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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Week Five: Parks & Plazas

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Week Five: Parks and Plazas. Don Mitchell, A Right to the City, chapters 3-4. San Franscisco's Parks: Public Space or Corporate Occupied Territory? The following links are from the Project for Public Spaces. I encourage you to check these out and take a look around their website for information and/or ideas: Top Public Squares in North America. The World's Best Squares. View my complete profile.

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Week Ten: Grafitti & Street Art

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Week Ten: Grafitti and Street Art. Lisa Prothers, “Culture Jamming with Pedro Carvajal,”. DS Black, "Fauxvertising, FSU-ism and other Semiotic Attacks on Consensual Reality.". Emily Pohl-Weary, "Postering Public Space: Can DIY Poster Pirates Reclaim Your Downtown? FINAL PAPER PROPOSAL DUE TODAY (SEE EMAIL FOR DETAILS). In-class screening: City Space. View my complete profile. April 20 - April 27.

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Week Eleven: Urban Waste & Reclamation

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Week Eleven: Urban Waste and Reclamation. Jeff Ferrell, Empire of Scrounge. Excerpts). Click HERE. Joseph Sciorra, "Return to the Future: Puerto Rican Vernacular Architecture in New York City,". In Re-Presenting the City. Pp 60-87. Also, here is a study guide. For Sciorra, courtesy of Professor Ann Gunkel. View my complete profile. April 20 - April 27. May 11 - May 18. September 7 - September 14.

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Week Eight: Gentrification, Part II

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Week Eight: Gentrification, Part II. Chicago Housing Authority, " Cabrini-Green Homes. Ramsin Canon, " The Most Complicated Simple Issue. Deirdre Pfeiffer, " Displacement Through Discourse. Check out this culture jam of the Chicago Housing Authority's 'CHAnge'. Campaign, from 2005. REMINDER: On March 19th we will be joined by Ronit Bezalel. View my complete profile. April 20 - April 27.

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Week Two: Utopia(s)

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. David Pinder, Visions of the City. Interview with David Pinder online via Bad Subjects. View my complete profile. April 20 - April 27. May 11 - May 18. September 7 - September 14. September 14 - September 21. Week Seven: Gentrification, Part I. Week Six: Space and Housing. Week Five: Parks and Plazas. Week Four: Policing Space. Week Three: Situationist Critiques. Week One: What is a City?

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Background for Your Pscyhogeographical Walks

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Background for Your Pscyhogeographical Walks. Before you take part in a dérive. With your group, you should make sure to read these articles:. Report on the Construction of Situations. Particularly the last two sections). Theory of the Dérive. Sadie Plant on Psychogeography and the Dérive. Attempt at a Psychogeographical Description of Les Halles. Also, watch the. On the 'You Are Not Here' website.

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: 4/20/08 - 4/27/08

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Background for Your Pscyhogeographical Walks. Before you take part in a dérive. With your group, you should make sure to read these articles:. Report on the Construction of Situations. Particularly the last two sections). Theory of the Dérive. Sadie Plant on Psychogeography and the Dérive. Attempt at a Psychogeographical Description of Les Halles. Also, watch the. On the 'You Are Not Here' website.

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Week Six: Space & Housing

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Week Six: Space and Housing. Don Mitchell, A Right to the City. Facts about homelessness from the National Coalition for the Homeless. Check out the first three documents (they are short). A documentary about housing in New Orleans called This is my Home. MAKE SURE TO WATCH THIS). A New York Times video on housing in New Orleans. Documents about New Orleans housing demolitions. April 20 - April 27.

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Week Thirteen: Automobility & Driving

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Week Thirteen: Automobility and Driving. André Gorz, "The Social Ideology of the Motorcar.". Cotten Seiler, "So That We As a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By: African American Automobility and Cold-War Liberalism.". Volume 58, Number 4 (December 2006): 1091-1117. Peter Norton, "Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street," Technology and Culture,.

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism: Week Seven: Gentrification, Part I

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Contesting The City: Critical Approaches to Urbanism. A Cultural Studies Seminar at Columbia College Chicago. Week Seven: Gentrification, Part I. Neil Smith, “ Class Struggle on Avenue B: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West,. 8221; in The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. John J. Betancur, “ The Politics of Gentrification. 8221; Urban Affairs Review. 37: 780-814 (an article about West Town Chicago). CHICAGO-BASED GROUP PAPER DUE TODAY! Click here for the assignment.