Schedule+and+Assignments

Jigsaw :
 * TENTATIVE-- Will be updated on a weekly basis! Pay attention to changes! **
 * WEEK || Readings & Lecture Topics || Assignments ||
 * 20-Aug || 22-Aug || * Prologue/ Richard T. Legates p. 7-10
 * Intro 1. to Part 1 (p.13-16) and
 * Plate Section: The Evolution of Cities” plates 1-7 between pages 78 and 79 || WED In-class: Five Questions about Urban Geography ||
 * 27-Aug || 29-Aug || Part 1 The Evolution of Cities
 * Kingsley Davis “The Urbanization of the Human Population” (p. 35-40)
 * V. Gordon Childe “The Urban Revolution” (p. 41-49)
 * H.D. F. Kiddo “The Polis” (p. 35-40)
 * First Person Accounts of Great Cities of the Medieval and Early Modern World (p.41-59)
 * Friederick Engels “The Great Towns (p. 50-58)
 * Kenneth T. Jackson “The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America” 59-68
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Robert Fishman “beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb” 69-77 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Readings summaries for Part 1 (Due Monday 8/27)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">City Exploration Photo and Pedestrian expedition due <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">DUE WED 8/29 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In classCityCensus Exploration Assignment (due Friday 9/2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> || Part 1 Continued || Choosing your Census Cities Due MONDAY 9/10)  || Part 2 Urban Culture and Society  Jigsaw :
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- Sep || 5-Sep || [Monday- no class—Labor Day]
 * 10-Sep || 12-Sep || [last W date Sun 8/16]
 * All:
 * Introduction 79-84
 * Lewis Mumford “What is a City” (p. 85-89)
 * Plate Section: Visions of a New Reality 9-22 between pages 144-145
 * Louis Wirth “Urbanism as a Way of Life” (p.90-97)
 * Jane Jacobs “The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety” (p.98-102)
 * W.E.B. DuBois “The Negro Problems of Philadelphia, “The Questions of earning a Living,” and “Color Prejudice(p.103-109)
 * William Julius Wilson “From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos” (p. 110-119)
 * Robert D. Putnam “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital (p.120-128)
 * Richard Florida “The Creative Class” (p. 129-135)
 * o Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit “The Occidental City” (p. 136-140)
 * Readings summaries ||  ||
 * 17-Sep || 19-Sep || Part 2 Continued
 * History of Planning
 * Gravity Model
 * CityAssignment2 : The Historical Map Analysis interpretation of your two cities (Due Monday 9/26 by 4:00 p.m.) || * Thought and comment Urban Culture and Society of your two cities: Relate the histories of your two cities to this unit's readings of urban culture and society. How have the nation's social and cultural trends of the 20th and 21st century affected the history, layout, culture, and current conditions in your cities?
 * [[file:Assignment2_CityHistoricalMapAnalysis.docx]] ||
 * 24-Sep || 26-Sep || Part 2 Finish
 * Urban Census Analysis Using ArcGIS
 * William Julius Wilson “From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos” (p. 110-119)

WED: ASSURANCE OF LEARNING DAY ArcView Instructions for in-class assignment:
 * Continue working during class time on Urban Census Analysis Project || Monday Assignment:

DUE Monday by end of class: 2000 POPULATION DENSITY map (Pop00_sqmi) of EACH of your cities (2) WEDNESDAY 9/28: In-CLASS Census Assignment: Mapping Race, Age, Housing Stock, and Household Type || Oct || 3-Oct || FIELD TRIP- TENT <MON or FRI> Part 3: Urban Space Urban Readings summaries
 * All:
 * Saskia Sassen “The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities” (p 197-206)
 * Introduction to Part 3 145-146
 * Earnest W. Burgess: “The Growth of a City: An Introduction to a Research Project” (p. 147-149)
 * Edward Soja “Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography” (p. 166-177)
 * Jigsaw :
 * Ali Madanipour “Social Exclusion and Space” (p.158-165)
 * “Urbanism as a Way of Life” (p.90-97)
 * Mike Davis “Fortress L.A.” (p. 178-183)
 * John Brinckerhoff Jackson “The Almost Perfect Town” (p.n 184-191)
 * Andrés Duane and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk “The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor” (p 192-195) || Field Trip Reflection Paper: DUE Wednesday 9/5
 * Andrés Duane and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk “The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor” (p 192-195) || Field Trip Reflection Paper: DUE Wednesday 9/5

Thought and Comment (Due Friday by 4:00 p.m.) For ALL of the readings to date, send me ONE exam question that I could use on the midterm from EACH of the readings you have been responsible for.--including the "ALL" categories. || Final Project Outline/ Plan DUE || Film: “Taken for a Ride” – in class Wednesday 10/24 "Taken for a Ride" Film [and response]
 * 8-Oct || 10-Oct || MIDTERM EXAM WED (midterm grades due Sun 10/14) || Mid-term study Guide!
 * 15-Oct || 17-Oct || [Monday October 15th—alice Out]

Part 5 AND 6 Urban Planning History and Visions Part 6 Urban Planning Theory and Practice Sci-Am Jigsaw Howard describes what he argues is an "ideal" city layout for England in the late 1890s; more than 100 years later Peter Hall describes how city planning theory has evolved basically from Howard's time forward. What do you see in the three articles from Scientific American that agrees with Howard and Hall's discussions of cities and how cities come to be? What do you see in Sci Am that disagrees or conflicts with Howard and Hall? || || Joel Kotkin “The Urban Future” || Thought and Comment: For Monday 11/19: Review the "WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW" list, and mark the THREE questions that you think have not been satisfactorily answered yet during the course of the class. We will use this to guide what we do on the last two weeks in class! ||
 * All:
 * Introduction 301-303
 * Ebenezer Howard “Authors Intro” and “Town-Country Magnet” (p. 314-321)
 * Calthorpe and Fulton “designing the Region and Design in the Region is Designing the Neighborhood” (p 342-348)
 * Plate Section: Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban Space (between p300-301)
 * Introduction 349-353
 * Peter Hall “The City of Theory” (p. 354-365)
 * Kaiser and Godschalk “20th Century Land Use Planning: A Stalward Family Tree” (p 366-386)
 * Plate Section: Urban Planning (between p 422-423) || Monday 10/15 (Due Friday 10/17): After viewing the film, "Taken for a Ride", Answer the following questions:
 * What were the important points the filmmakers were making about the relationship of business and transportation interests in individual cities?
 * How would YOUR CITIES be different if the auto industry had NOT been as successful as they were?
 * Discuss the CURRENT presidential election and political movements focused on the relationship of governmance, business, and power (e.g., the “Occupy XXX”, Tea Party, and “We are thhe 99%” movements). What has changed since the 1920s and 30s? What seems to be the same? ||
 * 22-Oct || 24-Oct || Continue: Part 5 & 6 ||  ||
 * 29-Oct || 31-Nov || Scientific American--ALL
 * p. 14 In fairness to cities
 * p. 18 The Stress of Crowds
 * p. 39: Street savvy: meeting the biggest challenges starts with the city
 * p. 52-53 <BOX>Bigger Cities Do More with Less: New science reveals why cities become more productive and efficient as they grow
 * p. 62 <BOX> Better health for the uncounted urban masses
 * 74 <BOX> The Efficient City
 * 84-87Street Talk
 * P 16 The best and the Brightest: New York City’s bid to attract science talent could serve as a model for other cities
 * p. 42 The Social Nexus:
 * p. 50, 54-55 Engines of Innovation
 * 56 Global Bazaar: Shantytowns, favels, and jhopadpattis turn out to be places of surprising innovation
 * 64 Brains over Buildings: To rejuvenate urban centers, look to teachers and entrepreneurs
 * 66 How Green is my city: retrofitting is the best way to clean up urban living
 * 70 All climate s local: Mayors are often better equipped than presidents to cut greenhouse gases
 * 76: Castles in the Air: Skyscrapers after 9/11
 * 88 Life in the Meta City: We walk a line between the anarchy of choice and Disney-fication, says the author of Neuromancer || Thought and Comment:
 * 5-Nov || 7-Nov || * WINTER BREAK
 * [Sci-Am Continued] || Environmental Mapping Assignment
 * 2-Nov || 14-Nov || Part 8 The Future of the City
 * All:
 * o o Introduction p. 467-472)
 * o o Richard LeGates: Epilogue: Urban Studies and Planning (p. 523-539)
 * Jigsaw :
 * o o Melvin M. Webber “The Post-City Age”
 * o o Manuel Castells “European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy”
 * o o Aprodicio A Laquian “The Emergence of Mega-Urban Regions in Asia”
 * o o Stephen Wheeler “Planning Sustainable and Livable Cities”
 * o o William J. Mitchell “The Teleserviced City”
 * 19-Nov || 21-Nov || Wednesday 11/24 Thanksgiving Break ||  ||
 * 26-Nov || 28-Nov ||  ||   ||
 * 3-Dec || 5-Dec ||  || Urban Analysis Project DUE Wednesday 12/5 ||
 * ** 12-Dec ** ||  |||| ** FINAL EXAM: Wednesday, December 12th 8:00-10:00 a.m. **
 * Final Exam Study Guide: ** ||