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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: Thur 3:00-4:30
Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in
Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography ---- Spring 2010
[email protected]) Class Meeting: Wed 9
4:30 Office: JAC 103 (793-7291)
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9-11:50 / G104
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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.
Class Meetings
We meet every Wednesday at 9am, and our seminar will last until
11:50am. As such, we will intersperse our discussions with one or
two breaks.
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.
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- Class participation (25%): 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 (15%): 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.
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 and Discussion
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 – Place
Week Seven – Nature of Cities
Week Eight – Spring Break
Week Nine – Neoclassical
Week Ten – Behavioural
Week Eleven – Structural
Week Twelve – Postmodern
Week Thirteen – No class [reading week: the ‘post’ question]
Week Fourteen – Cultural
Week Fifteen – Theory at work: Gentrification
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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
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You should also explore Emile Durkheim’s views on society and
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Contemporary Approaches to the Urban Question
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Chicago School and its Legacy
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• Frazier, E. 1937. Negro Harlem: an ecological study. American
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• Young, I.M. 1989. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of
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• Putnam, Robert. 1993. The prosperous community: Social capital
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• Bauder, H. 2002. Neighbourhood effects and cultural exclusion,
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• Lyon, L. 1989. The concept of community. In The community in
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The Urban System/Globalization and Global Cities
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• Castells, M. 1999. Grassrooting the Space of Flows. In:
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P
Recommended Further Reading
Urban System
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P
• Hoch, I. 1972. Income and City Size, Urban Studies, 9(3),
299-328
A good overview of globalization processes
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of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 551, 17-27
P
International Cities, Globalization, and Development
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• 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:
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• Mitlin, D. 2001. Civil society and urban poverty - examining
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• Mitlin, D. and Satterthwaite, B. 2004. Introduction. In D.
Mitlin and D. Satterthwaite, eds., Empowering Squatter Citizen:
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Localities/Politics of Place
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Environment and Planning A 23, 267-281 P
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• 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
• Coaffee, J. and Healey, P.(2003) ‘My Voice: My Place’:
Tracking Transformations in Urban Governance, Urban Studies,
40(10), 1979-1999 P
• Cox, K. and Mair, A. 1988. Locality and community in the
politics of local economic development. Annals of the Association
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• Cox, K. 2001. Territoriality, politics, and the ‘urban’.
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• Castells, M. 1983. The city and the grass roots: a
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Recommended Further Reading
• Massey, D. 1979. In what sense a regional problem? Regional
Studies 13:233-243 P
• Davidson, M. 2008. Displacement, Space and Dwelling: Placing
Gentrification Debate, Ethics, Place and Environment, 12(2), 219-34
P
• 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
• 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): 143-156
P
• Elden, S. 2004. Between Marx and Heidegger: Politics,
Philosophy and Lefebvre’s The Production of Space, Antipode, 36(1)
86-105 P
The Nature of Cities
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.,
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(AAG), 57(4), Dec 1967, pp. 810-5 P
Nice historical overview of land rent issues…
Vance, J. 1971. Land Assignment in the Precapitalist,
Capitalist, and Postcapitalist City, Economic Geography, 47(2)
101-120 P
Harris and Ullman
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• 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
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Social Area Analysis and Factorial Ecology
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P
Recent defense of factorial ecology…
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Recommended Further Reading
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illustrative applications and computational procedures. Stanford,
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Neoclassical: Accessibility and Land Rent
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• Folbre, N. 1991. The unproductive housewife: her evolution in
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• England, P. 1993. The separative self: androcentric bias in
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New accessibilities???
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Recommended Further Reading
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geography: an interpretive review of the homo economicus
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• Pratt, G. and Hanson, S. 1993. Women and work across the life
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Behavioral
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B
• Downs, R. 1970. The cognitive structure of an urban shopping
center, Environment and Behavior, 2, 13-39
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Institutional
• Gray, F. 1975. Non-Explanation in Urban Geography. Area, 7,
228-32 P
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• Hirsch, A. 1983. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in
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• Jackson, K. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier. Oxford and New York:
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Recommended Further Reading
Behavioural
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• Ley, D. 1974. The Black inner city as frontier outpost: Images
and behavior of a Philadelphia neighborhood. Washington DC:
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Institutional
• 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
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Structural
• 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…
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• 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,
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• Preteceille, E. 1973. Urban Planning: The Contradictions of
Capitalist Urbanisation, Antipode, 5(1), 69-76 P
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:
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• 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
Postmodern, Post-structural, and Cultural Studies
The Postmodern City
• Harvey, D. 1989. The condition of postmodernity: an inquiry
into the origins of cultural change. New York: Blackwell. Ch 4, pp.
66-98 & Part II, pp. 119-197 B
• Harvey, D. 1990. Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization
Reflections on "Post-Modernism" in the American City, Perspecta,
26, 251-272 P
• Massey, D. 1991. Flexible sexism. Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space 9:31-57 P
• Knox, P. 1991. The restless urban landscape: economic and
sociocultural change and the transformation of metropolitan
Washington, D.C. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
81(2): 181-209 P
• Watson, S and Gibson, K. 1995. Postmodern spaces: Cities,
politics. In Postmodern cities and spaces, eds. S. Watson and K.
Gibson. New York: Blackwell. B
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• Mabin, A. 1995. On the problems and prospects of overcoming
segregation and fragmentation in southern Africa’s cities in the
postmodern era. In Postmodern cities and spaces, eds. S. Watson and
K. Gibson. New York: Blackwell B
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 Fincher, R.
and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford Press: Guilford.
pp. 301-316 B
• Storper, M. 2001. The Poverty of Radical Theory Today: from
the false promises of Marxism to the mirage1 of the cultural turn,
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25(1),
155-179 P
• Massey, D. 1997. Space/power, identity/difference: tensions in
the city. In A. Merrifield and E. Swyngedouw, eds., The
Urbanization of Injustice. New York: New York University Press.
B
• 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, 50-72 P
Cultural Studies/Difference
• 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
• 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
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• Wacquant, L. 1997. Three pernicious premises in the study of
the American ghetto. International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research 21:341-354 P
• Kobayashi, A. and Peake, L. 2000. Racism out of place:
Thoughts on racism and an antiracist geography in the new
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Recommended Further Reading
• Bondi, L. 1992. Gender symbols and urban landscapes. Progress
in Human Geography 16:157-170 L
• Fincher, R. and Iveson, K. 2008. Planning for Diversity:
Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter. Palgrave Macmillan:
London. L
• Massey, D. and Denton, D. 1993. American Apartheid:
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA and
London: Harvard University Press. L
• Jackson, P. 1994. Constructions of criminality. Antipode,
26:216-235 P
• Bondi, L. and Rose, D. 2003. Constructing gender, constructing
the urban: a review of Anglo-American feminist urban geography.
Gender, Place, and Culture. 10:229-245 P
• Nagar, R. and Leitner, H. 1998. Contesting social relations in
communal places: identity politics among Asian communities in Dar
es Salaam. In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference.
Guilford Press: Guilford, pp. 226-251 (ch 10) B
• Dowling, R. 1998. “Suburban stories, gendered lives: Thinking
through difference.” In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of
Difference. Guilford Press: Guilford, pp. 69-88 (ch 4) B
• Knopp, L. 1998. “Sexuality and urban space: Gay male identity
politics in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.”
In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford
Press: Guilford, pp. 149-176 (ch 7) B
Gentrification
• Rose, D. 1984. Rethinking gentrification: beyond the uneven
development of Marxist urban theory. Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space 2:47-74 P
• Bondi, L. 1991. Gender divisions and gentrification: a
critique. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
16:190-198 P
• Bridge, G. 1995. The space for class? On class analysis in the
study of gentrification. Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers 20:236-247P
• Hackworth, J. and N. Smith. 2001. The changing state of
gentrification. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
4:464-477 P
• Ley, D. 1986. Alternative explanations for inner-city
gentrification. Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
76, 521–535 P
• Smith, N. 1982. Gentrification and Uneven Development,
Economic Geography, 58(2), 139-155 P
• Smith, N. 2002. New globalism, new urbanism: Gentrification as
global urban strategy. Antipode 34:427-450 P
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• Redfern, P. 1997. A new look at gentrification 1:
Gentrification and domestic technologies, Environment and Planning
A, 29, 1275-1296 P
• Slater, T. 2006. The Eviction of Critical Perspectives from
Gentrification Research, International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research, 30(4), 737-757 P