Week Twelve (April 3) - Appropriating Space/Forging Community

Readings for today:

• Shepard and Smithsimon, The Beach Beneath the Streets, Part Two: Resistance.

In-class Screening:

• The Garden, directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.

For further reading and research:

• Mark Purcell, "Excavating Lefebvre: The Right to the City and its Urban Politics of the Inhabitant," GeoJournal, No. 58 (2002): 99–108.
• Luis Aponte-Pares, “Casitas Place and Culture: Appropriating Place in Puerto Rican Barrios,” Places, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1997. 
• Chris Carlsson, "Vacant Lot Gardeners," Nowtopia, pp. 82-114. 
• Paul Chatterton and Stuart Hodkinson, "Why We Need Autonomous Spaces in the Fight Against Capitalism," in Do It Yourself: A Handbook for Changing Our World.
• Chicago Community Gardens