| M 1/28 |
Course overview |
| Th 1/31 |
Introduction to urban socio-spatial structure: Jonas, McCann, and Thomas, Ch. 1, “Approaching the City,” in Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction (Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2013) |
| M 2/4 |
Metro area workshop for assignment M-1 |
| Th 2/7 |
Business, technology and the industrial metropolis: AUF Ch. 5 (selection, pp. 65-74); Starks, “Commercial Landmarks of the Downtown NYC Central Business District, 1811-1899” (unpublished, 2017) |
| M 2/11 |
Living in the industrial metropolis: AUF, Ch. 5, pp. 74-80; Sante, Part 1, Ch. II, “Home,” in Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991) |
| Th 2/14 |
Library research day for assignment M-2. Meeting location TBA.
Metro area assignment M-1 due
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| M 2/18 |
No class (holiday) |
| Th 2/21 |
Governing the industrial metropolis: Stone, “Urban Political Machines: Taking Stock,” PS: Political Science and Politics 29:3 (September 1996); Ch. 1, “Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft,” and Ch. 23, “Strenuous Life of the Tammany District Leader,” in Riordan, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (Project Gutenberg, 2013) |
| M 2/25 |
Presentations #1; metro area assignment M-2 due |
| Th 2/28 |
Regulating the industrial metropolis: AUF Ch. 6, pp. 85-91 (bottom); Starks, “The Regulated City: NYC Landmarks of the City Functional, 1902-1932” (unpublished, 2017) (read to end of p. 18) |
| M 3/4 |
Metro area workshop for assignment M-3 |
| Th 3/7 |
Creating suburban spaces in NYC: Starks, “The Regulated City: NYC Landmarks of the City Functional, 1902-1932” (unpublished, 2017) (read p. 19-end); Ch. 1, “Low-Cost Subsidized Housing Begins” (excerpts, pp. 35-44, 52 (bottom)-67) in Bloom and Lasner, eds., Affordable Housing in New York (Princeton UP, 2016) |
| M 3/11 |
The black–white city and its vanilla suburbs: AUF, Chapter 6, pp. 96-98; TMR Ch. 1, “1945” (excerpt, “The Black–White City,” “The Suburbs,” and “The Future” pp. 20 (middle)–48) |
| Th 3/14 |
Review for test; metro area assignment M-3 due |
| M 3/18 |
Peer reviews due; presentations #2 |
| Th 3/21 |
Test #1 |
| M 3/25 |
Federal policy and the suburbs: AUF Ch. 7 (selection, pp.103-110 (top); Ch. 11, “Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream” (excerpt, pp. 195 (bottom)-213) in Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Oxford UP, 1985) |
| Th 3/28 |
Postwar boom in cities and suburbs: TMR Ch. 2, “Reinforcing the Status Quo” |
| M 4/1 |
Metro area workshop for assignment M-4 |
| Th 4/4 |
Suburbs rise to dominance: TMR Ch. 3, “Coming Apart” |
| M 4/8 |
Urban crisis: TMR Ch. 4, “The Debacle” (excerpt, pp. 124-156 (top)) |
| Th 4/11 |
The new metropolis: TMR Ch. 5, “The New Metropolitan World” (excerpt, pp. 165-198 (bottom)) |
| M 4/15 |
Presentations #3; metro area assignment M-4 due |
| Th 4/18 |
The peoples of the decentralized region: TMR Ch. 6, “Beyond the Black–White City” |
| M 4/23 |
No classes held |
| Th 4/26 |
No classes held |
| M 4/29 |
Metro area workshop for assignment M-5; read Ch. 8, “Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs,” in Frey, Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2014) |
| Th 5/2 |
The decentralized region in architecture and film: Watch film, “Do the Right Thing”; read bell hooks, “Counter-Hegemonic Art: Do the Right Thing,” in Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics (Boston: South End Press, 1990) |
| M 5/6 |
Politics of the decentralized region: Read Ch.2, Oakerson, “The Study of Metropolitan Governance” (excerpt, pp. 22 (top)-24 (middle) and 28 (top)-38 (bottom)), in Feiock, ed., Metropolitan Governance: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Washington: Georgetown UP, 2004) |
| Th 5/9 |
Review/begin final assignment |
| M 5/13 |
Presentations #4; assignment M-5 due
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