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GSD 5210, Fall 2011, Harvard Graduate School of Design Course i-Site: http://isites.harvard.edu/k81146
First class: 06 Sep 2011 Last class: 01 Dec 2011 Discussion section meetings to be assigned during Week 01 Course Coordinator: Rahul Mehrotra, Chair - GSD Department of Urban Design To make an appointment, please write to: nsanders@gsd.harvard.edu Teaching Fellows: Delia Wendel (Head TF), dwendel@fas.harvard.edu, office hours TBD on i-site Sai Balakrishnan, sbalakr@fas.harvard.edu Research Associate: Victor M. Sanz Teaching Assistant: Anthony Sullivan Cities by Design Course Overview ‘Cities by Design’ studies urban form. It provides a synthetic overview of the factors that affect the design of contemporary cities. The year-long course will cover a total of ten cities as case studies to expose students to a range of city-making parameters in various geographical contexts. The course will focus on both the urban condition as a whole by exploring the cities’ processes of evolution, and on the study of urban fragments and projects. Two main pedagogical goals guide the course. The course will allow students to establish a broader definition of the ‘urban,’ forging commonalities amongst a diversity of cities. It also provides the historical and comparative material to identify the urban characteristics and design strategies that render particular cities distinct. Eight key themes run across the different case studies. Some urban case studies will emphasize certain themes more than others. The following themes will help to structure students’ comparative analyses:
Course Requirements: Each semester, ‘Cities by Design’ will cover five urban case studies. Each case study will be taught during a two-week module, comprised of four lectures and one discussion section. The course will also be structured by assigned readings that have been collected in a course reader. ‘Cities by Design’ Course Readers will be available online at the course i-site, can be purchased printed at Gnomon Copy in Harvard Square, or borrowed from Loeb Library. Students MUST BRING THE COURSE READER TO SECTION to facilitate close readings of the texts – please plan to do so in either digital or printed format. All readings included in the Course Reader are required. Expectations and Grading: Term grades will be based on: attendance and participation, biweekly response papers, and a final term paper. Attendance and participation in all lectures and discussion sections are mandatory for enrolled students. Students are expected to complete the assigned readings before the lectures, and to participate actively in section discussions. One-two page response papers will be based on assigned readings and lectures for each urban case study, and guided by a specific question. The questions are available in the CBD syllabus (see each module description). Response papers are due biweekly in the students’ assigned section. Term papers will be due at the end of the semester. Term papers should be 5000-word essays that respond to one of three questions. Term paper questions will be made available to students in Week 02. The term paper topics are designed to help students develop comparative analyses of the urban conditions studied during the semester. As this is a graduate-level course, the expectation is that the term paper will be literate, grammatically correct, and free of spelling errors. Various guides to style and grammar are available online and at Loeb Library, and writing assistance is available through the GSD Language Resource Center. Papers should use a consistent style of citation (footnotes or endnotes) and include a list of references (at the end in alphabetical order by last name). The term paper is due in your Teaching Fellow’s mailbox by Thursday 15 December. Late papers will be marked down one grade per day. Students are expected to be familiar with and abide by the school's standards for academic honesty and conduct. Cheating, plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration or paid assistance, deliberate interference with the integrity of the work of others, fabrication or falsification of data, and other forms of academic dishonesty are considered serious offenses for which disciplinary penalties will be imposed. When using the ideas or words of anybody else, you must identify the source. NOTE to students: The year-long Cities by Design course is mandatory for all incoming 2011-12 Master’s of Urban Design Students. All other students are welcome to enroll in the course by semester, and need not do so in sequence. Please review the course requirements before selecting this course. Cities by Design FALL 2011 SYLLABUS Week 01. ‘FRAMING THE URBAN’ with Hashim Sarkis (Sept 06, Sept 08) Class on Sept 06 to begin with an Introduction to Cities by Design with Rahul Mehrotra Response Paper Question: A distinction between an aesthetic (formal) and practical dimension of city making prevails in many of the readings. Is this distinction useful for thinking about the design of cities? Respond using specific examples from the readings and from the case studies discussed in class. [1-2 page response paper, due in your assigned Discussion Section] Sep 06. The Genealogy of Urban Form Kostof, Spiro (1991), 'What is a City?', The city shaped : urban patterns and meanings through history (Boston: Little, Brown), 37-41. Mumford, Eric Paul (2009), 'Chapter 4: The uses of history in urban design', in Jacqueline Tatom and Jennifer Stauber (eds.), Making the metropolitan landscape: standing firm on middle ground (New York: Routledge), 47-55. Sarkis, Hashim (2011), 'The World According to Architecture: Beyond Cosmopolis', New Geographies, 4, 104-108. Recommended Additional Background Reading: Benevolo, Leonardo (1980), The history of the city (London: Scolar Press). Richard Burdett, et al. (eds.), The endless city: the Urban Age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Sociey (London: Phaidon). Crawford, M, et. al. (Fall 2006), 'Urban Design Now: A Discussion', Harvard Design Magazine,25,1-13. Henaff, Marcel (1997), 'Of Stones, Angels and Humans: Michel Serres and the Global City', SubStance, 26 (83), 59-80. Koolhaas, Rem (2008), Lagos: How It Works, ed. Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Harvard Project on the City; Cambridge: Lars Muller Publishers). Shane, David Grahame (2005), Recombinant urbanism: conceptual modeling in architecture, urban design, and city theory (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley).
Bacon, Edmund N. (1976), 'Putting the Ideas to Work - Philadelphia', Design of cities (Rev. edn.; New York: Penguin Books), 264-308. Passanti, Francesco (2008), 'Chapter 2: The Aesthetic Dimension in Le Corbusier's Urban Planning', in Eric Paul Mumford, Hashim Sarkis, and Neyran Turan (eds.), Josep Lluís Sert: the architect of urban design, 1953-1969 (New Haven: Yale University Press), 24-37. Tafuri, Manfredo (1989), 'A Theater, "a Fountain of Sil," and "a Shapeless Little Island with a Hill": A Project by Alvise Cornaro for the Restructuring of the Bacino of San Marco', Venice and the Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), 139-160. Recommended Additional Background Reading: Ballon, Hilary and Jackson, Kenneth T. (2007), Robert Moses and the modern city: the transformation of New York (1st edn.; New York: W. W. Norton & Co.). Frieden, Bernard J. and Sagalyn, Lynne B. (1989), Downtown, Inc.: how America rebuilds cities (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press). Miller, Ross (1996), Here's the deal : the buying and selling of a great American city (New York: A.A. Knopf). [on CHICAGO] Sorkin, Michael (Fall 2006), 'The End(s) of Urban Design', Harvard Design Magazine, 25, 8-18. Tafuri, Manfredo (1989), Venice and the Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press). Waldheim, Charles (2004), CASE--Hilberseimer/Mies van der Rohe, Lafayette Park Detroit (CASE series; Cambridge, Mass.: Prestel, Harvard Graduate School of Design).
(Sept 13, Sept 15, and Sept 20, Sept 22) Response Paper Question: Review the Boston Redevelopment Authority website on ‘Planning Initiatives’ (see Reading Assignment for Sept 22). Write a short analysis of one of the urban design projects listed in the BRA Planning Initiatives. What are the project’s main objectives? What are the area’s historical challenges? Have any significant urban design initiatives been planned for this area in the past? Use material from the website, module readings and lectures to support your analysis. [1-2 page response paper, due in your assigned Discussion Section] Sep 13. Boston: A Historic and Topographical Overview Krieger, Alex and D. Cobb, et al. (eds.) (1999), Mapping Boston (Cambridge: MIT Press). [SKIM, on reserve at Loeb]. Warner, Sam Bass “A Brief History of Boston” in Mapping Boston, 3-14 and Krieger, Alex “Experiencing Boston: Encounters with Places on the Maps” in Mapping Boston,146-172. Recommended Additional Background Reading: Bunting, William Henry (1971), Portrait of a port: Boston, 1852-1914 (Cambridge: Belknap Press) Haglund, Karl (2003), Inventing the Charles River (Cambridge: MIT Press). Kennedy, Lawrence W. (1992), Planning the city upon a hill: Boston since 1630 (Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press). Puleo, Stephen (2010), A city so grand: the rise of an American metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 (Boston: Beacon Press). Rawson, Michael (2010), Eden on the Charles: the making of Boston (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press). Seasholes, Nancy S. (2003), Gaining ground: a history of landmaking in Boston (Cambridge: MIT Press). Warner, Sam Bass (1962), Streetcar suburbs: the process of growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies; Cambridge: Harvard U. Press). Whitehill, Walter Muir (1959, 1968), Boston; a topographical history (Cambridge: Belknap Press).
Krieger, Alex (July 1987), 'The American City: Ideal and Mythic Aspects of a Reinvented Urbanism', Assemblage, 3, 38-59. Koolhaas, Rem, et al. (1995, 1998), “Atlanta” in S, M, L, XL: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, (2d edn.; New York, N.Y.: Monacelli Press). Recommended Additional Background Reading: Foglesong, Richard E. (1986), Planning the capitalist city: the colonial era to the 1920s (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U. Press). Garvin, Alexander (1996, 2002), The American city: what works, what doesn't (New York: McGraw-Hill). Hamer, D. A. (1990), New towns in the New World: images and perceptions of the nineteenth-century urban frontier (The Columbia history of urban life; New York: Columbia U. Press). Jackson, Kenneth T. (1985), Crabgrass frontier: the suburbanization of the United States (New York: Oxford U. Press). Dunham-Jones, Ellen and June Williamson (2009, 2011), Retrofitting suburbia: urban design solutions for redesigning suburbs (Updated edn.; Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley). Monti, Daniel J. (1999), The American city: a social and cultural history (Malden: Blackwell Pub). Sorkin, Michael (1992), Variations on a theme park: the new American city and the end of public space (1st edn.; New York: Hill and Wang). Teaford, Jon C. (1986), The twentieth-century American city: problem, promise, and reality (The American moment; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press).
O'Connor, Thomas H. (1993), Building a new Boston: politics and urban renewal, 1950-1970 (Boston: Northeastern U. Press), pp. 3-36, 66-88 & 284-300. Recommended Additional Background Reading: Altshuler, Alan A. and David Luberoff. (2003), Mega-projects: the changing politics of urban public investment (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press). Beauregard, Robert A. (1993, 2003), Voices of decline: the postwar fate of U.S. cities (2nd edn.; New York: Routledge). Fishman, Robert (Winter 1999), 'The American Metropolis at Century's End: Past and Future Influences', Housing Facts and Findings, Fannie Mae Foundation, 1 (4). Gans, Herbert J. (1962, 1982), The urban villagers: group and class in the life of Italian-Americans (Updated and expanded edn.; New York, London: Free Press; Collier Macmillan Publishers). Lupo, Alan, Colcord, Frank, and Fowler, Edmund P. (1971), Rites of way; the politics of transportation in Boston and the U.S. city (Boston,: Little). Medoff, Peter and Sklar, Holly (1994), Streets of hope: the fall and rise of an urban neighborhood (Boston, MA: South End Press). Teaford, Jon C. (1990), The rough road to renaissance: urban revitalization in America, 1940-1985 (Creating the North American landscape; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press). Sep 22. Boston Today: Traditions and Prospects Please spend several hours reviewing the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s web page [www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org] The BRA is the city’s planning and redevelopment agency, and is one of the more powerful such agencies in the country. Review the web site overall, and especially the section called “Planning Initiatives” (under the ‘Land Use’ tab) which will give you a good sense of current and planned projects in the city. Week 04-05. ‘BARCELONA’ with Joan Busquets (Sept 27, Sept 29, and Oct 04, Oct 06) Response Paper Question: Identify 3 ‘urban episodes’ that have had a significant impact on Barcelona’s development. Analyze these in relation to the eight themes for the course to identify the nature, scale and consequences of these episodes. [1-2 page response paper, due in your assigned Discussion Section] Sep 27. Historical development Busquets, Joan (2005), Barcelona: The Urban Evolution of a Compact City (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design), 345-407. Solà-Morales i Rubió, Manuel de (2008), Ten lessons on Barcelona : urbanistic episodes that have made the modern city (Barcelona: Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya) , 18-34 (preface). Recommended Additional Background Reading: Solà-Morales i Rubió, Manuel de (2010), Cerdá/ Ensanche (1. edn., Col·lecció d'Arquitectura; Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona : Edicions UPC). Sep 29. Barcelona and the definition of the ‘urban’ Busquets, Joan and Corominas, Miquel (2009), Cerdà and the Barcelona of the future: reality versus project (Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), 14-29. Recommended Additional Background Reading: Busquets, Joan and et.al. (eds.) (1992), Readings on Cerdà and the extension plan of Barcelona (Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, MOPT). Galera, Montserrat (1982), Atlas de Barcelona (Barcelona: Editorial La Gaya Ciencia).
Font, Antonio (ed.), (2007), The explosion of the city: territorial transformations in the South Europe urban regions (Madrid: Ministerio de Vivienda), 243-261. Rowe, Peter G. (2006), ‘Earlier Moments,’ and ‘Bold Transformations’ in Building Barcelona: a second Renaixença (Barcelona: Actar), 8-37, 120-147. Oct 06. Contemporary development Bohigas, Oriol, Buchanan, Peter, and Lampugnani., Vittorio Magnago (1991), Barcelona, city and architecture, 1980-1992 (New York Rizzoli), 15-25. Meyer, Han (1999), City and Port: urban planning as a cultural venture in London, Barcelona, New York, and Rotterdam: changing relations between public urban space and large-scale infrastructure (Utrecht: International Books), 131-146. Recommended Additional Background Reading: Busquets, Joan (2003), The Old Town of Barcelona: A Past with a Future (Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, UPC). www.bcn.es/urbanisme http://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/Urbanisme Weeks 06-07. ‘MEXICO CITY’ with Jose Castillo (Oct 11, Oct 13, and Oct 18, Oct 20) Response Paper Question: How do the below authors define ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ architectural and urban development? What impact have these modes of development had on Mexico City’s form and urban challenges? Cite examples of the ways in which the ‘formal’ control/ planning of the design disciplines have either collided or integrated with the ‘informal’ or de-facto production of Mexico City. [1-2 page response paper, due in your assigned Discussion Section] Mexico City Module Description: Mexico City is one of the most dynamic and complex cities in the world today. With over 20 million inhabitants, remarkable urban and population growth, an active, yet dual economy, a sophisticated cultural life, and a material history centuries-old, it is quite a case study for architecture and urban design today. The module on Mexico City provides an introduction to the issues and conditions faced by a large city such as Mexico, and relate them to contemporary practices and theories of architecture and urban design. The 4-session module will dwell on a broad range of interests organized around four topics that will serve as windows to explain the city. ‘Session 1: Histories’ will focus on the natural history of the city, its vulnerabilities to natural disasters, and the material, social and economic developments of the 20C as the defining period in the construction of the megalopolis. ‘Session 2: Geographies’ will address the city’s peripheral expansion from its historic center, and topics of redensification, historical preservation, equity, and formal (e.g. Santa Fe) and informal (e.g. Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl) development. ‘Session 3: Politics’ will look at the role that politics, policies, and planning instruments have had in shaping the city. We will pay attention to the production of public space, housing and infrastructure, and how the gaps between the legal/ illegal, the planned/ unplanned have produced pathologies, abnormalities and unexpected solutions. ‘Session 4: Architecture’ will focus on key practitioners and projects during the last 100 years, critically assessing the relevance and impact of the modern architecture agenda (e.g. National University Campus, Juan O’Gorman, Luis Barragan, Mario Pani) and the ways that recent architectural culture has envisioned change for the city (e.g. Alberto Kalach, Javier Sanchez, Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon). Oct 11: Session 01 – Histories Castillo, Jose (2010), 'After the Explosion', in Richard Burdett, et al. (eds.), The endless city : the Urban Age project (London: Phaidon), 174-185. Davis, Diane E. (2009), 'The Modern City: From the Reforma-Peralvillo to Torre Bicentenario: The clash of history and progress in the urban development of modern Mexico City', in Linda A. Newson and John King (eds.), Mexico City through history and culture (Oxford: Oxford U. Press for the British Academy), 55-82. Recommended Additional Reading: Monsiváis, Carlos and Kraniauskas, John (1997), 'Mexico 1890-1976: High Contrast, Still Life', Mexican postcards (New York: Verso), 1-30. Ward, Peter M. (1998), 'Chapter 1: The paradox of dominance yet dependence: Mexico City’s Mask of Janus', Mexico City, (Rev. 2nd; New York: John Wiley & Sons), 1-28.
Castillo, Jose (2010), 'The Promise of Neza: Building a City for 1.2 Million Inhabitants One House at a Time', in Ilka & Andreas Ruby (ed.), Re-inventing Construction (Berlin: Ruby Press),388-403. Corona, Livia (2010), 'The Mexican Dream: Bottom-Up Customization of Generic Tract Housing in Mexico', in Ilka & Andreas Ruby (ed.), Re-inventing Construction (Berlin: Ruby Press),404-418. Davis, Diane E. (May 2004), 'Whither the Public Sphere: Local, National, and International Influences on the Planning of Downtown Mexico City, 1910-1950', Space and Culture, 7 (2),193-222. Oct 18: Session 03 – Politics Davis, Diane E. (1994), 'Laying the Foundations', Urban leviathan: Mexico City in the twentieth century, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 1-19. García Canclini, Néstor (2010), 'Makeshift Globalization', in Richard Burdett, et al. (eds.), The endless city : the Urban Age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Sociey (London: Phaidon), 186-191. Villoro, Juan (2004), 'The Metro', in Rubén Gallo and Lorna Scott Fox (eds.), The Mexico City reader (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press), 123-132. Oct 20: Session 04 – Architecture Castillo, Jose (2010), 'Curatorial Text for the Exhibition Mexican Modernisms.', Mexican Modernisms: Fragments for a possible history of modern architecture in Mexico. (Brussels: Bozar), 1-5. Carranza, Luis E. (2010), 'Foreword, Chapter 1', Architecture as revolution : episodes in the history of modern Mexico (1st edn., Roger Fullington series in architecture; Austin: University of Texas Press), i-xi, 2-13. Recommended Additional Reading: Various Authors (2001), Mexico City: Projects from the Megacity, Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building, 1 (2). Lida, David (2008), First stop in the New World : Mexico City, the capital of the 21st century (New York: Riverhead Books). Urban Age Mexico City Conference Newspaper: http://urban-age.net/0_downloads/MC-Newspaper.pdf Weeks 08-09. ‘MUMBAI’ with Rahul Mehrotra (Oct 25, Oct 27, and Nov 01, Nov 03) Response Paper Question: Mumbai demonstrates perhaps one of the most contested spatial conditions of any city in the world – where disparate forms of urbanism coexist in bizarrely close proximities. Describe some of the ways in which urban design intervenes to either reinforce or circumvent the regulatory systems of government in this city. Draw from the below readings and the examples presented in lecture to identify entrepreneurial urban design projects and how government regulates urban space. [1-2 page response paper, due in your assigned Discussion Section] Oct 25: Bombay – The Making of a Town Tindall, Gillian (1982), City of gold : the biography of Bombay (London: Temple Smith), 180-206. Mehrotra, Rahul (1997), 'Evolution, Involution and the City’s Future; A Perspective on Bombay’s Urban Form', in Pauline Rohatgi (ed.), Bombay to Mumbai: changing perspectives (Mumbai: Marg Publications), 258-277. Oct 27: Bombay – The Growth of a City Dwivedi, Sharada and Mehrotra, Rahul (2001), Bombay: the cities within (New edn.; Bombay: Eminence Designs Pvt. Ltd.), 204-293 (mostly images). Dossal, Mariam (2010), Theatre of conflict, city of hope : Mumbai, 1660 to present times (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 184-214.
Shetty, Prasad, et al. (May 2007), 'Housing Typologies in Mumbai', in Collective Research Initiatives Trust (CRIT) (ed.), (Mumbai: Urban Age London School of Economics), http://www.urban-age.net/0_downloads/House_Types_in_Mumbai.pdf Nov 01: Mumbai – Kinetic City Correa, Charles (1985), The new landscape (Bombay: Book Society of India), 9-30. Mehrotra, Rahul (March-April 1997), 'From New Bombay to Navi Mumbai – the Twenty Five Years', Architecture + Design, 14 (2): 21-24. Mehrotra, Rahul (2008), 'Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities', in Andreas Huyssen (ed.), Other cities, other worlds: urban imaginaries in a globalizing age (Durham: Duke University Press), 205-221. D'Monte, Darryl (2006), Mills for sale : the way ahead (Mumbai: Published by J.J. Babha for Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts), 8-27. Nov 03: Post-Planning in Mumbai Mehrotra, Rahul (2006), 'Post-Planning in Mumbai', in Darryl D'Monte (ed.), Mills for sale: the way ahead (Mumbai: Published by J.J. Babha for Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts), 60-73. Patel, Sheela, d'Cruz, Celine, and Burra, Sundar (April 2002), 'Beyond evictions in a global city: people-managed resettlement in Mumbai', Environment and Urbanization, 14 (1), 159-172. Appadurai, Arjun (2002), 'Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics', Public Culture, 14 (1), 21-47. Mehrotra, Rahul (Fall 2004), 'Planning for Conservation - Looking at Bombay's Historic Fort Area', Future Anterior, 1 (2), 25-32. Recommended Additional Reading/ Non-Fiction: Correa, Charles (1985), The new landscape (Bombay: Book Society of India). D'Monte, Darryl (2006), Mills for sale : the way ahead (Mumbai: Published by J.J. Babha for Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts). Dossal, Mariam (2010), Theatre of conflict, city of hope : Mumbai, 1660 to present times (New Delhi: Oxford University Press). Dwivedi, Sharada and Mehrotra, Rahul (2001), Bombay : the cities within (New edn.; Bombay: Eminence Designs Pvt. Ltd.). Kosambi, Meera (1986), Bombay in transition : the growth and social ecology of a colonial city, 1880-1980 (Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International). Mathur, Anuradha and Cunha, Dilip da (2009), Soak : Mumbai in an estuary (New Delhi: Rupa & Co.). Neuwirth, Robert (2005), Shadow cities : a billion squatters, a new urban world (New York: Routledge). Rohatgi, Pauline (ed.), Bombay to Mumbai: changing perspectives (Mumbai: Marg Publications). Shannon, Kelly and Gosseye, Janina (2009), Reclaiming (the urbanism of) Mumbai (Explorations in/of urbanism; Amsterdam: SUN Academia). Urban Design Research Institute. 'Mumbai reader', (Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute), Volumes 06, 07, 08, 09.
Mehta, Suketu (2004), Maximum city : Bombay lost and found (1st edn.; New York: Alfred A. Knopf). Prakash, Gyan (2010), Mumbai fables (Princeton: Princeton University Press). Roberts, Gregory David (2004), Shantaram : a novel (1st U.S. edn.; New York: St. Martin's Press). Rushdie, Salman (1981), Midnight's children : [a novel] (1st American edn.; New York: Knopf).
(Nov 08, Nov 10, and Nov 15, Nov 17) Response Paper Question: Select ONE item from Rio de Janeiro’s visual record. Analyze this item, noting provenance, formal qualities, and its relation to historical changes and social conditions in Rio de Janeiro. You may select an item either presented in lecture or included in one of the below readings. Use the content from both the lectures and readings to support your analysis. [1-2 page response paper, due in your assigned Discussion Section] Rio de Janeiro Module Description: This module focuses on reconstructing the social and spatial evolution of Rio de Janeiro from its sixteenth-century origins through its Olympic future by examining the city’s visual record, i.e., maps, paintings, prints, photographs, film, and architectural/ urban projects. Through Rio de Janeiro's iconography in different media, we will investigate its ever-changing social, political, and physical morphology as the city has constantly had to 'overcome' its own geography and thereby nestle itself between steep granite hills and the Atlantic Ocean. Despite –or perhaps due to– the difficulty of its own geography, this one city has, over the centuries, survived as a colonial settlement on a distant periphery, acted as a port of entry for thousands forced into the trans-Atlantic slave trade, extended Lisbon into Portuguese America, hosted the seat of an empire, formed a republic, showcased a dictatorship, and ultimately became a globally recognized cultural capital that has in modern memory undergone both economic decadence and urban renewal. Of particular interest to this module, are the visual documents that have recorded the history of how social relations shaped Rio's natural landscape and conversely, how the city's urbanism has impacted the lives and distribution of its inhabitants. This remains a visible process as Rio currently undertakes the major development projects related to winning its bid for the 2016 Olympics. Nov 08: Rio de Janeiro 1502-1807 Sadlier, Darlene J. (2008), 'Edenic and Cannibal Encounters', in Brazil imagined: 1500 to the present (1st edn., The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere; Austin: University of Texas Press), 9-61. Rama, Angel and Chasteen, John Charles (1996), The lettered city (Post-contemporary interventions; Durham, NC: Duke University Press), 1-15 Delson, Roberta M. (Autumn 1976), 'Planners and Reformers: Urban Architects of Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil', Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10 (1), 40-51. Nov 10: Rio de Janeiro 1808-1901 Schultz, Kirsten (2001), 'The New City of Rio de Janeiro: Reconstructing the Portuguese Royal Court', in Tropical Versailles : empire, monarchy, and the Portuguese royal court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (New York: Routledge), 101-149. Meade, Teresa A. (1997), 'The Features of Urban Life', "Civilizing" Rio: reform and resistance in a Brazilian city, 1889-1930 (University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press), 45-74. Sisson, Rachel and Elizabeth Jackson (1995) "Rio de Janeiro, 1875-1945: The Shaping of a New Urban Order," The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 21: 138-155. Nov 15: Rio de Janeiro 1902-1948 Williams, Daryle (2001) 'Cultural Management, 1930-1945', Culture wars in Brazil: the first Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 (Durham: Duke University Press), 52-89. Underwood, David K. (June 1991), 'Alfred Agache, French Sociology, and Modern Urbanism in France and Brazil', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 50 (2), 130-166. Quezado Deckker, Zilah (2001), 'Vargas, Le Corbusier, and Reinforced Concrete', Brazil built: the architecture of the modern movement in Brazil (London ; New York: Spon Press), 7-22. Nov 17: Rio de Janeiro 1949-2016 Conde, Luiz Paulo and Magalhães, Sérgio (2004), Favela-Bairro: Rewriting the History of Rio (Rio de Janeiro: Viver Cidades), 8-15. Freire-Medeiros, Bianca (2002) "Hollywood Musicals and the Invention of Rio de Janeiro, 1933-1953," Cinema Journal, 41(4): 52-67. Gaffney, Christopher (2010) "Mega-events and socio-spatial dynamics in Rio de Janeiro, 1919-2016," Journal of Latin American Geography, 9 (1): 7-29. www.cidadeolimpica.com Week 12. PANEL DISCUSSION Nov 22. Required class discussion scheduled for Tuesday, Nov 22; no required readings Thanksgiving Break starts 23 Nov Week 13. ‘TAKING STOCK’ with Hashim Sarkis (Nov 29, Dec 01) Response Paper Question: Write a five-sentence summary for each text, focusing on how the authors define, evaluate, and/ or explore ‘dynamism’ in cities. In other words: what makes a ‘dynamic city’? [due in your Discussion Section] Dec 01: Cities as Dynamic Sites Amin, Ash and Nigel Thrift (2002) ‘Introduction’ and ‘The Legibility of the Everyday City’, in Cities: Reimagining the Urban (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd), 1-30. de Certeau, Michel (1984) ‘Chapter 7: Walking in the City,’ in The practice of everyday life (Berkeley: University of California Press), 91-110. Caldeira, Theresa and James Holston (Spring/ Summer 2008) ‘Urban Peripheries and the Invention of Citizenship,’ Harvard Design Magazine, 28: 18-23. … SPRING 2012 ‘Cities by Design’ Case Studies to include: Berlin Detroit Istanbul Nairobi Quito Shanghai Cities by Design GSD 5210, Fall 2011, Harvard Graduate School of Design Course i-Site: http://isites.harvard.edu/k81146
Sai Balakrishnan (email: sbalakr@fas.harvard.edu) Fall 2011 TERM PAPER QUESTIONS Answer ONE of the following questions in the form of a 4000-word essay that draws from the Fall 2011 Course Content and a limited number of extracurricular sources.
Term Paper deadline: The term paper is due by 5PM on Thursday, 15 December 2011. Papers should be submitted in hard copy to the box labeled with your Teaching Fellow’s name, located in the lobby of 20 Sumner. Late papers will be marked down one grade per day. Papers should be formatted with 1-inch margins, in Times New Roman 11pt font, 1.5 line spacing. Please include your name and the page number on each page. As this is a graduate-level course, the expectation is that the term paper will be literate, grammatically correct, and free of spelling errors. Various guides to style and grammar are available online and at Loeb Library, and writing assistance is available through the GSD Language Resource Center. Papers should use a consistent style of citation (footnotes or endnotes) and include a list of references at the end. Students are expected to be familiar with and abide by the school's standards for academic honesty and conduct. Cheating, plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration or paid assistance, deliberate interference with the integrity of the work of others, fabrication or falsification of data, and other forms of academic dishonesty are considered serious offenses for which disciplinary penalties will be imposed. When using the ideas or words of anybody else, you must identify the source. ** RE: Question 2. We will be covering some readings that address the notion of cities as dynamic sites in the Week 13 discussion sections. Please see updated syllabus and course i-site for the list of Week 13 Required Readings. Directory: docs docs -> Application for acem docs -> Observational Assessment of Teaching Practices Teaching Assessment Initiative Proposal Submitted to The Teachers for a New Era project docs -> Traditional British values docs -> From Warfighters to Crimefighters: The Origins of Domestic Police Militarization docs -> Borzoi Club of America Register of Merit Program I. What is a Register Of Merit docs -> Protecting the rights of the child in the context of migration docs -> United Nations E/C. 12/Esp/5 docs -> 9th May 1950 the schuman declaration docs -> Getting To Outcomes® in Services for Homeless Veterans 10 Steps for Achieving Accountability Download 111.32 Kb. Share with your friends:
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