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Springfield Studio

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2006 · Katrina Practicum

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Work Session: Background Research
  • New Orleans Context
  • New Orleans Environmental History/Context
  • Data Report-back
  • Work Session
  • Survey Development
  • Housing Group Presentation (cont.)
  • Work Session: Trip Presentation
  • Work Session: Trip Presentation (cont.)
  • Site Visit (8 Day Trip) ( PDF )
  • Racism, Society, and New Orleans
  • Update on Student Projects
  • Check-in/Work Session
  • Final Presentation

Readings

Fall 2005

Topics

  • Final Class

Readings

Spring 2004

Topics

  • Course Introduction
  • Ways of Seeing: Assessing the Physical and Social Environment of a Community
  • Field Trip to the North End, Springfield, Massachusetts
  • Field Trip Debriefing and Resource Review
  • Work Session: Urban Design Analysis Goals and Techniques
  • Work Session: Urban Design Analysis
  • Community Needs: Programming
  • Work Session: Case Studies
  • Community Capacity
  • Physical Design Strategies Part 1
  • Physical Design Strategies Part 2
  • Working Session
  • Presentation of Student Work
  • Working Session: Presentation Revisions
  • Field Trip to North End, Springfield: Client Presentations
  • Working Session: Development of a Conceptual Plan
  • Working Session: Development of a Conceptual Plan (cont.)
  • Presentations of Conceptual Plans
  • Implementation Techniques
  • Working Session: Synthesis of Ideas
  • Working Session: Synthesis of Ideas (cont.)
  • Synthesis - Final Plan Integration, Key Findings and Themes
  • Presentation of Draft Plans
  • Presentation of Draft Plans (cont.)
  • Course Conclusion / Reflections
  • Final Report / Plans Due
  • Presentations to the Client
  • Final Presentations

Readings

  • Keating, W. Dennis, and Janet Smith. “Neighborhoods in Transition.” Chapter 2 in Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods, by W. Dennis Keating, Norman Krumholz, and Philip Star. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1996, pp. 24-38.
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  • Barnett, Jonathan. “How the Metropolis Split Apart.” Chapter 5 in The Fractured Metropolis . Boulder, CO: Westview Press (Icon Editions), pp. 95-118.
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  • Jacobs, Allan. “Clues,” and “Seeing Change.” In Looking at Cities . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, pp. 30-83, and 99-107.
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  • Lynch, Kevin. “A Walk around the Block.” In City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch . Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980, pp. 185-204.
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  • 1958 North End Urban Renewal Plan. pp. 1 through R-26.
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  • Rivera, Edward. Family Installments . New York: Morrow, 1982, chapter 9.
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  • For Reference (skim)
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  • Raelin, Joseph A. “Public Reflection as the Basis of Learning.” Management Learning 32, no. 1 (2001): 11-30. (Ceasar)
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  • Flores, Juan. “Broken English Memories.” In From Bomba to Hip Hop . New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. 49-61.
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  • Stein, Stanley M., and Thomas L. Harper. “Power, Trust and Planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 23 (2003): 125-139.
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  • Brown, Michael K., et. al. “Of Fish and Water: Perspectives on Racism and Privilege.” In Whitewashing Race . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 34-65.
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  • Edelman, Murray. “Space and the Social Order.” Journal of Architectural Education 32, no. 2 (November 1978): 2-7.
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  • Moughtin, Cliff. “Analysis.” In Urban Design: Method and Techniques . Oxford: Architectural Press, 2003, pp. 73-98.
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  • Allen, Ryan, and Tad Hisch. “When Is a Broken Window Just a Broken Window?” 2003. (Unpublished Manuscript)
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  • Whitlow, Annis. “Hidden Flows: The History of Water in Springfield, MA.” 2003. (Unpublished Manuscript)
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  • Flores, Juan. “Salvacion Casita: Space, Performance, and Community.” In From Bomba to Hip Hop . New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. 63-77.
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  • Wilson, Phoebe Wall. “A Day in the Life of a Neighborhood Place.” In Everyday Urbanism . Edited by John Chase, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski. 1999, pp. 120-135.
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  • Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996. Selections from “Urban Landscape History: The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space” (pp. 14-43), and from “Place Memory and Urban Preservation” (pp. 44-78).
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  • Hayden, Dolores. “Invisible Angelenos.” In The Power of Place . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996, pp. 82-96.
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  • Barber, Benjamin. Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age . Berkeley: University of California, 1984, pp. 117-138.
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  • North End Strategic Plan, 2003 (binder).
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  • Sanoff, Henry. Community Participation in Design and Planning . New York: John Wiley, 2000, pp. 8-14, and 37-104.
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  • Weisman, Leslie Kanes. “The Spatial Caste System: Design for Social Inequality.” In Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-made Environment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992, pp. 9-34.
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  • Strickland, Roy. “Neighborhoods for Learning.” Places 13, no. 1 (Winter 2000): 58-65.
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  • Boyer, Earnest L. “Neighborhoods for Learning.” Ready To Learn. Princeton: Carnegie Foundation, 1991, pp. 91-107.
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  • Dewey, John. “The School in Society.” In Martin Dworkin, Dewey on Education , pp. 70-90.
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  • Rivera, Edward. Family Installments . New York: Morrow, 1982, chapters 4 and 5, pp. 70-115.
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  • On Reserve (skim)
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  • Strickland, Roy. “Pre-programming PreK-8 and Related Facilities for the Union City Board of Education.” MIT: New American School Design Project, 1998.
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  • ———. “Designing a City of Learning: Patterson New Jersey.” New American School Project, 2001.
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  • Glickman, and Servon. “More than Bricks and Sticks: What is Community Development Capacity.” CUPR Working Paper No. 132, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1997.
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  • McKnight, John L., and John P. Kretzmann. Mapping Community Capacity . Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1996, pp. 1-21.
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  • The Aspen Institute. “Chapter 2: Dynamic Tensions in Early CCI Practice.” Voices From the Field . 1997, pp. 21-53.
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  • Fanon, Frantz. “Violence in the International Context.” In The Wretched of the Earth . New York: Grove Press, 1963, pp. 95-106.
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  • Farmer, Paul. “Chapter Five: Health, Healing, and Social Justice.” In Pathologies of Power . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 139-159.
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  • Torres, Gerald. “The Legacy of Conquest and Discovery: Meditations of Ethnicity, Race, and American Politics.” In Borderless Borders: U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence . Phildelphia: Temple University Press, 1998, pp. 153-168.
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  • Jacobs, Allan. “Requirements for Great Streets,” and “Qualities that Contribute.” Chapters 1 and 2 in Great Streets . Vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 270-308.
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  • Skim for Reference
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  • Marcus, Clare Cooper, and Carolyn Francis, eds. People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space . New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990, pp. 69-115, and 143-169.
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  • Other References
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  • Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc. A Civic Vision for Turnpike Air Rights in Boston. Boston, Massachusetts, June 2000.
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  • Kaliski, John. “The Present City and the Practice of City Design.” In Everyday Urbanism . Edited by John Chase, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski. pp. 88-109.
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  • Piore, Michael. Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Selections: “Introduction” (pp. 1-14), “The Jobs” (pp. 15-49), “The Migrants” (pp. 50-85).
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  • Morales, Julio. Puerto Rican Poverty and Migration: We Just Had to Try Elsewhere . New York: Praeger, 1986. Selections: “Introduction” (pp. xv - xvii), “Puerto Rico and the Migration to New York City” (pp. 22-44), “The Migration of the Puerto Rican Agricultural Worker to New England” (pp. 77-89).
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  • King, Desmond. “Chapter Ten: The Diverse Democracy.” In Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of a Diverse Democracy . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
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  • Rivera, Edward. Family Installments . New York: Morrow, 1982, chapters 1-2.
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