GEOG 3026 – TOPICS IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA: THE CONTESTED CANADIAN CITY (THEME FOR FALL 2019)

“The Storyteller” by Jeff Wall, 1986. Instructor: Dr. David Hugill, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, B448 Loeb Building, david.hugill@carleton.ca, 613-520-2600 ext. 8689 Class Meetings: Wednesdays 11:35-14:25, ME 3165 (**some classes held off campus**) Office Hours: Fridays 13:00-15:00 or by appointment, Loeb B448

COURSE DESCRIPTION

GEOG 3026 (Special Theme: “The Contested Canadian City”) is designed to introduce students to core issues in urban geography with an empirical focus on contemporary Canada. Throughout the course of our work this semester, we will consider a range of questions related to how Canadian cities are organized, governed, and distributed. We will also consider who benefits and who is harmed by these arrangements, as we develop an understanding of urban spaces as sites where key questions of social, economic, and cultural equity are contested. Lectures, site visits, discussions, and readings are intended to expose students to some of the key conceptual tools of urban geography and ground that conceptual learning in the context of specific challenges faced by Canadian cities today. What to expect from our work this semester:

o Stimulating debate: Please come to class prepared to discuss and debate the issues that come up in the readings. My intention is to create a space where ideas are vigorously contested, so your respectful dissent is always welcome.

o Experiential learning: Course will be held outside of the classroom on multiple occasions.

o Challenging material: The weekly readings (generally about 60 pages in length) are often challenging. Where it is possible to do so, you should start reading at least a few days in advance of the seminar.

o Timely feedback: I will do my best to return all assignments within two weeks of submission.

REQUIRED TEXTS

All required readings are available on the course Ares page (accessible through cuLearn). See Course Calendar below for details.

COURSE CALENDAR

Week 1: September 4th, 2019 Introduction o Introductory discussion of course policies; no required readings

Week 2: September 11th, 2019 **Intellectual biography due by email (david.hugill@carleton.ca) by 5PM on September 9th** Modernism and the Canadian City

Required Readings:

o Harry Hillier (2014), “The Dynamics of Canadian Urbanization,” in Urban Canada (Third Edition), Chapter 2, pp. 21-41.

o Shawn Micallef (2013), “Shawn Micallef on the State of Canadian Modernism,” Spacing, https://bit.ly/2zcpySz

o Réjean Legault (2011), “The Idea of Brutalism in Canadian Architecture,” in Architecture and the Canadian Fabric, Chapter 10, pp. 311-340.

Week 3: September 18th, 2019 Brutalist Walking Tour (Sarah Gelbard)

No required readings. Meet at Fellowship Hall, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper Street) by 12:00 PM.

Week 4: September 25th, 2019 Migration and the Canadian City

Required Readings:

o Audrey Kobayashi and Valerie Preston (2015), “International Migration and Immigration: Remaking the Multicultural Canadian City,” in Canadian Cities in Transition (Fifth Edition), Chapter 9, p. 129-150.

o Todd Miller (2017), “On the Front Lines of Climate and Borders,” in Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, Chapter 1, pp. 15-35.

Week 5: October 2, 2019 SITE VISIT: Chinatown

No Required Readings. Meet at Bar Robo (692 Somerset West) by 12:00 PM.

Week 6: October 9th, 2019 Active Transportation and the Canadian City

Required Readings:

o Nicholas Scott (2016), “Cycling, Performance and the Common Good: Copenhagenizing Canada’s Capital,” Canadian Journal of Urban Research 25 (1).

o Additional reading TBD.

Week 7: October 16th, 2019 In-Class Film Screening No Required Readings.

Film: Vancouver: No Fixed Address

Reading Break – October 21-25

Week 8: October 30th, 2019 **Film Response Assignment due on cuLearn by class time** SITE VISIT: Ottawa’s Cycling Infrastructure (Chris Bouchard)

No Required Readings. Meet at Fellowship Hall, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper Street) by 12:00 PM.

Week 9: November 6th, 2019

Economic Inequality and the Canadian City

o Alan Walks (2015), “Growing Divisions: Inequality, Neighbourhood Poverty and Homelessness in the Canadian City,” in Canadian Cities in Transition (Fifth Edition), Chapter 9, pp. 151-174.

o Jeff Sommers and Nick Blomley (2005), “The Worst Block in Vancouver,” in Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings,” pp. 18-61.

o David Hugill and Michael CK Ma (2019), “You Get Exactly What You Fight For and Nothing More: Drug User Organizing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside,” in Upping the Anti #20, https://bit.ly/2NxllBj

Week 10: November 13thth, 2019 Youth-lead Homelessness Walking tour

No Required Readings. Meet at Fellowship Hall, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper Street) by 12:00 PM.

Week 11: November 20th, 2019

Settler Colonialism and the Canadian City

o MacDonald, Nancy (2015), “Welcome to Winnipeg: Where Canada’s Racism Problem is at it’s Worst,” Macleans, https://bit.ly/2BVT9C9

o Dorries, Heather (2019), “Welcome to Winnipeg” in Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West, Chapter 1, pp. 25-41.

o Hugill, David (2017), “Comparative Settler Colonial Urbanisms: Racism and the Making of Inner-City Winnipeg and Minneapolis, 1940-1975”, Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West, Chapter 3, pp. 70-93.

Week 12: November 27th, 2019

Ward Profile Presentations

No Required Readings.

Week 13: December 4th, 2019

Wrap up discussion and final exam prep.

No Required Readings.

Exam Period – December 10-22, 2019

EVALUATION

Assignment

Weight

Short Description

Participation

10%

Based on attendance and active classroom participation.

Site Visit Participation

2.5%

Based on active participation at site visits.

Intellectual Biography

2.5%

A brief introductory description of who you are and how you ended up here; must be uploaded by noon on TBD.

Film Review Assignment

15%

A response paper to Vancouver: No Fixed Address.

Chinatown Field Research Observation Report

15% A field report based on your findings at our Chinatown site

visit.

Ward Profile/Presentation

25%

Research-based poster and a five minute presentation on key urban issues in one Ottawa municipal ward.

Final Exam

30%

Written final exam.

Please note:

• Late assignments will be penalized d by 3% per calendar day (to a maximum of 25% total); no assignments will be accepted after two weeks beyond the original deadline (unless an alternative arrangement has been made)

• All assignments must follow the style guidelines outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition or later); citations can be formatted in either the “notes and bibliography” or “author-date” style, so long as one of these options is used consistently throughout the document; there is a quick Chicago-style citation guide available here: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

• All assignments will be assessed on the overall quality of presentation, including citation formatting, spelling, grammar, coherence of argument, etc.

• Standing in a course is determined by the course instructor, subject to the approval of the faculty Dean. This means that grades submitted by the instructor may be subject to revision. No grades are final until they have been approved by the Dean.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY Carleton University demands academic integrity from all its members. The Academic Integrity Policy (available at https://carelton.ca/registrar/academic-integrity )governs the academic behaviour of students. Academic Integrity is defined as:

“A commitment even in the face of adversity to five fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility.” – Centre for Academic Integrity (1999)

Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is destructive to the values of the university, and risks harming the university’s reputation as place of learning and innovation. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to those students who pursue their studies honestly. The University Senate defines plagiarism as “presenting, whether intentionally or not, the ideas, expression of ideas or work of others as one’s own.” This can include:

• reproducing or paraphrasing portions of someone else’s published or unpublished material, regardless of the source, and presenting these as one’s own without proper citation or reference to the original source;

• submitting a take-home examination, essay, laboratory report or other assignment written, in whole or in part, by someone else;

• using ideas or direct, verbatim quotations, or paraphrased material, concepts, or ideas without appropriate acknowledgment in any academic assignment;

• using another’s data or research findings; • failing to acknowledge sources through the use of proper citations when using another’s works

and/or failing to use quotation marks; • handing in "substantially the same piece of work for academic credit more than once without prior

written permission of the course instructor in which the submission occurs."

Plagiarism is a serious offence that cannot be resolved directly by the course’s instructor. The Associate Dean of the Faculty conducts a rigorous investigation, including an interview with the student, when an instructor suspects a piece of work has been plagiarized. Penalties are not trivial. They can include a final grade of "F" for the course.

ACADEMIC ACCOMMODATION

You may need special arrangements to meet your academic obligations during the term. For an accommodation request the processes are as follows: Pregnancy obligation Please contact your instructor with any requests for academic accommodation during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist. For more details, visit the Equity Services website: carleton.ca/equity/wp-content/uploads/Student-Guide-to-Academic-Accommodation.pdf Religious obligation Please contact your instructor with any requests for academic accommodation during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist. For more details, visit the

Equity Services website: carleton.ca/equity/wp-content/uploads/Student-Guide-to-Academic-Accommodation.pdf Academic Accommodations for Students with Disabilities If you have a documented disability requiring academic accommodations in this course, please contact the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) at 613-520-6608 or pmc@carleton.ca for a formal evaluation or contact your PMC coordinator to send your instructor your Letter of Accommodation at the beginning of the term. You must also contact the PMC no later than two weeks before the first in-class scheduled test or exam requiring accommodation (if applicable). After requesting accommodation from PMC, meet with your instructor as soon as possible to ensure accommodation arrangements are made. carleton.ca/pmc Survivors of Sexual Violence As a community, Carleton University is committed to maintaining a positive learning, working and living environment where sexual violence will not be tolerated, and is survivors are supported through academic accommodations as per Carleton's Sexual Violence Policy. For more information about the services available at the university and to obtain information about sexual violence and/or support, visit: carleton.ca/sexual-violence-support Accommodation for Student Activities Carleton University recognizes the substantial benefits, both to the individual student and for the university, that result from a student participating in activities beyond the classroom experience. Reasonable accommodation must be provided to students who compete or perform at the national or international level. Please contact your instructor with any requests for academic accommodation during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist. https://carleton.ca/senate/wp-content/uploads/Accommodation-for-Student-Activities-1.pdf For more information on academic accommodation, please contact the departmental administrator or visit: students.carleton.ca/course-outline