Week Three (Jan 31) - Urban Space, Part I: Becoming Modern

Assignments for today

• Walter Benjamin, "Paris: Capital of the 19th Century," New Left Review, No. 48 (March-April 1968): 77-88.
• David Pinder, "Modernist Calls to Order," Visions of the City, pp. 57-87.
• Ryan Moore, "Style and the City: Urban Theorist Elizabeth Wilson on Fashion, Women, and Modernity," Re/Visionist (2011).
• In class screening: The City (1939)

For further reading and research

• Raymond Williams, "Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism," in The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists (New York: Verso, 2007), pp. 37-48.
• Susan Buck-Morss, "The Flaneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering," New German Critique, No. 39, Second Special Issue on Walter Benjamin (Autumn, 1986), pp. 99-140. 
• Elizabeth Wilson, "The Invisible Flâneur," New Left Review, No. 191 (Jan/Feb, 1992): 90-110. 
• Phillip Mackintosh and Glen Norcliffe, "Flaneurie on Bicycles: Acquiescence to Women in Public in the 1890s," The Canadian Geographer / Le Geographe Canadien, Vol. 50, No 1 (2006): 17–37.
• Heather Marcelle Crickenberger, "The Flaneur" The Arcades Project Project (an overview). 
• Peter Norton, "Street Rivals."
• Le Corbusier, excerpt from The City of Tomorrow.
• "Google Maps the Way Robert Moses Intended It," Curbed, March 18, 2009.