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Introduction

- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Development of Urban Sociology
- What is Architectural History?
- Beginnings of Architecture

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Getting Urban

- Pre-Historic Settlements
- Mesopotamia

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Theoretical Perspectives I:
Foundations of Urban
Sociology

Land Use Log (4%)

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- Mesopotamia
- Egypt

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Theoretical Perspectives II:

The Interactionist Approach

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SEPT 23

- Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives in Urban Sociology (p. 21-29)

- Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life
- Louis Wirth, Urbanism as a Way of Life

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Chapter 3: The Rise of the Industrial City and Its Problems

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- Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives in Urban Sociology (p. 29-31)

- Lyn Lofland, Privatizing Public Space: Symbolic Transformation in A World of Strangers:
Order and Action in Urban Public Space
Egypt

Theoretical Perspectives III:

Political Economy

- Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives in Urban Sociology (p. 31-36)

- John Logan & Harvey Molotch, The City as a Growth Machine in Urban Fortunes: The
Political Economy of Place

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Good, Bad and Ugly (4%)

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- Indus Valley Civilization

- Aegean Cultures

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Theoretical Perspectives IV:

The LA School and
Postmodern Urbanism

- Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives in Urban Sociology (p. 36-43)

- Mike Davis, Fortress LA in City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Visual Analysis (20%)

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- Aegean Cultures
- Ancient Greece

SEPT 30

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Time and Space in the City

Thomas Gieryn, A Space for Place in Sociology

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Ancient Greece

OCT 2
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Urban Mobility

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OCT 7

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Mimi Sheller and John Urry, The New Mobilities Paradigm

- Etruscan Culture
- Ancient Rome

Urban Velomobility: Cycling

in the City

Zach Furness, Two-Wheeled Terrors and Forty-Year-Old Virgins: Mass Media and the
Representations of Bicycling in One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

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Case Study (20%)

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Ancient Rome

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Midterm #1 (30%)

OCT 9

OCT 14

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Global Cities

Chapter 9: Globalization and the Urban Way of Life

OCT 16

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Urban Governance

Chapter 6: Urban Governance and Local Democracy

OCT 17

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Midterm #1 (15%)
- Byzantium
- Islamic Architecture

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Reading Discussion
OCT 21

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Sub-Urbanism I: Getting
Suburban

Chapter 4: Cities and Suburbs and the Making of a Metropolis

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Route Impressions (4%)

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- Islamic Architecture
- Early Middle Ages

OCT 23
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OCT 28

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Sub-Urbanism II: Getting

Suburban

Robert Putnam, Introduction; Mobility and Sprawl; + What Killed Civic Engagement:
Summing Up in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Interpretation Assignment (25%)

- Romanesque
- Gothic

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Urban Villages and Ethnic

Enclaves

Chapter 5: The City as a Social Mosaic

Gothic
Reading Discussion

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Gentrification

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NOV 4

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Sharon Zukin, Gentrification, Cuisine, and the Critical Infrastructure: Power and Centrality
Downtown in Landscapes of Power: From Detroit To Disney World

South & Central America

Sustainable Cities (Part 1)

Chapter 8: Cities, the Environment, and Sustainable Development

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Site Analysis (20%)

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North America

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Midterm #2 (30%)

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Midterm #2 (15%)

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Chinese & Japanese Traditions

NOV 6

NOV 7

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Urban Planning: Models

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Chapter 7: The City and Urban Planning Models

Research paper draft due for peer-review (35%)

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Renaissance
NOV 18
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Urban Planning: Critiques

Jane Jacobs, Selections from The Death and Life of Great American Cities

North Central LRT Criteria Evaluation (4%)

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Urbanization in the Global

South

- Renaissance
- Baroque

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NOV 25

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Mike Davis: Slum Ecology in Planet of Slums

The Space of Flows and the

Space of Places

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Manuel Castells, The Space of Flows in The Rise of the Network Society

Photo: Disconnected Spaces (4%)

Research paper due

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Baroque

NOV 27

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Social Networks

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DEC 2

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Lee Humphreys, Mobile Social Networks and Urban Public Space

Neo-Classicism/Enlightenment

The Creative Class

Richard Florida, The Creative Economy and The Creative Class in The Rise of the
Creative Class

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TOD Plan Group Presentation [final report due Dec 10] (40%)

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Neo-Classicism/Enlightenment
Reading Discussion

DEC 4
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DEC 5

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Sustainable Citied (Part 2)

Dempsey, Bramley, Power & Brown, The Social Dimension of Sustainable Development:
Defining Urban Social Sustainability

Minitab test (10%)