11.S945
Special Subject: Urban Studies and Planning
For graduate students wishing to pursue further study in advanced areas of urban studies and city and regional planning not covered in regular subjects of instruction.
Spring 2019 · Equity & Inclusion: Local Policy-Driven Strategies for Economic Development & the Just City
This course explores equity as a key value, measure, and framework for operationalizing local economic development plans and policies. It examines the implementation of local policy initiatives for equity in U.S. cities and investigates a wide range of contemporary theory and practice in the field of urban economic development, from contracting and municipal procurement to arts and culture-driven approaches.
Readings
- Forester, John. 1993. Critical Theory, Public Policy, and Planning Practice: Toward a Critical Pragmatism . Albany: State University of New York Press. 1–34. ISBN: 9780791414453.
- Fainstein, Susan. 2010. The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Introduction and Chapter 1, 1–56. ISBN: 9780801476907.
- Sandercock, Leonie. 1998. Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities. Chichester: Wiley. 129–159. ISBN: 9780471971986.
- King, Martin Luther. 1963. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in Rieder, Jonathan, Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle that Changed a Nation. 2013. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN: 9781620400593.
- Gans, Herbert J. 1991. People, Plans and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism and other National Urban Problems. New York: Basic Books. ISBN: 9780231074032.
- Klemek, Christopher. 2011. The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226005959.
- Giloth, Robert P. 2007. “Investing in Equity: Targeted Economic Development for Neighborhoods and Cities” and “Full Employment and Local Workforce Politics and Policies” in Bennett, Michael I.J. and Robert P. Giloth (eds.), Economic Development in American Cities: the Pursuit of an Equity Agenda. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN: 9780791471333.
- Scott, James C. 1998. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN: 9780300070163.
- Castells, Manuel et al. 2017. Another Economy Is Possible: Culture And Economy In A Time Of Crisis. Cambridge: Polity Press. Introduction (1-4) and Conclusion (205–214). ISBN: 9781509517213.
- Storper, Michael et al., 2015. The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies. Palo Alto: Stanford Press. Chapters 2, 9, 10. ISBN: 9781503600669.
- Soja, Edward W. 1989. “Urban and Regional Debates: The First Round” in Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. London: Verso. 94–117. ISBN: 9781844676699.
- Moskowitz, Peter. 2017. How to Kill A City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood. New York: Nation Books. ISBN: 9781568589039.
- Anderson, Martin. 1963. The Federal Bulldozer: A Critical Analysis of Urban Renewal, 1949–1962. “Introduction: Renewal by Government Decree,” “The Consequences,” “Urban Renewal and the Constitution.” Cambridge: MIT Press. 1–14; 52–72; 183–193. ISBN: 9780262010115.
- Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. 2016. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 191–219. ISBN: 9781608465620.
- Diaz, David. 2005. Barrio Urbanism: Chicanos, Planning, and American Cities. “Barrio Logic and the Consolidation of Chicanas/os in the City, 1945–1975.” New York: Routledge. 49–62. ISBN: 9780415945424.
- Davis, Diane E. 2006. “Conflict, Cooperation, Convergence: Globalization and the Politics of Downtown Development in Mexico City” in Harland Prechel (ed.), Politics and Globalization (Research in Political Sociology vol. 15). 139–174. ISBN: 9780762313167.
- Triece, Mary. 2016. Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century. London: Lexington Books. 9–27. ISBN: 9780739193839.
- Incite! (ed.). 2017. The Revolution will not be Funded: Beyond the Non-profit Industrial Complex. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN: 9780822369004.
- Harris, Fredrick C. 2002. “Collective Memory, Collective Action and Black Activism in the 1960s” in Minow, Martha (ed.), Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 154–169. ISBN: 9780691096636.
- Fraser, Nancy. 2013. Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis. New York: Verso. Chapters 9 and 10. ISBN: 9781844679843.
- Lanier, Jaron. 2013. Who Owns the Future? New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 9781451654974.
- Euchner, Charles C. and Stephen J. McGovern. 2003. “Economic Development and the Construction of Opportunity” in Urban Policy Reconsidered: Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities. New York: Routledge. 93–134. ISBN: 9780415944717.
- DeFilippis, James. 2004. Unmaking Goliath: Community Control In The Face Of Global Capital. New York: Routledge. Chapter 2. ISBN: 9780415945257.
- Bullard, Robert D. (ed.). 1994. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. ISBN: 9780871563804.
- Florida, Richard. 2002. The Rise of the Creative Class. New York: Basic Books. ISBN: 9780465024766.
- Woo, Roosten, Meredith TenHoor, and Damon Rich. 2010. Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN: 9781568988979.
- Clark, Terry Nichols. 2004. “Urban Amenities: Lakes, Opera, and Juice Bars: Do They Drive Development?” in Clark, Terry Nichols (ed.), The City as an Entertainment Machine. Lanham: Lexington Books. 103–140. ISBN: 9780739124222.
- Glaeser, Edward L., Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz. 2004. “Consumers and Cities” in Clark (ed.), The City as an Entertainment Machine. 135–141. ISBN: 9780739124222.
- Week #: 13 · Topics: Public Roundtable · Readings: No readings assigned.
- Week #: 14 · Topics: Final Presentations · Readings: No readings assigned.
Fall 2013 · Urbanizing China: A Reflective Dialogue
Topics
- Multiple Interpretations: Urbanization Out of Sync
- Is China an Outlier? China’s Urbanization in the Historical and International Contexts
- Fundamentals: Hukou and Migration
- Land-use and Public Finance Institutions in China: An Overview
- Land Quota Market in Chongqing and Chengdu: De-spatialize Land Transfer
- Brownfields in Beijing Chemical Plant: How Cities Recycle Industrial Land
- Integrating the Proposed Property Tax with the Public Leasehold System
- Module Summary; Student Presentations for Phase 1: Ideas
- Dispersion of Urban Agglomeration through High-Speed Rail
- Managing Car Ownership in Chinese Mega Cities
- Costs of Air Pollution: Focusing on its Human Health Damage
- Advancing Low-Carbon Cities: Pathways through CERC
- Module Summary; Student Presentations for Phase 2: Proposals
- Progress in Energy Efficiency: Technology, Policy and Market in China’s Automobile Sectors
- Financing Urban Access: Transportation, Form and Land Grabbing
- Understanding and Untangling Complex Urban Issues through Emerging Big Data
- Module Summary; Student Presentations for Phase 3: Literature
- Drifting and Getting Stuck: Migrants in Chinese Cities
- Urbanization vs. Citizenization: Self-employed Migrants in Wangjingxi Market
- Spatial Justice in Affordable Housing Design in Ningbo
- Preserving Beijing’s Spatial Tradition in Rapid Urban Development
- Aging Society: Offering Care to the Elderly in the Confucius Society
- Forging Greater Xi’an: New Regional Strategies and their Urban Outcomes
- Social Housing in China—Explorations, Practices, and Dilemmas
- Course Summary: Alternative Narratives of China’s Urbanization; Student Presentations for Phase 4: Team Project
Readings
- Man, J. Y., and Y. Hong, eds. “Introduction.” In China’s Local Public Finance in Transition . Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010. ISBN: 9781558442016.
- Button, K. J. “The Theory of City Size and Spacing.” Chapter 6 in Urban Economics: Theory and Policy . Palgrave Macmillan, 1976. ISBN: 9780333185957.
- 5 · Land Quota Market in Chongqing and Chengdu: De-spatialize Land Transfer · Hsing, You-tien. Chapters 4, and 7 in The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China . Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780199568048.
- Li, X. “Environmental Governance of Brownfields in Deindustrializing Regions: Implications of a Land-Redevelopment Case in China.” Working paper, 2013.
- 7 · Integrating the Proposed Property Tax with the Public Leasehold System · Hong, Y., and D. Brubaker. “Integrating the Proposed Property Tax with the PublicLeasehold System.” Chapter 9 in China’s Local Public Finance in Transition . Edited by J. Y. Man, and Y. Hong. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010. ISBN: 9781558442016.
- Castro, M., and J. Zhao. “Price as a Signal for Policy Fine-tuning A Time-Series Model of Shanghai’s License Auction.” Working paper, 2013.
- 16 · Financing Urban Access: Transportation, Form and Land Grabbing · Zhao, J., D. Block-Schachter, and D. Wang. “Behavioral Impact of the Financing Collection Mechanism on Accessibility: Two Cases from Chinese Cities.” 2013.
- Mao, Q. “Preservation in the Old City of Beijing: The “Hutong-Courtyard Housing” System.” Ekistics 73 (2006): 436–441.
- Heikkila, E. “Beijing: Lost in Translation ?” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 28, no. 1 (2011): 76.
- Chang, L. T. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China . Spiegel & Grau, 2009. ISBN: 9780385520188.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department Units arranged Can be repeated for credit.
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