Week 6: Coming Together (Again?)

• Habermas, Jürgen, Sara Lennox, and Frank Lennox. 1974. “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article (1964).”New German Critique, no. 3: 49–55. https://doi.org/10.2307/487737.
• Fraser, Nancy. 1990. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy.”Social Text, no. 25/26: 56–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/466240.

Both of the following readings are scholars and 'public intellectuals' (I hate that term) who were hugely influential in political science and planning circles, respectively - both at the turn of the twenty-first century. The idea here is to have you read these and really think through what rings true, what is outdated, etc. 

• Putnam, Robert. 2015 [2000]. “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital.”In The City Reader, edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout, 134–42. Routledge.
• Friedmann, John. 1998. “The New Political Economy of Planning: The Rise of Civil Society.”In Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age, edited by Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, 1st edition, 19–35. Chichester, England ; New York: Academy Press.