Cities in Conflict: Theory and Practice

WEEK #: 1 · TITLES: The City as a Social, Legal, and Political Concept · READINGS: Rowe, L. S. “The City in History.” American Journal of Sociology 5, no. 6 (May 1900): 721-745.

Griffeth, Robert, and Carol G. Thomas. The City-State in Five Cultures. Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1981, pp. 181-204.

Frug, Gerald. City Making: Building Community Without Building Walls. Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 3-70, 113-142.

WEEK #: 2 · TITLES: The Nature and Historical Origins of Cities · READINGS: Weber, Max. “The Nature of the City.” In Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities by Sennett, Richard. Meredith Corporation, 1969, pp. 24-46.

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. Harcourt, 1989; first edition 1961, pp. 315-431, 439-445.

WEEK #: 3 · TITLES: The City as Nation (and vice-versa) · READINGS: Vale, Lawrence J. Architecture, Power, and National Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, chapters 3-5.

Trillo, Mauricio Tenorio. “1910 Mexico City: Space and Nation in the City of the Centenario.” Journal of Latin American Studies 20, no. 1 (Feb 1996): 75-104.

WEEK #: 4 · TITLES: The City-Nation Nexus in Global Context · READINGS: Abu-Lughod, Janet. Before European Hegemony: The world system AD 1250 to 1350. Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 51-131.

Tilly, Charles. Capital, Coercion, and European States: AD 990-1990. Blackwell, 1990, pp. 1-66.

Brenner, Neil. “Global Cities, ‘Glocal’ States: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary Europe.” International Political Economy 5, no. 1 (1998): 1-37.

WEEK #: 5 · TITLES: Urban Utopias · READINGS: Olmsted, Frederick Law. “Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns.” Howard, Ebenezer. “The Town-Country Magnet.” Corbusier, Le. “A Contemporary City.” Wright, Frank Lloyd. “Broadacre City: A New Community Plan.” In The City Reader, by Richard Le Gates, and Frederick Stout. Routledge, 2003, pp. 309-330.

Smith, Car. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief. University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 177-270.

_Suggested Readings _ Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope. University of California Press, 2000, pp. 133-196.

Mazlish, Bruce. “A Tale of Two Enclosures: Self and Society as a Setting for Utopia.” Theory, Culture, and Society 20, no. 1 (2003): 3-60.

WEEK #: 6 · TITLES: Cities in National Consolidation and Global Expansion · READINGS: Helmer, Stephen. Hitler’s Berlin: The Speer Plans for Reshaping the Central City. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985, pp. 27-48.

Ladd, Brian. “Nazi Berlin,” and “Divided Berlin.” In The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pages to be specified.

Speer, Albert. “Responsibility and Response.” Journal of Architectural Education 32, no. 2 (1978).

Notaro, Anna. “Resurrecting an Imperial Past: Strategies of self-representation and ‘masquerade’ in fascist Rome (1934-1938).” In The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and experiencing the modern metropolis, by Neal Leach. Routledge, 2002, pp. 59-69.

Suggested Readings

Bose, Sumantra. Bosnia Afer Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention. Oxford University Press, 2002, chapter 3.

WEEK #: 7 · TITLES: Cities and Nationalism · READINGS: Edelman, Murray. “Architecture, Spaces, and Social Order.” In From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions . University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 73-90.

Blockmans, Wim P. “Reshaping Cities: The Staging of Political Transformation.” Journal of Urban History 30, no. 1 (2003): 7-20.

Ghirardo, Diane. “Italian Architects and Fascist Politics: An Evaluation of the Rationalist’s Role in Regime Building.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 39 (1980): 109-27.

Doordan, Dennis P. “The Political Content in Italian Architecture During the Fascist Era.” Art Journal 43, no. 2 (summer 1983): 121-131.

Background Readings

Payne, Stanley G. “What do we mean by Fascism?” In Fascism: Comparisons and Definition . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980.

WEEK #: 8 · TITLES: Rebuilding Nations by Reconstructing Cities · READINGS: Wise, Michael Z. Capital Dilemma: Germany’s Search for a New Architecture of Democracy . Princeton Architectural Press, 1998, pp. 57-80, 121-134.

Ladd, Brian. “Capital of the New Germany.” In The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pages to be specified.

Strom, Elizabeth. Building the New Berlin: The Politics of Urban Development in Germany’s Capital City . Lexington Books, 2001, pp. 159-222.

Leach, Neal. “Erasing the Traces: The ‘denazification’ of post-revolutionary Berlin and Bucharest,” and “Erasing the Traces: the ‘denazification’ of post-apartheid Johannesburg and Pretoria.” In The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and experiencing the modern metropolis . Routledge, 2002, pp. 80-100.

WEEK #: 9 · TITLES: Cities as Spaces for Democracy · READINGS: Sennett, Richard. Spaces of Democracy . Harvard Design Review.

Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope . University of California Press, 2000, pp. 199-255.

Amin, Ash, and Nigel Thrift. Cities: Reimagining the Urban . Polity Press, 2002, pp. 131-159.

Davis, Diane. “In Search of the Public Sphere: Local, National, and International Influences in the Planning of Downtown Mexico City.” Space and Culture (Forthcoming, 2004).

WEEK #: 10 · TITLES: Cities and World Peace · READINGS: Corbusier, Le. “Standards,” “Folly,” “17 Acres,” and “Battle Post.” In UN Headquarters . New York: Reinhold, 1947, pp. 1-24, pp. 55-74.

Vale, Lawrence J. “Designing Global Harmony: Lewis Mumford and the United Nations Headquarters.” In Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual . Edited by Thomas Hughes, and Agatha Hughes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 256-282.

WEEK #: 11 · TITLES: Scales of Agency in a Global World: Individuals, Cities, Nations, and Beyond · READINGS: Mitchell, William. Me ++. MIT Press, 2003, chapters 1 and 2.

Bunnel, Tim. “Cities for Nations? Examining the City-Nation-State Relation in Information Age Malaysia.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16.2 (Jun 2002): 284-298.

Borja, Jordi, and Manuel Castells. “Local and Global: Management of Cities in the Information Age.” Earthscan Publications , 1997, pp. 90-118, 151-192, 204-226, and 254-255.

Brenner, Neil. “Urban Governance and the Production of New State Spaces in Western Europe, 1960-2000.” Review of International Political Economy 11, no. 4 (2004).

WEEK #: 12 · TITLES: Cities and Representation in a Global Age · READINGS: Appadurai, Arjun. “Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Post-national Geography.” In The Anthropology of Space and Place - Locating Culture . Edited by Setha Low, and Denise Lawrence-Zuñiga. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 337-349.

Luke, Timothy W. “Codes, Collectives, and Commodities: Rethinking Global Cities as Metalogistical Spaces.” In Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age . Edited by Louise Krause, and Patrice Petro. Rutgers University Press, 2003, pp. 157-174.

Sassen, Saskia. “Reading the City in a Global Digital Age: Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Politics.” In Global Cities:Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age . Edited by Louise Krause, and Patrice Petro. Rutgers University Press, 2003, pp. 15-30.

Smith, Michael Peter. Transnational Urbanism . Published by Blackwell, 2001, pp. 123-183.

Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope . Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 156-255.

Takjbakhsh, Kian. The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought . Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 162-184.

Lefebre, Henri. Excerpts from “Space and Politics.” In Writings on Cities . Selected, translated and introduced by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas. Blackwell Publishers, 1996, pp. 185-197, and 206-215.

Katznelson, Ira. “Social Justice, Liberalism, and the City: Considerations on David Harvey, John Rawls, and Karl Polanyi.” In The Urbanization of Injustice . Edited by Merrifield and Swyngedouw. Washington Square, New York: New York University Press, 1997, pp. 45-64.

Merrifield, Andy. “Social Justice and Communities of Difference: A Snapshot from Liverpool.” In The Urbanization of Injustice . Edited by Merrifield and Swyngedouw. Washington Square, New York: New York University Press, 1997, pp. 200-222.

Gunn, Simon. “The Spatial Turn: Changing Histories of Space and Place.” In Identities in Space, Contested Terrains in the Western City since 1850 . Edited by Simon Gunn, and Robert J. Morris. Ashgate, 2001, pp. 1-18.

Frug, Gerald E. “The City as a Legal Concept.” In Cities of the Mind: Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences . Edited by Rodwin, and Hollister. Pp. 233-290.

Kalmanowiecki, Laura. “Policing the People, Building the State.” In Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation . Edited by Davis, and Pereira. Pp. 209-231.

Zack, Lizabeth. “The Police Municipale and the Formation of the French State.” In Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation . Edited by Davis, and Pereira. Pp. 281-302.

Philpot, Daniel. “The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments.” In Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives . Edited by Miller, and Hashmi. Pp. 335-360.

Deak, Istvan. “The Rise and Triumph of the East European Nation-State.” Depth: A Journal for Values in Public Policy 2 (1992): 77-95.

Peterson, Roger. Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe. Pp. 17-39, and 95-116.

Varshney, Ashutosh. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India . Introduction, Chap. 1, and Chap. 6

Marx, Anthony. Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Introduction.

Bollens, Scott. On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy and Ethnic Conflict in Jerusalem and Belfast. Pp. 51-268.

Kusno, Abidin. “Violence of Categories: Urban Design and the Making of Indonesian Modernity.” In City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity . Edited by Smith, and Bender. Pp. 15-50.

Goh, Ben Lan. “Stability in Flux: The Ambivalence of State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of Modern Urban Malaysia.” In City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity . Edited by Smith, and Bender. Pp. 51-95.

Bollens, Scott. “Managing Urban Ethnic Conflict.” In Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America . Edited by Hambleton, Savitch, and Stewart. Pp. 108-124.

Kasteloot, Christian, and Henk Merk. “Segregation and Economic Integration of Immigrants in Brussels.” In Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level . Edited by Body-Gendrot, and Martiniello. Pp. 55-73.

Body-Gendrot, Sophie. “The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level.” In Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level . Edited by Body-Gendrot, and Martiniello. Pp. 1-10.

Ballard. “The Signature of Terror.” In Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place . Edited by B. David, and M. Wilson. Pp.13-26.

Kahn, Bonnie Menes. “Constantinople: Diversity and the Origins of Tolerance,” and “Vienna: The Creation of a Public Life.” In Cosmopolitan Culture: The Gilt-edged Dream of a Tolerant City. Pp. 57-94, and 111-170.

Simon, Patrick. “The Mosaic Pattern: Cohabitation between Ethnic Groups in Belleville, Paris.” In Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level . Edited by Body-Gendrot, and Martiniello. Pp. 100-118.

Oldenberg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the Day. Pp. 20-85, and 100-115.

Hambleton, Robin. “The New City Management.” In Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America . Edited by Hambleton, Savitch, and Stewart. Pp. 147-168.

Collinge, Chris, and Alan Srbljanin. “A Network Paradigm for Urban Governance.” In Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America . Edited by Hambleton, Savitch, and Stewart. Pp. 169-194.

Bollens, Scott. On Narrow Ground. Pp. 269-303, and 340-343.

Ryan, Mary. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Pp. 135-303.

Beall, Jo, et. al. Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg. Pp. 3-109, and 175-206.

Khalaf, Samir, and Philip S. Khoury. Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-war Reconstruction . Pp. 101-182.

Genberg, Daniel. “Borders and Boundaries in Post-war Beirut.” In Urban Ethnic Encounters: The Spatial Consequences . Edited by Erdentug, and Colombijn. Pp. 281-296.

Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. Pp. 47-106, and 125-149.

Bollens, Scott. On Narrow Ground. Pp. 307-309.

Bose, Sumatra. Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention. Pp. 1-148.

Bringa, Tone. Being Muslim the Bosnian Way. Pp. 12-84.

Herzog, Larry. Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Pp. 13-32.

Hardin, Russell. One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict . Chap. 7 and other selected pages.

Bellamy, Richard, and Dario Castiglione. “Between Cosmopolis and Community: Three Models of Rights and Democracy within the European Union.” In Re-imagining Political Community . Edited by Archibugi, Held, and Kohler. Pp. 152-178.

Kohler, Martin. “From the National to the Cosmopolitan Public Sphere.” In Re-imagining Political Community . Edited by Archibugi, Held, and Kohler. Pp. 232-251.

Faist, Thomas. “Economic Activities of Migrants in Transnational Social Spaces.” In Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighborhood Level . Edited by Body-Gendrot, and Martiniello. Pp. 11-25.

Jouve, Bernard, and Christian Lefevre. “Metropolitan Governance and Institutional Dynamics.” In Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America . Edited by Hambleton, Savitch, and Stewart. Pp. 185-200.

Appuradai. “Sovereignity without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography.” In The Anthropology of Space and Place . Edited by S. Low, and D. Lawrence-Zuniga. Pp. 337-349.