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    URBAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY (CITY185, FALL 2020)

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      Topic: City 185 Discussion Section

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      Hi everyone, 

      Please schedule 15-min meetings with me through this link and the zoom link would be: https://zoom.us/j/9022679415?pwd=RWN1YWtPc0w0eExjY056U21JRjF1Zz09

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    UNIT ONE: THE CITY AS HUMAN SPACE

         

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    September 10 (Th) INTRODUCTION (REMOTE!))

    • Perlman, Janice. 2011. “Preface.” In Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro, Reprint edition, XIII–XXIV. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. Also available as ebook through Library. 
    • Mumford, Lewis. "What is a City?" 110-114 (CR)

    ASSIGNMENT 1.1 Due by Friday 10/11 MIDNIGHT ON MOODLE

    Readings in Underline/Bold will be focal for discussions

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    CELEBRATING PHILADELPHIA EVEN IN QUARANTINE: THE FRINGE FESTIVAL!

    The 2020 Philaelphia Fringe Festival  runs from September 10 to October 4, a 3-city-wide celebration of music, dance and theater.  This year many events are virtual and some are free. Check the website at fringearts.com/2020-fringe-festival/

    How do festivals change urban places?

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    September 14 (M): Reading the City: House and Home MCD/REMOTE

    Hayden, Dolores (1981) "What Would a non-Sexist City Be Like?"  from Stimpson, C  et al eds. Women and the American City via the City Reader.

    Lane, Barbara (2015) New World in the Suburbs.  Pp: 3-15.

    Jacobs, Jane. "The Use of Sidewalks: Safety." 149-153 (CR)

    Perlman Favela " Introduction" 1-24.

    Supplementary: Satter, B (2020) Family Properties:How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America. "The Story of my Father 1-13.

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    September 17 (Th): PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPACES JH/REMOTE

    • Whyte, William H. “The Design of Public Spaces ” 587-595 (CR)
    • Gehl, Jan. “Three Types of Outdoor Activities…” 608-617 (CR). 
    • Disponzio, Joseph. 1998. “George Segal’s Sculpture on a Theme of Gay Liberation and the Sexual-Political Equivocation of Public Consciousness.” In Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy, 199–214. Washington: Smithsonian Books  See video below. 
    • SUPPLEMENTARY (FOR ILLUSTRATIONS)
    • Shenker, Jack. 2017. “Revealed: The Insidious Creep of Pseudo-Public Space in London.” The Guardian, July 24, 2017, sec. Cities. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/revealed-pseudo-public-space-pops-london-investigation-map

    HAVE YOU COMMENTED ON YOUR COLLEAGUES' INTRODUCTIONS YET?


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    SEPTEMBER 22 (M) ORGANIZING SCALE: HOME, BLOCK,NEIGHBORHOOD, CITY, REGION, STATE (JH) / IN GOOHART

               Perry , Clarence. “The Neighborhood Unit.” In The City Reader (M) (Note: not in 6th edition, available on Moodle below). 

    ·       Lynch, Kevin. “The City Image and Its Elements.” In The City Reader: 576-586 

    ·       Perlman, Janice. Chapter 2 in Favela: 41-60.

    ·       Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth. 2013. ""Neighborhoods should be compact, pedestrian-friendly, and mixed-use," in Charter of the New Urbanism, 2nd edition. Emily Talen, editor. PDF below.
    ·       Calthorpe, Peter 2013. "The metropolitan region is a fundamental economic unit of the contemporary world," in Charter of the New Urbanism, 2nd edition. Emily Talen, editor. PDF below.
    ·       Salzman, James. 2012, December 10. "Why Rivers No Longer Burn: The Clean Water Act is one of the greatest successes in environmental law" Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2012/12/clean-water-act-40th-anniversary-the-greatest-success-in-environmental-law-made-rivers-stop-burning.html 


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    SEPTEMBER 24 (Th): FROM CITIES TO THE CITY: PHILADELPHIA, RIO, YOUR CITY MCD / GOODHART


    • Burgess, "The Growth of the City" in The City Reader: 161-170" 
    • DuBois, W.E.B. “The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice." In The City Reader: 124-130. (CR)
    • Anderson, Elijah  "Code of the Street" and "Decent and Street Families"  in The City Reader:127-133.
    • Pearlman, Skim ONE of the descriptive chapters on individual neighborhoods in FAVELA

    • SUPPLEMENTARY
    • Hillier, Amy, 2002. “Redlining in Philadelphia.” In Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History, 79–92. Redlands, CA: Esri Press. (M)
    • Orso, Anna. 2019. “MOVE 101: Why, 34 Years Ago, Philadelphia Dropped a Bomb on Itself.” Billy Penn (blog). Accessed July 22, 2019. https://billypenn.com/2019/05/13/move-101-why-30-years-ago-philadelphia-dropped-a-bomb-on-itself/.



    Assignment 1.2 due by FRIDAY 9/25 at 5 PM via Moodle.


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    UNIT TWO: URBAN PROCESSES OF CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION


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    SEPTEMBER 28 (M): RACE, SPACE AND HISTORICAL PROCESS IN PHILADELPHIA/REMOTE JH


    SAMPLE THESE ARTICLES TO SEE HOW MAPS HELP US MAKE ARGUMENTS:



    In Class will have census presentation from Laura Surtees and will introduce ArcGIS Online tutorials - check the first Moodle section up top for detailed instructions for Assignment 1.4.
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    OCTOBER 1 (TH) SUBURBS AS SPACES OF DIFFERENCE MCD/REMOTE

    • Morley, Christopher (1921) "On the Paoli Local" Christoper Morley's Philadelphia: 228-231. (Especially since we are not taking the R-5 these days)
    • Bosworth, Louise Marion. 1913. “Report of the Survey of a Main Line District.” In Housing Conditions in Main Line Towns: An Investigation, 1-16 (you may read further). (M)
    • Jackson, Kenneth T . 1987. “Federal Subsidy and the American Dream: How Washington Changed the US Housing Market.” In Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, 1st edition, 190–218. NY: Oxford University Press. (M)
    • Pottinger, Trecia. 2015. “Race, Planning, and Activism on Philadelphia’s Main Line.” In Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America, 1 edition, 21–35. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press. (M)
    • Kurtz, Stanley 2012. "Burn Down the Suburbs?" National Review August 1 https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/08/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz/

    PAPER 1.3 DUE BY FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 5 PM

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      MCD students: Please use this Forum to post your 1.3 paper for other students to read and respond to. You can simply create a new topic and then copy and paste your text into the topic. The buttons along the toolbar at the top will also let you insert images, so you can add your maps.

      Please post your paper and then within a week also respond to (comment on and/or ask questions) at least 2 other student's papers.

    • Assignment 1.3 FORUM JH (you can read and respond to other people's work)
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      JH students: Please use this Forum to post your 1.3 paper for other students to read and respond to. You can simply create a new topic and then copy and paste your text into the topic. The buttons along the toolbar at the top will also let you insert images, so you can add your maps.

      Please post your paper and then within a week also respond to (comment on and/or ask questions) at least 2 other student's papers.

    • WHAT ELSE SHOULD WE SAY ABOUT SUBURBS? Forum
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      A good chance for urbanites and suburbanites (and those from small towns) to share.

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    0CTOBER 5 (M):THE FORDIST CITY REMOTE MCD

    • Engels, Friedrich. “The Great Towns.” In The City Reader: 53-62. (CR)
    • Sam Bass Warner "Evolution and Transformation: The American Industrial Metropolis 1840-1940."  in The City Reader:55-64 (CR)
    • Ngai, Pun, and Jenny Chan. 2012. “Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers: The Foxconn Experience.” Modern China 38 (4): 383–410. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700412447164 (M)
    • Crawford, M

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    OCTOBER 8 (Th): THE CITY AS COMMODITY; GENTRIFICATION JH


    • Smith, Neil. 1996. “Market, State, and Ideology: Society Hill.” In The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, 119–39. London ; New York: Routledge. (M)
    • Moore, Kesha S. 2009. “Gentrification in Black Face?: The Return of the Black Middle Class to Urban Neighborhoods.” Urban Geography 30 (2): 118–42. https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.30.2.118. (M)
    • Cortwright, Joe. 2014, September 12. "Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty - not gentrification - is our biggest urban challenge" City Observatory. https://cityobservatory.org/lost-in-place/
    • Capps, Kriston. 2019. “The Hidden Winners in Neighborhood Gentrification.” CityLab. July 16, 2019. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/07/gentrification-effects-neighborhood-data-economic-statistics/594064/.
    • Ingersoll, Agnes Clement. 1963, October. "A Society Hill Restoration" pp. 13-17.

    ANY QUESTIONS ON ARC/GIS AND CENSUS?


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    OCTOBER 12 (M):CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICS: WHAT DO CITIES DO? FOR WHOM? MCD / Zoom

    Arnstein

    • Watt, Cecilia. 2016. “Who’s Counting: The History of the U.S. Census.” Enigma. August 24, 2016. https://medium.com/@ceciliasaixue/whos-counting-the-history-of-the-u-s-census-5a037343984b
    • Perlman, Janice. “Disallusionment with Democracy.’ In Favela: 200-219 (F)
    • Harvey, David. “The Right to the City.” In The City Reader: 270-278. (CR)
    • Arnstein,  Sherry "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" in The City Reader 238-250
    • SUPPLEMENTARY

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    OCTOBER 15 (TH): POLICE JH/MCD TH DISCUSSION GROUPS MEET TODAY



    MON DISCUSSION GROUPS MEET 1:10-1:50

    TH DISCUSSION GROUPS MEET 1:50-12:30

    JH GROUPS MEET ON RHOADS BEACH - ALL REMOTE JH STUDENTS, PLEASE JOIN ZOOM AT 1:10 - if it rains, we'll all be on zoom


    PAPER 1.4 DUE FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 5PM

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    UNIT THREE: FROM CRITIQUE TO ACTION - MAKING CITIES WORK


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    OCTOBER 19 (M): ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY: TAXES, WEALTH, COSTS AND BENEFITS JH / Zoom

    TBA

    Wilson, W "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos" CR

    Porter, M "The Competitive Advantages of the Inner City" CR


    • Orfield, Myron. “Metropolitics and Fiscal Equity.” In The City Reader: 338-356  . (CR)

    Moloch?

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    OCTOBER 23 (TH) EDUCATION, ECONOMICS, EQUITY JH/MCD


    • Perlman, Janice. “The Myth of Mobility.” In Favela: 220-245. (F)



    • Adams, Carolyn T. 2014. “Outsiders Re-Shape the Educational Landscape.” In From the Outside In: Suburban Elites, Third-Sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia, 82–111. Cornell University Press.
    • Golann, Joanne W. 2015. “The Paradox of Success at a No-Excuses School.” Sociology of Education 88 (2): 103–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040714567866.

    MON DISCUSSION GROUPS MEET 1:10-1:50

    ALL REMOTE STUDENTS, PLEASE JOIN ZOOM AT 1:10

    TH DISCUSSION GROUPS MEET 1:50-12:30

    JH GROUPS MEET ON RHOADS BEACH - GARY GROUPS MEET IN TAFT GARDEN - if it rains, we'll meet in Goodhart + Zoom


    PAPER 1.5 DUE MONDAY OCTOBER 27 10 AM

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    OCTOBER 26 (M) GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS JH

    Highlighted

    READINGS IN PROGRESS

    • Bullard, Robert D. 2005. “Environmental Justice in the Twenty-First Century.” In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, 19–42. San Francisco: Counterpoint.
    • Garcia, Robert, and Erica Flores. 2005. “Anatomy of the Urban Parks Movement: Equal Justice, Democracy, and Livability in Los Angeles.” In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, 145–67. San Francisco: Counterpoin
    •  Olmsted "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" 321-327 (CR)  
    • SUPPLEMENTARY         

    • ·      Wheeler 458-468 (CR)

      ·      Beatley   448-457 (CR)



    A statement of interest for paper 4 (hometown project) is due by November 1 via Moodle. 

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    OCTOBER 29 (Th) HOW DOES WATER WORK? MCD

      • READ ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING.  Where does the water come from in your hometown? And where does it go to?
      • Barbier,  Edward (2019) " Water as an Economic Good" from The Water Parados
      • Loftus, Alexander J, and David A McDonald. 2001. “Of Liquid Dreams: A Political Ecology of Water Privatization in Buenos Aires.” Environment and Urbanization 13 (2): 179–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/095624780101300215.
      • Morales, Margaret del Carmen, Leila Harris, and Gunilla Öberg. 2014. “Citizenshit: The Right to Flush and the Urban Sanitation Imaginary.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 46 (12): 2816–33. https://doi.org/10.1068/a130331p.
    •  "Water as a Human Right"  (Philadelphia)www.americanprogress.org/issuespoverty/news/2017/11/08/441834/water-human-right-philadelphia-preventing-shut-offs-ensuring-affordability/
      • SUPPLEMENTARY: Morrow, Gregory. 2006. “Understanding Privatization: A Roundtable Discussion.” Critical Planning 13 (Summer): 98–115

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    NOVEMBER 2 (M) GLOBALIZATION AND CONNECTION MCD

    • Castells, Manuel. “Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age.” In The City Reader: 229-240. (CR)
    • Perlman, Janice. ‘Globalization and the Grassroots.” In Favela: 246-263. (F)
    • Audirac, Ivonne. 2003  . “Information-Age Landscapes Outside the Developed World Bangalore, India, and Guadalajara, Mexico.” Journal of the American Planning Association 69 (1): 16–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944360308976291. (M)

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      https://brynmawr-edu.zoom.us/rec/share/l-GRTrk1K6ri3fJRkU9Kg2UOZGJknuiV7CJVcxoYJxeMYDpYWat-MeDghwOc23Js.e5GpyUDcgQmyaXIK?startTime=1604336987000

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    NOVEMBER 5 (Th): TRANSPORTATION KEEPING IT TOGETHER JH

    • Jackson, Kenneth. “The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America.” In The City Reader: 73-82. (CR)
    • Badami, Madhav G. 2009. “Urban Transport Policy as If People and the Environment Mattered: Pedestrian Accessibility the First Step.” Economic and Political Weekly 44 (33): 43–51.
    • Farr, Matthew, Keri Brondo, and Scout Anglin. 2015. “Shifting Gears: The Intersection of Race and Sustainability in Memphis.” In Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice, 1 edition, 285–305. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

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    NOVEMBER 9-12 PRESENTATIONS


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    NOVEMBER 16-19 PRESENTATIONS

    Presenting groups: Please upload your slides to Moodle before class

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    November 19 Th: Social Inequality in Public Participation

    Optional Reading:

    Rosenstone, S. J., & Hansen, J. M. (2003). Mobilization, participation, and democracy in America. New York: Longman.


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    THANKSGIVING BREAK (no class)

    cat dressed up as a turkey

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    UNIT FOUR: BUILDING A BETTER (URBAN) FUTURE


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    NOVEMBER 30 (M): SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS OF FINAL PROJECTS/REMOTE

    • Friedmann, John. 2002. “The Good City: In Defense of Utopian Thinking.” In The Prospect of Cities, 103–18. University of Minnesota Press
    • Diaz

    • Robichaud, Raine. 2017. “Mapping the ‘Uncharted’ Favela: The Growing Role of Participatory and Insurgent Cartographies.” Rio On Watch (blog). December 4, 2017. https://www.rioonwatch.org/?p=38456

    Class will meet in two sections, divided into discussion groups, to discuss final paper



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    DECEMBER 3: WHAT IS ECONOMIC RACISM AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE/ MCD/REMOTE

      • DAVIS, M (1995) "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn" from THE ECOLOGY OF FEAR
      • Pulido, Laura (2015) "Gographies of  Race and Ethnicity"
      • NOTE MOODLE LINK FOR EVALUATIONS

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    DECEMBER 7 RIGHTS AND INCLUSIONS JH

    Mitchel & Burton - Dementia Friendly Cities (M)


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    DECEMBER 10 (Th): WHAT COMES NEXT--TALKING WITH ALUMS

    Paper 4 due on Thursday, Dec 10 by 5 pm via Moodle