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    This document outlines the schedule and content for an urban geography unit that will examine the formation, evolution, and challenges of cities over time. The unit will explore why cities form, their economic and social value, and issues that impact urban life. Topics will include the historical evolution of cities, internal models of urban development, 20th century trends in American urbanism like central planning and suburbia, and how urban patterns shape contemporary life. The class schedule lists readings, assignments, lectures, discussions, and documentary excerpts to be covered between April 3rd and May 6th.

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    This document outlines the schedule and content for an urban geography unit that will examine the formation, evolution, and challenges of cities over time. The unit will explore why cities form, their economic and social value, and issues that impact urban life. Topics will include the historical evolution of cities, internal models of urban development, 20th century trends in American urbanism like central planning and suburbia, and how urban patterns shape contemporary life. The class schedule lists readings, assignments, lectures, discussions, and documentary excerpts to be covered between April 3rd and May 6th.

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    Urban Geography 4.6-5.

    6
    When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life Samuel Johnson
    Resources
    Knox and Marston Chapters 10 & 11
    Kuby Chapters 10, & 11
    Various outside readings
    Essential Questions
    Why do cities form in some places but not others?
    What is the economic and social value of cities?
    What particular issues challenge urban existence?
    How have cities changed over time?
    What is good architecture?
    What is distinctive about American cities?
    How do urban patterns in American cities reflect and shape historical and contemporary patterns of life?
    Unit Outline
    Historical Evolution of Cities
    Internal Models of Cities
    Trends in 20th century American urbanism
    o Central planning, discrimination, suburbia, sprawl, and demographic inversion
    o the DC Riots
    Class Schedule
    Friday 4.3
    Homework: Hutong Karma
    Monday 4.6
    Class: introduction to unit, urban poetry
    Homework: The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety, excerpted from The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    Wednesday 4.8
    Class: discussion; Lecture: the Evolution of Cities
    Homework: Broad Street Revisited, excerpted from The Ghost Map; Africas First City
    Thursday 4.9
    Class: discussion; Evolution contd
    Homework: Light of the City of Light: the Place des Vosges, City of Speed and Light, excerpted from How
    Paris Became Paris
    Monday 4.13
    Class: discussion; finish Evolution
    Homework: open
    Wednesday 4.15
    Class: discussion; peer edit session
    Homework: open
    Thursday 4.16
    Class: Lecture: Internal Models of Urban Development
    Homework: open
    Tuesday 4.21

    Class: Final paper due! Internal Models, contd


    Homework: Eden Updated, excerpted from The Geography of Nowhere, and The Wooden Houses of Irkutsk, on
    Gullivers Nest
    Wednesday 4.22
    Class: discussion; finish Internal Models; start New York documentary excerpts (26:30 1:02:00, 1:43 1:55:30)
    Homework: Introduction to The Power Broker
    Friday 4.24
    Class: discussion; continue with the documentary
    Homework: Yesterdays Tomorrow, excerpted from The Geography of Nowhere, and Soviet Architecture and
    American Echoes, on Gullivers Nest
    Monday 4.27
    Class: discussion; photos from the 1968 Riots
    Homework: Excerpts from The Downtown, from Moment of Grace
    Tuesday 4.28
    Class: read How to Design a City for Women; work on Kuby Chapter 11, Activities 1 & 2 The Disappearing
    Front Range
    Homework: There and Back Again
    Thursday 4.30
    Class: discussion; read excerpt from Edge City Limits
    Homework: The Retro City; The High Line Brings Good Things to Life
    Friday 5.1
    Class: discussion
    Homework: Too Rich, Too Thin, Too Tall?; something about Detroit
    Tuesday 5.5
    Class: discussion, watch Part Three of A Short History of the High-Rise; review
    Homework: study
    Wednesday 5.6
    Class: test

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