Course Documents

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Week One (Jan 17) - Introductions & Overview

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Questions for discussion What does it mean to study space and place? What is mobility and what is its relationship to human/cultural geog...

Week Two (Jan 24) - Thinking Space & Place

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Rodolfo Edwards, Impossible Maps #14 Readings for today: Yi-Fu Tuan, "Place: An Experiential Perspective," Geographical Re...

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

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Assignments for today Walter Benjamin, "Paris: Capital of the 19th Century,"   New Left Review , No. 48 (March-April 1968): ...

Week Four (Feb 7) Urban Space, Part II: Spectacles and Situationists

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Le Corbusier, Ville Contemporaine 'A Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants'  (1922) Assignments for today Ivan Cht...

Week Five (Feb 14) - 'Home' and Domestic Space

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Jessica Rodrigue, 'Family Photos' (2007) Readings for today Lynn Spigel "The Home Theater," in Make Room For TV: Telev...

Week Six (Feb 21) - Landscapes, 'Nature', and 'The Country'

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Painting by Bob 'Afro' Ross Readings for today Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (excerpts) David Nye, "Introduc...

Week Seven (Feb 28) - Tourism & Tourist Spaces

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'South of the Border' photo by Rubén Ortiz Torres Readings for today Nicole King, chapters 2 & 3 in Sombreros and Motorcycl...

Week Eight (March 6) - NO CLASS

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Cultural Studies Colloquium - Special Date & Time Lawrence Grossberg, "Is There a Place for Intellectuals in the New Radicalism?...

Week Nine (March 13) - Public Space?

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Assignments for today Benjamin Shepard and Greg Smithsimon, The Beach Beneath the Streets , Part One: Repression (pp. 1-90). CHICAGO OR...

Week Ten (March 20) - Gentrification

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Readings for today Neil Smith, “ Class Struggle on Avenue B: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West, ” in The New Urban Frontier: Gentr...

Week Eleven (March 27th) - NO CLASS / SPRING BREAK

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Fig. 1: Americans

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

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Readings for today: Shepard and Smithsimon,  The Beach Beneath the Streets , Part Two: Resistance. In-class Screening: The Garden...

Week Thirteen (April 10) - Carceral Spaces

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Image by Andalusia Knoll Readings for today Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003).  Try to read...

Week Fourteen (April 17) - Maps & The Politics of Cartography

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Assignments for today Michael Heffernan, "The Politics of the Map in the Early Twentieth Century," Cartography and Geographic...

Week Fifteen (April 24) - Empires & Diasporas

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Readings for today Tiffany Ruby Patterson and Robin D. G. Kelley, "Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and ...

Week Sixteen (May Day) - Last day of class

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PRESENTATIONS ARE TODAY!  Your presentation is part of your final paper grade, so make sure you prepare something that is informative, cle...

BONUS READINGS - Navigating Space(s)

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Readings for today: Michel DeCerteau "Walking in the City," from The Practice of Everyday Life .  Mimi Sheller and John Urry,...

BONUS READINGS - (Military) Occupied Palestine

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Readings for today: Derek Gregory, "Palestine Under Siege," Antipode , Volume 36 Issue 4, 2004, Pages 601 - 606.  Edward Sai...

BONUS READINGS - Spaces of Consumption

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Mall of the Americas Readings Kenneth T. Jackson, "All the World's a Mall: Reflections on the Social and Economic Consequence...

BONUS READINGS: Suburbia

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Readings for today: Dolores Hayden,  "Building the American Way: Public Subsidy, Private Space,"  in Eds. Setha Low and...

BONUS READINGS: Imaginative Geographies

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Readings: Edward Said, "Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental," in Orientalism (Vintage...