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Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2005 · The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Planning, Politics and the Idea of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • International Experience: Marshall Plan, the Reconstruction of Japan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • The U.S. Post-September 11 Reconstruction Agenda
  • Social and Political Background for Reconstruction: Politics and Society in Iraq in the 20-21st Century
  • Post-war Planning: Visioning ‘A New Iraq’ and ‘A New Middle East’
  • The U.S. Reconstruction Agenda and Projects in Iraq
  • Political Reconstruction: Building a New Democracy
  • The Role of International Organization in Post-Conflict Reconstructing
  • The Discourse of Iraqis and Arabs on the Reconstruction of a New Iraq
  • Conclusions and Critiques: Planning and Reconstruction; Vision and realities; Stability and Resistance in Iraq
  • Criticism
  • Representations: The Idea of Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Readings

Spring 2001

Topics

  • The West Philadelphia Landscape Project.
  • Frameworks for Action: Water, Infrastructure, Architecture, People.
  • Professional Expertise and Local Knowledge: Understanding the Neighborhood.
  • Tracing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Historical Context for Projects.
  • Tracing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Historical Context for Projects (continued).
  • The Internet and Community Design and Development.
  • Proposals for Projects Due: Presentation and Discussion.
  • Revised Proposals Due. Determine Class Topics.
  • Field trip to Philadelphia. Work with Sulzberger students.
  • Work on Projects.
  • Work on Projects (continued).
  • Finish Projects.
  • Reflect on Projects.
  • Discussion.

Readings

  • Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape. Yale University Press, 1998.
    Listed reading
  • Spirn, Anne Whiston. The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan: A Framework for Action. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1991.
    Listed reading
  • Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press, 1987.
    Listed reading
  • Schon, Donald, Bish Sanyal, and William Mitchell. High Technology and Low-Income Communities . MIT Press, 1998.
    Listed reading
  • Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History . MIT Press, 1995.
    Listed reading
Sources