BONUS READINGS: Suburbia

Readings for today:

• Dolores Hayden, "Building the American Way: Public Subsidy, Private Space," in Eds. Setha Low and Neil Smith, The Politics of Public Space, pp. 35-48. 
• Douglas Muzzio and Thomas Halper, "Pleasantville? : The Suburb and Its Representation in American Movies," Urban Affairs, Vol. 37, No. 4 (2002): 543-574.
• Kenneth T. Jackson, excerpt from Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Oxford University Press: 1985), in The Suburb Reader, edited by Becky M. Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese (Routledge: 2006), pp. 26-33.

Multimedia:

• PHOTOS: Bill Owens' Suburbia photos (and an essay on Suburbia).
• FILM: In the Suburbs (1957).  Short promotion film produced by Redbook Magazine.
• FILM: Our Home Town: Levittown, PA (1954).  Advertising film for the planned communities built by William Levitt & Sons.
• TV: Al Jazeera's Suburbia in Black & White (Parts 1 and 2) 
• MUSIC: Screeching Weasel, "Hey Suburbia," from Boogadaboogadaboogada 
• MAPS: Leavittown, Pennsylvania (1952) 

For further reading and research:

• Setha Low, "The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear," American Anthropologist, Vol. 103, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), pp. 45-58. 
• "Road Tripping Through Whitopia," In These Times, March 11, 2009 (an interview with Rich Benjamin, author of Searching for Whitopia) 
• Elizabeth Fraterrigo, “The Answer to Suburbia: Playboy's Urban Lifestyle” Journal of Urban History, Vol. 34 No. 5 (July 2008): 747-774.
• "Wes Winship and the Suburbs" (an essay on the Arcade Fire's album, The Suburbs).

BONUS READINGS: Imaginative Geographies

Readings:

• Edward Said, "Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental," in Orientalism (Vintage, 1972), pp. 49-72.
• Salman Rushdie, "Imaginative Homelands,"in Imaginary Homelands.
• Derek Gregory, "Between the Book and the Lamp: Imaginative Geographies of Egypt, 1849-50," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 20, Number 1, March 1995 , pp. 29-57.

For further reading & research:

• David Harvey and Raymond Williams, "Militant Particularism and Global Ambition: The Conceptual Politics of Place, Space, and Environment in the Work of Raymond Williams," Social Text, No. 42, Spring 1995, pp. 69-98.
• Espen Aarseth, "Allegories of Space: The Question of Spatiality in Computer Games." Cybertext Yearbook 2000. Ed. Markku Eskelinen, Raine Koskimaa. Jyväskylä, Finland: University of Jyväskylä, 2000. 
• Steven Hoelscher & Derek H. Alderman, "Memory and Place: Geographies of a Critical Relationship," Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 2004): 347-355.
• Yi-Fu Tuan, "Language and the Making of Place."
• Stephen Duncombe, "Community," Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (New York: Verso), pp. 44-60. 
• Derek Gregory, "Edward Said's Imaginative Geographies," in (eds) Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift, Thinking Space (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 302-348.