Week Nine (March 13) - Public Space?

Assignments for today

• Benjamin Shepard and Greg Smithsimon, The Beach Beneath the Streets, Part One: Repression (pp. 1-90).
• CHICAGO ORGANIZATION REPORTS.  Click here for a description of the assignment (it is also linked under 'Course Documents' in the menu above).

For further reading and research

• Jeff Ferrell, "Remapping the City: Public Identity, Cultural Space, and Social Justice," Contemporary Justice Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2001): 161-180. 
• David Harvey, "Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization Reflections on 'Post-Modernism' in the American City," Perspecta, Vol. 26: Theater, Theatricality, and Architecture, 1990, pp. 251-272. 
• David Harvey, "The Political Economy of Public Space." 
• Jonathan Sterne, "Urban Media and the Politics of Sound Space," Open #9. 
• Henry Giroux, "War on Terror: The Militarising of Public Space and Culture in the United States," Third Text, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2004): 211-221. 
• Facts about homelessness from the National Coalition for the Homeless. Check out the first three documents (they are short).
• Homelessness Estimates by State, 2007.
• A documentary about housing in New Orleans called This is my Home. 
• A New York Times video on housing in New Orleans.