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Urb 201/ WWS 201 Introduction to Urban Studies Professor M. Christine Boyer Lecture: Tuesday 1:30 – 3-‐00 Place: Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
The Future of Cities in the 21st Century By 2015, it is a cliché to point out that more than half the world’s population lives in metropolitan regions -‐-‐ a figure that may rise to two-‐thirds of the world’s population by 2050. This flow to the city has produced in its wake massive conurbations or ‘megacities’ of more than 20 million people such as Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Sao Paulo. These megacities face major challenges in the supply of water, food, clean air, land, infrastructure, housing, energy, sanitation, transportation, jobs, hospitals, schools. On the other hand every 6th city in the world can be defined as a shrinking city, such as New Orleans, Detroit, Prague, Bucharest, Turin, Tbilisi, Odessa, St. Petersburg, Pittsburgh, Budapest, Manchester. Manufacturing shifts, demographic changes, technological innovations, wars and natural disasters are some of the factors leading to such shrinkage. Meanwhile climate change spares few cities, urbicide has become a military strategy, while inequality and uneven development disturb the process of financial globalization. Be they dense in size or sprawled out, population growing or shrinking, small town or megacity, located in capitals of finance or bankrupted regions, belonging to emerging or industrialized nations – the equitable and inclusive management of urban areas is one of the most important challenges facing the 21st century. Cities confront climate-‐related risks of breakdown in their services and infrastructure that will affect other variables of the urban complexity unless bold planning and action are taken. Ineffective responses in areas of high urban growth rates often result in spirals of urban poverty and the formation of massive slums and informal settlements. Prosperous cities offer wide opportunities for businesses
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and for its citizens an excellent quality of life. They may be artistic hubs, tourist attractors, high-‐tech centers, financial capitals, environmental innovators, and public transit providers. But fiscal austerity measures and private market investments in urban services often deliver uneven solutions even for well-‐off cities, neglecting some areas while benefiting others. How should the problem of cities be approached in the 21st century? The urban problematic requires more than visualization of catastrophe and crisis, more than an analysis of big but often powerless megacities and global cities driven by finance capital. How do we arrive at a concept of a ‘just’ or ‘equitable’ city as the disequilibria and dislocations of the global economy are negotiated across the range and typology of cities? Is it possible to eradicate urban inequality and uneven development? To plan for growth as well as decline? Should cities become denser or multi-‐nodal, more suburbanized or more centralized? What are the environmental advantages of cities? Is the process of urbanization (linked to ‘factory farming’ and agribusiness) irreversible and rural shrinkage inevitable? Has a global network of cities managed by mayors replaced the network of nations and the specifics of locality? What are the challenges of communication technology on the future of cities? Are there governmental or institutional structures to mediate and manage urban conflicts over scarce resources, gentrification of communities, or vulnerability to risks? How does a city build bridges over social, political and cultural differences to become more equitable and inclusive? The questions are complexly intertwined, the solutions offered multi-‐vocal and tentative. This course will explore answers to these and other questions students may raise via six channels of analysis: 1/ documentary films and television broadcasts; 2/ the internet; 3/ published reports of UN organization, think tanks, non-‐governmental organizations; 4/ traditional print, newspaper accounts and atlases; 5/lectures and precepts; 6/interactive journals and shared reports. Working in small groups or as individuals sharing information, reacting interactively via blackboard or other posts, students will develop on-‐going journals culminating in reports on “What is to be done about the future of cities in the 21st century?” Weekly Assignments: 1/ attendance in lecture and participation in precept discussions on assigned readings 2/weekly posting of on-‐line journal via blogs and adding material to collective archive of global information 3/ completion of mid-‐term and final examinations. Mid-‐Term Assignment: take home examination on topics of first six weeks Final Assignment: take home examination on topics of last six weeks: “What is to be done about the future of cities in the 21st century?”
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Week 1 What is a city? *Required Reading *Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis, “Towards a Theory of Cosmopolitan Commons” in Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis (eds.) Cosmopolitan Commons Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders (Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2013):13 -‐ 52. *William B Meyer, “Introduction”, The Environmental Advantages of Cities Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism (MIT Press, 2013): 1 -‐22, 151 – 156. Background Reading: Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley The Metropolitan Revolution How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken and Fragile Economy (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2013). Fran Tonkiss Cities by Design The Social Life of Urban Form (Cambridge: Polity, 2013). Week 2 Informal City: Learning from Lagos *Required Reading and Viewing * Matthew Gandy, “Learning from Lagos” New Left Review (33 May-‐June 2005): 36 – 52. * Joseph Godlewski “Alien and Distant: Rem Koolhaas on Film in Lagos, Nigeria” TDSD 21, 11 (2010): 7 – 19. *Rem Koolhaas, “Lagos” in Rem Koolhaas, et al (eds.) Mutations (Barcelona: Acktar, 2000): 650 – 719. *Tim Hecker, “The Slum Pastoral: Helicopter Visuality and Koolhaas’s Lagos,” Space and Culture 13, 3 (2010): 256-‐269. Films:
*Lagos Wide & Close: An interactive Journey into an Exploding City (Bregtje van der Haak, 2005) Lagos/Koolhaas [videorecording] / a Pieter van Huystee Film (Bregtje van der Haak, 2003). Welcome to Lagos Episode 1 & 2 (Will Anderson BBC producer of series, 2010
Background Reading: Erhard Berner and Benedict Phillips, “ Left to their own devices? Community self-‐help between alternative development and neo-‐liberalism” Community Development Journal 40, 1 (2005): 17 – 29. Kim Dovey and Ross King, “Forms of Informality: Morphology and Visibility of Informal Settlements” Built Environment 37, 1 (2011): 11 – 29.
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Matthew Gandy, “Planning, Anti-‐planning and the Infrastructure Crisis Facing Metropolitan Lagos,” Urban Studies 43, 2 (2006): 371 – 396. George Packer, “Megacity” The New Yorker (November 13, 2006): 62 -‐ 68. Week 3 Ruined City, Resilient City: the case of New Orleans and Detroit *Required Reading and Viewing New Orleans: *M. Christine Boyer, “Reconstructing New Orleans and the Right to the City” in Lukasz Stanek, Christian Schmid and Akos Moravansky (eds.) Urban Revolution Now Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014): 173 – 188. *Cedric Johnson, “Introduction”, The Neoliberal Deluge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011): loc 129 – 542. *Stephen Verderber, “Roadside Nomadicism and a City’s Rebirth” and “Reflections” Delirious New Orleans Manifesto for an Extraaordinary American City (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009): Kindle loc 2364 – 2724, 3008 -‐3096 Notes loc 4442-‐4591. Detroit: *Mark Binelli, Chapter 9 “Austerity 101” and Chapter 13 “Fabulous Ruin” Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis (New York: Metropolitan Books 2012): 179 – 198, 269 – 286, 307-‐8, 310-‐11. *George Galster, Chapter 1 “Riding on the Freeway: A riff on the Place Called Motown” Driving Detroit The Quest for Respect in the Motor City (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press: 2012): 3 – 43. Film:
Burn (Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez, 2012) *I’m Carolyn Parker The Good, The Mad, and the Beautiful (Jonathan Demme, 2012)
New Orleans: The Big Uneasy (Harry Shearer, 2010) Detropia (Heidl Ewing and Rachel Grady, 2012)
Background Reading: Edward Blakely My Storm Managing The Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2012). Kristina Ford The Trouble with City Planning What New Orleans can Teach Us (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). John Gallagher, Reimaging Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining an American City (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010).
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Andrew Herscher The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012) < http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.12103229.0001.001> Peter Marcuse, “Ignoring Injustice in Disaster Planning” The Urban Reinventors Papers Series ©2005 -‐©-‐2009 The Right to the City: the Entitled and the Excluded Issue 3, 9 (2005-‐©-‐2009): 1 – 37. <www.unrbanreinventors.net> Robert B. Olshansky and Laurie A. Johnson Clear as Mud Planning and Rebuilding of New Orleans (Chicago, Washington D.C.: American Planners Association Planners Press, 2010). Lawrence Vale and Thomas Campanello “Conclusion: Axioms of Resilience” in Lawrence Vale (ed.) The Resilient City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001): 335 – 355. Stephen Verderer “Five Years After – Three New Orleans Neighborhoods” JAE (2010): 107-‐120. Week 4 Contested City, Immigrant City Contested City *Required Reading and Viewing *Stephen Graham, “Lessons in Urbicide” Cities under Siege The New Military Urbanism (London: Verso 2011): 226 – 262. *Eyal Weizman, “Urban Warfare: Walking through Walls,” Hollow Land Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (London and New York: Verso, 2007): 184 – 218, 295 – 300. Film: 5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 2011)
*House/A House in Jerusalem (Amos Gitai, 1979, 1998) Background Reading for Contested City: Ralf Brand and Sara Fregonese The Radicals’ City Urban Environment, Polarization, Cohesion (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). Stephen Graham, “Cities and the ‘War on Terror’, in Michael Sorkin (ed.) Indefensible Space The Architecture of the National Insecurity State New York: Routledge 2008 pp.1 -‐29. Jan Mieszkowski ‘Introduction: Watching War’”, Watching War (Stanford Conn: Stanford University Press, 2012): 1 – 29, 195-‐202. Eyal Weizman, “The Art of War” Frieze, 99 May 2006. www.frieze.com/issue/article/the_art_ofwar/ Immigrant City
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*Required Reading and Viewing *Etienne Balibar, “Uprisings in the Banlieues” http://www.scribd.com/doc/12598213/Balibar-‐Uprisings-‐in-‐the-‐Banlieues. Film: *93 The Memory of a Territory Yamina Benguigui, 2008)
24 Days: The Truth About the Ilan Halimi Affair (Alexandre Arcady, 2014) Background Reading for Immigrant City: Marc Angélil and Cary Siress, “The Paris Banlieue: Peripheries of Inequity,” Journal of International Affairs 65, 2 (Spring/Summer 2012): 57 – 67. Mustafa Dikeç, “Guest Editorial: Badlands of the republic” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24, (2006,): 159-‐163. Mustafa Dikeç, “Revolting Geographies: Urban Unrest in France” Geography Compass 1/5 (2007): 1190–1206. Mustafa Dikeç, “(In)justice and the ‘right to the city’: The case of French National Urban Policy” in Wastl-‐Walter D, Staeheli L, Dowler L (eds.) Rights to the City. (Rome: Società Geografica Italiana, 2012): 45 – 53. Stephen Graham, “Ubiquitous Borders” Cities under Siege The New Military Urbanism (London: Verso 2011): 89-‐152. Marie-‐Theresa Hernández, “The French Banlieue riots of 2005 and their impact on US immigration policy: A transatlantic study” Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical Perspectives 7, 1 (2010): 79 – 97. Andrew Hussey The French Intifada The Long War Between France and its Arabs (London: Granta Publications, 2014). Week 5 Parched City, Hungry City Parched City: *Required Reading and Viewing *James Salzman, Chapter 6 “Bigger than Soft Drinks” and Chapter 8 “Finding Water for the Twenty-‐First Century” Drinking Water A History (London: Overlook Duckworth, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., 2012): loc 2330 – 2798, loc 4890 – 5114. (Kindle) *Vandana Shiva, Water Wars Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (Cambridge, Mass. South End Press, 2002): 19 – 37, 53 – 86.
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Film: * Watermark (Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky, 2013) Blue Gold World Water Wars (Sam Bozzo, 2008)
Gasland Can You Light Your Water on Fire? (Josh Fox, 2010) Tapped (Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey, 2009)
Background Reading: Brahma Chellaney Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc., 2013). Jacques Leslie Deep Water The Epic Struggle Over Dams Displaced People and the Environment (New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). Andrew Ross, “Gambling on the Water Table” Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City New York: Oxford University Press, 2011): 21-‐50, 253-‐258. David Soll Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). Hungry City: *Required Reading and Viewing *Scott Cowen, Chapter 7 “Grow Dat: Make Contact” The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America (New York: Palgrave, 2014): loc 2365 – loc 2692, 4143-‐ loc 4206 [kindle *Andrew Herscher, ”Food Infill”, Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012): 38 – 63. Dickson Despommier, “Introduction” and “The Vertical Farm: Advantages” (The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (New York: Picador, 2011): 1 -‐11, 133-‐ 175, 286 Film:
*The Garden (Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2008) Growing Cities (Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette, 2013)
Background Reading C. Certomà, “Critical Urban Gardening as a Post-‐Environmentalist Practice” Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 16, 10 (2011): 977 -‐987. Yuki Kato, Catarina Paassidomo and Daina Harvey, “Political Gardening in a Post-‐Disaster City: Lessons from New Orleans” Urban Studies Journal (2013).
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Week 6 Sprawl City, Automobile City *Required Reading and Viewing *Leigh Gallagher, Chapter 3 “’My Car Knows the Way to Gymnastics’”, The End of the Suburbs Where the American Dream is Moving (Penguin: 2013): loc 1062 – 1505, loc 3183 – 3337. *Taras Grescoe, Chapter 2 “Only Connect – Los Angeles, California’ and Chapter 3 “The Highway to Hell – Phoenix, Arizona” Straphanger Saving our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2011): 50-‐78, 299; 79 – 103, 300. *Austin Troy, “Introduction: Why Urban Energy Metabolism Matters The Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012): loc 185 – loc 303, loc 4611 – 4642. *John Urry “The ‘System’ of Automobility” Theory Culture Society 21 (2004): 25 – 39. *Thad Williamson, “Introduction Sprawl as a Moral Issue”, Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship the Civic Costs of the American Way of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 3 – 22, 317-‐321. Film:
*The End of Suburbia (Gregory Greene, 2004) Reyner Banham Loves LA < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlZ0NbC-‐YDo>
Background Reading: Kingsley Dennis & John Urry “Changing Climates” and “Models”, After the Car (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009): 1 – 26, 109 – 130; 165 -‐173, 193 – 195. Stephen Graham, “Car Wars” Cities under Siege The New Military Urbanism (London: Verso 2011): 302 – 347. Cotton Seiler Republic of Drivers A Cultural History of Automobility in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008) Jeff Speck, The Ten Steps of Walkability,” Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America (New York: North Point Press, 2012): loc 805 – 2149, loc 3641 – 3855. Kindle SPRING BREAK Week 7 Austerity City, Neo-‐Liberal City The Politics of Austerity and Debt *Jamie Peck, “Austerity urbanism” City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 16, 6 (2012): 625 -‐655.
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<From week 3 reading: Mark Binelli, Chapter 9 “Austerity 101” Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis (New York: Metropolitan Books 2012): 179 – 198, 269 – 286. *Steven Shaviro, “The ‘Bitter Necessity’ of Debt: Neoliberal Finance and the Society of Control,” Paper presented at Debt Conference April 29-‐May 1 2010 http://www.shaviro.com/Othertexts/Debt.pdf [email protected] *Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” October 59 (October, 1992): 3 – 7. Austerity and Popular Resistance: the case of Athens, Greece *Giorgos Tsimouris From Invisibility into the Centre of the Athenian Media Spectacle: Governmentality and Immigration in the Era Of Crisis”; Lila Leontidou. “The Crisis and its Discourses: Quasi-‐Orientalist Offensives Against Southern Urban Spontaneity, Informality and Joie De Vivre”; David Harvey “Alienation and Urban Life” in Crisis-‐scapes Athens and Beyond (Athens: Crisis-‐scape.net, 2014): 78 – 81; 107 – 114; 195 -‐ 204 http://issuu.com/crisis-‐scape/docs/crisisscapesconferencebookweb/1 Films:
*The Square (Jejane Noujaim, 2013) The Pruit-‐Igoe Myth (Chad Freidrichs, 2011)
Background Reading: Michelle Wilde Anderson, “Introduction” ”The New Minimal Cities” The Yale Law Journal 123, 5 (March 2014): 1118-‐1625. http://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-‐new-‐minimal-‐cities John Clarke and Janet Newman, “The alchemy of austerity”, Critical Social Policy 32, 3 (2012): 299 – 319. Danny Dorling All that is Solid The Great Housing Disaster (London: Penguin Books: 2014). William Tabb, “The Wider Context of Austerity Urbanism” City: Analysis of Urban Trends, culture, theory policy, action 18, 2 (2014): 87-‐100. Antonnis Vradis and Dimitri Dalakoglou (eds.) Revolt and Crisis in Greece Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come (London: AK Press and Occupied London, 2011). Week 8 Green City, Dense City *Required Reading and Viewing
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*David Hume, Chapter 10 “Chico and The Man” and Chapter 11 “Green Cities and Garbage Death Rays,” Garbology Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (New York: Avery 2011): 187-‐220, 220-‐ 237, 267-‐268. *Naomi Klein Chapter 1 “The Right is Right: The Revolutionary Power of Climate Change” This Changes Everything Capitalism vs. The Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014): 27-‐55, 409-‐ 417. *Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller, “Workers” Greening the Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012): 86-‐107, 196 – 201. *William B. Meyer, Introduction” and Chapter 2 “Ecological Disruption” The Environmental Advantages of Cities Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2013): 1-‐22, 23 -‐36, 151 – 156, 157 – 161. *Austin Troy, Chapter 1 “The 68° City” The Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012): loc 310 – loc 588, loc 4642 – loc 4723. Film:
*Wasteland (Lucy Walker, 2010) Addicted to Plastic (Ian Connacher, 2009) Elemental (Gayatri Roshan and Emmanuel Vaughan-‐Lee, 2012)
Background Reading: David Gissen Manhattan Atmospheres Architecture, The Interior Environment, and Urban Crisis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013). May Joseph Fluid New York cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin “Urbanism in the Anthropocene Ecological urbanism or premium ecological enclaves?” City 14, 3 (June 2010): 299 -‐ 313. Mohsen Mostafavi “Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?” Harvard Design Magazine 32 (Spring/Summer 2010): 1 -‐ 12. Jussi Parikka The Anthrobscene (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Edgar Pieterse “Recasting Urban Sustainability in the South” Development 54, 3 (2011): 309-‐316. James S. Russell Agile City Building Well-‐being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change (Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2011). Frederick Steiner “Landscape Ecological Urbanism: Origins and trajectories” Landscape and Urban Planning 100 (2011): 333 – 337.
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Week 9 Smart City, Information City *Required Reading and Viewing *Benjamin R. Barber, Chapter 9 “Smart Cities” If Mayors Ruled the World Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013): 241-‐266, 387-‐392 . *Orit Halpern, Jesse LeCavalier, Nerea Calvillo, and Wolfgang Pietsch “Test-‐Bed Urbanism” Public Culture 25, 2 (2013): 273 – 306. *Zachary P. Neal “National: The Action is in Cities, but also Between them” and “Global: Nylon holds the World Together” The Connected City: How Network are Shaping the Modern Metropolis (New York: Routledge, 2013): 125 -‐166, 205 – 214. *Anthony Townsend, Chapter 4 “Open Source Metropolis” and Chapter 6 “Have Nots” “Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013): loc 1919 -‐ 2347, loc 5688-‐5764; and 2766 – 3166, loc 5829 – 5944. FILM:
CitizenFour (Laura Poitras, 2014) Background Reading: Petra Gemeinboeck and Rob Saunders “Urban fictions: A critical reflection on locative at and performative geographies” Digital Creativity 22, 3 (2011): 160 – 173. Manuel Lima Visual Complexity Mapping Patterns of Information (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) Malcolm McCullough, Chapter 9 “Megacity Resources” Ambient Common -‐ Attention in the Age of Embodied Information (Cambridge: MIT press, 2013): 195 – 224, 318 – 323. Jeremy Rifkin The Zero Marginal Cost Society The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Byron Reese Infinite Progress How the Internet and Technology will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War (Austin Texas: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2013) Week 10 Tourist City, Equitable City *Required Reading and Viewing *Bianca Freire-‐Medeiros, “Tourism in the Largest Favela in Latin America,” Touring Poverty (Chicago: University of Chicago Seagull Books, 2014): 74 – 110.
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* Peter Dyson, “Slum Tourism: Representing and Interpreting ’Reality’ in Dharavi, Mumbai” in Fabian Frenzell and Ko Koens (eds.) Tourism and the Geography of Inequality: the New Politics of Slumming (New York and London: Routledge, 2014): 60 – 80. *Dean MacCannell, “The Tourist and the Urban Symbolic”, The Ethics of Sight-‐seeing (Berkeley: University of California Press 2011): 91-‐116, 241-‐243. *Lynell L. Thomas, Chapter 5 “Starting All Over Again Post-‐Katrina Tourism and the Reconstruction of Race”” Desire & Disaster in New Orleans Tourism, Race and Historical Memory (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014): Loc 2501 – loc 3061, Notes: loc 4388 – loc 4628. Film:
*Havana: the new art of making ruins (Florian Borchmeyer and Matthias Hentschler, 2006) Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, 2008)
Background Reading: Mark Frank Cuban Revelations Behind The Scenes in Havana (Gainesville: University of Florida, 2013). Fabian Frenzell, Ko Koens, and Malte Steinbrink (eds.) Slum Tourism: Poverty, power, and ethics (New York and London: Routledge, 2012). Manfred Rolfes “Poverty Tourism: theoretical reflections and empirical findings regarding an extraordinary form of tourism” GeoJournal 75 (2010): 421-‐442. Brigitte Sion (ed.) Death Tourism: Discrete Sites as Recreational Landscapes (Chicago: University of Chicago Seagull Books, 2014. Ann Laura Stoler (ed.) Imperial Debris On Ruins and Ruination (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013). Marita Sturken, “Architecture of Grief and the Aesthetics of Absence” Tourists of History Memory Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007): 219 – 286, 311 – 318. Week 11 Gentrified City, Creative City *Required Reading and Viewing *Mark Binelli, “Let Us Paint Your Factory Magenta” Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis (New York: Metropolitan Books 2012): 251 – 266, 305 – 306.
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*Richard Florida, Chapter 1 “The Transformation of Everyday Life” and Chapter 4 “The Creative Class,’ in The Rise of the Creative Class (New York: Basic Books, 2002), 1–17, 383 – 384; 67–82, 391. *Horace R. Hall, Cynthia C. Robinson and Amor Kohl (eds.) Uprooting Urban America: multidisciplinary perspective on race, class and gentrification (New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2014): t.b.a. *Stefan Kratke “’Creative Cities’ and the Rise of the Dealer Class: A Critique of Richard Florida’s Approach to Urban Theory” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34, 4 (December 2010): 835 – 53. [read up to page 845, skim case study] FILM:
*Gut Renovation (Su Friedrich, 2012) Ekumenopolis/City without Limits (Uucu Olmayan Sehir, 2011)
Background Reading: Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander “There goes the metro: how and why bohemians, artists and gays affect regional housing values” Journal of Economic Geography 10 (2010): 167-‐188. Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick, “Inside the black box of regional development – human capital, the creative class and tolerance” Journal of Economic Geography 8 (2008): 615 -‐649; Read up to page 623 skim empirical study. Andrew Harris and Louis Morens Creative City Limits Urban Cultural Economy in an Era of Austerity http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/news/urbanlab/docs/creativecitylimits Jim McGuigan “Doing a Florida thing: the creative class thesis and cultural policy” International Journal of Cultural Policy 15,3 (2009): 291 – 300. Peter Marcuse, “The Right to the Creative City-‐ Talk” http://creativecitylimits.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/creative-‐city-‐marcuse.pdf Elsa Vivant “Paris (re)Making of Paris as a Bohemian Place?” Progress in Planning 74 (2010): 107-‐152. Week 12 Future City: the city yet to come *Required Reading and Viewing *Ahmed Kanna, Chapter 2 “’Going South’ with the Starchitects”, Dubai The City as Corporation (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011):loc 1083 – loc 1442, notes loc 3128 – 3163. *AbdouMaliq Simone, Chapter 1 “The Near South: Between Megablock and Slum” and “Conclusion: Reimaging a Commons,” Jakarta: Drawing the City Near (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014): loc 495 – 1491, loc 4465-‐loc 4585.
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*Linda Weinstein, Chapter 5 “The Right to Stay Put” The Durable Slum Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014): loc 2791 – loc 3251, notes 4109 – loc4205, loc 3264 – 3409, notes * Yuan Ren and Per Olaf Berg, Chapter 1 “Developing and Branding a Polycentric Mega-‐City, “ Chapter 16 Can-‐Seng Ooi, “The Making of the Copy-‐Cat City” , and “Conclusion: Branding a Different Species of Cities?” in Per Olaf Berg and Emma Björnes (eds.) Branding Chinese Mega-‐Cities: Politics, Practices and Positioning (Cheltenham UK and Northampton Mass: Edward Edgar Publishing Inc., 2014): 21 -‐41, 232-‐248, 262 – 288. Film:
*24 City (Jia Zhang-‐Ke, 2008) 2057 City of the Future (Discovery Channel, 2008) Episode 2 The City
Background Reading: Michele Acuto, “High-‐rise Dubai urban entrepreneurialism and the technology of symbolic power” Cities 27 (2010): 272-‐284. Bianca Bosker, ‘The Land of Courtly Enjoyments”: An Introduction to China’s Architectural Mimicry”, Original Copies Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013): 12 – 30, notes: 147 – 148. Chad Haines, “Cracks in the Façade: Landscape of Hope and Desire in Dubai ” in Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong Worlding Cities Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011): 160 – 181. Lisa Hoffman, “Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-‐Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanism” in Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong Worlding Cities Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011): 55 -‐76. Ted Reisz “Making Dubai A Process in Crisis” Architectural Design (2010): 38 – 43. AbdouMaliq Simone “Urban security and the 'tricks' of endurance,” 14 February 2013 http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/abdou-‐maliq-‐simone/urban-‐security-‐and-‐tricks-‐of-‐endurance http://eipcp.net/transversal/1011/butler/en John Urry, Chapter 3 “Consuming Miles” Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures (London: Zed Books, 2013): loc 841 – loc 1162, 53 – 74, loc3856 -‐ Loc 3990.