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Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in
Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography
Prof. Mark Davidson ([email protected]
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
[email protected]) 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,
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Intellectual context Durkheim, E. 1893. The Division of Labor in
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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.
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35(5): 898-918 Marxian Harvey, D. 1978. The urban process under
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Marxism, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(3),
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Association of American Geographers 70:207-225 P Postmodern Amin,
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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:
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urban walking, Social and
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Chicago School and its Legacy Monday, February 13, 2012
From Chicago and alike… Burgess, E. 1923. The growth of the
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City Environment,
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urban ghetto. International Journal of Urban and Regional
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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
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Borchert, J. 1967. American metropolitan evolution. Geographical
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Sassen, S. 1996. Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation
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Meyer, D. 1983. Emergence of the American manufacturing belt: an
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1& 4) P Hoch, I. 1972. Income and City Size, Urban Studies,
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Urban Geography 25(8): 709-723 P Mitlin, D. 2001. Civil society
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Urbanization, 13(2),
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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
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Public Administration,
69(3), 281–302 Cox, K. 2001. Territoriality, politics, and the
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New Urban Politics to the ‘New’ Metropolitan Politics, Urban
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2671 Cox, K. and Jonas, A. 1993. Urban development, collective
consumption and the politics of metropolitan
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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,
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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,
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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
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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.
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156 P Massey, D. 1979. In what sense a regional problem?
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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
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2,269-285 P Sinclair, R. 1967. Von Thunen and urban sprawl.
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Economic theorists… Veblen, T. 1898. Why is Economics Not an
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Production. Land, Labour, Capital and
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Sciences, 242, 7-17 P Lake, R.1997. Chauncy Harris and Edward
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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. P Philosophical roots…
Comte, A. 1856. A general view of positivism, chapter 1 Horkheimer,
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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
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6:149-159 P England, P. 1993. The separative self: androcentric
bias in neoclassical assumptions. In Beyond economic man:
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Folbre, N. 1991. The unproductive housewife: her evolution in
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Hanson S. and Pratt, G. 1988. Reconceptualizing the links
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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
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Santiago de Chile, International Journal of Urban and Regional
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Ground Rent: Building a New Conceptual Framework Muth, R.1961 The
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New accessibilities??? Graham, S. and Marvin, S. 2001.
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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.
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38, 4, p.623-633 P Krugman, P. 1991. Increasing Returns and
Economic Geography, The Journal of Political Economy, 99, 3,
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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
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Pratt, G. and Hanson, S. 1993. Women and work across the life
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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
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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
DC: Association of American Geographers. B
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:
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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
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Structural Monday, April 09, 2012 Castells, M. 1977. The Urban
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NJ: Barnes & Noble Books. L Lefebvre, H. 1996.Writings on
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Postmodern, Post-structural, and Cultural Studies Monday, April
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The Postmodern City Florida, R. 2002. The Economic Geography of
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P Post-modern and post-structuralist perspectives: emerging
cultural studies Dear, M. 1991. The Premature Demise of Postmodern
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The Poverty of Radical Theory Today: from the false promises of
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the cultural turn, International Journal of Urban and Regional
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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
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Institute of British Geographers, 34(1), 42-60 Bissell, D. 2010
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Further Reading Bondi, L. 1992. Gender symbols and urban
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1984. Rethinking gentrification: beyond the uneven development of
Marxist urban theory.
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L. 1991. Gender divisions and gentrification: a critique.
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Institute
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Bologna.
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Geografie 4:464-477 P Hamnett, C. 1991. The blind men and the
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Institute
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the Institute of British
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explanations for inner-city gentrification. Annals of the
Association of American
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