Jan 11 : Introduction
Mini-Lecture
A Brief History of Urban Life
Readings & Discussion
Friedrich Engels, "The Great Towns" from The Condition
of the Working Class in England in 1844
Kenneth Jackson, "The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America"
from The Crabgrass Frontier
Jan 18 : Urbanism I
Mini-Lecture
The City vs. Urbanism
Readings & Discussion
Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
Lewis Mumford, "What is a City?"
Louis Wirth, "Urbanism as a Way of Life"
Henri Lefebvre, "From the City to Urban Society " from The Urban Revolution
Richard Burdett , "London: The Coolest City" (in Metropolis Now!)
Jan 25 : Urbanism II
Mini-Lecture
Urbanism as Culture
Readings & Discussion
Elizabeth Wilson, "World Cities" from The Sphinx
in the City
John Tomlinson, "Globalised Culture: The Triumph of the West?"
from Culture and Global Change
Giselle Beiguelman, "Sao Paolo: Main Street, South America" (in Metropolis
Now!)
Ramesh Kumar Biswas, "Bombay: One Space, Many Worlds" (in Metropolis Now!)
Feb 1: Global Cities
Film Screening (optional)
Cidade
de Deus / City of God (2002)
Readings & Discussion (optional)
Jean-Claude Guillebaud, "Istanbul: A City In Search of a Continent"
(in Metropolis Now!)
Michel Peraldi, "Marseille: Layer Upon Layer" (in Metropolis Now!)
Puvan J. Selvanathan, "Singapore: The Forbidding City" (in Metropolis
Now!)
Feb 8 : Space and Power
Mini-Lecture
Space, Power and Everyday Life
Readings & Discussion
Sharon Zukin, "Whose Culture? Whose City?"
Ali Madanipour, "Social Exclusion and Space"
Mike Davis, "Fortress L.A." from City of Quartz
Henning Rasmuss, "Soweto: The Dis-Location" (in Metropolis Now!)
Feb 15 : Cities and Bodies
Mini-Lecture
Performing the City
Readings & Discussion
Elizabeth Grosz, "Bodies/Cities"
Brendan Gleeson, excerpts from Geographies of Disability
Anthony Vidler, "Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City"
Felix Zwoch, "Moscow: Hotel Moskva" (in Metropolis Now!)
Feb 22 : NO CLASSES
Feb 21-25 - Winter Break
Mar 1 : Public Spaces & Public Life
Mini-Lecture
Of Crowds and Power
Readings & Discussion
Richard Sennet, excerpts from The Fall of Public Man
Henri Lefebvre, "The Right to the City"
Rosalyn Deutsche, "Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City " from Evictions: Art and Spatial
Politics
William Julius Wilson, excerpts from The Truly Disadvantaged
Ramesh Kumar Biswas and Felix Zwoch, "Berlin: Potzdamer Platz and
Beyond" (in Metropolis Now!)
RESEARCH PROJECTS DUE
Mar 8 : Mobilities I
Mini-Lecture
Ways of Moving Through the City
Readings & Discussion
Michel de Certeau, "Walking in the City" from The
Practice of Everyday Life
Sally Munt, "The Lesbian Flaneur"
Iain Borden, "Another Pavement, Another Beach: Skateboarding and the
Performative Critique of Architecture"
Mimi Sheller and John Urry, "The City and the Car"
Mar 15 : Mobilities II
Mini-Lecture
Architectures of Control
Readings & Discussion
Timo Kopomaa, "Speaking Mobile: Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed
City"
Nicola Green, "Who's Watching Whom? Monitoring and Accountability in
Mobile Relations"
David Lyon, "Surveillance in the City"
Ramesh Kumar Biswas, "Shanghai: Time, Tides" (in Metropolis Now!)
Mar 22 : Cyber-Cities I
Mini-Lecture
Urbanism as Flow
Readings & Discussion
Nigel Thift, "Inhuman Geographies: Landscapes of Speed,
Light and Power" from Spatial Formations
Manuel Castells, "Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for
a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age"
Paul Virilio, "The Overexposed City" and excerpt from Open Sky
Ramesh Kumar Biswas, "Kuala Lumpur: Bigger, Higher, Faster, Better"
(in Metropolis Now!)
GROUP PROJECTS DUE
Mar 29 : Cyber-Cities II
Mini-Lecture
Technological Urbanism
Readings & Discussion
Stephen Graham," The Software-Sorted City: Rethinking the 'Digital
Divide'"
Anthony Townsend, "Learning from September 11th: ICT Infrastructure Collapses
in a 'Glocal' Cybercity"
William Mitchell, "Electronic Mnemotechnics" from Me++:
The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
JOURNALS DUE
Apr 5 : Future Visions
Mini-Lecture (optional)
Utopias & Distopias
Discussion (optional)
Global urbanism future past