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11.947

History and Theory of Historic Preservation

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2009 · Urbanization and Development

The course examines the causes and effects of rapid urbanization in developing countries. Using case studies from the world's four major developing regions, including (among others) Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Managua, Singapore, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Kabul, Beirut, Cairo, Kinshasa, Cape Town and Johannesburg, it explores the economic and political dynamics that grease the wheels of contemporary patterns of growth. In addition to examining both local and transnational forces that drive contemporary urbanization, the course focuses on key issues that emerge in rapidly growing cities of the developing world, ranging from growing income inequality and socio-economic exclusion, environmental challenges, and rising violence. Class sessions are discussion-based and focus on a critical analysis of the arguments presented in the [readings](/courses/11-947-urbanization-and-development-spring-2009/pages/readings).

Readings

  • SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction: stock-taking and outlook · READINGS: Gugler, Josef. “Introduction.” In World Cities beyond the West: Globalization, Development, and Inequality . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 1-26. ISBN: 9780521536851.
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  • Blockmans, Wim P. “Reshaping Cities - The Staging of Political Transformation.” Journal of Urban History 30, no. 1 (2003): 7-20.
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  • Davis, Diane E. “Cities in Global Context: a Brief Intellectual History.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29, no. 1 (2005): 92-109.
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  • Glaeser, Edward L., and Alberto F. Ades. “Trade and Circuses: Explaining Urban Giants.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 110, no. 1 (1995): 195-227.
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  • Tilly, Charles. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” Chapter 5 in Bringing the State Back In . Edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 169-191. ISBN: 9780521313131.
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  • Castells, Manuel. “The New Historical Relationship between Space and Society.” Chapter 4 in Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban Design . Edited by Alexander Cuthbert. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003, pp. 59-68. ISBN: 9780631235040.
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  • Cockburn, Cynthia. “Local Government as Local State.” In The Local State: Management of Cities and People . London, UK: Pluto Press, 1977, pp. 41-66. ISBN: 9780904383485.
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  • Harvey, David. “The Right to the City.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27, no. 4 (2003): 939-941.
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  • Sassen, Saskia. “The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier.” Chapter 2 in Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City . Edited by Engin F. Isin. London, UK: Routledge, 2000, pp. 48-61. ISBN: 9780415216685.
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  • Slater, Dennis. “Political Economy of Urbanization in Peripheral Capitalistic Societies.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2, no. 1 (1978): 26-52.
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  • Basiago, Andrew D. “Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability in Development Theory and Urban Planning Practice.” The Environmentalist 19, no. 2 (1998): 145-161.
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  • Davis, Diane E. “The Social Construction of Mexico City: Political Conflict and Urban Development, 1950-1966.” Journal of Urban History 24, no. 3 (1998): 364-415.
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  • Libertun de Duren, Nora. “Planning à la Carte: The Location Patterns of Gated Communities around Buenos Aires in a Decentralized Planning Context.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30, no. 2 (2006): 308-327.
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  • Rodgers, Dennis W. “A Symptom called Managua.” New Left Review 49 (2008): 103-120.
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  • Beall, Jo. “Globalization and Social Exclusion in Cities: Framing the Debate with Lessons from Africa and Asia.” Environment and Urbanization 14, no. 1 (2002): 41-51.
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  • Chu, Yin-wah. “Deconstructing the Global City: Unravelling the Linkages that Underlie Hong Kong’s World City Status.” Urban Studies 45, no. 8 (2008): 1625-1646.
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  • Hessler, Peter. “ The Wonder Years: Boom Times in a Chinese Village .” The New Yorker , March 31, 2008, pp. 68-76. ↗
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  • Prashad, Vijay. “Singapore: the Lure of the Asian Road.” In The Darker Nations . New York, NY: The New Press, 2008, pp. 245-259. ISBN: 9781595583420.
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  • Xu, Jiang, and Anthony G.O. Yeh. “City Repositioning and Competitiveness Building in Regional Development: New Development Strategies in Guangzhou, China.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29, no. 2 (2005): 283-308.
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  • Hasson, Shlomo. “Territories and Identities in Jerusalem.” GeoJournal 53, no. 3 (2001): 311-322.
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  • Nagel, C. R. “Reconstructing Space, Re-creating Memory: Sectarian Politics and Urban Development in Post-war Beirut.” Political Geography 21, no. 5 (2002): 717-725.
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  • Mitchell, Timothy. “Heritage and Violence.” Chapter 6 in Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 179-205. ISBN: 9780520232624.
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  • Simone, AbdouMaliq. “Introduction: Urban Processes and Change.” In Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City . Edited by AbdouMaliq Simone and Abdelghani Abouhani. London, UK: Zed Books, 2005, pp. 1-26. ISBN: 9781842775936.
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  • Crankshaw, Owen. “Race, Space and the Post-Fordist Spatial Order of Johannesburg.” Urban Studies 45, no. 8 (2008): 1692-1711.
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  • Pieterse, Edgar. “At the Limits of Possibility: Working Notes on a Relational Model of Urban Politics.” In Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City . Edited by AbdouMaliq Simone and Abdelghani Abouhani. London, UK: Zed Books, 2005, pp. 138-173. ISBN: 9781842775936.
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  • Rakodi, Carole. “Order and Disorder in African Cities: Governance, Politics, and Urban Land Development Processes.” In Under Siege: Four African Cities: Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos . Edited by Okwui Enwezor, Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, and Octavio Zaya. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002, pp. 45-80. ISBN: 9783775790901.
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  • Trefon, Theodore. “Introduction: Reinventing Order.” In Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa . London, UK: Zed Books, 2003, pp. 1-20. ISBN: 9781842774915.
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  • Watson, Vanessa. “The Usefulness of Normative Planning Theories in the Context of Sub-Saharan Africa.” Planning Theory 1, no. 1 (2002): 27-52.
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  • Amis, Philip. “Municipal Government, Urban Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction-Identifying the Transmission Mechanisms Between Growth and Poverty.” Chapter 6 in Urban Livelihoods: A People-Centred Approach to Reducing Poverty . Edited by Carole Rakodi and Tony Lloyd. London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2002, pp. 97-111. ISBN: 9781853838606.
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  • Beall, Jo. “Urban Livelihoods.” In Towards a New Map of Africa . Edited by Ben Wisner, Camilla Toulmin, and Rutendo Chitiqa. London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2005, pp. 97-112. ISBN: 9781844070930.
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  • Davis, Mike. “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat.” New Left Review 26 (2004): 5-36. ( PDF ) ↗
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  • Simone, AbdouMaliq. “Pirate Towns: Reworking Social and Symbolic Infrastructures in Johannesburg and Douala.” Urban Studies 43, no. 2 (2006): 357-370.
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  • UN-Habitat. “Civil Society in Action” and “Towards Inclusive Cities: Reconsidering Development Priorities.” Chapters 8 and 9 in The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 . London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2003, pp. 148-188. ISBN: 9781844070374.
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  • Binns, J. A., R. A. Maconachie, and A. I. Tanko. “Water, Land and Health in Urban and Peri-urban Food Production: the Case of Kano, Nigeria.” Land Degradation & Development 14, no. 5 (2003): 431-444.
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  • Cattell, Vicky. “Poor People, Poor Places, and Poor Health: the Mediating Role of Social Networks and Social Capital.” Social Science & Medicine 52, no. 10 (2001): 1501-1516.
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  • Harpham, Trudy. “Urban Health in Developing Countries: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go?” Health & Place 15, no. 1 (2009): 107-116.
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  • McFarlane, Colin. “Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post-colonial Bombay.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32, no. 2 (2008): 415-435.
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  • Rodwin, Victor G., and Leland G. Neuberg. “Infant Mortality and Income in 4 World Cities: New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.” American Journal of Public Health 95, no. 1 (2005): 86-90.
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  • Roth, Matthias. “Review of Urban Climate Research in (Sub)Tropical Regions.” International Journal of Climatology 27, no. 14 (2007): 1859-1873.
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  • Abrahamsen, Rita, and Michael C. Williams. “Securing the City: Private Security Companies and Non-State Authority in Global Governance.” International Relations 21, no. 2 (2007): 237-253.
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  • Beall, Jo. “Policy Arena: Cities, Terrorism and Development.” Journal of International Development 18, no. 1 (2006): 105-120.
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  • Bienen, Henry. “Urbanization and Third World Stability.” World Development 12, no. 7 (1984): 661-691.
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  • Bollens, Scott A. “Urban Planning and Peacebuilding.” Progress in Planning 66, no. 2 (2006): 67-139.
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  • Esser, Daniel E. “The City as Arena, Hub and Prey - Patterns of Violence in Kabul and Karachi.” Environment and Urbanization 16, no. 2 (2004): 31-38.
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  • Rodgers, Dennis. “ Slum Wars of the 21st Century: the New Geography of Conflict in Central America .” CSRC Working Papers 2, no. 10. London, UK: Crisis States Research Centre, 2007. ↗
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  • Harvey, David. “From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: the Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism.” Geografiska Annaler 71B, no. 1 (1989): 3-17.
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  • Isin, Engin F. “Governing Cities without Government.” Chapter 8 in Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City . Edited by Engin F. Isin. London, UK: Routledge, 2000, pp. 148-168. ISBN: 9780415216685.
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  • Kantor, Paul, H.V. Savitch, and Serena Vicari Haddock. “The Political Economy of Urban Regimes: A Comparative Perspective.” Urban Affairs Review 32, no. 3 (1997): 348-377.
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  • Moe, Terry M. “Power and Political Institutions.” Perspectives on Politics 3, no. 2 (2005): 215-233.
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  • Esser, Daniel E. “Metropolitan Growth and Security in Asia-Pacific: Correcting the Dislocation of Public Policy.” Paper presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, ON, September 4, 2009.
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  • Marcus, Anthony, and Sulikah Asmorowati. “Urban Poverty and the Rural Development Bias: Some Notes from Indonesia.” Journal of Developing Societies 22, no. 2 (2006): 145-168.
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  • Hoyman, Michele, and Christopher Faricy. “It Takes a Village: A Test of the Creative Class, Social Capital, and Human Capital Theories.” Urban Affairs Review 44, no. 3 (2009): 311-333.
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  • Robinson, Jennifer. “World Cities, or a World of Ordinary Cities?” Chapter 4 in Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development . London, UK: Routledge, 2006, pp. 93-115. ISBN: 9780415304887.
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  • Appadurai, Arjun. “Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography.” Chapter 16 in The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture . Edited by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zunigais. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2003, pp. 337-349. ISBN: 9780631228783.
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  • Cornwall, Andrea. “Spaces for Transformation? Reflections on Issues of Power and Difference in Participation in Development.” In Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation? Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development . Edited by Samuel Hickey and Giles Mohan. London, UK: Zed Books, 2005, pp. 75-91. ISBN: 9781842774618.
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  • Davis, Diane E. “Disciplinary Development in a New Millennium: The Global Context of Past Gains and Future Prospects.” Chapter 6 in Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 340-358. ISBN: 9780521002080.
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  • Mamdani, Mahmood. “Conclusion: Linking the Urban and the Rural.” Chapter 8 in Citizen and Subject . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 285-301. ISBN: 9780691027937.
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Spring 2007

Topics

  • Introduction: What is historic preservation?
  • The roots of historic preservation in the United States
  • Preservation in the 20th century: History and policy
  • The politics of significance: The President’s House on Independence Mall, Philadelphia
  • Preservation and interpretation: the Emily Dickinson museum
  • If you can’t see it, can you preserve it? The danger of “integrity”
  • Reflections on contemporary preservation debates: the World Trade Center and New Orleans after Katrina
  • Final presentations

Readings

  • Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire.” Representations 26 (1989): 7-24.
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  • Page, Max, and Randall Mason. Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States . New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, introduction and chapter 1. ISBN: 9780415934435.
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  • English Heritage. Power of Place: The Future of the Historic Environment . English Heritage, 2000. ( PDF ) ↗
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  • Page, Max, and Randall Mason. Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States . New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, chapters 2-4. ISBN: 9780415934435.
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  • West, Patricia. Domesticating History . Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999, chapter 1. ISBN: 9781560988366.
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  • Ruskin, John. The Lamp of Memory . New York, NY, 1885.
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  • Hunter, Michael. Preserving the Past: The Rise of Heritage in Modern Britain . Stroud, UK: A. Sutton, 1996, chapter 2. ISBN: 9780750909518.
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  • Phillipot, Paul. “Historic Preservation: Philosophy, Criteria, Guidelines.” In Preservation and Conservation: Principles and Practices . Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation/Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, pp. 367-82. ISBN: 9780891330295.
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  • Denslagen, Wim. “Restoration Theories, East and West.” Transactions/Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings 18 (1993): 3-7.
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  • Feilden, Bernard. “Introduction to Architectural Conservation.” Chapter 1 in Conservation of Historic Buildings . Oxford, UK: Architectural Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780750658638.
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  • Sansom, Joseph. “Description of an Indian Mound.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, p. 369. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • Anon. “Washington’s Examples.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, p. 372. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • Norton, Charles Eliot. “The Lack of Old Homes in America.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 373-374. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • Page, Max, and Randall Mason. Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States . New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, chapters 5-8. ISBN: 9780415934435.
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  • Pressey, Park. “Preserving the Landmarks.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 376-377. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • Burns, Helen. “Colonial Williamsburg.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 378-380. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • Mumford, Lewis. “The Disappearance of Pennsylvania Station.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 381-386. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • Kirk, Russell. “Destroying the Past by ‘Development’.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 387-388. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. ( PDF ) ↗
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  • Matthews, Anne. “Making the List.” Preservation 50, no. 4 (1998): 65-66.
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  • Koolhaas, Rem. “Preservation Is Overtaking Us.” Future Anterior 1, no. 2 (2004). ( PDF - 2.0 MB ) ↗
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  • Page, Max. “The Gerrymandered Lower East Side Historic District.” New York Daily News , April 26, 2001.
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  • Gaskell Miller, Tamara. “Editorial.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129, no. 4 (2005): 369-370.
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  • Lawler, Edward, Jr. “The President’s House Revisited.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129, no. 4 (2005): 371-410.
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  • Devine Fanelli, Doris. “History, Commemoration, and an Interdisciplinary Approach to Interpreting the President’s House Site.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129, no. 4 (2005): 445-460.
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  • Deacon, Harriet. “Remembering Tragedy, Constructing Modernity: Robben Island as a National Monument.” Chapter 11 in Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa . Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780195715033.
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  • Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. “Archaeology and the Monument: An Embattled Site of History and Memory in Contemporary India.” Chapter 10 in Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade . Edited by Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780226571584.
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  • Green, James. Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements . Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000, chapter 6. ISBN: 9781558492424.
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  • Visit The Civic Engagement Initiative and the International Coalition of Historic Site museums of Conscience including the 2003 Conference Report. ↗
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  • Buy at MIT Press Hayden, Dolores. “Urban Landscape History: The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space.” In The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780262581523. ↗
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  • Zerubavel, Yael. “The Politics of Remembrance and the Consumption of Space: Masada in Israeli Memory.” In Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space . Edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, pp. 233-252. ISBN: 9780822333647.
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  • Czaplicka, John. “The Palace Ruins and Putting the Lithuanian Nation into Place: Historical Stagings in Vilnius.” In Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space . Edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, pp. 167-188. ISBN: 9780822333647.
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  • Mehrotra, Rahul. “Constructing Cultural Significance: Looking at Bombay’s Historic Fort Area.” Future Anterior 1, no. 2 (2004). ( PDF - 3.3 MB ) ↗
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  • Wellman, Judith. “It’s a Wide Community Indeed: Alliances and Issues in Creating Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York.” Chapter 14 in Restoring Women’s History through Historic Preservation . Edited by Gail Lee Dubrow and Jennifer B. Goodman. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780801870521.
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  • Hoagland, Alison. “Industrial Housing and Vinyl Siding: Historic Significance Flexibly Applied.” In Preservation of What, for Whom?: A Critical Look at Historical Significance . Edited by Michael A. Tomlan. Ithaca, NY: National Council for Preservation Education, 1998. ISBN: 9780966272314.
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  • Ladd, Brian. The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape . Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 1998, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780226467627.
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  • Stille, Alexander. “The Culture of the Copy and the Disappearance of China’s Past.” Chapter 2 in The Future of the Past . New York, NY: Picador, 2003. ISBN: 9780312420949.
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  • Meade, Teresa. “Holding the Junta Accountable: Chile’s ‘Sitios de Memoria’ and the History of Torture, Disappearance, and Death.” In Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space . Edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, pp. 191-210. ISBN: 9780822333647.
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  • Carter, James. “Touring Harbin’s Pasts.” In Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space . Edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, pp. 149-166. ISBN: 9780822333647.
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  • Page, Max, and Steve Balkin. “ Chicago’s Preservation Blues .” The Christian Science Monitor , December 28, 2000. ↗
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  • Brookstein, Mark D. “ When History is History: Maxwell Street, “Integrity,” and the Failure of Historic Preservation Law .” Chicago-Kent Law Review 76, no. 3 (2001): 1847-1885. ↗
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  • U.S. Department of the Interior , National Park Service Bulletin 15 - Look especially at Part VIII. ↗
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  • Aponte-Pares, Luis. “Appropriating Place in Puerto Rican Barrios Preserving Contemporary Urban Landscapes.” In Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America . Edited by Arnold Alanen and Robert Melnick. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780801862649.
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  • Lopate, Phillip, Robert A. M. Stern, Theodore H. M. Prudon, and Witold Rybczynski. “What Should We Do with 2 Columbus Circle.” Preservation , Nov/Dec 2004. (Also read other articles about 2 Columbus Circle.)
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  • Rozhon, Tracie. “Old Baltimore Row Houses Fall before the Wrecking Ball.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 400-403. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • Fixler, David N. “The Renovation of Baker House at MIT: Modernism, Materiality, and the Factor of Intent in Preservation.” APT Bulletin 32, no. 2/3 (2001): 3-11.
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  • Sherfy, Marcella, and W. Ray Luce. National Register Bulletin: Guidelines for Evaluating and Nominating Properties That Have Achieved Significance within the Past Fifty Years , 1998. ↗
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  • Tung, Anthony M. Preserving the World’s Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis . New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 2002, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780609808153.
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  • Carrns, Ann. “How a Brand-new Development Came by Its Rich History.” In Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape . Edited by Max Page and Steven Conn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 397-399. ISBN: 9780812218527.
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  • Page, Max, and Randall Mason. Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States . New York, NY: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780415934435.
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  • Walkowitz, Daniel J., and Lisa Maya Knauer. Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780822333647.
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Spring 2005 · Race, Immigration, and Planning

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Planning and Immigration
  • Why Emigrate? The Immigration Experience
  • Geography and Immigration in the U.S.
  • Immigrants in the Economy
  • Gender and Immigration
  • Citizenship and Political Rights
  • The Legacy of Race and Immigration
  • Racialization and Racial Inequalities
  • Racial Coaltions in a Context of Increasing Diversity
  • Project Discussions
  • Project Discussions (cont.)

Readings

  • Fainstein, Susan S. “New Directions in Planning Theory.” Urban Affairs Review 35, no. 4 (2000): 451-478.
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  • Johnson, James, Walter C. Farrell, and Chandra Guinn. “Immigration Reform and the Browning of America: Tensions, Conflicts, and Community Instability in Metropolitan Los Angeles.” In The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience. Edited by C. Hirschman, P. Kasinitz, and J. DeWind. Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 1999. ISBN: 0871542447.
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  • Patrick, Joyce. No Fire Next Time: Black-Korean Conflicts and the Future of America’s Cities . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003, chapter 1, and 6. ISBN: 0801488907.
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  • Park, Edward J. W. “Friends or Enemies?: Generational Politics in the Korean American Community in Los Angeles.” Qualitative Sociology 22, no. 2 (1999).
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  • Hoch, Charles. 1988. “A Pragmatic Inquiry into Planning and Power.” In Explorations in Planning Theory . Center for Urban Policy Research. June 1, 1996. ISBN: 0882851543.
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  • Forrester, John. “Why Planning Theory? Educating Citizens, Recognizing Differences, Mediating Deliberations.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images and Challenges: 1950-2000 . New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0882851659.
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  • Bobo, Lawrence. “Implications for Planners of Race, Inequality, and a Persistent ‘Color Line’.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images and Challenges: 1950-2000 . New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0882851659.
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  • Cortes, Ernesto J. “Racism and Deliberative Democracy.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images and Challenges: 1950-2000 . New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0882851659.
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  • Sanyal, Bishwapriya. “Plannings Three Challenges.” In The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images and Challenges: 1950-2000 . New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0882851659.
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  • DeFilippis, James. “The Myth of Social Capital in Community Development.” Housing Policy Debate (1991).
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  • Portes, Alejandro. “Socially Expected Durations and the Economic Adjustment of Immigrants.” In The Economic Sociology of Immigration . Edited by A. Portes. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995. ISBN: 0871546825.
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  • Suarez-Orozco, Carola, and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco. Children of Immigration . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 0674008383.
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  • Bureau, US Census. Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2000 (2001): 1-17.
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  • Suarez-Orozco, M. “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Assimilation but Were Afraid to Ask.” In Engaging Cultural Differences . Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2004. ISBN: 0871547953.
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  • Recommended Readings
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  • Tichenor, Daniel J. Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, chapters 11-13.
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  • Massey, Douglas S., Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration . New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2002.
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  • Alba, Richard, and Victor Nee. Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003, chapter 5.
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  • Abu-Luban, and Judith Garber. “The Construction of the Geography of Immigration as a Policy Problem.” Urban Affairs Review 40, no. 4 (2005): 52-561.
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  • Sassen, Saskia. “A New Geography of Centers and Margins.” In The City Reader . 3rd ed. Routledge, August 1, 2003. ISBN: 0415271738.
    Listed reading
  • Burden, Amanda. The Newest New Yorkers 2000: Immigrant New York in the Millenium . New York: Department of City Planning, 2004. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Logan, John. America’s Newcomers . Albany: SUNY Albany, 2003. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Smith, James P., and Barry Edmonston, eds. The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration . Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997. ISBN: 0309063566.
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  • Clarke, William, and Sarah Blue. “Race, Class, and Segregation Patterns in US Immigrant Gateway Cities.” Urban Affairs Review 39, no. 6 (2004): 667-688.
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  • Singer, Audrey. “The Rise of New Immigrant Gateways.” Brookings Institute Working Paper (2004).
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  • Winnick, Louis. New People in Old Neighborhoods . New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 1990, chapters 4, 5, and 7.
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  • Hayduk, Ron. Immigration, Race and Community Revitalization . Paper read at Aspen Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Revitalization, November 1 (1998).
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  • Chan, Sucheng. “Long Beach, California, the Capital of Cambodian America.” Chapter 1, and “How Massachusetts Became a Refugee-Friendly State.” In Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003, pp. 56-70.
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  • Pastor, Manuel. “Economics and Ethnicity: Poverty, Race, and Immigration in Los Angeles County.” In Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructured Economy. Edited by M. Lopez-Garza, and D. R. Diaz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0804736316.
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  • Waldinger, Roger, and Michael I. Lichter. How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 1-7. ISBN: 0520231627.
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  • Anrig, Greg, and Andrea Tova. Immigration, Jobs, and the American Economy . New York: Twentieth Century Foundation, 2004. ( PDF ) ↗
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  • Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. “Social Capital and Community Governance.” The Economic Journal 112 (2002).
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  • Immigrant Entrepreneurship
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  • Gold, Steven J. “Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Customers Throughout the Twentieth Century.” In Not Just Black and White. Edited by N. Foner, and G. Fredrickson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN: 0871542595.
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  • Kloosterman, Robert. “Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Advanced Economies: Mixed Embeddedness Further Explored. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 27, no. 2 (2001): 189-201.
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  • Bonacich, Edna. “Making it in America: A Social Evaluation of the Ethics of Immigrant Entrepreneurship.” Sociological Perspectives 30, no. 4 (1987): 446-466.
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  • Shah, Sonia. “Presenting the Blue Goddess: Toward a National Pan-Asian Feminist Agenda.” In Women Transforming Politics. Edited by C. J. Cohen, K. B. Jones, and J. C. Tronto. New York: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0814715583.
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  • Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar. Servants of Globalization . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, chapters 2-7. ISBN: 0804739226.
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  • Su, Julie A., and Chanchanit Martorell. “Exploitation and Abuse in the Garment Industry: The Case of the Thai Slave-Labor Compound in El Monte.” In Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy . Edited by M. Lopez-Garza and D. R. Diaz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0804736316.
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  • Shukla, Sandyha. “Feminisms of the Diaspora Both Local and Global: The Politics of South Asian Women Against Domestic Violence.” In Women Transforming Politics. Edited by C. J. Cohen, K. B. Jones, and J. C. Tronto. New York: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0814715583.
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  • Virginia Harper-Ho. “Noncitizen Voting Rights: The History, the Law and Current Prospects for Change.” Law and Inequality Journal 18 (2000): 271-322.
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  • Tienda, Marta. “Demography and the Social Contract.” Demography 39, no. 4 (2002): 587-616.
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  • Peral, Rob. “Power and Potential: The Growing Electoral Clout of New Citizens.” Immigration Policy in Focus 3, no. 4 (2004).
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  • Sassen, Saskia. “Global Cities and Diasporic Networks.” In Global Civil Society . Edited by H. Anheier. Oxford, UP: SAGE Publications, October 18, 2004. ISBN: 1412903076.
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  • DeSipio, Louis. “Building America, One Person At a Time: Naturalization and Political Behavior of the Naturalized in Contemporary American Politics.” In E Pluribus Unum? Edited by G. Gerstle, and J. Mollenkopf. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Publications, March, 2005. ISBN: 0871543079.
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  • Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo. “On the Political Participation of Transnational Migrants: Old Practices and New Trends.” In E Pluribus Unum? Edited by G. Gerstle, and J. Mollenkopf. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Publications, March, 2005. ISBN: 0871543079.
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  • Levitt, Peggy. “Migrants Participate Across Borders: Toward an Understanding of Forms and Consequences.” In Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives . Edited by N. Foner, R. Rumbaut, and S. Gold. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN: 0871542617.
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  • Takash, Paule Cruz. “Breaking Barriers to Representation: Chicana/Latina Elected Officials in California.” In Women Transforming Politics . Edited by C. Cohen, K. B. Jones, and J. C. Tronto. New York: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0814715583.
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  • Chung, Angie and Edward Chang. “From Third World Liberation to Multiple Oppression Politics: A Contemporary Approach to Interethnic Coalitions.” Social Justice 25 (3): 80-100, 1998.
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  • Cornell, Stephen, and Douglas Hartmann. “Conceptual Confusions and Divides: Race, Ethnicity, and the Study of Immigration.” In Not Just Black and White . Edited by N. Foner, and G. M. Fredrickson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN: 0871542595.
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  • King, Desmond. “Making Americans: Immigration Meets Race.” In E Pluribus Unum? Edited by G. Gerstle, and J. Mollenkopf. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Publications, March, 2005, ISBN: 0871543079.
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  • Hirsch, Arnold. “E Puribus Duo? Thoughts on ‘Whiteness’ and Chicago’s ‘New’ Immigrations as a Transient Third Tier.” Journal of American Ethnic History 23, no. 4 (2004): 7-44.
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  • Maher, Kristen. “Workers and Strangers: The Household Service Economy and the Landscape of Suburban Fear.” Urban Affairs Review 38, no. 6 (2003): 751-786.
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  • Kasinitz, Philip. “Race, Assimilation,” and “Second Generations,” Past and Present.” In Not Just Black And White . Edited by N. Foner, and G. M. Fredrickson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN: 0871542595.
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  • Jaynes, Gerald D. “Immigration and the American Dream.” In Immigration and Race: New Challenges for American Democracy . Edited by G. D. Jaynes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0300080050.
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  • Passel, Jeffrey S., Randolph Capps, and Michael E. Fix. “Undocumented Immigrants: Facts and Figures.” Urban Institute. January 12, 2004. ( PDF ) ↗
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  • Passel, Jeffrey S. “Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population.” Pew Hispanic Center Report. March 21, 2005. ( PDF ) ↗
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  • Joyce, Patrick. No Fire Next Time: Black-Korean Conflicts and the Future of America’s Cities . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003, chapter 1, and 4. ISBN: 0801488907.
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  • Marks, Mara. “Race and Racial Attitudes a Decade After the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.” Urban Affairs Review 40, no. 1 (2004): 3-18.
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  • Winant, Howard. “Behind Blue Eyes: Whiteness and Contemporary US Racial Politics.” In Off White: Readings on Race, Power and Society . New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 0415913020.
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  • Kim, Claire. “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans.” Politics and Society 27, no. 1 (1999): 105-138.
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  • Omi, Micheal, and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States . 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 0415908647.
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  • “ Structural Racism and Youth Development Issues, Challenges, and Implications .” Roundtable on Community Change Working Paper Series. The Aspen Institute, 2004. ↗
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  • Castells, Manuel. The Power of Identity . 2nd ed. Cornwall, UK: Blackwell Publishers, November 1, 2003. ISBN: 1405107138.
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  • Rogers, Reuel R. “Race-based Coalitions Among Minority Groups: Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and African-Americs in New York City.” Urban Affairs Review 39, no. 3 (2004).
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  • Espiritu, Yen Le. “Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities.” In Not Just Black or White. Edited by N. Foner, and G. M. Fredrickson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. ISBN: 0871542595.
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  • Cruz, Jose E. “Interminority Relations in Urban Settings: Lessons from the Black-Puerto Rican Experience.” In Black and Multiracial Politics in America. Edited by Y. Alex-Assensoh, and L. Hanks. New York: New York University Press. ISBN: 0814706630.
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  • Suarez-Orozco, Carola, and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco. Children of Immigration . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001, chapter 4. ISBN: 0674008383.
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  • Lawrence, Keith, Stacey Sutton, Anne Kubisch, Gretchen Susi and Karen Fulbright-Anderson. “Structural Racism and Community Building.” The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 2004. ( PDF ) ↗
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Fall 2004 · New Century Cities: Real Estate, Digital Technology, and Design

The course draws on faculty members from the Center for Real Estate, the City Design and Development Group (Department of Urban Studies and Planning), and the Media Lab to explore extraordinary projects that challenge conventional approaches to real estate development, urban design, and advanced digital technology.

Readings

  • Castells, Manuel. “The Space of Flows.” The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory . 2nd ed., 1996. Edited by Ida Susser, 2000. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN: 0631219331.
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  • ———. “The Culture of Cities in the Information Age.” The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory . Edited by Ida Susser, 1999. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN: 0631219331.
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  • Townsend, Anthony. “Digitally Mediated Urban Space: New Lessons for Design.” Praxis 6 (2004): 100-105.
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  • Horan, Thomas A. “Wiring Livable Regions.” Chapter 4 in Digital Places: Building Our City of Bits . Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2001. ISBN: 0874208459.
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  • Buy at MIT Press Mitchell, William J. “Software: New Genius of the Place.” Chapter 3 in E-Topia: Urban Life, Jim - But Not As We Know It . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262133555. ↗
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  • Overholt, Alison. “Wireless in San Diego.” Fast Company (January 2004): 84-87.
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  • Frenchman, Dennis. “Media Street Elements, Guidelines, and Illustrations.” Working Paper (MIT), 27 January 2003.
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  • Carey, Zac. “Generation Txt: The Telephone Hits the Street.” In The Cybercities Reader . Edited by Stephen Graham. London and New York: Routledge Urban Reader Series, 2004, pp. 133-137. ISBN: 0415279569.
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  • Rheingold, Howard. “Shibuya Epiphany.” Chapter 1 in Smart Mobs. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2002, pp. 1-28. ISBN: 0738208612.
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  • Lewis, Peter. “Broadband Wonderland.” In Fortune Magazine , September 27, 2004, 191-198.
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  • Rheingold, Howard. “The Era of Sentiment Things.” Chapter 4 in Smart Mobs. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2002, pp. 83-112. ISBN: 0738208612.
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  • Townsend, A. M. “Wired/Unwired: The Urban Geography of Digital Networks.” Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.
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  • Weisman, Robert. “Live-in Lab.” The Boston Globe , October 4, 2004. ↗
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  • Buy at MIT Press Mitchell, William J. “Wireless Bipeds.” Chapter 3 in Me++ . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 41-62. ISBN: 0262633132. ↗
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  • Gershenfeld, Neil, Raffi Kirkorian, and Danny Cohen. “The Internet of Things.” Scientific American 291, no. 4, (October 2004): 46-51.
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  • Kraut, R., V. Lunmark, M. Patterson, S. Kiesler, T. Mukopadhyay, and W. Scherlis. “Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?” American Psychologist 53, no. 9 (1998): 1017-1031.
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  • Hampton, Keith, and Barry Wellman. “Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb.” City and Community 2, no. 4 (2003): 277-311.
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  • Sorin, Matei, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach. “Real and Virtual Social Ties: Connections in the Everyday Lives of Seven Ethnic Neighborhoods.” American Behavioral Scientist 45, no. 3 (2001): 550-564.
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  • Ling, Richard. “The Social Juxtaposition of Mobile Telephone Conversations and Public Spaces.” Conference on the Social Consequences of Mobile Telephone. Chunchon, Korea, 2002.
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  • Bender, Eric. “Social Lives of a Cell Phone.” MIT Technology Review , July 12, 2004.
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  • Leinberger, Christopher B. “Building for the Long Term.” Urban Land Magazine (ULI), November/December 2003.
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  • Eppli, Mark J., and James D. Shilling. “Large Scale Shopping Center Development Opportunities.” 71, no. 1 (February 1995): 35, and 7.
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  • Kerry D., Vandell, and Jonothan S. Lane. “The Economics of Architecture and Urban Design: Some Preliminary Findings.” AREUEA Journal 17, no. 2 (1989): 235-265.
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  • Goldberger, Paul. “Disconnected Urbanism.” Metropolis Magazine , November 2003.
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  • Edward E., Leamer, and Michael Storper. “The Economic Geography of the Internet Age.” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 8450, August 2001.
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Spring 2004 · Sustainable Economic Development

Topics

  • Introduction to Course
  • Introduction to Sustainable Developments Concepts and Theory
  • Concepts and Theory: Brownfields and Neighborhood Development
  • Concepts and Theory: Industrial Ecology and Green Development
  • Brownfields, Economic Base Analysis, and Indicators
  • Field Trip to Sites
  • Apply Previous Class Content to Projects
  • Research Methods: Waste Streams/Emissions and Industry and Cluster Analysis
  • Environmental Justice Issues and Market Analysis
  • Presentation on Preliminary Findings (Team 1)
  • Presentation on Preliminary Findings (Team 2)
  • Feedback, Synthesize, and Reflect
  • Technology Transfer, Green Design, and Industrial Ecology
  • Brownfields and Real Estate Development
  • Small Business Development and Land Use Planning
  • Initial Ideas
  • Elements of a Plan
  • Synthesize
  • Refine and Practice
  • Refine and Practice (cont.)
  • Reflection
  • Final Projects Due

Readings

  • Beatley, Timothy, and Kristy Manning. The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997, chapter 1, and 5. ISBN: 1559634782.
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  • Katz, Bruce, and Jennifer Bradley. “Divided We Sprawl.” The Atlantic Monthly , December 1999, 26-41.
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  • McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. “The Next Industrial Revolution.” The Atlantic Monthly , October 1998, 82-92.
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  • Bates, Timothy. Race, Self-Employment, and Upward Mobility: An Illusive American Dream . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, chapter 1, pp. 1-23. ISBN: 0801857996.
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  • Jepson, E., Jr. “The Conceptual Integration of Planning and Sustainability: An Investigation of Planners In The United States.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 21 (2003): 389-410.
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  • Kibel, Paul. “The Urban Nexus: Open Space, Brownfields and Justice.” Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 25 (1998): 589-618.
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  • Roberts, Brian, and Michael Cohen. “Enhancing Sustainable Development by Triple Value Adding to the Core Business of Government.” Economic Development Quarterly 16, no. 2 (May 2002): 127-137.
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  • Tietz, Michael B. “Neighborhood Economics: Local Communities and Regional Markets.” Economic Development Quarterly 3, no. 2 (May 1989): 111-122.
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  • Waldinger, Roger, Howard Aldrich, and Robin Ward. “Opportunities, Group Characteristics, and Strategies.” In Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies . Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990, pp. 13-49. ISBN: 0803937113.
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  • Rocky Mountain Institute. Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp. 24-65, and 124-190. ISBN: 0471188786.
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  • Kinsley, Michael. “Sustainable Development: Prosperity without Growth.” In Economic Renewal Guide . Old Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, chapter 1. ISBN: 1881071065.
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  • Torrens, I., and Karen Yeager. “The Electric Utility Industry.” In The Ecology of Industry . Edited by Deanna J. Richards and Greg Pearson. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998, pp. 72-100. ISBN: 0309063558.
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  • Abelson, Ned, et al. “Rhode Island Chapter of the American Bar Association’s Brownfields Book.” 2nd ed. 2002.
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  • Bashaw, John R. “Environmental Site Assessment.” Occupational Health & Safety 61, no. 3 (March 1992): 32-33.
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  • Blanchet, R. “Risk Assessments Aid Phase III Audits.” Environmental Protection , April 1992.
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  • Hernandez, L. Building Upon Our Strengths: A Community Guide to Brownfields Redevelopment in the San Francisco Bay Area . Oakland, CA: Urban Habitat Program , 1999, pp. 1-14, 52-57, and 65-68. ↗
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  • Hollander, Jason B. “Measuring Community: Using Sustainability Indicators in Devens, MA.” Planners’ Casebook (January 2002).
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  • National Academies of Sciences. “Concept of Livability Indicators.” In Community and Quality Life: Data Needs for Informed Decision Making . Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2003, chapter 1, pp 23-53. ISBN: 0309082609.
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  • Market Street Services. “Austin, Texas Economic and Demographic Profile.” Phase I Report (May 2003).
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  • Chertow, Marian R., and Daniel C. Esty, eds. Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 1-37. ISBN: 0300073038.
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  • Coogan, P., and T. Greene. “How to Investigate Environmental Health Problems in Your Community.” Boston, MA: JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies. Working Paper, 1997.
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  • Buy at MIT Press Heaton, G., Jr., and R. D. Banks. “Toward a New Generation of Environmental Technology.” In Investing in Innovation . Edited by Lewis Branscomb and James Keller. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, chapter 11, pp. 276-297. ISBN: 9780262522670. ↗
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  • Waits, Mary Jo. “The Added Value of the Industry Cluster Approach to Economic Analysis, Strategy Development, and Service Delivery.” Economic Development Quarterly 14, no. 1 (February 2002): 35-50.
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  • Cairns, Shannon, Jessica Greig, and Martin Wachs. “ Environmental Justice and Transportation: A Citizen’s Handbook .” Institute of Transportation Studies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Berkeley, 2003. ↗
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  • Carn, N., et al. Real Estate Market Analysis: Techniques and Applications . London, UK: International Thompson Publishing Services, Ltd., 1988, Chapter 10, pp. 214-234. ISBN: 0324136560.
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  • Kuehn, R. “The Environmental Justice Implications of Quantitative Risk Assessment.” University of Illinois Law Review 103 (1996).
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  • Rechtscaffen, C., and E. Guana. Environmental Justice: Law, Policy and Regulation . Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002, pp. 217-220, and 226-236. ISBN: 0890894124.
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  • Waxman, Andrew. “Utilizing Economic Theories of Retail to Revitalize Inner-City Neighborhood Business Districts: The Case of Upham’s Corner Main Streets.” MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Masters Thesis, June 1998, chapters 6, and 7.
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  • Beatley, Timothy, and Kristy Manning. The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997, chapter 4. ISBN: 1559634782.
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  • Hershkowitz, Alan. Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism . Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002, pp. 27-51, 87-102, and 197-212. ISBN: 1559638648.
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  • Jolly, Vijay K. Commercializing New Technologies: Getting from Mind to Market . Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 0875847609.
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  • Reamer, Andrew, et al. “Technology Transfer and Commercialization.” Washington, DC: Economic Development Administration, 2003, chapter 4, pp. 111-128.
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  • Romm, J., and W. Browning. “Greening the Building and the Bottom Line: Increasing Productivity through Energy-Efficient Design.” Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 1998. Working paper.
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  • Blakely, E., and T. Bradshaw. “Locality Development.” In Planning Local Economic Development . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002, Chapter 7, pp. 179-196. ISBN: 0761924582.
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  • Eisen, J., “Brownfields of Dreams? Challenges and Limits of Voluntary Cleanup Programs and Incentives.” University of Illinois Law Review 882 (1996).
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  • Hernandez, M. “The Impact of Commercial Development on Inner City Revitalization: An Analysis of Projects in Boston, Cambridge, MA.” MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Master’s Thesis, July 2001.
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  • Simmons, R. Turning Brownfields into Greenbacks: Developing and Financing Environmentally Contaminated Urban Real Estate . Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 1998, pp. 100-110. ISBN: 0874208513.
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  • Buy at MIT Press Shutkin, William. The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty First Century . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000, pp. 167-208. ISBN: 9780262692700. ↗
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  • Blakely, E., and T. Bradshaw. “Business Development.” In Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994, Chapter 8, pp. 217-235. ISBN: 0803952104.
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  • Chertow, Marian R., and Daniel C. Esty, eds. Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 60-76. ISBN: 0300073038.
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  • Grossman, Karen. “Connectors and Conduits: Reaching Competitive Markets from the Ground Up.” The Aspen Institute, 2002, pp. 12-32. ( PDF ) ↗
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  • Lowitt, Peter. “Londonderry Case Study.” and Lowitt, Peter, M. Deppe, T. Leatherwood, and N. Warner. “A Planner’s Overview of Eco-Industrial Development.” Both prepared for American Planning Association Annual Conference, 2000. Unpublished documents.
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  • Sierra Club. “The Dark Side of the American Dream: The Costs and Consequences of Suburban Sprawl.” Sierra Club Sprawl Report. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1998, pp. 1-9.
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Fall 1998 · Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development

Topics

  • Tales of Manhattan: Mapping the Urban Imagination Through Hollywood Film - Henry Jenkins, Professor of Literature, MIT, Director, Master’s Program in Comparative Media Studies
  • The City in Cyberspace: Representation of Community and Place - Tom Campanella, Anne Beamish, Doctoral Candidates, DUSP, MIT
  • Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging - J. Mark Schuster, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
  • Place-Marketing: Using Media to Promote Cities - Briavel Holcomb, Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University
  • Negotiating Conflicting Images - Eugenie Birch, Professor of City Planning, University of Pennsylvania
  • Re-imaging the Rust Belt: The New Cleveland Campaign - Edward Hill, Cleveland State University, Patricia Burgess, Cleveland State University, Ruth Durack, Kent State University
  • Architectural Mega-Projects in Asia: New City Images and New City Form - Larry Ford, Professor of Geography, San Diego State University
  • Rating Place-Ratings - John de Monchaux, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, MIT
  • Inner Cities and Outer Cities - Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and American Studies, Yale University, Alex MacLean, architect/aerial photographer, Cambridge, MA
  • The Images of Commonplace Living in Modern City Regions - Judith Martin, Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota, Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Visiting Professor, MIT
  • City-Imaging after Lynch - Sam Bass Warner, Jr. and Lawrence Vale

Readings

Sources