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Springfield Studio
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
- Eckstein, Barbara. Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of the City . New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0415947839.
- Kelman, Ari. A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 0520234324.
- Hirsch, Arnold, and Joseph Logsdon, eds. Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1992. ISBN: 0807117749.
- Lewis, Pierce. New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape . Sante Fe, NM: Center for American Places, 2003. ISBN: 1930066104.
- Amulya, Joy. “Summary of Critical Moments Reflection.” Cambridge, MA: Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT, 2005.
- Amuya, Joy, and Ceasar McDowell. “How Reflection Supports Learning in Race and Democracy Work.” Cambridge, MA: Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT, 2005.
- Amulya, Joy, Christie O’Campbell, Melissa Edoh, and Ceasar McDowell. “Transformational Learning in Social Justice Organizations Through Reflective Practice.” Cambridge, MA: Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT, 2005.
- McDowell, Ceasar, Andrea Nagel, Susana Williams, and Claudia Canepa. “Building Knowledge From the Practice of Local Communities.” Cambridge, MA: Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT, 2006.
Fall 2005
Topics
- Final Class
Readings
- 1958 North End Urban Renewal Plan. pp. 1 - R-26.
- North End Strategic Plan (2003).
- Barnes and Ledebur. The New Regional Economies . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998, pp. 19-38. ISBN: 0761909397.
- Malizia and Feser. Understanding Local Economic Development . New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1999, pp. 51-55, 81-90, 123-133, 174-182, 195-201, 222-228, and 244-257. ISBN: 0882851632.
- Wiewel, Brown, and Morris. “The Linkage Between Regional and Neighborhood Development.” In Approaches to Economic Development . Edited by Blair and Reese. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 113-129. ISBN: 0761918841.
- Novak. “Neighborhood Initiative and the Regional Economy.” In Approaches to Economic Development . Edited by Blair and Reese. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 149-156. ISBN: 0761918841.
- Western Mass Economic Review 2004 .
- Regional Labor Market Profile, Hampden County, Summer 2004 .
- Harry Spence HCED Lunch Talk , February 3, 2005.
- Keough, Robert, and Michael Jonas. “Down but not Out.” Commonwealth Magazine , Winter 2004.
- Roche, B. J. “Under Control?” Commonwealth Magazine , Summer 2005.
- Tantraphol, Roselyn. “Springfield: A City Under Siege.” Hartford Courant , April 17, 2005.
- Reese and Fasenfest. “What works best: Values and evaluation of local economic development policy.” In Approaches to Economic Development . Edited by Blair and Reese. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 278-291. ISBN: 0761918841.
- Ross and Freidman. “The emerging third wave: New economic development strategies.” In Local Economic Development: Strategies for a Changing Economy . Edited by Fosler. Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association, pp. 125-137. ISBN: 0873260856.
- Mt. Auburn Associates. Fall River Economic Development Strategy .
- Hammer, Siler George Associates. Brockton Supermarket Study .
- Karl F. Seidman Consulting Services, and BAE. Real Estate Market Analysis: Old Central Fire Station Property , Marlborough, MA, 2003, pp. 19-29.
- Clark, Peggy, and Amy J. Kays. Labor Market Profiling . Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 1997, pp. 9-34. ISBN: 0898432170.
- Blakely. Planning Local Economic Development . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002, chapter 8, pp. 217-235 and 248-249. ISBN: 0761924582.
- Kumar, Tara. “Informal microenterprise in the North End community-Springfield, MA.” MCP Thesis, MIT, 2004, pp. 43-106.
- Mt. Auburn Associates. Workforce Development Strategy for Weinland Park Neighborhood .
- Blakely. Planning Local Economic Development . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002, chapter 7, pp. 179-196. ISBN: 0761924582.
- Martínez Hernández, Hernandez, Manuel Martinez. “Impact of Commercial Development on inner City Revitalization: An Analysis of Projects in Boston.” M.C.P Thesis, MIT, 2001, pp. 20-40, 58-65, 89-95, and 115-124.
- Simons, Robert A. Turning Brownfields Into Greenbacks: Developing and Financing Environmentally Contaminated Urban Real Estate . Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 1998, pp. 100-110. ISBN: 0874208513.
- Seidman. Economic Development Finance . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004, chapter 1 and 10, pp. 5-18 and 217-239. ISBN: 0761927093.
- Grzywinski. The New Old Fashioned Banking, Harvard Business Review . (May-June 1991): 87-98.
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.
- Barnett, Jonathan. “How the Metropolis Split Apart.” Chapter 5 in The Fractured Metropolis . Boulder, CO: Westview Press (Icon Editions), pp. 95-118.
- Jacobs, Allan. “Clues,” and “Seeing Change.” In Looking at Cities . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, pp. 30-83, and 99-107.
- 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.
- 1958 North End Urban Renewal Plan. pp. 1 through R-26.
- Rivera, Edward. Family Installments . New York: Morrow, 1982, chapter 9.
- For Reference (skim)
- Raelin, Joseph A. “Public Reflection as the Basis of Learning.” Management Learning 32, no. 1 (2001): 11-30. (Ceasar)
- Flores, Juan. “Broken English Memories.” In From Bomba to Hip Hop . New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. 49-61.
- Stein, Stanley M., and Thomas L. Harper. “Power, Trust and Planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 23 (2003): 125-139.
- 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.
- Edelman, Murray. “Space and the Social Order.” Journal of Architectural Education 32, no. 2 (November 1978): 2-7.
- Moughtin, Cliff. “Analysis.” In Urban Design: Method and Techniques . Oxford: Architectural Press, 2003, pp. 73-98.
- Allen, Ryan, and Tad Hisch. “When Is a Broken Window Just a Broken Window?” 2003. (Unpublished Manuscript)
- Whitlow, Annis. “Hidden Flows: The History of Water in Springfield, MA.” 2003. (Unpublished Manuscript)
- Flores, Juan. “Salvacion Casita: Space, Performance, and Community.” In From Bomba to Hip Hop . New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. 63-77.
- 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.
- 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).
- Hayden, Dolores. “Invisible Angelenos.” In The Power of Place . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996, pp. 82-96.
- Barber, Benjamin. Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age . Berkeley: University of California, 1984, pp. 117-138.
- North End Strategic Plan, 2003 (binder).
- Sanoff, Henry. Community Participation in Design and Planning . New York: John Wiley, 2000, pp. 8-14, and 37-104.
- 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.
- Strickland, Roy. “Neighborhoods for Learning.” Places 13, no. 1 (Winter 2000): 58-65.
- Boyer, Earnest L. “Neighborhoods for Learning.” Ready To Learn. Princeton: Carnegie Foundation, 1991, pp. 91-107.
- Dewey, John. “The School in Society.” In Martin Dworkin, Dewey on Education , pp. 70-90.
- Rivera, Edward. Family Installments . New York: Morrow, 1982, chapters 4 and 5, pp. 70-115.
- On Reserve (skim)
- Strickland, Roy. “Pre-programming PreK-8 and Related Facilities for the Union City Board of Education.” MIT: New American School Design Project, 1998.
- ———. “Designing a City of Learning: Patterson New Jersey.” New American School Project, 2001.
- 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.
- McKnight, John L., and John P. Kretzmann. Mapping Community Capacity . Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1996, pp. 1-21.
- The Aspen Institute. “Chapter 2: Dynamic Tensions in Early CCI Practice.” Voices From the Field . 1997, pp. 21-53.
- Fanon, Frantz. “Violence in the International Context.” In The Wretched of the Earth . New York: Grove Press, 1963, pp. 95-106.
- Farmer, Paul. “Chapter Five: Health, Healing, and Social Justice.” In Pathologies of Power . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 139-159.
- 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.
- 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.
- Skim for Reference
- 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.
- Other References
- Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc. A Civic Vision for Turnpike Air Rights in Boston. Boston, Massachusetts, June 2000.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- King, Desmond. “Chapter Ten: The Diverse Democracy.” In Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of a Diverse Democracy . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Rivera, Edward. Family Installments . New York: Morrow, 1982, chapters 1-2.
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