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Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography

Prof. Mark Davidson (mdavidson@clarku.edu

Office Hours: Weds 9:00-11:00

Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography ---- Spring 2012

mdavidson@clarku.edu) Class Meeting: Mon 2:50

11:00 Office: JAC 103 (793-7291)

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Purpose and scope

This seminar explores some of the fundamental paradigms and developments in urban theory. Roughly structured along temporal lines, the seminar progresses to examine how theoretical imports and formulations have continually shaped the questions and concerns of urban geography. We will therefore discuss how theoretical movements such as positivism and postmodernism have shaped geographical thinking and, consequently, impacted upon how geographers have thought about cities and urban development.

The main objectives of the course are therefore (i) to understand how various theoretical perspectives have shaped the study of cities and (ii) develop a critical and comparative understanding of different approaches to urban questions. As such, during our discussions we will be required to be aware of, and examine, how different ontological and epistemological positions intertwine within urban theor(ies).

Delivery

The seminar will take the form of a reading group, where each of the students will select a reading which they would like to introduce and discuss with the group. For selected readings, students should identify themes and/or issues that arise from their study. For example, the methodological basis of a set of theories may be raised and discussed or, alternatively, the positionality of a set of theorists – e.g. the LA School – might be a theme raised in the seminar. We will aim to give approximately 30 minutes to each selected reading, however productive discussions will be given preference over strict timekeeping.

Importantly, the seminar is designed as a forum to discuss and explore the issues raised in the readings. Whilst you will be knowledgeable about many aspects of urban theory, it is simply impossible to have a precise working understanding of each. Our emphasis is therefore upon shared and co-operative explorations, using the advantages of a group seminar to examine the readings from each of our own perspectives.

As with all seminar groups, you will get out what you put in; preparing is key. You should carefully read all of the selected readings and have an understanding of their theoretical foundations.

Assessment

The course uses a variety of assessment methods. These are:

- Reading preparation (20%): At the end of each seminar, you will be asked to provide (i) a short summary (200 words) of each assigned reading and (ii) a list of questions/discussion topics for your particular assigned reading. This submission can be annotated during the seminar discussion, but it should demonstrate evidence of your preparation, comprehension of the readings and intellectual engagement.

- Class participation (20%): In-class discussions are pivotal to the learning outcomes of this course. It is intended to both introduce you the subject matter and begin your intellectual engagement. As such, discussing the readings during class is a learning priority. You will be graded on your participation, listening and engagement with others.

- Reaction paper (20%): You will be required to write a short (2000 words) reaction paper midway through the course. You will be asked to respond to a statement. This statement will relate to one aspect of the first part of the course.

- Final paper (40%): In the latter half of the semester, you will be required to write an extend paper (4000 words) that debates/discusses various aspects of the urban geography literature. This paper will give you the opportunity to explore elements of the course that have particularly interested you.

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Access to readings and books

Most of the assigned readings are available on the course webpage in pdf format. Where it is not possible to put the readings online, they will be distributed in hardcopy during the classes. Some of the supplementary and recommended reading materials will not be made available in pdf, however they are available in the library.

Topics

Week One – Introduction

Week Two – The Urban Question

Week Three – Contemporary Urban Question(s)

Week Four – The Chicago School and its Legacies

Week Five – Urban Systems

Week Six – No class (AAG)

Week Seven – No class (spring break)

Week Eight – Place

Week Nine – Nature of cities

Week Ten – Neoclassical

Week Eleven – Behavioral

Week Twelve – Structural

Week Thirteen – Postmodern

Week Fourteen – Cultural

Week Fifteen – Theory at work: Gentrification

Website

The syllabus, grades, readings, and other assignments will be posted on the course website (Cicada: https://cicada.clarku.edu), and/or distributed in hardcopy.

Honor Code

Clark University’s policies of academic integrity apply to every aspect of this course. Please see www.clarku.edu/offices/aac/integrity.cfm if you have any questions about what this entails.

Special Needs

Persons with disabilities or in need of special accommodations to meet the expectations of this course and take full advantage of learning opportunities are encouraged to contact the office of Disability Services as soon as possible to request such accommodations. Disability Services is located in the Academic Advising Center, 142 Woodland Street, second floor, 508-793-7468. In addition, it would be helpful to bring this to the instructor’s attention as early as possible.

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The Urban Question Monday, January 30, 2012

Classics Mumford, L. 1995. The culture of cities. In Kasinitz, P. ed. Metropolis: Center and symbol for our times. New York:

New York University Press. P Mumford, L. 1996[1937]. What is a City, In: LeGates, R. and Stout, F. eds. The City Reader. London:

Routledge, 183-188 P Tonnies, F. 1955[1887]. Community and Society (Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft). London: Dover Publications P Simmel, G. 1995[1903]. The metropolis and mental life. In: Kasinitz, P. ed. 1995. Metropolis: Center and symbol for our

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Simmel, G. 1950[1908] The Stranger, In: Wolff, K. (Trans.) The Sociology of Georg Simmel. New York: Free Press, 402-408. P

Wirth, L. 1938. Urbanism as a way of life. American Journal of Sociology 44, 1-24 P On Wirth: Guterman, S. 1969. In defense of Wirth’s “Urbanism as a way of life.” American Journal of

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Intellectual context Durkheim, E. 1893. The Division of Labor in Society 11-67 P Durkheim, E. 1957. Professional Ethics and Civic Morals 1-41 P Kropotkin, P. 1902. Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution 84-118 P Kropotkin, P. 1913. Fields, factories and workshops: or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual

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Commentaries Pope, W. and Johnson, B. 1983. Inside Organic Solidarity, American Sociological Review, 48(5), 681-692 P Adair-Toteff, C. 1995. Ferdinand Tonnies: Utopian Visionary, Sociological Theory, 13(1), 58-65 P

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Contemporary Approaches to the Urban Question Monday, February 06, 2012 Sassen, S. 2010. The city: Its return as a lens for social theory, City, Culture and Society, 1, 3-11 Assemblage Amin, A. 2007. Rethinking the urban social, City, 11(1), 100-114 Brenner, N., Madden, D. and Wachsmuth, D. 2011. Assemblage Urbanism and the Challenges of Critical

Urban Theory, City, 15(2), 225-240 P McFarlane, C. 2011. Assemblage and critical urbanism, City, 15(2): 204-224 Graham, S. and Marvin, S. (2001) Splintering Urbanism. New York: Routledge Ecology Braun, B. 2005. Environmental issues: writing a more-than-human urban geography, Progress in Human

Geography, 29, 635-650 P Gandy, M. (2004) ‘Rethinking urban metabolism: water, space and the modern city’, City 8(3), pp. 363–379. Swyngedouw, E. and N. Heynen, 2003. Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale. Antipode,

35(5): 898-918 Marxian Harvey, D. 1978. The urban process under capitalism: A framework for analysis. International Journal of Urban

and Regional Research 2:101-131 P Merrifield, A. 2009. Magical Marxism, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(3), 381-386 Soja, E. 1980. The sociospatial dialectic. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 70:207-225 P Postmodern Amin, A. and Thrift, N. 2002. Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Polity, London. 1-26 P Dear, M. and Flusty, S. 1998. Postmodern urbanism. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88, 50-72.

P Latham, A. and McCormarck, D. 2009. Thinking with images in non-representational cities: vignettes from

Berlin, Area, 41(3), 252-262 P Thrift, N. 2008. Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect. Routledge: London, 1-55 Mobilities Bissell, D. 2010 Passenger mobilities: affective atmospheres and the sociality of public transport, Environment

and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(2), 270-289 Middleton, J. 2010. Sense and the city: exploring the embodied geographies of urban walking, Social and

Cultural Geography, 11(6), 575-596 Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2006. The New Mobilities Paradigm, Environment and Planning A, 38, 207-226 P Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2000. The City and the Car, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24(4),

737-757 Post-colonial Robinson, J. 2006. Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development. (London: Routledge) Roy, A. 2009. The 21st Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory. Regional Studies 43, 819-830

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Chicago School and its Legacy Monday, February 13, 2012

From Chicago and alike… Burgess, E. 1923. The growth of the city: an introduction to a research project. Publications of the American

Sociological Society, 18, 86-97. Clements, F. 1916. Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation. Carnegie Institute of Washington

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287-355 Frazier, E. 1937. Negro Harlem: an ecological study. American Journal of Sociology 43:72-88 Hawley, A.H. 1943. Ecology and Human Ecology, Social Forces 22: 398-405 Park, R. 1915. The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment,

American Journal of Sociology, 20(5), 577-612 Park, R. 1936. Human ecology. American Journal of Sociology 42: 349. Zorbaugh, H. 1929. The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago’s Near North Side. Chicago:

University of Chicago, 159-181

After Chicago… Bauder, H. 2002. Neighbourhood effects and cultural exclusion, Urban Studies, 39(1), 85-93 Putnam, R. 1993. The prosperous community: Social capital and public life. The American Prospect 13, 35-42. Vasishth, A. and Sloane, D. 2002. Returning to ecology: an ecosystem approach to understanding the city. In:

Dear, M. ed., From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. pp. 343-366 P

Young, I.M. 1989. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship, Ethics, 99(2), 250-274

Recommended Further Reading Fernandez-Kelly, P. 1994. Towanda’s triumph: Social and cultural capital in the transition to adulthood in the

urban ghetto. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 18:88-111 Lyon, L. 1989. The concept of community. In The community in urban society, ed. L. Lyon. Toronto: Lexington

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Urban Research, eds. J. Garber and R.Turner. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage. Sampson, R. 2008. “After School” Chicago: Space and the City, Urban Geography, 29(2), 127-137 Joseph, M. 2002. Against the Romance of Community. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Wacquant, L. 1998. Negative social capital: State breakdown and social destitution in America's urban core,

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The Urban System/Globalization and Global Cities Monday, February 20, 2012

Amin, A. 2002. Spatialities of Globalisation, Environment and Planning A, 34, 385-399 P

Beaverstock, J., Smith, R. and Taylor, P. 2000. World-City Network: A New Meta-geography? Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(1), 123-34 P

Borchert, J. 1967. American metropolitan evolution. Geographical Review 57, 301-332. P Brenner, N. and Theodore, N. 2002. Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism.”

Antipode 34(3): 349-379. P Castells, M. 1999. Grassrooting the Space of Flows. In: Wheeler, J., Aoyama, Y. and Warf, B. eds. Cities in the

telecommunications age: the fracturing of geographies. Routledge: London. B Knox, P. 1997. Globalization and urban economic change. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Science, 551, 17-27 P Olds, K. 1995. Globalization and the production of new urban spaces: Pacific Rim megaprojects in the late

20th century, Environment and Planning A, 27(11), 1713-44 L Sassen, S. 1996. Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims, Public Culture, 8, 205-223

P Globalization theorists Bauman, Z. (1998) Globalization : the human consequences (Columbia University Press: New York) 1-26,

55-76 Beck, U. (2000) What is globalization? (Polity Press: Cambridge) 17-63, 115-128 Recommended Further Reading Urban System Meyer, D. 1983. Emergence of the American manufacturing belt: an interpretation. Journal of Historical

Geography 9:165-174. P Krugman, P. 1992. Geography and Trade. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1-33 B Pred, A. 1966. The spatial dynamics of U.S. urban industrial growth, 1800-1914: interpretive and theoretical essays.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (pp 1-85) L Scott, A. 1988. Metropolis. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp. 1-8; 44-60 (Chapters

1& 4) P Hoch, I. 1972. Income and City Size, Urban Studies, 9(3), 299-328 International Cities, Globalization, and Development Hamnett, C (1994) Social polarisation in global cities: theory and evidence, Urban Studies, 31, 401-424 P Nijman, J. 2000. The Paradigmatic City, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(1), 135-145 P Robinson, J. 2004. In the tracks of comparative urbanism: difference, urban modernity, and the primitive.

Urban Geography 25(8): 709-723 P Mitlin, D. 2001. Civil society and urban poverty - examining complexity, Environment & Urbanization, 13(2),

151-173 P Mitlin, D. and Satterthwaite, B. 2004. Introduction. In D. Mitlin and D. Satterthwaite, eds., Empowering

Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan. pp. 1-21. P

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Localities/Politics of Place Monday, March 12, 2012 Castells, M. 1983. The city and the grass roots: a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements, 291-336 (Ch. 28,

conclusion). Berkeley: University of California Press. P Coaffee, J. and Healey, P. 2003. ‘My Voice: My Place’: Tracking Transformations in Urban Governance,

Urban Studies, 40(10), 1979-1999 P Cochrane, A. 1991. The changing state of local government: restructuring for the 1990s, Public Administration,

69(3), 281–302 Cox, K. 2001. Territoriality, politics, and the ‘urban’. Political Geography. 20: 745-762. P Cox, K. 2011. From the New Urban Politics to the ‘New’ Metropolitan Politics, Urban Studies, 48(12), 2661-

2671 Cox, K. and Jonas, A. 1993. Urban development, collective consumption and the politics of metropolitan

fragmentation, Political Geography, 12(1), 8-37 Cox, K. and Mair, A. 1988. Locality and community in the politics of local economic development. Annals of

the Association of American Geographers. 78 (2): 307-325 P Goldsmith, M. 1995. ‘Autonomy and City Limits’, in Judge, D, Stoker, G. & Wolman, H. (eds) Theories of

Urban Politics (London: Sage) 228-252 Jonas, A. and Gibbs, D. 2011. The New Urban Politics as a Politics of Carbon Control, Urban Studies, 48(12),

2537-2554 Jonas, A., While, A. and Gibbs, D. 2010. Managing Infrastructural and Service Demands in New Economic

Spaces: The New Territorial Politics of Collective Provision, Regional Studies, 44(2), 183-200 Logan, J.R. and Molotch, H. 1987. Urban fortunes: the political economy of place. (Berkeley, CA: University of

California Press) Chapters 1, 3 and 5 Massey, D. 1991. The political place of locality studies. Environment and Planning A 23, 267-281 P Molotch, H. 1976. The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place, The American Journal

of Sociology, 82(2), 309-332. P Ward K. 2000. A critique in search of a corpus: Re-visiting governance and re-interpreting urban politics,

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 25(2), 169-185 Recommended Further Reading Cox, K. and Mair, A. 1989. Levels of abstraction in locality studies. Antipode 21:121-132. P Cooke, P. 1989. Locality theory and the poverty of spatial variation. Antipode 21:261-273, P Elden, S. 2004. Between Marx and Heidegger: Politics, Philosophy and Lefebvre’s The Production of Space,

Antipode, 36(1) 86-105 P Fainstein, N. and S. Fainstein. 1985. Urban restructuring and the rise of urban social movements. Urban

Affairs Quarterly 21:187-206 P Martin, D. and Miller, B. 2003. Space and Contentious Politics. Mobilization: An International Journal 8(2): 143-

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The Nature of Cities Monday, March 19, 2012 Von Thunen Beckmann, M. 1972. Von Thünen Revisited: A Neoclassical Land Use Model, The Scandinavian Journal of

Economics, 74, 1-7 P Burghardt, A. 1971. A Hypothesis about Gateway Cities, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 61,

2,269-285 P Sinclair, R. 1967. Von Thunen and urban sprawl. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 57, 72-87 P

[Replies: Peet, J.R., "The Present Pertinence of Von Thuenen Theory; Horvath, R.J., "Von Thuenen and Urban sprawl"; Sinclair, "Comment in Reply" Annals (AAG), 57(4), Dec 1967, pp. 810-5 P

Vance, J. 1971. Land Assignment in the Precapitalist, Capitalist, and Postcapitalist City, Economic Geography, 47(2) 101-120 P

Economic theorists… Veblen, T. 1898. Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 12, Marshall, A. 1920. Principles of Economics. Book IV: The Agents of Production. Land, Labour, Capital and

Organization Harris and Ullman Harris, C. and Ullman, E. 1945. The Nature of Cities. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Sciences, 242, 7-17 P Lake, R.1997. Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman “The Nature of Cities”: A fiftieth year commemoration.

Urban Geography, 18(1), 1-3 P Agnew, J. 1997. Commemoration and criticism: Fifty years after the publication of Harris and Ullman’s “The

Nature of Cities”. Urban Geography. 18(1):4-6 P Lichtenberger, E. 1997. Harris and Ullman’s “The Nature of Cities”: The paper’s historical context and its

impact on future research. Urban Geography. 18(1):7-14. Social Area Analysis and Factorial Ecology Berry, B. and Rees, P., 1969. "The factorial ecology of Calcutta", American Journal of Sociology, 74, 447-491 P Hunter, A. 1972. Factorial Ecology: A Critique and Some Suggestions, Demography, 1, 9, 107-117 P Spielman, S. and Thill, J.P. 2008. Social area analysis, data mining, and GIS, Computers, Environment and Urban

Systems, 32, 2, 110-122 P Gu, C., Wang, F. and Liu, G. 2005. The Structure of Social Space in Beijing in 1998: A Socialist City in

Transition, Urban Geography, 26, 2, 167-192 P Johnston, R. 1971. Some Limitations of Factorial Ecologies and Social Area Analysis, Economic Geography, 43,

314-323 P Bell, W. 1958. The utility of the Shevky typology for the design of urban sub-area field studies. Journal of Social

Psychology 47, 73-83. Berry, B. 1971. Introduction: the logic and limitations of comparative factorial ecology. Economic Geography 47,

207-219. P Shevky, E. and Bell, W. 1955. Social area analysis: theory, illustrative applications and computational procedures.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. P Philosophical roots… Comte, A. 1856. A general view of positivism, chapter 1 Horkheimer, M. 1947. Eclipse of Reason, Chapter Two: Conflicting Panaceas, 58-91 Popper, K. 1935. The Logic of Scientific Discovery 3-35 Recent defense of factorial ecology… Wyly, E. 2009. Strategic Positivism, Professional Geographer, 61(3), 310-322 P

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Neoclassical: Accessibility and Land Rent Monday, March 26, 2012 Ahfeldt, G. 2010. If Alonso was right: Modeling accessibility and explaining the residential land gradient,

Journal of Regional Science, 51(2), 318-338 Alonso, W. 1960. A theory of the urban land market. Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association

6:149-159 P England, P. 1993. The separative self: androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions. In Beyond economic man:

Feminist theory and economics, eds. M. A. Ferber and J. A. Nelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press B

Folbre, N. 1991. The unproductive housewife: her evolution in nineteenth century economic thought. Signs 16: 463-484 P

Hanson S. and Pratt, G. 1988. Reconceptualizing the links between home and work. Economic Geography 64, 299-321, P

Harvey, D. and Chatterjee, L. (1974) Absolute Rent and the Structuring of Space By Governmental and Financial Institutions, Antipode

Lopez-Morales, E. 2011. Gentrification by Ground Rent Dispossession: The Shadows Cast by Large-Scale Urban Renewal in Santiago de Chile, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(2), 330-357

Marx, K. Capital: Volume III: Part VII. Revenues and their Sources, Chapter 48. The Trinity Formula Walker, R. (1974) Urban Ground Rent: Building a New Conceptual Framework Muth, R.1961 The spatial structure of the housing market. Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association.

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New accessibilities??? Graham, S. and Marvin, S. 2001. Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. Routledge, London. L Recommended Further Reading Barnes, T. 1988. Rationality and relativism in economic geography: an interpretive review of the homo

economicus assumption, Progress in Human Geography, 12, 4, 473-496 L Barnes, T and Sheppard, E. 1992. Is there a place for the rational actor? A geographic critique of the rational

choice paradigm. Economic Geography 12:473-496 P Kloosterman, R. and Musterd, S. The Polycentric Urban Region: Towards a Research Agenda, Urban Studies,

38, 4, p.623-633 P Krugman, P. 1991. Increasing Returns and Economic Geography, The Journal of Political Economy, 99, 3, 483-

499 P Nelson, J. A. 1993. The study of choice or the study of provisioning? Gender and the definition of

economics. In Beyond economic man: Feminist theory and economics, eds. M. A. Ferber and J. A. Nelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. B

Pratt, G. and Hanson, S. 1993. Women and work across the life course: moving beyond essentialism. In Full circles: Geographies of women over the life course, eds. C. Katz and J. Monk. New York: Routledge. B

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Behavioral and Institutional Monday, April 02, 2012

Behavioral Buttimer, A. 1976. Grasping the Dynamism of Life World. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 66,

277-92 Lynch, K. 1960. The Image of the City. MIT Press, Cambridge B Downs, R. 1970. The cognitive structure of an urban shopping center, Environment and Behavior, 2, 13-39 Golledge R. 1981. Misconceptions, misinterpretations, and misrepresentations of behavioral approaches in

human geography, Environment and Planning A, 13(11) 1325-1344 L Kitchen, R. 1994. Cognitive maps: What are they and why study them? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14, 1,

1-19 P Kwan, M. 1999. Gender and Individual Access to Urban Opportunities: A Study Using Space–Time

Measures. Professional Geographer 51: 211-227 P Ley, D. 1977. Social Geography and the Taken-for-Granted World, Transactions of the Institute of British

Geographers, 2(4), 498-512 P Philosophical underpinnings… Smith, A.D. 2003. Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations. London: Routledge. 1-59 P Merleau-Ponty, M. 1945. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge, 3-76 P Philosophizing on place… Casey, E. 1998. The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press) 202-242,

285-330 Heidegger, M. 1951. Building, Dwelling, Thinking Malpas, J. 2007. Heidegger’s Topology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) 1-38 Tuan, Y. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) 3-50 Further reading

Cox, K. and Golledge, R. eds. 1981. Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited. London: Methuen L Ley, D. 1974. The Black inner city as frontier outpost: Images and behavior of a Philadelphia neighborhood. Washington

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Institutional Boddy, M. 1976. The structure of mortgage finance: building societies and the British social formation',

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, N.S. I, 58-71 P Clark, W. 1986. Residential segregation in American cities: a review and interpretation. Population Research and

Policy Review 5: 95-127 P De Souza Briggs, X. 1999. In the Wake of Desegregation: Early Impacts of Scattered-Site Public Housing on

Neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York, Journal of the American Planning Association, 65(1), 27-49 De Souza Briggs, X. 2006. After Katrina: Rebuilding Places and Lives, City and Community, 5(2), 119-128 Farrell, C. 2008. Bifurcation, Fragmentation or Integration? The Racial and Geographical Structure of US

Metropolitan Segregation, 1990-2000, Urban Studies, 45(3), 467-499 Galster, G. 2007. Neighborhood Social Mix as a Goal of Housing Policy: A Theoretical Analysis, European

Journal of Housing Policy, 7 (1), 19-43 Gray, F. 1975. Non-Explanation in Urban Geography. Area, 7, 228-32 P Hirsch, A. 1983. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. Cambridge, UK and New

York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-39; 100-134; 212-275 (Chs 1, 4, 7, Epilogue) B

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Jackson, K. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 190-230 (Chapter 11: Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market) L

Musterd, S. and Deurloo, R. 2002. Unstable Immigrant Concentrations in Amsterdam: Spatial Segregation and Integration of Newcomers, Housing Studies, 17(3), 487-503

Wyly, E. et al. 2007. Subprime Mortgage Segmentation in the American Urban System, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 99(1) 3–23 P

Recommended Further Reading Jackson, K. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 190-230 (Chapter

12: The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States) L Wilson, W. 1987. “Social change and social dislocations in the inner city,” and “The hidden agenda,” in The

Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 20-62, 140-164 L

Yinger, J. 1995. Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. 31-61 L

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Structural Monday, April 09, 2012 Castells, M. 1977. The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 1-72, 115-

128; 234-242 B Pred, A. 1984. Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming

Places. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 74(2): 279-97 P Harvey, D. 1989. From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in

Late Capitalism, Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, 71(1), 3-17 P Nice collection of structural discussions… Boddy, M. 1973. Urban Political Economy: Introduction, Antipode, 5(1), 1-2 P Lee, R. 1973. Public Finance and Urban Economy: Some Comments on Spatial Reformism, Antipode, 5(1),

44-50 P Pickvance, C. 1973. Housing, Reproduction of Capital, and the Reproduction of Labour Power: Some recent

French Work, Antipode, 5(1), 58-68 P Preteceille, E. 1973. Urban Planning: The Contradictions of Capitalist Urbanisation, Antipode, 5(1), 69-76 P Theoretical context… Althusser, L. 1969. For Marx. London: Allen Lane. 219-248 Lefebvre, H. 2003. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press Kolakowski, L. 1971. Althusser’s Marx, Socialist Register, 111-28 The Production of Space: Shifting Structural Perspectives Lefebvre, H. 1991[1974] The Production of Space. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Chapter. 1 pp. 1-67, read closely

pp. 31-59 P Merrifield, A. 1993. Place and space: a Lefebvrian reconciliation. Transactions of the British Institute of Geography,

N.S. 18: 516-531 P Robinson, J. 1997. The geopolitics of South African cities: States, citizens, territory, Political Geography, 16(5),

365-386 P Recommended Further Reading Pred, A. 1986. Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformation in Southern Sweden, 1750-1850. Totowa,

NJ: Barnes & Noble Books. L Lefebvre, H. 1996.Writings on Cities. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. pp. 209-215 P Robinson, J. 2005. The Urban Basis of Emancipation: spatial theory and the city in South African politics. In

The Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and Possibilities, ed. L. Lees. London and New Delhi: Sage Publications. B

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Postmodern, Post-structural, and Cultural Studies Monday, April 16, 2012

The Postmodern City Florida, R. 2002. The Economic Geography of Talent. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92, 743-

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Watson and K. Gibson. New York: Blackwell. B Philosophical underpinnings… Anderson, P. 1998. The Origins of Postmodernity. London: Verso. P Lyotard, J.F. 1979. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

P Post-modern and post-structuralist perspectives: emerging cultural studies Dear, M. 1991. The Premature Demise of Postmodern Urbanism, Cultural Anthropology, 6(4), 538-552 P Gibson, K. 1998. Social polarization and the politics of difference: discourses in collision or collusion? In

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Institute of British Geographers, 35, 334-349 Storper, M. 2001. The Poverty of Radical Theory Today: from the false promises of Marxism to the mirage of

the cultural turn, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25(1), 155-179 P Wyly, E. 1999. Continuity and change in the restless urban landscape. Economic Geography 75:309-339. P Recommended Further Reading Anderson, K. 1987. The idea of Chinatown: The power of place and institutional practice in the making of a

racial category. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77(4):580-598 P Hoelscher, S. 2003. Making place, making race: performances of whiteness in the Jim Crow South. Annals of

the Association of American Geographers 93(3): 657-686 P Dear, M. and Flusty, S. 1998. Postmodern Urbanism, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88, 1, 50-

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Cultural Studies/Difference Monday, April 23, 2012 Urban cultural geographies… Jacobs, J and Fincher, R. 1998. “Introduction.” In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford

Press: Guilford, pp. 1-25 (Chapter 1) B Kobayashi, A. and Peake, L. 2000. Racism out of place: Thoughts on racism and an antiracist geography in

the new millenium. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90:392-403 P Pratt, G. 1998. “Grids of difference: place and identity formation.” In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of

Difference. Guilford Press: Guilford, pp. 26-48 (Chapter 2) B Pratt, G. and Hanson, S. 1994. Geography and the construction of difference. Gender, Place, and Culture 1:5-29

P Pratt, G. 1999. From registered nurse to registered nanny: Discursive geographies of Filipina domestic

workers in Vancouver, BC. Economic Geography. 75:215-237 P Valentine, G. 2008. Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter, Progress in Human

Geography, 32(3), 323-337 P Wacquant, L. 1997. Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto. International Journal of

Urban and Regional Research 21:341-354 P Non-representational geographies… Bissell, D. 2009 Visualising everyday geographies: practices of vision through travel-time, Transactions of the

Institute of British Geographers, 34(1), 42-60 Bissell, D. 2010 Vibrating materialities: mobility-body-technology relations, Area, 42(4), 479-486 Lorimer, H. 2005. Cultural geography: the busyness of being ‘more-than-representational’, Progress in Human

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Theory at work: Gentrification Monday, April 30, 2012 Rose, D. 1984. Rethinking gentrification: beyond the uneven development of Marxist urban theory.

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