Urban Development in Conflict Cities: Planning Challenges and Policy Innovations

SES #: 1 · TOPICS: First Day of Class and Introduction to The Urban Development In Conflict Cities · READINGS: No readings assigned

Rodgers, Dennis, Jo Beall, and S M Ravi Kanbur, eds. “Urban Violence, Quality of Life, and the Future of Latin American Cities: The Dismal Record So Far, and the Search for New Analytical Frameworks to Sustain a Bias Towards Hope.” In Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ISBN: 9780230371545.

Weizman, Eyal. “Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation.” In Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics . Edited by Graham. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004, pp. 172–91. ISBN: 9781405115759.

Graham, Stephen. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism . Verso, 2010. ISBN: 9781844673155.

Taylor, Ralph B. Breaking Away from Broken Windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods and the Nationwide Fight against Crime, Grime, Fear, and Decline . Westview Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780813397580.

Davis, Diane E. The Giuliani Factor: Crime, Zero Tolerance Policing and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Downtown Mexico City. In Gareth A. Jones, Public Sphere and Public Space in Mexico, Palgrave Macmillan. 2009.

Harcourt, Bernard E. Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing . Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780674004726.

Kusno, Abidin. “Violence of Categories: Urban Design and the Making of Indonesian Modernity.” In City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity (Comparative Urban and Community Research) . Edited by Smith and Bender. Transaction Publishers, 2001, pp. 15–50. ISBN: 9780765808714.

Hirschfield, Alex, and Kate Bowers. Mapping and Analysing Crime Data : Lessons from Research and Practice . CRC Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780748409228.

Manwaring, Max G. Street Gangs: The New Urban Insurgency . University of Michigan Library, 2005.

Arias, Enrique Desmond. Drugs & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, & Public Security . The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780807857748.