American Journal of Sociology: 1-24.
Other Reading:
Bluestone, D. M. (1988). "Detroit's City Beautiful and the Problem of Commerce." The Journal of the Society
of Architectural Historians: 245-262.
Buder, S. (1990). Visionaries and Planners. The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community. New
York, Oxford University Press.
Conzen, M. P. (1990). The making of the American landscape: Psychology Press.
Conzen, M. P. (2001). The study of urban form in the United States. Urban Morphology, 5(1), 3-14.
Davis, M. (1991). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York, Verso.
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Davis, M. (1999). Ecology of Fear. Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York, Vintage Books.
Eade, J., Ed. (1997). Living the Global City. Globalization as a local process. New York, Routledge.
Hall, P. (1997). "Megacities, world cities and global cities."
Gilbert, A. and J. Gugler (1984). Cities, Poverty, and Development. Urbanization in the Third World, Oxford
University Press.
Green, H. (2010). The Company Town. The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American
Economy. New York, Basic Books.
Hayden, D. (1976). Seven American Utopias. The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975.
Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press.
Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, Vintage Book.
Leclerc, G., R. Villa, et al., Eds. (1999). La Vida Latina en L.A. Urban Latino Cultures. Thousand Oaks, CA,
SAGE Publications, Inc.
Lynch, K. (1990). What Time is this Place? Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press.
Marcuse, P. (1989). "‘Dual City’: a muddy metaphor for a quartered city." International Journal of Urban
and Regional Research 13(4): 697-708.
Marcuse, P. (2000b). "The New Urbanism: the dangers so far." The Planning Review 36(140): 4-6.
Marcuse, P. (2009). "From critical urban theory to the right to the city." City 13(2-3): 185-197.
Marcuse, P. and R. Van Kempen (2008). Globalizing cities, Wiley-Blackwell.
Mumford, L. (1961). The City in History. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc.
Neuman, M. and S. Smith (2010). "City planning and infrastructure: Once and future partners." Journal of
Planning History 9(1): 21-42.
Portes, A. and A. Stepick (1993). City on the Edge. The Transformation of Miami. Berkeley, CA, University of
California Press.
Revell, K. D. (1992). Regulating the Landscape: Real Estate Values, City Planning, and the 1916 Zoning
Ordinance. The Landscape of Modernity. New York City, 1900-1940. D. Ward. Baltimore, MD, The
Johns Hopkins University Press: 19-45.
Rydell, R. W. (1981). "The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition:" To Work Out the Problem of
Universal Civilization"." American Quarterly 33(5): 587-607.
Rydell, R. W. (1987). All the world's a fair: visions of empire at American international expositions, 18761916, University of Chicago Press.
Savitch, H. V. (1988). Post-Industrial Cities. Politics and Planning in New York, Paris, and London. Princeton,
NJ, Princeton University Press.
Soja, E. W. (1997). Thirdspace. Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. Malden, MA,
Blackwell Publisher.
Stanislawski, D. (1947). Early Spanish town planning in the New World. Geographical Review, 37(1), 94-105.
Steinberg, S. (2010). "The myth of concentrated poverty." The integration debate: Competing futures for
American cities: 213-227.
Stepick, A., G. Grenier, et al. (2003). This Land is Our Land. Immigrants and Power in Miami. Berkeley,
University of California Press.
Talen, E. (1999). "Sense of community and neighbourhood form: An assessment of the social doctrine of
new urbanism." Urban Studies 36(8): 1361-1379.
Thornley, A. and P. Newman (2011). Planning world cities: globalization and urban politics, Palgrave
Macmillan.
Valle, V. M. and R. D. Torres, Eds. (2000). Latino Metropolis. Globalization and Community. Minneapolis,
MN, University of Minnesota Press.
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Villa, R. H. (2000). Barrio Logos. Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture. Austin, TX,
University of Texas Press.
Waldinger, R. (1996). Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New
York. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
Weiss, M. A. (1992). Density and Intervention: New York's Planning Traditions. The Landscape of Modernity.
New York City, 1900-1940. D. Ward. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Westwood, S. and J. Williams, Eds. (1997). Imagining Cities. scripts, signs, memory. New York, Routledge.
Wilson, J. and R. P. Taub (2006). There Goes the Neighborhood. Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four
Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
Other Recommended Texts:
(Please go to end of syllabus for other recommended readings. All other material will be distributed
through Healey Library of during class).
Course Objectives: By fully participating in this course, you should be able to:
Address the historical significance of cities as the fundamental human-made imprint on the natural
environment.
Differentiate between the different forms, functions, and symbolic meanings of cities across time.
Delineate the way industrial cities transform the way societies produce wealth and in turn enable
its social actors to reproduce the social, economic, political, and cultural relationships necessary for
their continuity.
Formulate a conceptual map of today’s hierarchy of cities across the globe, and the rise and
functions of world-cities and global-cities in the global factory.
Explain the impact Neoliberalism is having to urban form, social classes, political and cultural life on
cities across the globe. Among these impacts are: rising economic inequality, the feminization of
poverty, massive international migration, and environmental degradation.
Address policies to ameliorate major trends such as aging populations, mixed-diverse communities,
and unevenness in living standards.
Core Competencies: The City in History addresses the following Core Knowledge, skills and values of the
profession:
General planning knowledge:
The comprehension, representation, and use of ideas and information in the planning field: History
of Planning and Urbanization
Planning skills:
The use and application of knowledge to perform specific tasks required in the practice of planning:
Research, Written, Oral and Graphic Communication.
Values and ethics:
The course incorporates issues of diversity and social justice including: Economic Growth and
Efficiency, and Diversity and Social Justice.
Other skills:
Increase critical thinking skills in the analysis of historical and social phenomena.
Develop research skills to investigate historical, social, and economic trends in society.
Formulate conceptual models and theories to explain gaps in living standards and quality of life
issues in cities.
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Develop communication skills to explain ideas, concepts, and substantive issues, including writing,
public-speaking and the use of audio-visual materials.
Required Assignments:
1. Five reading/discussion postings: Students are required to complete at least five postings based on
readings and class discussions. (See: Methods of Instruction below). Note: these postings should
provide a good bases for a literature review (see below).
2. Two monographs.
Mid-term: a literature review of subject chosen by student. (A detailed description will be
distributed on a separate file during class).
Final research paper: paper focus will be submitted for approval by professor. Paper is due at the
last class of the semester. (A detailed description of the paper will be distributed on a separate file
at class time).
Course Rubric:
Assignment/Deliverable
Written Assignments:
Mid-Term Paper (distributed on separate file)
Final Paper (distributed on separate file)
Total Assignments:
Class Participation
Posted Discussion:
10 points/every posted discussion (50 points minimum)
Total
Class Total:
Grade %
20
30
50
50
100
Course Policies:
 Participation - Participation includes completing all required reading assignments prior to class,
thoughtfully participating in discussions, and taking responsibility for helping create a positive
learning environment by arriving promptly, listening respectfully, and participating constructively.
Participation is graded (see above on posting requirements).
 Attendance - Attendance means that you arrive on time and are present throughout the class.
 Late Work – Late work will only be accepted in extenuating circumstances. We are here to support
you and are committed to working out the best possible outcome for you while being fair to all
students. Please speak with us about any challenges you are having throughout the semester so
we can proactively address any issues that may arise as soon as possible.
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Grading
Grading:
Grade type for the course is a whole or partial letter grade. (Please see table below)
Note: the lowest passing grade for a graduate student is a “C”. Grades lower than a “C” that are submitted
by faculty will automatically be recorded as an “F”.
Please see the Graduate Catalog for more detailed information on the University’s grading policy.
UMass Boston Graduate Grading Policy
Letter
Grade
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
F
INC
IF
W
AU
NA
Percentage
93-100%
90-92%
87-89%
83-86%
80-82%
77-79%
73-76%
0-72%
Given under very restricted terms and only when satisfactory work has been
accomplished in majority of coursework. Contract of completion terms is
required.
Received for failure to comply with contracted completion terms.
Received if withdrawal occurs before the withdrawal deadline.
Audit (only permitted on space-available basis)
Not Attending (student appeared on roster, but never attended class. Student is
still responsible for tuition and fee charges unless withdrawal form is submitted
before deadline. NA has no effect on cumulative GPA.)
Quality
Points
4.00
3.75
3.25
3.00
2.75
2.25
2.00
0.0
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Methods of Instruction
Methods:
This is a hybrid graduate seminar: this course has classroom and online components. It is organized around
7 two-weeks-long discussions. For two weeks key concepts, subjects, or other material is examined. On the
first week the professor leads a discussion/lecture/presentation followed by general classroom discussion
with students (required to have completed reading and/or other assignments) on the issue/concept or
subject. For each subject/ discussion all reading material (required and suggested) is posted online or
distributed in class. On the second week students make a 5 minute individual or group presentation on the
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subject based on readings and/or other relevant material. After class students are required to post their
individual/or group presentation online to be graded.
Accommodations
The University of Massachusetts Boston is committed to providing reasonable academic accommodations
for all students with disabilities. This syllabus is available in alternate format upon request. If you have a
disability and feel you will need accommodations in this course, please contact the Ross Center for
Disability Services, Campus Center, Upper Level, Room 211 at 617.287.7430.
http://www.umb.edu/academics/vpass/disability/ After registration with the Ross Center, a student should
present and discuss the accommodations with the professor. Although a student can request
accommodations at any time, we recommend that students inform the professor of the need for
accommodations by the end of the Drop/Add period to ensure that accommodations are available for the
entirety of the course.
Academic Integrity and the Code of Student Conduct
Code of Conduct and Academic Integrity
It is the expressed policy of the University that every aspect of academic life--not only formal coursework
situations, but all relationships and interactions connected to the educational process--shall be conducted
in an absolutely and uncompromisingly honest manner. The University presupposes that any submission of
work for academic credit is the student’s own and is in compliance with University policies, including its
policies on appropriate citation and plagiarism. These policies are spelled out in the Code of Student
Conduct. Students are required to adhere to the Code of Student Conduct, including requirements for
academic honesty, as delineated in the University of Massachusetts Boston Graduate Catalogue and
relevant program student handbook(s). UMB Code of Student Conduct
You are encouraged to visit and review the UMass website on Correct Citation and Avoiding Plagiarism:
http://umb.libguides.com/GradStudiesCitations
Other Pertinent and Important Information
Attendance: You are responsible for material covered in any class that you do not attend.
Incomplete Policy: [Include what is documented in Graduate Catalog]
Coursework Difficulties: Please discuss all coursework matters with me sooner than later.
Withdrawing From This Course: Please refer to the written policies and procedures on formal withdrawal
and add/change dates listed in the Graduate Studies Catalog.
Course Schedule
This is a map of the course schedule for the semester. However, the schedule is subject to revisions as the
semester progresses.
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Week 1:
Core Topic(s):
Introduction to course, instructors, peers.
The City of Sophronia is made-up of two half-cities. … One of the half-cities is
permanent, the other is temporary, and when the period of the sojourn is over, they
uproot it, dismantle it, and take it off, transplanting it to the vacant lots of another
half-city. (Calvino, 63).
Learning
Objectives:
Reading
Assignment
Class Activities
Assignment(s):
Due Date:
Explore previous notions of: history of cities, cities in the US and across the globe.
The City in History or the History of the City: some preliminary observations.
Read for Discussion 1 (weeks 2 and 3).
McClung, W. A. (2000). Ch. 1, and 2.
Sjoberg, G. (1965), (1955b), (1963).
Wirth, L. (1938).
Icebreakers
How to participate in discussions.
Expectations on discussion postings: what should the focus be?.
None
Discussion 1
Core Topic(s):
Learning
Objectives:
Reading
Assignment
Class Activities
Assignment(s):
Due Date:
Discussion 2
Core Topic(s):
Weeks 2-3
Cities in History:
Cities and Civilizations: the “green revolution” and the rise of Imperial Cities and citystates.
The City and theories of urbanization, space, place.
The City as a social construct created by societies.
Familiarize with the general literature on cities and the history of cities.
Examine the way cities have been the subject for various disciplines, including
Anthropology, Sociology, History, Economics, Geography, Demography and Cultural
Studies.
Read for Discussion 2 – (weeks 4 and 5).
Reps, J. W. (1965). Ch. 1 – 5, and 18.
Adelman, J., & Aron, S. (1999).
Smith, R. C. (1955).
Review and discussion on assigned readings. Other sources and/or materials: student
input on their own background knowledge on the discussion.
Submit: Observations on required readings and commentary on class discussion on key
concepts.
Weeks 4-5
The City in History: – The Americas.
Before Jamestown: Cities and Spanish and Portuguese Empires; the Spanish and
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Learning
Objectives:
Reading
Assignment
Class Activities
Assignment(s):
Due Date:
French presence in North America.
Explore founding myths in American History: Manifest Destiny, and Frontier Thesis.
“Science” and racial theories.
Review the connection(s) between immigration and the missing memory.
Read for Discussion 3 – (weeks 6 and 7).
Abrahamson, M. (2006).
Gilfoyle, T. J. (1998).
Crawford, M. (1995). Introduction, and Ch. 1-5).
Gotham, K. F. (2000).
Harris, N., W. De Wit, et al. (1993).
Hines, T. S. (1972).
Leslie-Johnson, D. (2002).
Malamud, M. (2000).
Riis, J. A. (1890).
Review/discussion on assigned readings. Other sources and/or materials: student input
on their own background knowledge on the discussion.
Submit: Observations on required readings and commentary on class discussion on key
concepts.
Discussion 3
Core Topic(s):
Learning
Objectives:
Reading
Assignment
Class Activities
Assignment(s):
Due Date:
Weeks 6 - 7
From Antebellum to the White City: from Commercial port-cities to the Industrial City.
Examine the forces shaping the industrial city: basic industries (steel); and the building
of a “national infrastructure” such as: railroads, and communications; the rise of the
Corporation (centralized management); and structuring capital/labor relations in
space.
Chicago, New York, San Francisco and other “national” cities and their role in shaping
“national culture.” Chicago Exposition (1893), Panama-Pacific Exposition (1916), etc.
City Beautiful and Imperial musings.
Read for Discussion 4 – (weeks 8 and 9).
Helbock, R. W. (1968).
Jackson, K. T. (1985).
Lewis, E. (1995).
Massey, D. S. and N. A. Denton (1993). Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Neuman, M. and S. Smith (2010).
Jargowsky, P. A. (1997). Ch. 1-3.
Review/discussion on assigned readings. Other sources and/or materials: student input
on their own background knowledge on the subjects under discussion.
Submit: Observations on required readings and commentary on class discussion on key
concepts.
Assignment 1 due.
Discussion 4
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Core Topic(s):
Learning
Objectives:
Reading
Assignment
Class Activities
Assignment(s):
Due Date:
Post-WWII: rise and fall of the City and the suburbs.
Explore the dimensions of the post WWII period: The restructuring of the Industrial
City: new economy and new spatial arenas: FIRE industries, informational society.
The post-industrial city and the suburb.
Rust-belt v. Sunbelt Cities: From Chicago to Los Angeles, from central cities to multicentered cities.
Read for Discussion 5 – (weeks 10 and 11).
Castells, M. (1994).
Frantz, D. and C. Collins (1999).
Marcuse, P. (1985). Marcuse, P. (1989). Marcuse, P. (1997a). Marcuse, P. (1997b).
Talen, E. (1999).
Smith, N. (2002).
Sorkin, M., Ed. (1992).
Westwood, S. and J. Williams, Eds. (1997). Introduction, Ch. 1, 2, and 3.
Review/discussion on assigned readings. Other sources and/or materials: student input
on their own background knowledge on the subjects under discussion.
Submit: Observations on required readings and commentary on class discussion on key
concepts.
Discussion 5
Core Topic(s):
Learning
Objectives:
Reading
Assignment
Class Activities
Assignment(s):
Due Date:
Weeks 10 - 11
Gentrification, New Urbanism, Privatopia:
Learning from Las Vegas – pleasure and fantasy.
Post-oil crisis period: the reorganization of the world economy.
The “return” to the City, and other spatial challenges.
The “new” ghetto and the loss of public space.
Read for Discussion 6 – (weeks 12 and 13).
Fainstein, S. S. (2005).
Friedmann, J. (1986).
Marcuse, P. (1998). Marcuse, P. (2005).
Sassen, S. (2002).
Wilson, J. and R. P. Taub (2006).
Review/discussion on assigned readings. Other sources and/or materials: student input
on their own background knowledge on the subjects under discussion.
Submit: Observations on required readings and commentary on class discussion on key
concepts.
Discussion 6
Core Topic(s):
Learning
Objectives:
Weeks 12 - 13
Informational Society and Transnational Communities
The Global City and the transnational phenomenon.
Withering of the State – or the rise of City-States.
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Reading
Assignment
Class Activities
Assignment(s):
Due Date:
The US: Multicultural cities and the divergent economy.
Read for Discussion 7 – (weeks 14 and 15).
Brenner, N. (1998).
Marcuse, P. (2000). Marcuse, P. (2004).
Roy, A. (2009).
Sassen, S. (2001).
Schiller, N. G. (2005).
Review/discussion on assigned readings. Other sources and/or materials: student input
on their own background knowledge on the subjects under discussion.
Submit: Observations on required readings and commentary on class discussion on key
concepts.
Discussion 7
Core Topic(s):
Learning
Objectives:
Class Activities
Assignment(s):
Due Date:
Weeks 14 - 15
The Global and the Transnational: Human Development across the Globe.
Global Factory – International Migration – Transnational Communities
The Neoliberal City
Transnational places/spaces
Explore “new” urban formations across the Globe.
Review the challenges to the urban planner and the language of the transnational and
global city.
Review/discussion on assigned readings. Other sources and/or materials: student input
on their own background knowledge on the subjects under discussion.
Submit: Observations on required readings and commentary on class discussion on key
concepts.
Assignment 2 Due.
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