11.201
Gateway: Urban Studies and Planning 2
Builds on 11.200 by exploring in more detail contemporary planning tools and techniques, as well as case studies of planning and urban studies practice.
Fall 2010 · Gateway to the Profession of Planning
Topics
- What is the scope of planning
- American exceptionalism in planning
- Marsh’s position
- Group meeting
- Regions: The economics and politics of territory
- Against regionalism
- Facilitated session
- The dangers of planning
- Alumni panel: Planners of color in the profession
- For development planning
- Against development planning
- Technology: Modeling transportation and land use
- Immigration
- For comprehensive planning
- Against comprehensive planning
- Postindustrial Cities
- Advocacy and radical planning
- The role of dissent in planning
- Bottom up planning
- Top down planning
- Capitalism
- Globalization and planning
- Addressing income inequality
- Process: Consensus building
- Just processes vs. just outcomes
- Outcomes
- New urbanism
- Measurement/expert knowledge/professionalism
- Storytelling/local knowledge
- Alumni panel: How should you be thinking about the next three semesters?
- e-Governance
- Education of city planners: Reflective practitioner, specialist, generalist
Readings
- There is no required textbook for this course.
- Flint, Anthony. “The Lower Manhattan Expressway.” In Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City . Random House, 2009, pp. 141-178. ISBN: 9781400066742.
- Fainstein, Susan S., and Scott Campbell. “Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory.” In Readings in Planning Theory . Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 9780631223474.
- Olmstead, F. L., Jr. “Introductory Address on City Planning. “In Proceedings of the National Conference on City Planning and the Problems of Congestion , 1912. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1912, pp. 15-32.
- Olmstead, F. L., Jr. “The Scope and Results of City Planning in Europe.” In City Planning: Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, on the Subject of City Planning , 1909, pp. 63-70. 61st Cong., 2d sess., S. Doc. 422. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- Vicinus, Martha. “They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong”: The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity. In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader . Edited by Henry Abelove et. al. Routledge, 1993, chapter 29, pp. 432-451. ISBN: 9780415905190.
- Jones, Mother (Mary). “Girl Slaves of the Milwaukee Breweries.” In Feminist Theory: A Reader. McGraw-Hill, 2010, pp. 114-116. ISBN: 9780073512266.
- Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States . Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010, chapter 13. ISBN: 9780061965586.
- Spain, Daphne. How Women Saved the City . University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Chapter 1: Voluntary Vernacular and Chapter 8: How Women Saved the City. ISBN: 9780816635320.
- Marsh, B. C. “Causes of Congestion of Population.” In Proceedings of the National Conference on City Planning and the Problems of Congestion . Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1912, pp. 35-39.
- Friedmann, John, and Clyde Weaver. “Regionalism in America.” In Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning , Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979, pp. 19-86. ISBN: 9780713161502.
- Johnson, David A. “The Emergence of a Planning Tradition.” In Planning the Great Metropolis: The 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs . Routledge, 1995, pp. 26-47. ISBN: 9780419190103.
- Isard, Walter, and Thomas A. Reiner. “Regional Science: Retrospect and Prospect.” Papers of the Regional Science Association 16, no. 1 (1966): 1-16.
- Pastor, Manuel, Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka. This Could Be the Start of Something Big : How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Reshaping Metropolitan America . Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780801474620.
- Fishman, Robert. “The Metropolitan Tradition in American Planning.” The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy . Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780943875965.
- Mumford, L. “The Plan of New York.” New Republic , LXXI (June 22, 1932): 121-126 & 146-54.
- Perloff, Harvey S. “Key Features of Regional Planning.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 34, no. 3 (1968): 153.
- Sandercock, Leonie, ed. Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780520207356.
- Hirschman, Albert O. “Interregional and International Transmission of Economic Growth.” In The Strategy of Economic Development . WW Norton & Co, 1980, pp. 183-201. ISBN: 9780393009002.
- Hall, Peter Geoffrey. “The City in the Region.” In Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century . Oxford, UK: Blackwell Pub, 2002, pp. 142-187. ISBN: 9780631232520.
- Rohatyn, Felix G. “The Interstate Highway System.” In Bold Endeavors . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009, pp. 199-219. ISBN: 9781416533122.
- Keynes, John Maynard. “Concluding Notes.” In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money . Martino Fine Books, 2011. ISBN: 9781891396687.
- Ward, Stephen V. “War, Reconstruction and Depression I: The Major Traditions.” In Planning the Twentieth-Century City: The Advanced Capitalist World . Academy Press, 2002, pp. 81-126. ISBN: 9780471490982.
- Jackson, Kenneth T. “The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States.” In Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States . New York: Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 219-230. ISBN: 9780195049831.
- Skocpol, Theda, and Margaret Weir. “State Structures and the Possibilities for “Keynesian” Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States.” In Bringing the State Back In . Edited by Peter B Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpo. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 107-168. ISBN: 9780521313131.
- Tugwell, R. G. “The Fourth Power.” In Tugwell’s Thoughts on Planning . Edited by Salvador Padilla. Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico Press, 1975, pp. 149-186.
- Amsden, Alice H. “The State and Taiwan’s Economic Development.” Bringing the State Back In . Edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpo. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780521313131.
- Myhra, David. “Rexford Guy Tugwell: Initiator of America’s Greenbelt New Towns, 1935-36.” In The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections . Edited by Donald A. Krueckeberg. Center for Urban Policy Research, 1994, pp. 225-249. ISBN: 9780882851488.
- Hall, Peter A. “Conclusion: The Politics of Keynesian Ideas.” In The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism Across Nations . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989, pp. 361-391. ISBN: 9780691023021.
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von. The Road to Serfdom . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, chapters 4 and 9. ISBN: 9780226320557.
- Berlin, Isaiah. “The Pursuit of the Ideal.” In The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Idea . Edited by Henry Hardy. Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 1‐21. ISBN: 9780691058382.
- Escobar, Arturo. “Planning.” In The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power . Edited by Wolfgang Sachs. London: Zed Books, 2010, pp. 132-45. ISBN: 9781848133808.
- Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader . Edited by Henry Abelove, et al. Routledge, 1993, chapter 1, pp. 3-44. ISBN: 9780415905190.
- Ritzdorf, Marsha. “Sex, Lies and Urban Life: How Municipal Planning Marginalizes African American Women and Their Families.” In Gendering the City . Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2000. ISBN: 9780847694518.
- Berlin, Isaiah. “Two Concepts of Liberty.” In Four Essays on Liberty . London: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 118-145. ISBN: 9780192810342.
- Von Mises, Ludwig. “The Failure of Interventionism”, and Chapter 2: “The Dictatorial, Anti—Democratic and Socialist Character of Interventionism.” In Planned Chaos . Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009. ISBN: 9781933550602.
- Yiftachel, Oren. “Introduction.” In The Power of Planning: Spaces of Control and Transformation . Springer, 2002. ISBN: 9781402005336.
- Sanyal, Bishwapriya. “From the Benevolent to the Evil State: History of the Rise of the Anti-Government Sentiment in Developmental Discourse.” In Cooperative Autonomy: The Dialectic of State—NGO Relationship in Developing Countries . International Labor Studies, 1994, pp. 3-32.
- Hirschman, Albert O. “The Rise and Decline of Development Economics.” In Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond . Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 1-24. ISBN: 9780521282437.
- Krugman, Paul R. “The Fall and Rise of Development Economics.” In Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert O. Hirschman . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin, and Donald A. Schön. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994, pp. 39-58. ISBN: 9780815775522.
- Lee, R., and J. Willis. Introduction to Geographies of Economies . 1997.
- Myrdal, Gunnar. “Chapter 15: The Spread and Impact of the Ideology of Planning.” In Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations . Kalyani Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 9788127218645.
- ———. An American Dilemma . Transaction Publishers, 1995. ISBN: 9781560008569.
- Lewis, W. Arthur. “Development Economics in the 1950s.” In Pioneers in Development . Edited by P. T. Bauer, Gerald M. Meier, and Dudley Seers. New York: Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 119-137.
- Myrdal, Gunnar. “International Inequality and Foreign Aid in Retrospect.” In Pioneers in Development . Edited by P. T. Bauer, Gerald M. Meier, and Dudley Seers. New York: Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 149-165.
- Myint, Hla. “Comment.” In Pioneers in Development . Edited by P. T. Bauer, Gerald M. Meier, and Dudley Seers. New York: Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press, 1984.
- Gerschenkron, Alexander. “Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective.” In Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective, a Book of Essays . Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. ISBN: 9780674226005.
- Wekerle, Gerda. “Domesticating the Neoliberal City: Invisible Genders and the Politics of Place.” In Women and the Politics of Place . Kumarian Press, 2005, pp. 886-88 and 96-99. ISBN: 9781565492073.
- Seers, Dudley. “The Meaning of Development.” IDS Communication , no. 44. 1969.
- Escobar, Arturo. “The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development.” In Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 21-54. ISBN: 9780691001029.
- Killick, Tony. A Reaction Too Far: Economic Theory and the Role of the State in Developing Countries . London: Overseas Development Institute, 1989. ISBN: 9780850031478.
- Galbraith, John Kenneth. “The Equilibrium of Poverty, and Accommodation.” In The Nature of Mass Poverty . Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1979, pp. 44-75. ISBN: 9781583484197.
- Hydén, Göran. “No Shortcuts to Progress.” In No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983, pp. 191-215. ISBN: 9780520050938.
- Bates, Robert H. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780520244931.
- Agarwala, Ramgopal. “Problems of Planning.” In Planning in Developing Countries: Lessons of Experience . Washington, DC: U.S.A: World Bank, 1983, pp. 11-22.
- Toye, J. F. J. “The Counter—Revolution Arrives: Lal, Little and Balassa.” In Dilemmas of Development: Reflections on the Counter—Revolution in Development Theory and Policy , Oxford, [Oxfordshire], UK: Blackwell, 1987, pp. 71-94. ISBN: 9780631145961.
- Hall, Peter Geoffrey. “The City of the Highway.” In Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century . Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, pp. 273-318. ISBN: 9780631232520.
- Pickles, J., and S. Didunyk. Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems . Guilford Press New York, 1995. ISBN: 9780898622959.
- 15 · Lecture series; Kent Wong on immigration · Wong, Kent, and Ruth Milkman. “Si, Se Puede”: Union Organizing Strategies and Immigrant Workers. In L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement . Edited by Ruth Milkman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006, pp. 145-186. ISBN: 9780871546357.
- Kent, T. J. Selections. In The Urban General Plan . American Planning Association, 1990, pp. 1-26, and 90-105. ISBN: 9780918286734.
- Sanyal, Bishwapriya. “Planning’s Three Challenges.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges, 1950-2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin, and Bishwapriya Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2000, pp. 312-333. ISBN: 9780882851655.
- Faludi, Andreas. “The Rational Comprehensive Versus the Disjointed Incrementalist Mode of Planning.” In Planning Theory . Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1973, pp. 150-170. ISBN: 9780080177564.
- Braybrooke, David, and Charles Edward Lindblom. “Part One.” In A Strategy of Decision; Policy Evaluation as a Social Process . New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1963, pp. 1-58. ISBN: 9780029046104.
- Friedmann, John. “A Response to Altshuler: Comprehensive Planning As a Process.” Journal of the American Planning Association 31, no. 3 (1965): 195-197.
- Altshuler, Alan A. “Alternative Perspectives.” In The City Planning Process; a Political Analysis . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1965, pp. 430-51.
- Alexander, Ernest R. Approaches to Planning: Introducing Current Planning Theories, Concepts, and Issues . 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 9782881245145.
- ———. Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780691022680.
- Altshuler, Alan A. “Alternative Perspectives.” In The City Planning Process: A Political Analysis . Cornell University Press, 1965, pp. 430-51.
- Alexander, Ernest R. Approaches to Planning: Introducing Current Planning Theories, Concepts, and Issues . CRC Press, 1992. ISBN: 9782881245145.
- ———. Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action . Princeton University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780691022680.
- Freire, Paulo. Preface and chapter 1 in Pedagogy of the Oppressed . Continuum, 2000, pp. 19-56. ISBN: 9780826412768.
- King, Mel. Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development . South End Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780896081055.
- Alinsky, Saul. “The Purpose, and the Genesis of Tatic Proxy.” In Rules for Radicals a Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals . Vintage, 1989, pp. 3-23, and 165-183. ISBN: 9780679721130.
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. Speech at Dandi. Dandi, India. April 5, 1930. Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi . Obscure Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781443740203.
- Peñalver, Eduardo Moisés, and Sonia K. Katyal. In Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership . Yale University Press, 2010, Chapters 8 and 9, pp. 125-168. ISBN: 9780300122954.
- Ferrell, Jeff. “A Jagged Line Down the Middle of the Street.” In Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy . Palgrave, 2001, pp. 1-35. ISBN: 9781403960337
- Obama, Barack. “Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City.” c: Community Organizing in Illinois . Edited by Peg Knoepfle. Illinois Issues, 1990, pp. 35-40. ISBN: 9780962087332.
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen . W.W. Norton, 2010. ISBN: 9780393071627.
- Tarrow, Sidney G. “Introduction.” In Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics . Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 1-28. ISBN: 9780521198905.
- Sunstein, Cass R. Chapter 2, chapter 9, and conclusion. Why Societies Need Dissent . Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780674017689.
- Jacobs, Jane. “Introduction.” The Death and Life of Great American Cities . Modern Library, 1993, pp. 1-25. ISBN: 9780679600473.
- Frieden, Bernard J. “City Planning Since Jane Jacobs.” The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges. The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges, 1950-2000 . Edited by Lloyd Rodwin, and Bishwapriya Sanyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2000, pp. 237-244. ISBN: 9780882851655.
- Shirky, Clay. “It Takes a Village to Find a Phone” and “Epilogue.” Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations . Penguin Press, 2008, pp. 1-24, and 293-304. ISBN: 9780143114949.
- Lukes, Steven. “Power: A Radical View.” Power: A Radical View . Palgrave Macmilan, 2004, pp. 14-59. ISBN: 9780333420928.
- Karasov, Deborah. “Urban Counter Images: Community Activism Meets Public Art.” In Imaging the City: Continuing Struggles and New Directions . Edited by Lawrence J. Vale, and Sam Bass Warner. Center for Urban Policy Research, 2001, pp. 331-360. ISBN: 9780882851693.
- Peattie, Lisa Redfield. Planning, Rethinking Ciudad Guayana . University of Michigan Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780472080694.
- Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York . Vintage, 1975. ISBN: 9780394720241.
- Flint, Anthony. “The Lower Manhattan Expressway.” Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City . Random House, 2011. ISBN: 9780812981360.
- “Women Displaced: Democracy, Development and Identity in India.” A dialogue with Smitu Kothari. In Women and the Politics of Place . Edited by Wendy Harcourt, and Arturo Escobar. Kumarian Press, 2005. ISBN: 9781565492073.
- Altshuler, Alan A., and Institute of Land Policy. “Four Political Eras.” Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Brookings Institution Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780815701293.
- Hall, Peter Geoffrey. “From Metropolis to Polyopolis.” The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe . Earthscan, 2009. ISBN: 9781844077472.
- Salet, Willem, and Andreas Faludi. “Three Approaches to Strategic Spatial Planning.” The Revival of Strategic Spatial Planning. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000, pp. 1-10.
- Barnett, Jonathan. “The Fractured Metropolis.” The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region . Westview Press, 1006, pp. 1-13. ISBN: 9780064302227.
- “An Interview with Peter Marcuse.” Critical Planning 15 (Summer 2008): 179-191. University of California at Los Angeles.
- Marcuse, Peter. “From Justice Planning to Commons Planning.” Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice . Edited by James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid Olivo, Cuz Potter, and Justin Steil. Routledge, 2009, pp. 99-102. ISBN: 9780415776134.
- ———. “Changing Times, Changing Planning: Critical Planning Today.” Progressive Planning 182 (2010): 13-16.
- Katznelson, Ira. “Social Justice, Liberalism and the City: Considerations on David Harvey, John Rawls and Karl Polanyi.” The Urbanization of Injustice . Edited by Andy Merrifeild, and E. Swyngedouw. New York University Press, 1997, pp. 45-64. ISBN: 9780814755754.
- Altshuler, Alan, and Marc Zegans. “Innovations and Creativity: Comparisons Between Public Management and Private Enterprise.” Cities 7, no. 1 (1990): 16-24.
- Frieden, Bernard J. “Center City Transformed Planners as Developers.” Journal of the American Planning Association 56 no. 4 (1990): 423.
- Brenner, Neil. “‘Glocalization’ as a State Spatial Strategy: Urban Entrepreneurialism and the New Politics of Uneven Development in Western Europe.” Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives . Edited by Jamie Peck, and Henry Yeung. Sage, 2003, pp. 197-215. ISBN: 9780761948971.
- Al-Shejni, Lamis A. M. “Politics of Place in Multilevel Games: Are Arab Women Acting or Reacting?” Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History . Edited by Leonie Sandercock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780520207356.
- Susskind, Lawrence, and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank. Chapter 2 and appendix A in Breaking Robert’s Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results . Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780195308365.
- Flyvbjerg, Bent. “Power Has a Rationality That Rationality Does Not Know.” Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice . University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 225-36. ISBN: 9780226254517.
- Martinotti, Guido. “A City for Whom? Transients and Public Life in the Second-Generation Metropolis.” The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late-20th-Century City . Edited by A. Beauregard, and Sophie Body-Gendrot. Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 155-184. ISBN: 9780761914846.
- Fainstein, Susan S. The Just City . Cornell University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780801446559.
- Nozick, Robert. “Utopian Means and Ends.” In Anarchy, State, and Utopia . Basic Books, 1974, pp. 326-334. ISBN: 9780465097203.
- Marcuse, Herbert, Robert Paul Wolff, and Barrington Moore, Jr. “Repressive Tolerance.” A Critique of Pure Tolerance .” Beacon Press, 1997, pp. 95-137. ISBN: 9780807015599.
- Sen, Amartya. “Institutions and Persons.” The Idea of Justice . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, pp. 75-113. ISBN: 9780674036130.
- Walzer, Michael. Preface, early part of chapter 1 in Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality . Basic Books, 1984. ISBN: 9780465081899.
- Cisneros, Henry, and Lora Engdahl. Chapter 4 in From Despair to Hope: HOPE VI and the New Promise of Public Housing in America’s Cities . Brookings Institution Press, 2009, pp. 48-63. ISBN: 9780815714255.
- Sorkin, Michael. “The End(s) of Urban Design.” Urban Design . Edited by Alex Krieger, and William S. Saunders. University of Minnesota Press, 2009, pp. 155-182. ISBN: 9780816656394.
- Nobles, Melissa. “Race, Census and Citizenship.” In Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics . Stanford University Press, 2000, pp. 1-25. ISBN: 9780804740593.
- Gilbert, Melissa. “Identity Differences and the Geographies of Working Poor Women’s Survival Strategies.” In Gendering the City . Edited by K. B. Miranne, and A. Y. Young. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000. ISBN: 9780847694518.
- Farber, D., P. Loh, and J. Jennings. “Solving Environmental Injustices in Massachusetts: Forging Greater Community Participation in the Planning Process.” Projections 3 (2002): 107-131.
- Noveck, Beth Simone. Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful . Brookings Institution Press, 2010, chapter 1, pp. 3-24. ISBN: 9780815705109.
- Smillie, Ian. “The Failure to Learn from Failure.” In Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, Aid and Technology . Practical Action, 2000, pp. 3-68. ISBN: 9781853395079.
- Perloff, Harvey S. “Education of City Planners: Past and Present.” The Art of Planning: Selected Essays of Harvey S. Perloff . Edited by Leland Smith Burns, and John Friedmann. Springer, 1985, pp. 261-98. ISBN: 9780306420306.
- Fischler, Raphael. “Reflective Practice.” In History of Planning Ideas . Edited by Sanyal, Vale, and Rosan. Forthcoming.
- Schön, Donald A. “The Loss of the Stable State.” In Beyond the Stable State . W. W. Norton, 1973, pp. 9-30. ISBN: 9780393006858.
- ———. “Implications for the Professions and Their Place in Society.” The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action . Basic Books, 1984. ISBN: 9780465068784.
- ———. “Town Planning: Limits to Reflection-in-Action.” The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action . Basic Books, 1984. ISBN: 9780465068784.
- Fainstein, Susan, and Lisa Sevron. “The Intersection of Gender and Planning.” Gender and Planning: A Reader . Rutgers University Press, 2005, pp. 1-30. ISBN: 9780813534992.
Fall 2007 · Gateway: Planning Action
Topics
- Unit A. Course introduction, role and dilemmas of planning, learning from theory and context (cases)
- Case retrospective and “questions for reflective planners” (what’s the use of theory?)
- Unit B. Decision case and team briefings
- Case discussion, including guests
- Case prep
- Unit C. Planning history and theory: Planning as social reform through expert design
- Planning as social reform through expert design (cont.)
- Planning as interest-group politics
- Planning as interest-group politics and citizen participation
- Planning as facilitation
- Planning as facilitation (cont.)
- Planning styles in conflict
- Unit D. Planning ethics
- Planning ethics (cont.)
- Multi-level planning: Means and ends
- Multi-level planning: Means and ends (cont.)
- Planning and cultural diversity
- Planning and cultural diversity (cont.)
- Participatory planning revisited
- Participating the grassroots and “grasstops”: Planning and civic capacity
- Participating the grassroots and “grasstops”: Planning and civic capacity (cont.)
- The planned city, 21st century style
- Rethinking New Orleans recovery planning
- Planning together debrief
- Final class
Fall 2005 · Gateway: Planning Action
Topics
- Course Overview, What is Planning, Learning from Theory and from Context (Cases)
- Part One: Required Workshop on Professional Communication
- Major Planning Traditions and Global Influences
- From Traditions to Dilemmas
- Part Two: Required Workshop on Professional Communication
- Case Introduction: Expert vs. Indigenous Knowledge; Power and Limits of Physical Design; Planning in Diverse Contexts (Race and Class)
- Review Session - Same Classroom, Remaining Reviews
- Case Discussion (cont.)
- Student Briefings
- Review Session
- Revisiting Planning Theory and Action
- Case Introduction: Planning from Above vs. Planning from Below (Social Mobilization); Planning in a Global/Transnational Age; Planning Politics
- Required Film on Narmada: Multiple Screenings
- Case Introduction: Comprehensiveness vs. Incrementalism; The City as Growth Machine; Power and Limits of Physical Design
- Negotiation and Facilitation: Stakeholder Analyses, Conflict and Consensus, Interested Parties vs. Neutrals
- Out-of-class Negotiation Exercise, In Assigned Groups
- Debrief Negotiation Exercise
- Cities of Tomorrow, your Role and your Education
- Course Review
Readings
- [PPD] Friedmann, John. Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0691022682.
- Fisher, Roger, and William Ury. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Penguin, 1991. ISBN: 0395631246.
- Case: “Rebuilding Los Angeles: A Public-private-nonprofit partnership.” VHS. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kennedy School of Government Case Program, 1999.
- Required Readings
- Campbell, Scott, and Susan Fainstein. “Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory.” In Readings in Planning Theory . Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 1-2. ISBN: 0631223479.
- Klosterman. “Arguments for and against planning.” In Readings in Planning Theory . Edited by Scott Campbell and Susan Fainstein. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 86-101. ISBN: 0631223479.
- Myers, Dowell, and Tridib Banerjee. “Longer view: Toward greater heights for planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association 71, no. 2 (2005): 121-129.
- SES #: W1 · TOPICS: Part One: Required Workshop on Professional Communication · READINGS: Zelazny, Gene. “From Data to Charts.” In Say It With Charts . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996. ISBN: 078630894X.
- Meyerson, Martin, and Edward Banfield. “Note on conceptual scheme.” Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest . New York, NY: Free Press, 1964, pp. 303-329.
- Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom . New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1999, preface, pp. 3-11. ISBN: 0385720270.
- Recommended Readings
- Brooks, David. “Katrina’s Silver Lining.” The New York Times , op-ed, September 8, 2005.
- Davidoff, Paul. “Advocacy and pluralism in planning.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 31 (1965): 544-555.
- Altshuler, Alan. “The City Planning Process: A Political Analysis.” Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1965, pp. 299-304, 311-332.
- Lindblom, Charles E. “The science of muddling through.” Public Administration Review 19 (1959): 79-88.
- Wildavsky, Aaron. “If planning is everything, maybe it is nothing.” Policy Sciences 4 (1973): 127-153.
- “The Shaming of America.” The Economist , September 10, 2005.
- Marcuse, Peter. “Interpreting ‘Public Housing’ History.” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 12, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 240-258.
- Vale, Lawrence J. “Introduction,” and “Reclaiming Housing, Recovering Communities.” In Reclaiming Public Housing . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 1-36, 362-411. ISBN: 0674008987. (Additional chapters from this book provide useful background for completing both the group and individual assignments.)
- PPD. “Planning as Social Reform.” Chapter 3, pp. 87-136.
- Scott, James C. “Authoritarian high modernism.” In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 87-102, 376-381. ISBN: 0300070160.
- Fishman, Robert. “Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier.” In Urban Utopias of the Twentieth Century . New York, NY: Basic Books, 1977, pp. 3-20, 23-51, 64-75, and 226-234. ISBN: 046508933X.
- Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities . New York, NY: Vintage, 1961, introductory chapter. ISBN: 0679600477.
- PPD. “Planning as social learning.” Chapter 5, pp. 181-187, 216-223.
- Fung, Archon. Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0691115354.
- Khagram, Sanjeev. Dams and development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005, chapter 3. ISBN: 0801489075.
- Kothari, Smitu. “Damming the Narmada and the Politics of Development.” In Toward Sustainable Development? Struggling over India’s Narmada River . Edited by William Fisher. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995, pp. 421-444. ISBN: 1563245256.
- Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. “The Violence of Development.” The Washington Post , August 8, 2001.
- SES #: S1 · TOPICS: Required Film on Narmada: Multiple Screenings · READINGS: Drowned out: We Can’t Wish Them Away . DVD. Directed by Franny Armstrong. Camden, England: Spanner Films, Ltd., 2002.
- Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. “Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization: The Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada valley struggle.” Working Paper, Center for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, May 2004.
- Sethi, Harsh. “Survival and Democracy: Ecological Struggles in India.” In New Social Movements in the South . Edited by Ponna Wignaraja. London, UK: Zed Books, 1993, pp. 122-148. ISBN: 1856491080.
- Khagram, Sanjeev. Dams and development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005, chapter 4. ISBN: 0801489075.
- Fisher, William, ed. Toward Sustainable Development? Struggling over India’s Narmada River . Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. ISBN: 1563245256.
- Jayal, Niraja Gopal. Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India . New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Baviskar, Amita. In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts Over Development in the Narmada Valley . New Delhi, India; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapters 2, 8. ISBN: 0521016711.
- Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom . New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1999, pp. 3-53. ISBN: 0385720270.
- PPD. “Planning as social mobilization.” Chapter 6, pp. 225-250, 257-308.
- Katz, Bruce, and Andy Altman. “An Urban Renaissance in a Suburban Nation.” Ford Foundation Report (Spring/summer 2005): 32-33.
- Bernstein, Fred. “Revitalizing the banks of Washington’s ‘Forgotten River.’” The New York Times , March 27, 2005.
- Logan, John, and Harvey Molotch. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place . Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1987, pp. 1-4, 50-85. ISBN: 0520063414.
- Hedgpeth. “Altman’s Departure has Developers Sighing.” The Washington Post , October 10, 2005.
- Gillette, Howard. Between Justice and Beauty . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, chapter 8, pp. 2-3. ISBN: 080185069X.
- Gillette, Howard. Between Justice and Beauty . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, chapter 3. ISBN: 080185069X.
- Williams, Brett. “A River Runs Through Us.” American Anthropologist 103, no. 2 (June 2001): 409-431.
- Fuller, Steven. “The Employment Sectors of Washington, DC.” Center for Regional Analysis, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Washington, DC, 2004.
- Lengel, Allan. “From Blight to Beautification.” The Washington Post , May 26, 2005.
- Summit Fund of Washington. “Building Support for Restoring the Anacostia River.” December, 2004.
- Ginsberg, Steven. “DC Shifts Light-Rail Plan from Waterfront to Streets in S.E.” The Washington Post , Metro, B02, April 28, 2005.
- Layton, Lyndsey. “D.C. to Study 2.7-Mile Light-Rail Line in Anacostia; Experimental Spur Could Lead to 33-Mile Citywide System.” The Washington Post , Metro, B01, July 4, 2003.
- “Anacostia Corridor Demonstration Project: Executive Summary of the General Plans and Environmental Assessment for the Anacostia Demonstration Project.” District of Columbia Department of Transportation and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, September 2003. (PDF)
- Ruben, Barbara. “A New Appreciation for Living in the City.” The Washington Post , DC Extra, T52, April 21, 2005.
- Fuller, Steven. “The Economic Outlook for the Washington Area and the District of Columbia.” Center for Regional Analysis Forecast Report, Washington, DC, October 2004.
- Holzer, Harry. What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers . New York, NY: Russel-Sage Foundation, 1996, pp. 1-6, 126-135. ISBN: 0871543915.
- Turner, Margery, and Mark Rubin. “Geography of Low-Skilled Work and Workers.” The Urban Institute, Washington, DC, February 1, 1998.
- Rubin, Mark, and Davis Kim. “Retail Challenges in Washington, DC: An Analysis of Six Retail Categories.” The Urban Institute, Washington, DC, June 2001.
- Krumholz, Norman. “Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development.” Policy Studies Journal 27, no. 1 (1999): 83-95.
- Holcomb, Briavel. “Place Marketing: Using Media to Promote Cities.” Chapter 2 in Imaging the City . Edited by Lawrence Vale and Sam Bass Warner, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2001, pp. 34-40, 53-54. ISBN: 0882851705.
- Arnstein, Sherry R. “A Ladder of Citizen Participation.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 35, no. 4 (1969): 216-224.
- Healey, P. “The communicative turn in planning theory and its implications for spatial strategy formation.” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 23 (1996): 217-234.
- Susskind, Lawrence, and Jeffrey Cruikshank. Breaking the Impasse . New York, NY: Basic Books, 1987, pp. 3-15. ISBN: 0465007503.
- Lewicki, Saunders, and Minton, eds. “Conflict.” In Essentials of Negotiation . Chicago, IL: Irwin, 1997, pp. 15-24. ISBN: 0072545828.
- Fisher, Roger, and William Ury. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Penguin, 1991, introduction and chapters 1-4. ISBN: 0395631246.
- Thompson, Leigh L. “Creativity and Problem Solving in Negotiation.” Chapter 8 in The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2004. ISBN: 0131407384.
- Required Preparation
- Moore, Christopher. “Circle of Conflict.” In The Mediation Process . San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996, pp. 60-61. ISBN: 0787902489.
- Tannen, Deborah. “The power of talk: Who gets heard and why.” In Negotiation . Edited by Lewicki, Saunders, and Minton. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 1999, pp. 160-173. ISBN: 025621591X.
- Fisher, R., and W. Davis. “Six Basic Interpersonal Skills for a Negotiator’s Repertoire.” In Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, and Cases . Edited by R. J. Lewicki, D. M. Saunders, and J. W. Minton. Boston, MA: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1999. ISBN: 025621591X.
- Sandercock, Leonie. “When strangers become neighbors: Managing cities of difference.” Planning Theory and Practice 1, no. 1 (2000): 13-30.
- Briggs, Xavier de Souza. “Civilization in Color: The Multi-cultural City in Three Millennia.” City and Community 3, no. 4 (2004): 311-342.
- Sandercock, Leonie. “Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century.” Journal of the American Planning Association 70, no. 2 (March 2004): 133-141.
- Campbell, and Fainstein. “Debates define theory: Five questions of planning theory.” Readings in Planning Theory . Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 5-13. ISBN: 0631223479.
- Lucy, William H. “APA’s Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories.” Journal of the American Planning Assn 54, no. 2 (1988): 147-149.
- Friedmann, John. Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0691022682.
Fall 2002 · Gateway: Planning Action
This class introduces first semester MCP students to the persistent themes and challenges facing planners. The goals of this class are: * to excite students about their chosen profession; * to offer a theoretical framework for thinking about the kinds of interventions that planners are expected to take; * to introduce students to some of the most interesting and challenging theoretical debates in the planning field; and * to press students to think about the best way of using their time to ensure their own personal professional development.
Readings
- Webber and Rittel. “Dilemmas in a general theory of planning.” Policy Sciences 4, no.2 (1973): pp. 155-169.
- Gans. “People and Plans: Essays on Urban Problems and Solutions.” Chapter 16 in Social and Physical Planning for the Elimination of Urban Poverty. New York: Basic Books Inc., 1968, pp. 231-248.
- Meyerson and Banfield. “Politics, Planning and the Public Interest.” Note on Conceptual Scheme . London: Collier-Macmillan, 1964, pp. 303-329.
- Krumholz. “A retrospective view of equity planning 1969-1979.” Journal of the American Planning Association 48 (1982): pp. 163-174.
- Jacobs. “Death and Life of Great American Cities.” New York, NY: Random House, 1961, pp. 415-427.
- Friedmann. “Planning in the Public Domain: discourse and praxis.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 8 (1989): pp. 128-130.
- Davidoff, Paul. “Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 31 (1965): pp. 103-114.
- Peattie. “Reflections on Advocacy Planning.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 34, no. 2 (1968): pp. 80-88.
- Hartman. “Between Eminence And Notoriety: Four Decades Of Radical Urban Planning.” The Urban Field Service Program. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2002, pp. 367-374.
- Abrams. “Man’s Struggle for Shelter in an Urbanizing World.” S_ome principles for urban aid._ Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964, pp. 250-252.
- Kent. “The Urban General Plan.” San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1964, [Chapter 1, pp. 12- 26, Chapter 2, pp. 66-73, pp. 80-86].
- Altshuler. “The City Planning Process: a Political Analysis.” Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969, [pp. 299-304, pp. 311-332].
- Lindblom. “The Science of Muddling Through.” Public Administration Review 19 (1959): pp. 79-88.
- Wildavsky. “If Planning is everything, Maybe it is Nothing.” Policy Sciences 4 (2) (1973): pp. 127-153.
- Caro. “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.” Edited by Alfred A. Knopf. New York, NY, 1974, [pp. 368-379, and pp. 850-884].
- Schon. “The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action.” New York, NY: Basic Books Inc., 1982, [Chapter 2, pp. 21-69, Chapter 7, pp. 204-235].
- “General Plan for Boston: Preliminary Report 1950.” 1950, pp. 3, 7, 8.
- Kennedy. “Planning the City Upon a Hill.” Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. [ Collins, Logue, and the New Boston, pp. 157-192].
- Keyes. “The Rehabilitation Planning Game: A Study in the Diversity of Neighborhood.” Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969, [Chapter One pp. 1-19, and pp. 67-87].
- Keyes. “Urban Renewal in Boston ’s South End: Case Study 1965/75 General Plan for the City of Boston and the Regional Core.” The Role and Nature of the General Plan in Chapter I, pp. 1-4 and Boston’s Physical Assets and Problems in Chapter II (1998), pp. 7-30.
- Ward. “Mexico City.” Lincoln, MA: G.K. Hall and Co, 1990, pp.128-134.
- Davis. “Mexico City: The Local-National Dynamics of Democratization.” In Capital City Politics in Latin America: Democratization and Empowerment. Edited by Dietz and Meyers. Lynne Rienner: Boulder, CO, 2002, pp. 241-259.
- Ward and Rodriguez. “New Federalism and State Government in Mexico.” U.S.-Mexico Policy Report #9 , LBJ School of Public Affairs, Austin, TX: University of Texas, 1999, [pp. 1-4; pp. 21-39; pp. 65-95; pp. 98-126].
- Schteingart. “Mexico City.” In The Metropolitan Era Volume 2: Mega-Cities . Edited by Dogan and Kasarda. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988, pp. 268-293.
- Rosan, and Davis, Christina. “¡No Al Aeropuerto en Texcoco! Regional Decision-Making and Community Counter mobilization: The Siting of Mexico City’s New Airport.” Masters in City Planning Thesis, submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning: MIT, 2002.
- “Borders to Cross Organisers 2000.” The Border Story: What Happened at Borders to Cross. Amsterdam, NL: Agora Europa.
- Schön. “The Theory of Inquiry: Dewey’s Legacy to Education.” Curriculum Inquiry 22, no.2 (1992).
- Evans. “Political Strategies for More Livable Cities.” Livable Cities: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability. Edited by Evans. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 222-246.
- Cities in Transition . Edited by Graafland and Hauptman. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2001. - Graafland. “Introduction: Cities in Transition.” [pp. 30-35]. - de Bruijn. “The Port of Rotterdam: Synthesis between Rotterdam City and Mainport.” [pp. 70-80]. - Maas. “Project: Port City, 1999.” [pp. 122-127]. - Meyer. “The Port as Public Domain.” [p. 160-167]. - Brusse. “Chaos behind the Sea Wall: Interview with Dirk Frieling.” [pp. 378-386]. - Priemus. “Recent Transformations in Urban Policies in the Netherlands.” [pp. 388-403].
- The City Reader. Edited by LeGates and Stout. London, UK: Routledge, 1996. - Sassen. “A new geography of centers and margins: summary and implications.” _Cities in a World Economy (_1994): pp. 69- 74. - Castells. “The reconstruction of social meaning in the space of flows.” The Informational City (1989): pp. 493-498.
- Healy. “Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies.” Chapter 1 of Traditions of Planning Thought. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1997, pp.7-30.
- Laws, Susskind, Anderson, Chapman, Rubenstein and Vagadama. “Public Entrepreneurship Networks.” Environmental Technology and Public Policy Program. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT (2001).
- Guttenberg. “Some important facts in the history of American planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 7, no. 1 (1987).
- Rodwin and Sanyal. “The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images and Challenges: 1950-2000.” New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research (2000).
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Prereq: 11.200 G (Spring) Not offered regularly; consult department 4-1-7 units
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