Reading Schedule
This is an abbreviated reading schedule. I will post introductory comments about the reading before each week on a separate post and will give out that week’s reading questions. You must choose your essays from the reading responses.
Calendar
Week 1: Jan 14
Introductions
Part 1 Making Space
Week 2: Jan 21 What is urban planning? (Click on this for the detail of these readings.)
Kaiser, Edward J. and David R. Godschalk. 1995. “Land Use Planning: A stalwart family tree”, Journal of the American Planning Association. 61(3): 365-385.
City of Boulder. 2008. Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan.
Read pages 1-22,73-78. Also look at the Land Use Map.
There is a nifty interactive map too, but this is more to play with.
Sandercock, Leonie. 1998. ‘The Death of Radical Planning: Radical Praxis for a Postmodern Age’, in M. Miles and T. Hall, with I. Bordain, eds, The City Cultures Reader (Second Edition), Routledge: London; New York, 2004, pp 423-439.
Kenny, Judith. 1992. “Portland’s Comprehensive Plan as Text: The Fred Meyer Case and the Politics of Reading” in Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan, eds, Writing Worlds: Discourse text and metaphor in the representation of landscape, Routledge: London; New York, pp. 176-192.
Week 3: Jan 29 Jane Jacobs
Week 4: Planning Suburbia
Fishman, Robert. “Bourgois Utopias”
Bruegmann, Robert. “Critique of the antisprawl movement” in The Suburb Reader, Becky M Nicolaides and Andrew Weise, eds. pp. 488-494.
“Urban and Suburban” in The City Culture Reader.
Grant, Jill and Andrew Curran. ‘Privatized suburbia: the planning implications of private roads’ Environment and Planning B. 34(4): 740-54. 2007.
Week 5: Planning Gendered Space
Hayden, Delores. “Nurturing: Home, Mom and Apple Pie” in Reading in Planning Theory (2nd Ed).
Frisch, Michael. “Planning as a Heterosexist Project” Journal of Planning Education and Research. 21:254-66 2002.
Boyer, Christine. “Zoning and the Single-Family Home”
Week 6: Planning Racialized Space
Baar, K. 1992. “The national movement to halt the spread of multifamily housing, 1890-1926.” Journal of the American Planning Association 58 (1): 39-48.
Haynes, Bruce. “Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb” in The Suburb Reader.
Thomas, June Manning. 1994. Planning history and the black urban experience: Linkage and contemporary implications. Journal of Planning Education and Research 14 (1): 1-14.
Ritzdorf, Marcia. “Sex, Lies and Urban Life: How Municipal Planning Marginalizes African American Women and their Families” in Gendering the City. Kristine Miranne and Alma H. Young. Eds.
Week 7: Feb 4 Community/Individualism
Perry, Clarence. “The Neighborhood Unit” in The Urban Design Reader, Michael Larice and Elizabeth Macdonals, eds.
Young, Iris Marion. ‘City Life and Difference.’ In Philip P. Kasinitz (ed.) Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times, New York University Press.
Duany, Andres and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. 1993. The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor.
Week 8: March 11 Public Spaces
Walzer, Michael. 1986. “Pleasures and Costs of Urbanity” Dissent, Fall in Metropolis: Center and Symbol of our Times
Solnit, Rebecca. “The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble in Unusual Clothing” Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1998, Number 4
Jeff Weintraub, ‘Varieties and Vicissitudes of Public Space’, in Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times, Philip Kasinitz, Ed., 1995, pp.280-319
Banerjee, Tridib, ‘The Future of Public Space: Beyond Invented Streets and Reinvented Places’, APA Journal, Winter 2001, Vol. 67, No,1, pp.9-24
Ruppert, Evelyn. ‘Rights to public space: Regulatory reconfigurations of liberty’ Urban Geography 27(3): 271-292 2006
Optional:
Meta, Vikas. ‘Look Closely and You Will See, Listen Carefully and You Will Hear: Urban Design and Social Interaction on Streets’ Journal of Urban Design. 2009.
Part II Making Place
Week 9: Feb 11 Waldie
What is suburban living like?
Week 10 What is Urban Design
Sitte
Lynch
Jacobs and Appleyard
Sternberg
Week 11: Feb 25 The Ideology of Design.
Rubin, Barbara. 1979. “Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 69(3): 339-361.
Zukin, Sharon. “Market, Place, and Landscape.” In Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991, pp. 3-23.
Goodsell, Charles T. The Social Meaning of Civic Space: Studying Political Authority Through Architecture. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988
Week 12: Apr 1 New Urbanism
Can we recreate positive, civic cities through new forms?
Congress for New Urbanism, ‘Charter of the New Urbanism’, pp.1-2
Harvey, David. “The New Urbanism and the Communitarian Trap” Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997, Number 1.
Audirac, Ivonne and Anne H. Shermyen, 1994. “An Evaluation of Neotraditional Design’s Social Prescription: Postmodern Placebo or Remedy for Suburban Malaise?” Journal of Planning Education and Research 13: 161-73.
Grant, Jill, ‘Mixed Use in Theory and Practice’, Journal of the American Planning Association, Winter 2002, Vol 68, No. 1, pp.71-84
Nasar, Jack. ‘Does Neotraditional Development Build Community?’ Journal of Planning Education and Research, Autumn 2003, Vol 23, No. 1, pp.58-68.
Week 13: Apr 8 Commercial Landscapes
Crawford, Margaret. “The World in a Shopping Mall” in Variations on a Theme Park. Michael Sorkin. ed. pp. 3-30, 27pp.
Goss, Jon. “The ‘Magic of the Mall’: An Analysis of Form, Function, and Meaning in the Contemporary Retail Built Environment” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 18-47
Staeheli, Lynn and Don Mitchell. USA’s Destiny? 2006 “Regulating Space and Creating Community in American Shopping Malls” Urban Studies 43(5-6):977-992
Week 14: Apr 15 City of Fear
Davis, Mike ‘Fortress LA’ in Variations on a Theme Park. Michael Sorkin, ed.
Day, Kristen, Craig Anderson, Michael Powe, Tracy McMillan and Diane Winn Craig Anderson, Michael Powe, Tracy McMillan and Diane Winn, “Remaking Minnie Street: The Impacts of Urban Revitalization on Crime and Pedestrian Safety”, Journal of Planning Education and Research 26:315-331
Week 15: Apr 22 Rebellion in the City
Betancour, Ana and Peter Hasdell. ‘Tango: A Choreography of Urban Displacement’ in The City Cultures Reader (Second Edition), M. Miles and T. Hall, with I. Bordain eds. pp 277-290.
Torre, Susana. ‘Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo’ in The Sex of Architecture, Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes Weisman eds., pp 241-250.
Borden, Iain. ‘A Performative Critique of the City: The Urban Practice of Skateboarding’ in The City Cultures Reader (Second Edition), M. Miles and T. Hall, with I. Bordain eds. pp 291-298.
Stevens, Quentin and Kim Dovey. ‘Appropriating the Spectacle: Play and Politics in a Leisure Landscape.’ Journal of Urban Design. 9(3):351-365. 2004.
