seminar in urban geography - spring 2012

8/10/2019 seminar in urban geography - spring 2012

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Prof. Mark Davidson (md

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Purpose and scope

This seminar explores some of the fundamental paradigms and developments in urban theory. Roughlystructured along temporal lines, the seminar progresses to examine how theoretical imports and formulationshave continually shaped the questions and concerns of urban geography. We will therefore discuss howtheoretical movements such as positivism and postmodernism have shaped geographical thinking and,

consequently, impacted upon how geographers have thought about cities and urban development.The main objectives of the course are therefore (i) to understand how various theoretical perspectives haveshaped the study of cities and (ii) develop a critical and comparative understanding of different approaches tourban questions. As such, during our discussions we will be required to be aware of, and examine, howdifferent ontological and epistemological positions intertwine within urban theor(ies).

Delivery

The seminar will take the form of a reading group, where each of the students will select a reading which theywould like to introduce and discuss with the group. For selected readings, students should identify themesand/or issues that arise from their study. For example, the methodological basis of a set of theories may beraised and discussed or, alternatively, the positionality of a set of theorists e.g. the LA School might be a

theme raised in the seminar. We will aim to give approximately 30 minutes to each selected reading, howeverproductive discussions will be given preference over strict timekeeping.

Importantly, the seminar is designed as a forum to discuss and explore the issues raised in the readings.Whilst you will be knowledgeable about many aspects of urban theory, it is simply impossible to have aprecise working understanding of each. Our emphasis is therefore upon shared and co-operative explorations,using the advantages of a group seminar to examine the readings from each of our own perspectives.

As with all seminar groups, you will get out what you put in; preparing is key. You should carefully read all ofthe selected readings and have an understanding of their theoretical foundations.

Assessment

The course uses a variety of assessment methods. These are:

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Reading preparation(20%): At the end of each seminar, you will be asked to provide (i) a shortsummary (200 words) of each assigned reading and (ii) a list of questions/discussion topics for yourparticular assigned reading. This submission can be annotated during the seminar discussion, but itshould demonstrate evidence of your preparation, comprehension of the readings and intellectualengagement.

- Class participation(20%): In-class discussions are pivotal to the learning outcomes of this course. It isintended to both introduce you the subject matter and begin your intellectual engagement. As such,discussing the readings during class is a learning priority. You will be graded on your participation,listening and engagement with others.

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Reaction paper(20%): You will be required to write a short (2000 words) reaction paper midwaythrough the course. You will be asked to respond to a statement. This statement will relate to oneaspect of the first part of the course.

- Final paper(40%): In the latter half of the semester, you will be required to write an extend paper(4000 words) that debates/discusses various aspects of the urban geography literature. This paper

will give you the opportunity to explore elements of the course that have particularly interested you.


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Access to readings and books

Most of the assigned readings are available on the course webpage in pdf format. Where it is not possible toput the readings online, they will be distributed in hardcopy during the classes. Some of the supplementaryand recommended reading materials will not be made available in pdf, however they are available in thelibrary.

Topics

Week One Introduction

Week Two The Urban Question

Week Three Contemporary Urban Question(s)

Week Four The Chicago School and its Legacies

Week Five Urban Systems

Week Six No class (AAG)

Week Seven No class (spring break)

Week Eight Place

Week Nine Nature of cities

Week Ten Neoclassical

Week Eleven Behavioral

Week Twelve Structural

Week Thirteen Postmodern

Week Fourteen Cultural

Week Fifteen Theory at work: Gentrification

Website

The syllabus, grades, readings, and other assignments will be posted on the course website (Cicada:https://cicada.clarku.edu), and/or distributed in hardcopy.

Honor Code

Clark Universitys policies of academic integrity apply to every aspect of this course. Please seewww.clarku.edu/offices/aac/integrity.cfm if you have any questions about what this entails.

Special NeedsPersons with disabilities or in need of special accommodations to meet the expectations of this course andtake full advantage of learning opportunities are encouraged to contact the office of Disability Services assoon as possible to request such accommodations. Disability Services is located in the Academic AdvisingCenter, 142 Woodland Street, second floor, 508-793-7468. In addition, it would be helpful to bring this to theinstructors attention as early as possible.


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The Urban QuestionMonday, January 30, 2012

ClassicsMumford, L. 1995. The culture of cities. In Kasinitz, P. ed.Metropolis: Center and symbol for our times. New York:

New York University Press. P

Mumford, L. 1996[1937]. What is a City, In: LeGates, R. and Stout, F. eds. The City Reader. London:Routledge, 183-188 P

Tonnies, F. 1955[1887].Community and Society (Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft). London: Dover Publications PSimmel, G. 1995[1903]. The metropolis and mental life. In: Kasinitz, P. ed. 1995.Metropolis: Center and symbol for our

times. New York: New York University Press; 30-45 P

Simmel, G. 1950[1908] The Stranger, In: Wolff, K. (Trans.) The Sociology of Georg Simmel. New York: FreePress, 402-408. P

Wirth, L. 1938. Urbanism as a way of life.American Journal of Sociology44, 1-24 POn Wirth: Guterman, S. 1969. In defense of Wirths Urbanism as a way of life.American Journal of

Sociology74:492-499 P

Intellectual context

Durkheim, E. 1893. The Division of Labor in Society 11-67 PDurkheim, E. 1957. Professional Ethics and Civic Morals1-41 PKropotkin, P. 1902.Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution84-118 PKropotkin, P. 1913. Fields, factories and workshops: or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual

work. Chapters: Brain Work and Manual Work and Conclusion PWeber, M. 1930. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Routledge. Part I: The Problem,

1-50 P

CommentariesPope, W. and Johnson, B. 1983. Inside Organic Solidarity,American Sociological Review, 48(5), 681-692 P

Adair-Toteff, C. 1995. Ferdinand Tonnies: Utopian Visionary, Sociological Theory, 13(1), 58-65 P


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Chicago School and its LegacyMonday, February 13, 2012

From Chicago and alikeBurgess, E. 1923. The growth of the city: an introduction to a research project. Publications of the American

Sociological Society, 18, 86-97.

Clements, F. 1916. Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation. Carnegie Institute of WashingtonPublication, No. 242. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution

Cressey, P. (1932). The Taxi-Dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City LifeDuBois W. E. B. 1967[1899]. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. New York: Shocken Books. pp. 1-9; 58-65;

287-355Frazier, E. 1937. Negro Harlem: an ecological study.American Journal of Sociology43:72-88Hawley, A.H. 1943. Ecology and Human Ecology, Social Forces22: 398-405Park, R. 1915. The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment,

American Journal of Sociology, 20(5), 577-612Park, R. 1936. Human ecology.American Journal of Sociology42: 349.Zorbaugh, H. 1929. The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicagos Near North Side. Chicago:

University of Chicago, 159-181

After ChicagoBauder, H. 2002. Neighbourhood effects and cultural exclusion, Urban Studies, 39(1), 85-93Putnam, R. 1993. The prosperous community: Social capital and public life. The American Prospect13, 35-42.

Vasishth, A. and Sloane, D. 2002. Returning to ecology: an ecosystem approach to understanding the city. In:Dear, M. ed., From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: SagePublications. pp. 343-366 P

Young, I.M. 1989. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship,Ethics,99(2), 250-274

Recommended Further ReadingFernandez-Kelly, P. 1994. Towandas triumph: Social and cultural capital in the transition to adulthood in the

urban ghetto. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research18:88-111Lyon, L. 1989. The concept of community. In The community in urban society, ed. L. Lyon. Toronto: Lexington

Books.Garber, J. 1995. Defining feminist community: Place, choice, and the urban politics of difference. In Gender in

Urban Research, eds. J. Garber and R.Turner. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage.Sampson, R. 2008. After School Chicago: Space and the City, Urban Geography, 29(2), 127-137

Joseph, M. 2002.Against the Romance of Community. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.Wacquant, L. 1998. Negative social capital: State breakdown and social destitution in America's urban core,

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 13(1), 25-40Wacquant, L. 2008. Ghettos and Anti-Ghettos: An Anatomy of the New Urban Poverty,Thesis Eleven94

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The Urban System/Globalization and Global CitiesMonday, February 20, 2012

Amin, A. 2002. Spatialities of Globalisation,Environment and Planning A, 34, 385-399 PBeaverstock, J., Smith, R. and Taylor, P. 2000. World-City Network: A New Meta-geography?Annals of the

Association of American Geographers, 90(1), 123-34 P

Borchert, J. 1967. American metropolitan evolution. Geographical Review57, 301-332. PBrenner, N. and Theodore, N. 2002. Cities and the Geographies of Actually Existing Neoliberalism.

Antipode34(3): 349-379. PCastells, M. 1999. Grassrooting the Space of Flows. In: Wheeler, J., Aoyama, Y. and Warf, B. eds. Cities in the

telecommunications age: the fracturing of geographies. Routledge: London. BKnox, P. 1997. Globalization and urban economic change.Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Science, 551, 17-27 POlds, K. 1995. Globalization and the production of new urban spaces: Pacific Rim megaprojects in the late

20th century,Environment and Planning A, 27(11), 1713-44 LSassen, S. 1996. Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims, Public Culture, 8, 205-223

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Globalization theoristsBauman, Z. (1998) Globalization : the human consequences (Columbia University Press: New York) 1-26,55-76

Beck, U. (2000) What is globalization? (Polity Press: Cambridge) 17-63, 115-128

Recommended Further ReadingUrban SystemMeyer, D. 1983. Emergence of the American manufacturing belt: an interpretation.Journal of Historical

Geography9:165-174. PKrugman, P. 1992. Geography and Trade. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1-33 BPred, A. 1966. The spatial dynamics of U.S. urban industrial growth, 1800-1914: interpretive and theoretical essays.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (pp 1-85) LScott, A. 1988.Metropolis. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp. 1-8; 44-60 (Chapters

1& 4) PHoch, I. 1972. Income and City Size, Urban Studies, 9(3), 299-328

International Cities, Globalization, and DevelopmentHamnett, C (1994) Social polarisation in global cities: theory and evidence, Urban Studies, 31, 401-424 PNijman, J. 2000. The Paradigmatic City,Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(1), 135-145 PRobinson, J. 2004. In the tracks of comparative urbanism: difference, urban modernity, and the primitive.

Urban Geography25(8): 709-723 PMitlin, D. 2001. Civil society and urban poverty - examining complexity,Environment & Urbanization, 13(2),

151-173 PMitlin, D. and Satterthwaite, B. 2004. Introduction. In D. Mitlin and D. Satterthwaite, eds.,Empowering

Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction. London and Sterling, VA:

Earthscan. pp. 1-21. P


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Localities/Politics of PlaceMonday, March 12, 2012

Castells, M. 1983. The city and the grass roots: a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements, 291-336 (Ch. 28,conclusion). Berkeley: University of California Press. P

Coaffee, J. and Healey, P. 2003. My Voice: My Place: Tracking Transformations in Urban Governance,

Urban Studies, 40(10), 1979-1999 PCochrane, A. 1991. The changing state of local government: restructuring for the 1990s, Public Administration,

69(3), 281302Cox, K. 2001. Territoriality, politics, and the urban. Political Geography. 20: 745-762. PCox, K. 2011. From the New Urban Politics to the New Metropolitan Politics, Urban Studies, 48(12), 2661-

2671Cox, K. and Jonas, A. 1993. Urban development, collective consumption and the politics of metropolitan

fragmentation, Political Geography, 12(1), 8-37Cox, K. and Mair, A. 1988. Locality and community in the politics of local economic development. Annals of

the Association of American Geographers. 78 (2): 307-325 PGoldsmith, M. 1995. Autonomy and City Limits, in Judge, D, Stoker, G. & Wolman, H. (eds) Theories of

Urban Politics(London: Sage) 228-252

Jonas, A. and Gibbs, D. 2011. The New Urban Politics as a Politics of Carbon Control, Urban Studies, 48(12),2537-2554Jonas, A., While, A. and Gibbs, D. 2010. Managing Infrastructural and Service Demands in New Economic

Spaces: The New Territorial Politics of Collective Provision, Regional Studies, 44(2), 183-200Logan, J.R. and Molotch, H. 1987. Urban fortunes: the political economy of place. (Berkeley, CA: University of

California Press) Chapters 1, 3 and 5Massey, D. 1991. The political place of locality studies.Environment and Planning A23, 267-281 PMolotch, H. 1976. The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place, The American Journal

of Sociology, 82(2), 309-332. PWard K. 2000. A critique in search of a corpus: Re-visiting governance and re-interpreting urban politics,

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 25(2), 169-185

Recommended Further ReadingCox, K. and Mair, A. 1989. Levels of abstraction in locality studies.Antipode 21:121-132. PCooke, P. 1989. Locality theory and the poverty of spatial variation.Antipode 21:261-273, PElden, S. 2004. Between Marx and Heidegger: Politics, Philosophy and Lefebvres The Production of Space,

Antipode, 36(1) 86-105 PFainstein, N. and S. Fainstein. 1985. Urban restructuring and the rise of urban social movements. Urban

Affairs Quarterly21:187-206 PMartin, D. and Miller, B. 2003. Space and Contentious Politics.Mobilization: An International Journal8(2): 143-

156 PMassey, D. 1979. In what sense a regional problem? Regional Studies13:233-243 P


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The Nature of CitiesMonday, March 19, 2012

Von ThunenBeckmann, M. 1972. Von Thnen Revisited: A Neoclassical Land Use Model, The Scandinavian Journal of

Economics, 74, 1-7 P

Burghardt, A. 1971. A Hypothesis about Gateway Cities,Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 61,2,269-285 P

Sinclair, R. 1967. Von Thunen and urban sprawl.Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 57, 72-87 P[Replies: Peet, J.R., "The Present Pertinence of Von Thuenen Theory; Horvath, R.J., "Von Thuenenand Urban sprawl"; Sinclair, "Comment in Reply" Annals (AAG), 57(4), Dec 1967, pp. 810-5 P

Vance, J. 1971. Land Assignment in the Precapitalist, Capitalist, and Postcapitalist City,Economic Geography,47(2) 101-120 P

Economic theoristsVeblen, T. 1898. Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 12,Marshall, A. 1920. Principles of Economics. Book IV: The Agents of Production. Land, Labour, Capital and

Organization

Harris and UllmanHarris, C. and Ullman, E. 1945. The Nature of Cities.Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Sciences,242, 7-17 PLake, R.1997. Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman The Nature of Cities: A fiftieth year commemoration.

Urban Geography, 18(1), 1-3 PAgnew, J. 1997. Commemoration and criticism: Fifty years after the publication of Harris and Ullmans The

Nature of Cities. Urban Geography. 18(1):4-6 PLichtenberger, E. 1997. Harris and Ullmans The Nature of Cities: The papers historical context and its

impact on future research. Urban Geography. 18(1):7-14.

Social Area Analysis and Factorial EcologyBerry, B. and Rees, P., 1969. "The factorial ecology of Calcutta",American Journal of Sociology, 74, 447-491 PHunter, A. 1972. Factorial Ecology: A Critique and Some Suggestions, Demography, 1, 9, 107-117 PSpielman, S. and Thill, J.P. 2008. Social area analysis, data mining, and GIS, Computers, Environment and Urban

Systems, 32, 2, 110-122 PGu, C., Wang, F. and Liu, G. 2005. The Structure of Social Space in Beijing in 1998: A Socialist City in

Transition, Urban Geography, 26, 2, 167-192 PJohnston, R. 1971. Some Limitations of Factorial Ecologies and Social Area Analysis,Economic Geography, 43,

314-323 PBell, W. 1958. The utility of the Shevky typology for the design of urban sub-area field studies.Journal of Social

Psychology47, 73-83.Berry, B. 1971. Introduction: the logic and limitations of comparative factorial ecology.Economic Geography47,

207-219. PShevky, E. and Bell, W. 1955. Social area analysis: theory, illustrative applications and computational procedures.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. P

Philosophical rootsComte, A. 1856.A general view of positivism, chapter 1Horkheimer, M. 1947.Eclipse of Reason, Chapter Two: Conflicting Panaceas, 58-91Popper, K. 1935. The Logic of Scientific Discovery3-35

Recent defense of factorial ecologyWyly, E. 2009. Strategic Positivism,Professional Geographer, 61(3), 310-322 P


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Behavioral and InstitutionalMonday, April 02, 2012

BehavioralButtimer, A. 1976. Grasping the Dynamism of Life World. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 66,

277-92Lynch, K. 1960. The Image of the City. MIT Press, Cambridge BDowns, R. 1970. The cognitive structure of an urban shopping center,Environment and Behavior, 2, 13-39Golledge R. 1981. Misconceptions, misinterpretations, and misrepresentations of behavioral approaches in

human geography,Environment and Planning A, 13(11) 1325-1344 LKitchen, R. 1994. Cognitive maps: What are they and why study them?Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14, 1,

1-19 PKwan, M. 1999. Gender and Individual Access to Urban Opportunities: A Study Using SpaceTime

Measures. Professional Geographer51: 211-227 PLey, D. 1977. Social Geography and the Taken-for-Granted World,Transactions of the Institute of British

Geographers, 2(4), 498-512 P

Philosophical underpinningsSmith, A.D. 2003. Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations. London: Routledge. 1-59 PMerleau-Ponty, M. 1945. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge, 3-76 P

Philosophizing on placeCasey, E. 1998. The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press) 202-242,

285-330Heidegger, M. 1951. Building, Dwelling, ThinkingMalpas, J. 2007. Heideggers Topology(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) 1-38

Tuan, Y. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) 3-50

Further reading

Cox, K. and Golledge, R. eds. 1981. Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited. London: Methuen LLey, D. 1974. The Black inner city as frontier outpost: Images and behavior of a Philadelphia neighborhood. Washington

DC: Association of American Geographers. B

InstitutionalBoddy, M. 1976. The structure of mortgage finance: building societies and the British social formation',

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, N.S. I, 58-71 PClark, W. 1986. Residential segregation in American cities: a review and interpretation. Population Research and

Policy Review5: 95-127 PDe Souza Briggs, X. 1999. In the Wake of Desegregation: Early Impacts of Scattered-Site Public Housing on

Neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York, Journal of the American Planning Association, 65(1), 27-49De Souza Briggs, X. 2006. After Katrina: Rebuilding Places and Lives, City and Community, 5(2), 119-128

Farrell, C. 2008. Bifurcation, Fragmentation or Integration? The Racial and Geographical Structure of USMetropolitan Segregation, 1990-2000, Urban Studies, 45(3), 467-499

Galster, G. 2007. Neighborhood Social Mix as a Goal of Housing Policy: A Theoretical Analysis,EuropeanJournal of Housing Policy, 7 (1), 19-43

Gray, F. 1975. Non-Explanation in Urban Geography. Area, 7, 228-32 PHirsch, A. 1983. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960.Cambridge, UK and New

York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-39; 100-134; 212-275 (Chs 1, 4, 7, Epilogue) B


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Jackson, K. 1985.Crabgrass Frontier.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 190-230 (Chapter11: Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American HousingMarket) L

Musterd, S. and Deurloo, R. 2002. Unstable Immigrant Concentrations in Amsterdam: Spatial Segregationand Integration of Newcomers, Housing Studies, 17(3), 487-503

Wyly, E. et al. 2007. Subprime Mortgage Segmentation in the American Urban System, Tijdschrift voor

Economische en Sociale Geografie, 99(1) 323 P

Recommended Further ReadingJackson, K. 1985.Crabgrass Frontier.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 190-230 (Chapter

12: The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States) LWilson, W. 1987. Social change and social dislocations in the inner city, and The hidden agenda, in The

Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy.Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, pp. 20-62, 140-164 L

Yinger, J. 1995. Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination.New York: RussellSage Foundation. Pp. 31-61 L


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StructuralMonday, April 09, 2012

Castells, M. 1977. The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 1-72, 115-128; 234-242 B

Pred, A. 1984. Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming

Places. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 74(2): 279-97 PHarvey, D. 1989. From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in

Late Capitalism, Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, 71(1), 3-17 P

Nice collection of structural discussionsBoddy, M. 1973. Urban Political Economy: Introduction,Antipode, 5(1), 1-2 PLee, R. 1973. Public Finance and Urban Economy: Some Comments on Spatial Reformism,Antipode, 5(1),

44-50 PPickvance, C. 1973. Housing, Reproduction of Capital, and the Reproduction of Labour Power: Some recent

French Work,Antipode, 5(1), 58-68 PPreteceille, E. 1973. Urban Planning: The Contradictions of Capitalist Urbanisation,Antipode, 5(1), 69-76 P

Theoretical contextAlthusser, L. 1969. For Marx. London: Allen Lane. 219-248Lefebvre, H. 2003. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota PressKolakowski, L. 1971. Althussers Marx, Socialist Register, 111-28

The Production of Space: Shifting Structural PerspectivesLefebvre, H. 1991[1974] The Production of Space. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Chapter. 1 pp. 1-67, read closely

pp. 31-59 PMerrifield, A. 1993. Place and space: a Lefebvrian reconciliation.Transactions of the British Institute of Geography,

N.S. 18: 516-531 PRobinson, J. 1997. The geopolitics of South African cities: States, citizens, territory, Political Geography, 16(5),

365-386 P

Recommended Further ReadingPred, A. 1986. Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformation in Southern Sweden, 1750-1850. Totowa,

NJ: Barnes & Noble Books. LLefebvre, H. 1996.Writings on Cities. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. pp. 209-215 PRobinson, J. 2005. The Urban Basis of Emancipation: spatial theory and the city in South African politics. In

The Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and Possibilities, ed. L. Lees. London and New Delhi: SagePublications. B


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Postmodern, Post-structural, and Cultural StudiesMonday, April 16, 2012

The Postmodern CityFlorida, R. 2002. The Economic Geography of Talent.Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92, 743-

755.

Harvey, D. 1989. The condition of postmodernity: an inquiry into the origins of cultural change. New York: Blackwell. Ch4, pp. 66-98 & Part II, pp. 119-197 B

Harvey, D. 1990. Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization Reflections on "Post-Modernism" in theAmerican City, Perspecta, 26, 251-272 P

Knox, P. 1991. The restless urban landscape: economic and sociocultural change and the transformation ofmetropolitan Washington, D.C. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 81(2): 181-209 P

Mabin, A. 1995. On the problems and prospects of overcoming segregation and fragmentation in southernAfricas cities in the postmodern era. In Postmodern cities and spaces,eds.S. Watson and K. Gibson.New York: Blackwell B

Massey, D. 1991. Flexible sexism.Environment and Planning D: Society and Space9:31-57 PWatson, S and Gibson, K. 1995. Postmodern spaces: Cities, politics. In Postmodern cities and spaces, eds. S.

Watson and K. Gibson. New York: Blackwell. B

Philosophical underpinningsAnderson, P. 1998.The Origins of Postmodernity. London: Verso. PLyotard, J.F. 1979. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Post-modern and post-structuralist perspectives: emerging cultural studiesDear, M. 1991. The Premature Demise of Postmodern Urbanism, Cultural Anthropology, 6(4), 538-552 PGibson, K. 1998. Social polarization and the politics of difference: discourses in collision or collusion? In

Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford Press: Guilford. pp. 301-316 BMassey, D. 1997. Space/power, identity/difference: tensions in the city. In A. Merrifield and E. Swyngedouw,

eds., The Urbanization of Injustice. New York: New York University Press. BPile, S. 2010. Emotions and affect in recent human geography, Transactions of the Institute of British

Geographers, 35(1), 5-20Rose, G., Degen, M. and Basdas, B. 2010. More on 'big things': building events and feelings, Transactions of the

Institute of British Geographers, 35, 334-349Storper, M. 2001. The Poverty of Radical Theory Today: from the false promises of Marxism to the mirage of

the cultural turn, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25(1), 155-179 PWyly, E. 1999. Continuity and change in the restless urban landscape.Economic Geography75:309-339. P

Recommended Further ReadingAnderson, K. 1987. The idea of Chinatown: The power of place and institutional practice in the making of a

racial category.Annals of the Association of American Geographers77(4):580-598 PHoelscher, S. 2003. Making place, making race: performances of whiteness in the Jim Crow South. Annals of

the Association of American Geographers 93(3): 657-686 P

Dear, M. and Flusty, S. 1998. Postmodern Urbanism,Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88, 1, 50-72 P


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Cultural Studies/DifferenceMonday, April 23, 2012

Urban cultural geographiesJacobs, J and Fincher, R. 1998. Introduction. In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford

Press: Guilford, pp. 1-25 (Chapter 1) B

Kobayashi, A. and Peake, L. 2000. Racism out of place: Thoughts on racism and an antiracist geography inthe new millenium.Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90:392-403 P

Pratt, G. 1998. Grids of difference: place and identity formation. In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities ofDifference. Guilford Press: Guilford, pp. 26-48 (Chapter 2) B

Pratt, G. and Hanson, S. 1994. Geography and the construction of difference. Gender, Place, and Culture1:5-29P

Pratt, G. 1999. From registered nurse to registered nanny: Discursive geographies of Filipina domesticworkers in Vancouver, BC.Economic Geography. 75:215-237 P

Valentine, G. 2008. Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter, Progress in HumanGeography, 32(3), 323-337 P

Wacquant, L. 1997. Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto. International Journal ofUrban and Regional Research21:341-354 P

Non-representational geographiesBissell, D. 2009 Visualising everyday geographies: practices of vision through travel-time,Transactions of the

Institute of British Geographers, 34(1), 42-60Bissell, D. 2010 Vibrating materialities: mobility-body-technology relations,Area, 42(4), 479-486Lorimer, H. 2005. Cultural geography: the busyness of being more-than-representational, Progress in Human

Geography, 29(1), 83-94Popke, J. 2008. Geography and ethics: non-representational encounters, collective responsibility and

economic difference, Progress in Human Geography, 28, 1-10Thrift, N. 2008.Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect. Routledge: London, 75-105

Theoretical discussionsCalhoun, C. 1994. Social Theory and the Politics of Identity, in C. Calhoun (ed) Social theory and the politics of

identity. Oxford: Blackwell. 1-36 PZizek, S. 2002. A Plea for Leninist Intolerance, Critical Inquiry, 28(2), 542-566

Recommended Further ReadingBondi, L. 1992. Gender symbols and urban landscapes. Progress in Human Geography 16:157-170 LBondi, L. and Rose, D. 2003. Constructing gender, constructing the urban: a review of Anglo-American

feminist urban geography. Gender, Place, and Culture. 10:229-245 PDowling, R. 1998. Suburban stories, gendered lives: Thinking through difference. In Fincher, R. and

Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford Press: Guilford, pp. 69-88 (ch 4) BFincher, R. and Iveson, K. 2008. Planning for Diversity: Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter. Palgrave

Macmillan: London. LJackson, P. 1994. Constructions of criminality.Antipode,26:216-235 P

Knopp, L. 1998. Sexuality and urban space: Gay male identity politics in the United States, the UnitedKingdom, and Australia. In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford Press:Guilford, pp. 149-176 (ch 7) B

Massey, D. and Denton, D. 1993.American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge,MA and London: Harvard University Press. L

Nagar, R. and Leitner, H. 1998. Contesting social relations in communal places: identity politics among Asiancommunities in Dar es Salaam. In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford Press:Guilford, pp. 226-251 (ch 10) B


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Theory at work: GentrificationMonday, April 30, 2012

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Bondi, L. 1991. Gender divisions and gentrification: a critique. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

16:190-198 PBridge, G. 1995. The space for class? On class analysis in the study of gentrification. Transactions of the Institute

of British Geographers 20:236-247PBuzar, S., Hall, R. Ogden, P. 2007. Beyond gentrification: the democratic re-urbanisation of Bologna.

Environment and PlanningA 39: 6485Davidson, M. 2007. Gentrification as global habitat: a process of class construction or corporate creation?

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(4), 490506Davidson, M. 2009. Displacement, Space/Place and Dwelling: placing gentrification debate,Ethics, Place and

Environment, 12(2), 219-234Freeman, L. 2005. Displacement or succession? Residential mobility in gentrifying neighborhoods, Urban

Affairs Review, 40(4), pp. 463491Glass R. 1964. Introduction: Aspects of Change, in Centre for Urban Studies. London: Aspects of Change. Mac-

Gibbon and Kee: LondonHackworth, J. and N. Smith. 2001. The changing state of gentrification. Tijdschrift voor Economische en SocialeGeografie4:464-477 P

Hamnett, C. 1991. The blind men and the elephant: the explanation of gentrification, Transactions of the Instituteof British Geographers, 16(5), 173189

Hamnett, C. 1992. Gentrifiers or lemmings? A response to Neil Smith, Transactions of the Institute of BritishGeographers, 17(1), 116119

Ley, D. 1986. Alternative explanations for inner-city gentrification.Annals of the Association of AmericanGeographers, 76, 521535 P

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Redfern, P. 1997. A new look at gentrification 1: Gentrification and domestic technologies,Environment andPlanning A, 29, 1275-1296 P

Smith, N. 1982. Gentrification and Uneven Development,Economic Geography, 58(2), 139-155 PSmith, N. 2002. New globalism, new urbanism: Gentrification as global urban strategy.Antipode 34:427-450 PSlater, T. 2006. The Eviction of Critical Perspectives from Gentrification Research, International Journal of

Urban and Regional Research, 30(4), 737-757 PUitermark, J., Duyvendak, J. and Kleinhans, R. 2007. Gentrification as a governmental strategy: social control

and social cohesion in Hoogvliet, Rotterdam,Environment and Planning A, 39, 125141Watt P. 2008. The only class in town? Gentrification and the middle-class colonization of the city and the

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