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Downtown

Undergraduate / Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Downtown: Its History (1)
  • Downtown: Its History (2)
  • Discussion of Paper Topics
  • Downtown: Its History (3)
  • Research about Downtown
  • Sources and Methods
  • One-on-one Discussions
  • Student Presentations (1)
  • Student Presentations (2)
  • Student Presentations (3)
  • Student Presentations (4)
  • Conclusion

Readings

  • Week #: 2 · TOPICS: Downtown: Its History (1) · READINGS: Fogelson, Robert M. Introduction and Chapters 1-4 in Downtown: Its Rise and Fall 1880-1950 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780300098273.
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  • Week #: 3 · TOPICS: Downtown: Its History (2) · READINGS: Fogelson. Chapters 5-8 and epilogue in Downtown .
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  • Week #: 4 · TOPICS: Discussion of Paper Topics · READINGS: Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Columb, and Joseph W. M. Williams. Chapters 3-8 in The Craft of Research . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226065847.
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  • Teaford, Jon C. Chapters 2, 6, and 7 in The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America 1940-1985 . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780801841347.
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  • Weiss, Marc A. “The Origins and Legacy of Urban Renewal.” In Federal Housing Policy and Programs . Edited by Paul J. Mitchell. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Center for Urban Planning, 1985. pp. 253-276. ISBN: 9780882851075.
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  • Buy at MIT Press Frieden, Bernard J., and Lynne B. Sagalyn. Chapter 6 in Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780262061285. ↗
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  • Undergraduate Essays
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  • Plosky, Eric. “The Destruction of Pennsylvania Station and the Creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.” (1998).
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  • Tsipis, Yanni. “The Last Road to Boston, The Story of the Massachusetts Turnpike Extension.” (May 1999).
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  • Fichter, Kate. “The Boston Irish Famine Memorial: Art, Politics, and the Many Lives of a Public Monument.” (2000).
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  • Kochan, Ben. “Fire in the Sky: Electrifying Boston’s Horse-Drawn Streetcars.” (2003).
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  • Bergren, Anna D. “Throwing Punches and Cutting Deals: Saving Boston’s CITGO Sign in 1983.” (2004).
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Sources