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examine the city as both a spatial and social entity, historically and in the present. We consider how cities can be places defined by their people and institutions, and how those people and institutions have changed over times. We will look critically at how cities (and their suburbs) can exclude (...

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Introduction to Urban and Community Studies (URBN 2000) Instructor:

Contact me: Mary Donegan, MRP, PhD [email protected] Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 11:15 – 12:05 in Laurel Hall 302 My office hours: W 2:15 to 3:15 & F 1:30 to 2:30, or by appointment My office: Monteith #118 Class meetings:

Book office hours here: marydonegan.youcanbook.me

In this course, you will: examine the city as both a spatial and social entity, historically and in the present. We consider how cities can be places defined by their people and institutions, and how those people and institutions have changed over times. We will look critically at how cities (and their suburbs) can exclude (or include) people and social/economic activities by way of laws, ordinances, and culture/norms. As we proceed through the course, you should come to understand how physical, social, institutional, economic and political structures are related to one another—and are ofen times inseparable.

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Describe and critique different schools of thought on the spatial development of cities Understand the role of government in shaping our communities Develop a deeper understanding of major problems urban areas face Write a report that would inform members of a community about a particular issue Make a formal presentation of research findings to an audience that conveys findings

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Class participation is worth 30% of your grade. THIS INCLUDES almost-weekly submitted questions and occasional in-class worksheets Preliminary group report outline is worth 10% of your grade Final group poster and report (and your ability to answer questions about it) are worth 30% of your grade Final exam is worth 30% of your grade

How to turn work in & see your grades: All work must be turned in via HuskyCT. Grades will be posted to HuskyCT 10 days afer completion.

How you'll be graded: A A B+ B BC+ C CD+ D DF

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Weekly questions/comments: Almost every week I'll ask that you turn in a written question relating to the week's topic. You can ask for clarification on a point you don't understand, how one topic relates to another, what the effect of a policy we talked about was, etc.—basically, whatever it is you find yourself thinking about as you read or sit through class. These will be due the day before discussion days at noon and will be used to guide Friday's discussion period.

What happens if you miss class on a quiz/worksheet day or don't turn in a question/comment* As adults, coming to class prepared and getting your work turned in on time should be a priority. I understand that things happen, though. Late preliminary reports, posters, and final reports must be received within two weeks of the due date to receive any credit, and will be marked down by up to two letter grades. You will receive a zero for missed worksheets, and a zero for missed/late submitted questions.

What to do if you think your grade is wrong: Write me a letter and send it via email. For written assignments, reference the parts of the grading rubric that you believe I incorrectly graded. For quizzes, reference readings or lectures. This is not what office hours are for, at least not at first. If necessary, we can follow up on your email with a meeting, but initial grade change requests must be made in writing.

Need extra credit? Attend a film festival on October 17th in the Dodd Center, featuring short films on sustainable Amsterdam by UConn students, then send me five bullets of things you learned (no longer than half a page) and I will add 2 points to your final grade. * Exceptions will be made for extenuating circumstances such as medical problems, religious holidays, and commitments for university-related activities including but not limited to athletics. If you request an exception, you will need to provide me with the relevant documentation.

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Course materials: All readings are on HuskyCT. In lieu of purchasing a textbook, your group will need to pay to print a poster.

Need help? Have questions about readings, assignments, the major or minor, what kind of a career you could have with an urban studies major, graduate school, etc.?  Great! That's why I have office hours. Book a slot to come and see me!  Can't make my office hours? Let me know. We may be able to arrange another time to meet in person OR we could catch up some other way (e.g., phone, skype).  Feel free to walk back to Monteith with me directly afer this class. I won’t have time to meet with you in my office, but we’ll have the walking time.  I want all of my students to do well. If you need accommodation to do your best work, please contact disability services. Accommodation will never result in a lower grade.

Plagiarism & cheating If you plagiarize your work or you will receive zero credit for it. It's better to take more time and turn an assignment in late than to plagiarize. If I think the plagiarism is accidental, I may allow you to fix the assignment for partial credit—but this will be rare. You will also receive zero credit if I discover you cheated on a quiz or the final. Plagiarism and cheating will be reported. For more information on plagiarism, please see page 13.

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Date Topic Aug. 28 Course overview Aug. 30 In-class activity Sept. 1 What is a city and why do they exist? No Class on Monday, September 4 (Labor Day) Wed. Sept. 6 Historical development of US cities Fri. Sept. 8 Discussion Mon. Sept. 11 Frederick Law Olmsted and city parks Wed. Sept 13 Ebenezer Howard and Garden Cities Fri. Sept. 15 Discussion Mon. Sept. 18 Daniel Burnham and the City Beautiful movement Wed. Sept. 20 Le Corbusier & Frank Lloyd Wright Fri. Sept. 22 Discussion Mon. Sept. 25 "Wicked" problems in modern cities Wed. Sept. 27 Urban renewal and Robert Moses Fri. Sept. 29 Discussion Mon. Oct. 2 Jane Jacobs and reactions to renewal Wed. Oct. 4 Modern transportation and urban sprawl Fri. Oct. 6 Race/POC in the city Mon. Oct. 9 Discussion No Class: Wednesday and Friday, October 11 and 13 Watch the movie The Pruitt-Igoe Myth Mon. Oct. 16 Housing Crisis: Affordability Wed. Oct. 18 Housing Crisis: Gentrification Fri. Oct. 20 Discussion Mon. Oct. 23 Immigration in the city Wed. Oct. 25 Policing the city Fri. Oct. 27 Discussion Mon. Oct. 30 Urban health Wed. Nov. 1 Environmental justice Fri. Nov. 3 Discussion Mon. Nov. 6 Urban design and development Wed. Nov. 8 Sustainable development & Regionalism Fri. Nov. 10 Discussion Mon. Nov. 13 Postwar urban economic development Wed. Nov. 15 Class and gender in American cities Fri. Nov. 17 Discussion No Class, Monday, November 20 through Friday, November 24 (Thanksgiving break) Mon. Nov. 29 TBD Wed. Nov. 29 In class review Fri. Dec. 1 POSTER PREESNTATIONS Mon. Dec. 4 POSTER PREESNTATIONS Wed. Dec. 6 POSTER PREESNTATIONS Fri. Dec. 8 POSTER PREESNTATIONS

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Topic Course overview In-class activity What is a city and why do they exist?

Readings and Assignments Nothing—but show up on the front steps of Monteith ready to sit on the grass! Mumford, L. (2007[1937]). "What is a city?" In, LeGates, R. and Stout, F., (Eds.) The city reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 92-96.

Macionis, J. and Parrillo, V. (2007). "Geography and spatial perspectives: Making sense of space." In, Cities and urban life, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp.185-202 No Class on Monday, September 4 (Labor Day) Historical development Morris, A. E. J. (1994). "Urban USA" In, History of urban form before the of US cities industrial revolutions. New York, NY: Longman Scientific and Technical, pp. 321364 You do not need to read the text on this page, but you do need to do three Discussion things at this website: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plat-of-zion/ (1) Listen to the 99% invisible podcast Plan of Zion (2) Look at the pictures on the site, especially the various grids (3) Watch the two video clips Frederick Law Olmsted Hall, P. (2014). "The City of Dreadful Night.” In, Cities of tomorrow: An and city parks intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 12-48.

Ebenezer Howard and Garden Cities

Olmsted, F.L. (2007[1870]). Public parks and the enlargement of towns. In LeGates, R. and Stout, F., (Eds.) The city reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 321327. Howard, E. (2007[1898/1902]). Authors’ introduction and the town-country magnet. In R. LeGates and F. Stout (Eds.), The city reader. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. pp. 309-316. Mumford, L. (1961). The City in history: Its origins, its transformations, and its prospects. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Excerpt: pp. 514-524 Hall, P. (2014). "The City in the Garden.” In, Cities of tomorrow: An intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishers.

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Wright, M. (March 9, 2017). "How America’s 'first black middle class village' was destroyed to make way for Central Park: Community of African American property owners was flattened to accommodate growing Manhattan population." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4293744/Seneca-Village-destroyedmake-way-Central-Park.html Vox media. (July 19, 2017). The high cost of free parking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akm7ik-H_7U

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Daniel Burnham and the City Beautiful movement

Le Corbusier & Frank Lloyd Wright

Additional reading TBD Hall, P. (2014). "City of Monuments." Cities of tomorrow: An intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishers. Excerpt: pages 189-197. City Beautiful: The 1901 Plan for Washington D.C. Please read the City Beautiful, 1901 Plan, and Washington DC and Beyond tabs. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/CITYBEAUTIFUL/dchome.html Le Corbusier. (2007). A Contemporary city. In R. LeGates and F. Stout (Eds.), The City Reader (pp. 317-324). New York, NY: Routledge. Wright, F. L. (2007). Broadacre City: A New community plan. In R. LeGates and F. Stout (Eds.), The City Reader (pp. 325-330). New York, NY: Routledge.

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Larson, E. (2003). The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. New York: Crown Publishers. Excerpt: pages 373-378. Nevus, J. (Jan 4, 2017). "Is the world ready for Frank Lloyd Wright’s suburban utopia? Inside the architect’s overlooked plan for Broadacre City." https://www.curbed.com/2017/1/4/14154644/frank-lloyd-wright-broadacrecity-history You do not need to read the text on this page, but you do need to do three things at this website: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia-thebeautiful/ Read the text, look at the pictures, and watch the 6:13 minute video of Frank Lloyd Wright here: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia-1/ You DO NOT need to listen to this episode. You do not need to read the text on this page, but you do need to do two things at this website: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia-the-beautiful/ (1) Listen to the 99% invisible podcast Usonia the Beautiful (2) Look at the pictures on the site, especially the site planning map Rittel, H. and Webber, M. (1973). Dilemmas in general theory of planning. Political Science, 4: 155-169.

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"Wicked" problems in modern cities

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Urban renewal and Robert Moses Discussion Jane Jacobs and reactions to renewal

Caro, R. (1974). The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York (pp. 521). New York, NY: Knopf. TBD Jacobs, J. (1961). "Introduction." In, The Death and life of great American cities. New York, NY: Random House. Jacobs, J. (2007). Full sidewalk reading. David Harvey, The Right to the city reading

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Modern transportation and urban sprawl

Cervero, R. (2004). Transit and the metropolis: Finding harmony. In S. Wheeler and T. Beatley (Eds.), The Sustainable Urban Development Reader (pg. 89-96). London, UK: Routledge. Pucher, J., Komanoff, C. and Shimek, P. (2004). Bicycling renaissance in North America. In S. Wheeler and T. Beatley (Eds.), The Sustainable Urban Development Reader (pg. 104-110). London, UK: Routledge.

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Race/POC in the city

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Capitol Region Council of Governments, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at Central Connecticut State University and Regional Plan Association. (2007). How Connecticut Communities Can Take Advantage of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). Conversation between journalist/author Wesley Lowery and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (1:04:51) http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/live_at_politics/2017/08/ibram_x_kend i_discusses_his_book_stamped_from_the_beginning.html Additional readings TBD Powell, M. (2007, May 6). A Tale of two cities. The New York Times, p. 1N. Lopate, P. (2007, February 11). Urban tactics: A town revived, a villain redeemed. The New York Times, section 3N. Applebome, P. (2007, February 25). Our towns: A creaky bridge, too far from the days of a power broker’s rule. The New York Times, p. 23A. Roberts, S. (2006, July 11). Reappraising a landmark bridge, and the visionary behind it. The New York Times, p. 6B. Ouroussoff, N. (2006, April 30). Streetwise: Critic’s notebook; Outgrowing Jane Jacobs. The New York Times, p. 1D. Berger, J. (Aug. 24, 2017). Bridge of grand ambitions is set to open at the Tappan Zee. The New York Times: Kotkin, J. (Aug. 15, 2015). What Jane Jacobs got wrong about cities. The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/what-jane-jacobs-got-wrong-about-cities

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No Class: Wednesday and Friday, October 11 and 13 Watch the movie The Pruitt-Igoe Myth Readings TBD Housing Crisis: North Carolina Housing Coalition. (2009). Ch 1: What is Affordable Housing. In Affordability Affordable Housing Primer. Downloaded January 7, 2015 from: http://www.nchousing.org/research-data/affordable-housingprimer/affordable-housing-primer

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Policing the city Discussion Urban health

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Environmental justice

Additional readings TBD Bates, L.K. (2013) "Gentrification and Displacement Study: Implementing an Equitable Inclusive Development Strategy in the Context of Gentrification." Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 83. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/usp_fac/83 Excerpt: Executive summary and sections 1, 2, and 3. Newman, K. and E. Wyly (2006) “The right to stay put, revisited: gentrification and resistance to displacement in New York City,” Urban Studies 43 (1): 23–57. Readings TBD Lung-Amam, Willow. (2013). That “Monster House” is My Home: The Social and Cultural Politics of Design Reviews and Regulations. Journal of Urban Design 18, 2: 220-241. Additional readings TBD Readings TBD Readings TBD Frumkin, H., Frank, L., and Jackson, R. (2004). Urban sprawl and public health: Designing, planning, and building for healthy communities (pp. 65-89; 123-135). Washington DC: Island Press. Roberts, P., Ravetz, J., and George, C. Environment and the City (pp. 120-155). New York, NY: Routledge. Arnold, Craig A. 2007. “Chapter 2: Environmental Justice and Land Use,” pp. 1129, in Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, Chicago, Planning Advisory Service #549/550: American Planning Association.

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Urban design and development

Clay, G. "Epitome Districts." In Close-Up: How to Read the American City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 38-65. ISBN: 0226109453.

Sustainable development & Regionalism

Davis, M. (1992). Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space. Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space. Michael Sorkin (ed). New York, NY: Noonday. Ye, L., Mandpe, S., and Meyer, P. (2005). What is “Smart Growth?” –Really?, Journal of Planning Literature, 19:3, 301-315.

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Rojas, J. and Wray, L. (2013). “Metropolitan Hartford: Regional challenges and responses.” In, Confronting urban legacy, Chen, X and Bacon, N. eds. Lexington Books: New York, pp. 236-258. 32

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Postwar urban economic development

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Class and gender in American cities

Additional readings TBD Watch William H Whyte video Listen to 99% invisible podcast about exclusionary design Bluestone, Barry and Harrison, Bennett “The deindustrialization of America : plant closings, community abandonment, and the dismantling of basic industry” Chapter 4. Sassen-Koob, Saskia. 1989. "New York City's Informal Economy." In: The Informal Economy, Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries. Edited by Alejandro Portes et. al. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 60-77. (Chapter 3) Iceland, J. (2006). Poverty in America (pp. 38-69). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Nicolaides, B. M. and A. Wiese (2006). Chapter 2: Family and Gender in the Making of Surburbia. In Nicolaides, B and Wiese, A (Eds.d). The Suburb Reader (pp. 45-68). New York, NY: Routledge.

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Foran, Clare. (2013, September 16). How to Design a City for Women: A fascinating experiment in "gender mainstreaming." Citylab. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2013/09/how-design-citywomen/6739/ Rao, Ankita. (2017, May 1...