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Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography
Prof. Mark Davidson (mdavidson@clarku.edu
Office Hours: Weds 9:00-11:00
Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography Seminar in Urban Geography - -- - Spring 2012
mdavidson@clarku.edu) Class Meeting: Mon 2:50
11:00 Office: JAC 103 (793-7291)
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Mon 2:50-5:50 / TC107
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Purpose and scope
This seminar explores some of the fundamental paradigms and developments in urban theory. Roughly
structured along temporal lines, the seminar progresses to examine how theoretical imports and formulations
have continually shaped the questions and concerns of urban geography. We will therefore discuss how
theoretical movements such as positivism and postmodernism have shaped geographical thinking and,
consequently, impacted upon how geographers have thought about cities and urban development.
The main objectives of the course are therefore (i) to understand how various theoretical perspectives have
shaped the study of cities and (ii) develop a critical and comparative understanding of different approaches to
urban questions. As such, during our discussions we will be required to be aware of, and examine, how
different ontological and epistemological positions intertwine within urban theor(ies).

Delivery
The seminar will take the form of a reading group, where each of the students will select a reading which they
would like to introduce and discuss with the group. For selected readings, students should identify themes
and/or issues that arise from their study. For example, the methodological basis of a set of theories may be
raised and discussed or, alternatively, the positionality of a set of theorists e.g. the LA School might be a
theme raised in the seminar. We will aim to give approximately 30 minutes to each selected reading, however
productive discussions will be given preference over strict timekeeping.
Importantly, the seminar is designed as a forum to discuss and explore the issues raised in the readings.
Whilst you will be knowledgeable about many aspects of urban theory, it is simply impossible to have a
precise working understanding of each. Our emphasis is therefore upon shared and co-operative explorations,
using the advantages of a group seminar to examine the readings from each of our own perspectives.
As with all seminar groups, you will get out what you put in; preparing is key. You should carefully read all of
the selected readings and have an understanding of their theoretical foundations.

Assessment
The course uses a variety of assessment methods. These are:
- Reading preparation (20%): At the end of each seminar, you will be asked to provide (i) a short
summary (200 words) of each assigned reading and (ii) a list of questions/discussion topics for your
particular assigned reading. This submission can be annotated during the seminar discussion, but it
should demonstrate evidence of your preparation, comprehension of the readings and intellectual
engagement.
- Class participation (20%): In-class discussions are pivotal to the learning outcomes of this course. It is
intended to both introduce you the subject matter and begin your intellectual engagement. As such,
discussing the readings during class is a learning priority. You will be graded on your participation,
listening and engagement with others.
- Reaction paper (20%): You will be required to write a short (2000 words) reaction paper midway
through the course. You will be asked to respond to a statement. This statement will relate to one
aspect of the first part of the course.
- Final paper (40%): In the latter half of the semester, you will be required to write an extend paper
(4000 words) that debates/discusses various aspects of the urban geography literature. This paper
will give you the opportunity to explore elements of the course that have particularly interested you.



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Access to readings and books
Most of the assigned readings are available on the course webpage in pdf format. Where it is not possible to
put the readings online, they will be distributed in hardcopy during the classes. Some of the supplementary
and recommended reading materials will not be made available in pdf, however they are available in the
library.

Topics
Week One Introduction
Week Two The Urban Question
Week Three Contemporary Urban Question(s)
Week Four The Chicago School and its Legacies
Week Five Urban Systems
Week Six No class (AAG)
Week Seven No class (spring break)
Week Eight Place
Week Nine Nature of cities
Week Ten Neoclassical
Week Eleven Behavioral
Week Twelve Structural
Week Thirteen Postmodern
Week Fourteen Cultural
Week Fifteen Theory at work: Gentrification

Website
The syllabus, grades, readings, and other assignments will be posted on the course website (Cicada:
https://cicada.clarku.edu), and/or distributed in hardcopy.
Honor Code
Clark Universitys policies of academic integrity apply to every aspect of this course. Please see
www.clarku.edu/offices/aac/integrity.cfm if you have any questions about what this entails.
Special Needs
Persons with disabilities or in need of special accommodations to meet the expectations of this course and
take full advantage of learning opportunities are encouraged to contact the office of Disability Services as
soon as possible to request such accommodations. Disability Services is located in the Academic Advising
Center, 142 Woodland Street, second floor, 508-793-7468. In addition, it would be helpful to bring this to the
instructors attention as early as possible.


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The Urban Question
Monday, January 30, 2012

Classics
Mumford, L. 1995. The culture of cities. In Kasinitz, P. ed. Metropolis: Center and symbol for our times. New York:
New York University Press. P
Mumford, L. 1996[1937]. What is a City, In: LeGates, R. and Stout, F. eds. The City Reader. London:
Routledge, 183-188 P
Tonnies, F. 1955[1887]. Community and Society (Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft). London: Dover Publications P
Simmel, G. 1995[1903]. The metropolis and mental life. In: Kasinitz, P. ed. 1995. Metropolis: Center and symbol for our
times. New York: New York University Press; 30-45 P
Simmel, G. 1950[1908] The Stranger, In: Wolff, K. (Trans.) The Sociology of Georg Simmel. New York: Free
Press, 402-408. P
Wirth, L. 1938. Urbanism as a way of life. American Journal of Sociology 44, 1-24 P
On Wirth: Guterman, S. 1969. In defense of Wirths Urbanism as a way of life. American Journal of
Sociology 74:492-499 P

Intellectual context
Durkheim, E. 1893. The Division of Labor in Society 11-67 P
Durkheim, E. 1957. Professional Ethics and Civic Morals 1-41 P
Kropotkin, P. 1902. Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution 84-118 P
Kropotkin, P. 1913. Fields, factories and workshops: or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual
work. Chapters: Brain Work and Manual Work and Conclusion P
Weber, M. 1930. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Routledge. Part I: The Problem,
1-50 P

Commentaries
Pope, W. and Johnson, B. 1983. Inside Organic Solidarity, American Sociological Review, 48(5), 681-692 P
Adair-Toteff, C. 1995. Ferdinand Tonnies: Utopian Visionary, Sociological Theory, 13(1), 58-65 P





















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Contemporary Approaches to the Urban Question
Monday, February 06, 2012

Sassen, S. 2010. The city: Its return as a lens for social theory, City, Culture and Society, 1, 3-11

Assemblage
Amin, A. 2007. Rethinking the urban social, City, 11(1), 100-114
Brenner, N., Madden, D. and Wachsmuth, D. 2011. Assemblage Urbanism and the Challenges of Critical
Urban Theory, City, 15(2), 225-240 P
McFarlane, C. 2011. Assemblage and critical urbanism, City, 15(2): 204-224
Graham, S. and Marvin, S. (2001) Splintering Urbanism. New York: Routledge

Ecology
Braun, B. 2005. Environmental issues: writing a more-than-human urban geography, Progress in Human
Geography, 29, 635-650 P
Gandy, M. (2004) Rethinking urban metabolism: water, space and the modern city, City 8(3), pp. 363379.
Swyngedouw, E. and N. Heynen, 2003. Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale. Antipode,
35(5): 898-918

Marxian
Harvey, D. 1978. The urban process under capitalism: A framework for analysis. International Journal of Urban
and Regional Research 2:101-131 P
Merrifield, A. 2009. Magical Marxism, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(3), 381-386
Soja, E. 1980. The sociospatial dialectic. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 70:207-225 P

Postmodern
Amin, A. and Thrift, N. 2002. Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Polity, London. 1-26 P
Dear, M. and Flusty, S. 1998. Postmodern urbanism. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88, 50-72.
P
Latham, A. and McCormarck, D. 2009. Thinking with images in non-representational cities: vignettes from
Berlin, Area, 41(3), 252-262 P
Thrift, N. 2008. Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect. Routledge: London, 1-55

Mobilities
Bissell, D. 2010 Passenger mobilities: affective atmospheres and the sociality of public transport, Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(2), 270-289
Middleton, J. 2010. Sense and the city: exploring the embodied geographies of urban walking, Social and
Cultural Geography, 11(6), 575-596
Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2006. The New Mobilities Paradigm, Environment and Planning A, 38, 207-226 P
Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 2000. The City and the Car, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24(4),
737-757

Post-colonial
Robinson, J. 2006. Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development. (London: Routledge)
Roy, A. 2009. The 21st Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory. Regional Studies 43, 819-830







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Chicago School and its Legacy
Monday, February 13, 2012

From Chicago and alike
Burgess, E. 1923. The growth of the city: an introduction to a research project. Publications of the American
Sociological Society, 18, 86-97.
Clements, F. 1916. Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation. Carnegie Institute of Washington
Publication, No. 242. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution
Cressey, P. (1932). The Taxi-Dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life
DuBois W. E. B. 1967[1899]. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. New York: Shocken Books. pp. 1-9; 58-65;
287-355
Frazier, E. 1937. Negro Harlem: an ecological study. American Journal of Sociology 43:72-88
Hawley, A.H. 1943. Ecology and Human Ecology, Social Forces 22: 398-405
Park, R. 1915. The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment,
American Journal of Sociology, 20(5), 577-612
Park, R. 1936. Human ecology. American Journal of Sociology 42: 349.
Zorbaugh, H. 1929. The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicagos Near North Side. Chicago:
University of Chicago, 159-181

After Chicago
Bauder, H. 2002. Neighbourhood effects and cultural exclusion, Urban Studies, 39(1), 85-93
Putnam, R. 1993. The prosperous community: Social capital and public life. The American Prospect 13, 35-42.
Vasishth, A. and Sloane, D. 2002. Returning to ecology: an ecosystem approach to understanding the city. In:
Dear, M. ed., From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications. pp. 343-366 P
Young, I.M. 1989. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship, Ethics,
99(2), 250-274

Recommended Further Reading
Fernandez-Kelly, P. 1994. Towandas triumph: Social and cultural capital in the transition to adulthood in the
urban ghetto. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 18:88-111
Lyon, L. 1989. The concept of community. In The community in urban society, ed. L. Lyon. Toronto: Lexington
Books.
Garber, J. 1995. Defining feminist community: Place, choice, and the urban politics of difference. In Gender in
Urban Research, eds. J. Garber and R.Turner. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage.
Sampson, R. 2008. After School Chicago: Space and the City, Urban Geography, 29(2), 127-137
Joseph, M. 2002. Against the Romance of Community. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Wacquant, L. 1998. Negative social capital: State breakdown and social destitution in America's urban core,
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 13(1), 25-40
Wacquant, L. 2008. Ghettos and Anti-Ghettos: An Anatomy of the New Urban Poverty, Thesis Eleven 94
(August), 1-7











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The Urban System/Globalization and Global Cities
Monday, February 20, 2012

Amin, A. 2002. Spatialities of Globalisation, Environment and Planning A, 34, 385-399 P
Beaverstock, J., Smith, R. and Taylor, P. 2000. World-City Network: A New Meta-geography? Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, 90(1), 123-34 P
Borchert, J. 1967. American metropolitan evolution. Geographical Review 57, 301-332. P
Brenner, N. and Theodore, N. 2002. Cities and the Geographies of Actually Existing Neoliberalism.
Antipode 34(3): 349-379. P
Castells, M. 1999. Grassrooting the Space of Flows. In: Wheeler, J., Aoyama, Y. and Warf, B. eds. Cities in the
telecommunications age: the fracturing of geographies. Routledge: London. B
Knox, P. 1997. Globalization and urban economic change. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, 551, 17-27 P
Olds, K. 1995. Globalization and the production of new urban spaces: Pacific Rim megaprojects in the late
20th century, Environment and Planning A, 27(11), 1713-44 L
Sassen, S. 1996. Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims, Public Culture, 8, 205-223
P

Globalization theorists
Bauman, Z. (1998) Globalization : the human consequences (Columbia University Press: New York) 1-26,
55-76
Beck, U. (2000) What is globalization? (Polity Press: Cambridge) 17-63, 115-128

Recommended Further Reading
Urban System
Meyer, D. 1983. Emergence of the American manufacturing belt: an interpretation. Journal of Historical
Geography 9:165-174. P
Krugman, P. 1992. Geography and Trade. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1-33 B
Pred, A. 1966. The spatial dynamics of U.S. urban industrial growth, 1800-1914: interpretive and theoretical essays.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (pp 1-85) L
Scott, A. 1988. Metropolis. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp. 1-8; 44-60 (Chapters
1& 4) P
Hoch, I. 1972. Income and City Size, Urban Studies, 9(3), 299-328

International Cities, Globalization, and Development
Hamnett, C (1994) Social polarisation in global cities: theory and evidence, Urban Studies, 31, 401-424 P
Nijman, J. 2000. The Paradigmatic City, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(1), 135-145 P
Robinson, J. 2004. In the tracks of comparative urbanism: difference, urban modernity, and the primitive.
Urban Geography 25(8): 709-723 P
Mitlin, D. 2001. Civil society and urban poverty - examining complexity, Environment & Urbanization, 13(2),
151-173 P
Mitlin, D. and Satterthwaite, B. 2004. Introduction. In D. Mitlin and D. Satterthwaite, eds., Empowering
Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction. London and Sterling, VA:
Earthscan. pp. 1-21. P





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Localities/Politics of Place
Monday, March 12, 2012

Castells, M. 1983. The city and the grass roots: a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements, 291-336 (Ch. 28,
conclusion). Berkeley: University of California Press. P
Coaffee, J. and Healey, P. 2003. My Voice: My Place: Tracking Transformations in Urban Governance,
Urban Studies, 40(10), 1979-1999 P
Cochrane, A. 1991. The changing state of local government: restructuring for the 1990s, Public Administration,
69(3), 281302
Cox, K. 2001. Territoriality, politics, and the urban. Political Geography. 20: 745-762. P
Cox, K. 2011. From the New Urban Politics to the New Metropolitan Politics, Urban Studies, 48(12), 2661-
2671
Cox, K. and Jonas, A. 1993. Urban development, collective consumption and the politics of metropolitan
fragmentation, Political Geography, 12(1), 8-37
Cox, K. and Mair, A. 1988. Locality and community in the politics of local economic development. Annals of
the Association of American Geographers. 78 (2): 307-325 P
Goldsmith, M. 1995. Autonomy and City Limits, in Judge, D, Stoker, G. & Wolman, H. (eds) Theories of
Urban Politics (London: Sage) 228-252
Jonas, A. and Gibbs, D. 2011. The New Urban Politics as a Politics of Carbon Control, Urban Studies, 48(12),
2537-2554
Jonas, A., While, A. and Gibbs, D. 2010. Managing Infrastructural and Service Demands in New Economic
Spaces: The New Territorial Politics of Collective Provision, Regional Studies, 44(2), 183-200
Logan, J.R. and Molotch, H. 1987. Urban fortunes: the political economy of place. (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press) Chapters 1, 3 and 5
Massey, D. 1991. The political place of locality studies. Environment and Planning A 23, 267-281 P
Molotch, H. 1976. The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place, The American Journal
of Sociology, 82(2), 309-332. P
Ward K. 2000. A critique in search of a corpus: Re-visiting governance and re-interpreting urban politics,
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 25(2), 169-185


Recommended Further Reading
Cox, K. and Mair, A. 1989. Levels of abstraction in locality studies. Antipode 21:121-132. P
Cooke, P. 1989. Locality theory and the poverty of spatial variation. Antipode 21:261-273, P
Elden, S. 2004. Between Marx and Heidegger: Politics, Philosophy and Lefebvres The Production of Space,
Antipode, 36(1) 86-105 P
Fainstein, N. and S. Fainstein. 1985. Urban restructuring and the rise of urban social movements. Urban
Affairs Quarterly 21:187-206 P
Martin, D. and Miller, B. 2003. Space and Contentious Politics. Mobilization: An International Journal 8(2): 143-
156 P
Massey, D. 1979. In what sense a regional problem? Regional Studies 13:233-243 P











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The Nature of Cities
Monday, March 19, 2012

Von Thunen
Beckmann, M. 1972. Von Thnen Revisited: A Neoclassical Land Use Model, The Scandinavian Journal of
Economics, 74, 1-7 P
Burghardt, A. 1971. A Hypothesis about Gateway Cities, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 61,
2,269-285 P
Sinclair, R. 1967. Von Thunen and urban sprawl. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 57, 72-87 P
[Replies: Peet, J.R., "The Present Pertinence of Von Thuenen Theory; Horvath, R.J., "Von Thuenen
and Urban sprawl"; Sinclair, "Comment in Reply" Annals (AAG), 57(4), Dec 1967, pp. 810-5 P
Vance, J. 1971. Land Assignment in the Precapitalist, Capitalist, and Postcapitalist City, Economic Geography,
47(2) 101-120 P

Economic theorists
Veblen, T. 1898. Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 12,
Marshall, A. 1920. Principles of Economics. Book IV: The Agents of Production. Land, Labour, Capital and
Organization

Harris and Ullman
Harris, C. and Ullman, E. 1945. The Nature of Cities. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Sciences, 242, 7-17 P
Lake, R.1997. Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman The Nature of Cities: A fiftieth year commemoration.
Urban Geography, 18(1), 1-3 P
Agnew, J. 1997. Commemoration and criticism: Fifty years after the publication of Harris and Ullmans The
Nature of Cities. Urban Geography. 18(1):4-6 P
Lichtenberger, E. 1997. Harris and Ullmans The Nature of Cities: The papers historical context and its
impact on future research. Urban Geography. 18(1):7-14.

Social Area Analysis and Factorial Ecology
Berry, B. and Rees, P., 1969. "The factorial ecology of Calcutta", American Journal of Sociology, 74, 447-491 P
Hunter, A. 1972. Factorial Ecology: A Critique and Some Suggestions, Demography, 1, 9, 107-117 P
Spielman, S. and Thill, J.P. 2008. Social area analysis, data mining, and GIS, Computers, Environment and Urban
Systems, 32, 2, 110-122 P
Gu, C., Wang, F. and Liu, G. 2005. The Structure of Social Space in Beijing in 1998: A Socialist City in
Transition, Urban Geography, 26, 2, 167-192 P
Johnston, R. 1971. Some Limitations of Factorial Ecologies and Social Area Analysis, Economic Geography, 43,
314-323 P
Bell, W. 1958. The utility of the Shevky typology for the design of urban sub-area field studies. Journal of Social
Psychology 47, 73-83.
Berry, B. 1971. Introduction: the logic and limitations of comparative factorial ecology. Economic Geography 47,
207-219. P
Shevky, E. and Bell, W. 1955. Social area analysis: theory, illustrative applications and computational procedures.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. P

Philosophical roots
Comte, A. 1856. A general view of positivism, chapter 1
Horkheimer, M. 1947. Eclipse of Reason, Chapter Two: Conflicting Panaceas, 58-91
Popper, K. 1935. The Logic of Scientific Discovery 3-35

Recent defense of factorial ecology
Wyly, E. 2009. Strategic Positivism, Professional Geographer, 61(3), 310-322 P

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Neoclassical: Accessibility and Land Rent
Monday, March 26, 2012

Ahfeldt, G. 2010. If Alonso was right: Modeling accessibility and explaining the residential land gradient,
Journal of Regional Science, 51(2), 318-338
Alonso, W. 1960. A theory of the urban land market. Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association
6:149-159 P
England, P. 1993. The separative self: androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions. In Beyond economic man:
Feminist theory and economics, eds. M. A. Ferber and J. A. Nelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
B
Folbre, N. 1991. The unproductive housewife: her evolution in nineteenth century economic thought. Signs
16: 463-484 P
Hanson S. and Pratt, G. 1988. Reconceptualizing the links between home and work. Economic Geography 64,
299-321, P
Harvey, D. and Chatterjee, L. (1974) Absolute Rent and the Structuring of Space By Governmental and
Financial Institutions, Antipode
Lopez-Morales, E. 2011. Gentrification by Ground Rent Dispossession: The Shadows Cast by Large-Scale
Urban Renewal in Santiago de Chile, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(2), 330-357
Marx, K. Capital: Volume III: Part VII. Revenues and their Sources, Chapter 48. The Trinity Formula
Walker, R. (1974) Urban Ground Rent: Building a New Conceptual Framework
Muth, R.1961 The spatial structure of the housing market. Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association.
7:207-220. Reprinted in R.W. Lake, ed. 1983. Readings in Urban Analysis: Perspectives on Urban Form and
Structure. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Center for Urban Policy
Research, pp. 11-26.

New accessibilities???
Graham, S. and Marvin, S. 2001. Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the
Urban Condition. Routledge, London. L

Recommended Further Reading
Barnes, T. 1988. Rationality and relativism in economic geography: an interpretive review of the homo
economicus assumption, Progress in Human Geography, 12, 4, 473-496 L
Barnes, T and Sheppard, E. 1992. Is there a place for the rational actor? A geographic critique of the rational
choice paradigm. Economic Geography 12:473-496 P
Kloosterman, R. and Musterd, S. The Polycentric Urban Region: Towards a Research Agenda, Urban Studies,
38, 4, p.623-633 P
Krugman, P. 1991. Increasing Returns and Economic Geography, The Journal of Political Economy, 99, 3, 483-
499 P
Nelson, J. A. 1993. The study of choice or the study of provisioning? Gender and the definition of
economics. In Beyond economic man: Feminist theory and economics, eds. M. A. Ferber and J. A. Nelson.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. B
Pratt, G. and Hanson, S. 1993. Women and work across the life course: moving beyond essentialism. In Full
circles: Geographies of women over the life course, eds. C. Katz and J. Monk. New York: Routledge. B









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Behavioral and Institutional
Monday, April 02, 2012

Behavioral
Buttimer, A. 1976. Grasping the Dynamism of Life World. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 66,
277-92
Lynch, K. 1960. The Image of the City. MIT Press, Cambridge B
Downs, R. 1970. The cognitive structure of an urban shopping center, Environment and Behavior, 2, 13-39
Golledge R. 1981. Misconceptions, misinterpretations, and misrepresentations of behavioral approaches in
human geography, Environment and Planning A, 13(11) 1325-1344 L
Kitchen, R. 1994. Cognitive maps: What are they and why study them? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14, 1,
1-19 P
Kwan, M. 1999. Gender and Individual Access to Urban Opportunities: A Study Using SpaceTime
Measures. Professional Geographer 51: 211-227 P
Ley, D. 1977. Social Geography and the Taken-for-Granted World, Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, 2(4), 498-512 P

Philosophical underpinnings
Smith, A.D. 2003. Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations. London: Routledge. 1-59 P
Merleau-Ponty, M. 1945. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge, 3-76 P

Philosophizing on place
Casey, E. 1998. The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press) 202-242,
285-330
Heidegger, M. 1951. Building, Dwelling, Thinking
Malpas, J. 2007. Heideggers Topology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) 1-38
Tuan, Y. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) 3-50

Further reading
Cox, K. and Golledge, R. eds. 1981. Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited. London: Methuen L
Ley, D. 1974. The Black inner city as frontier outpost: Images and behavior of a Philadelphia neighborhood. Washington
DC: Association of American Geographers. B


Institutional
Boddy, M. 1976. The structure of mortgage finance: building societies and the British social formation',
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, N.S. I, 58-71 P
Clark, W. 1986. Residential segregation in American cities: a review and interpretation. Population Research and
Policy Review 5: 95-127 P
De Souza Briggs, X. 1999. In the Wake of Desegregation: Early Impacts of Scattered-Site Public Housing on
Neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York, Journal of the American Planning Association, 65(1), 27-49
De Souza Briggs, X. 2006. After Katrina: Rebuilding Places and Lives, City and Community, 5(2), 119-128
Farrell, C. 2008. Bifurcation, Fragmentation or Integration? The Racial and Geographical Structure of US
Metropolitan Segregation, 1990-2000, Urban Studies, 45(3), 467-499
Galster, G. 2007. Neighborhood Social Mix as a Goal of Housing Policy: A Theoretical Analysis, European
Journal of Housing Policy, 7 (1), 19-43
Gray, F. 1975. Non-Explanation in Urban Geography. Area, 7, 228-32 P
Hirsch, A. 1983. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. Cambridge, UK and New
York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-39; 100-134; 212-275 (Chs 1, 4, 7, Epilogue) B

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Jackson, K. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 190-230 (Chapter
11: Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing
Market) L
Musterd, S. and Deurloo, R. 2002. Unstable Immigrant Concentrations in Amsterdam: Spatial Segregation
and Integration of Newcomers, Housing Studies, 17(3), 487-503
Wyly, E. et al. 2007. Subprime Mortgage Segmentation in the American Urban System, Tijdschrift voor
Economische en Sociale Geografie, 99(1) 323 P

Recommended Further Reading
Jackson, K. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 190-230 (Chapter
12: The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States) L
Wilson, W. 1987. Social change and social dislocations in the inner city, and The hidden agenda, in The
Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, pp. 20-62, 140-164 L
Yinger, J. 1995. Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination. New York: Russell
Sage Foundation. Pp. 31-61 L




















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Structural
Monday, April 09, 2012

Castells, M. 1977. The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 1-72, 115-
128; 234-242 B
Pred, A. 1984. Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming
Places. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 74(2): 279-97 P
Harvey, D. 1989. From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in
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Nice collection of structural discussions
Boddy, M. 1973. Urban Political Economy: Introduction, Antipode, 5(1), 1-2 P
Lee, R. 1973. Public Finance and Urban Economy: Some Comments on Spatial Reformism, Antipode, 5(1),
44-50 P
Pickvance, C. 1973. Housing, Reproduction of Capital, and the Reproduction of Labour Power: Some recent
French Work, Antipode, 5(1), 58-68 P
Preteceille, E. 1973. Urban Planning: The Contradictions of Capitalist Urbanisation, Antipode, 5(1), 69-76 P

Theoretical context
Althusser, L. 1969. For Marx. London: Allen Lane. 219-248
Lefebvre, H. 2003. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
Kolakowski, L. 1971. Althussers Marx, Socialist Register, 111-28

The Production of Space: Shifting Structural Perspectives
Lefebvre, H. 1991[1974] The Production of Space. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Chapter. 1 pp. 1-67, read closely
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Robinson, J. 1997. The geopolitics of South African cities: States, citizens, territory, Political Geography, 16(5),
365-386 P

Recommended Further Reading
Pred, A. 1986. Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformation in Southern Sweden, 1750-1850. Totowa,
NJ: Barnes & Noble Books. L
Lefebvre, H. 1996.Writings on Cities. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. pp. 209-215 P
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The Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and Possibilities, ed. L. Lees. London and New Delhi: Sage
Publications. B








14

Postmodern, Post-structural, and Cultural Studies
Monday, April 16, 2012

The Postmodern City
Florida, R. 2002. The Economic Geography of Talent. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92, 743-
755.
Harvey, D. 1989. The condition of postmodernity: an inquiry into the origins of cultural change. New York: Blackwell. Ch
4, pp. 66-98 & Part II, pp. 119-197 B
Harvey, D. 1990. Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization Reflections on "Post-Modernism" in the
American City, Perspecta, 26, 251-272 P
Knox, P. 1991. The restless urban landscape: economic and sociocultural change and the transformation of
metropolitan Washington, D.C. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 81(2): 181-209 P
Mabin, A. 1995. On the problems and prospects of overcoming segregation and fragmentation in southern
Africas cities in the postmodern era. In Postmodern cities and spaces, eds. S. Watson and K. Gibson.
New York: Blackwell B
Massey, D. 1991. Flexible sexism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 9:31-57 P
Watson, S and Gibson, K. 1995. Postmodern spaces: Cities, politics. In Postmodern cities and spaces, eds. S.
Watson and K. Gibson. New York: Blackwell. B

Philosophical underpinnings
Anderson, P. 1998. The Origins of Postmodernity. London: Verso. P
Lyotard, J.F. 1979. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
P

Post-modern and post-structuralist perspectives: emerging cultural studies
Dear, M. 1991. The Premature Demise of Postmodern Urbanism, Cultural Anthropology, 6(4), 538-552 P
Gibson, K. 1998. Social polarization and the politics of difference: discourses in collision or collusion? In
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Geographers, 35(1), 5-20
Rose, G., Degen, M. and Basdas, B. 2010. More on 'big things': building events and feelings, Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers, 35, 334-349
Storper, M. 2001. The Poverty of Radical Theory Today: from the false promises of Marxism to the mirage of
the cultural turn, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25(1), 155-179 P
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Recommended Further Reading
Anderson, K. 1987. The idea of Chinatown: The power of place and institutional practice in the making of a
racial category. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77(4):580-598 P
Hoelscher, S. 2003. Making place, making race: performances of whiteness in the Jim Crow South. Annals of
the Association of American Geographers 93(3): 657-686 P
Dear, M. and Flusty, S. 1998. Postmodern Urbanism, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88, 1, 50-
72 P





15

Cultural Studies/Difference
Monday, April 23, 2012

Urban cultural geographies
Jacobs, J and Fincher, R. 1998. Introduction. In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford
Press: Guilford, pp. 1-25 (Chapter 1) B
Kobayashi, A. and Peake, L. 2000. Racism out of place: Thoughts on racism and an antiracist geography in
the new millenium. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90:392-403 P
Pratt, G. 1998. Grids of difference: place and identity formation. In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of
Difference. Guilford Press: Guilford, pp. 26-48 (Chapter 2) B
Pratt, G. and Hanson, S. 1994. Geography and the construction of difference. Gender, Place, and Culture 1:5-29
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Pratt, G. 1999. From registered nurse to registered nanny: Discursive geographies of Filipina domestic
workers in Vancouver, BC. Economic Geography. 75:215-237 P
Valentine, G. 2008. Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter, Progress in Human
Geography, 32(3), 323-337 P
Wacquant, L. 1997. Three pernicious premises in the study of the American ghetto. International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research 21:341-354 P

Non-representational geographies
Bissell, D. 2009 Visualising everyday geographies: practices of vision through travel-time, Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers, 34(1), 42-60
Bissell, D. 2010 Vibrating materialities: mobility-body-technology relations, Area, 42(4), 479-486
Lorimer, H. 2005. Cultural geography: the busyness of being more-than-representational, Progress in Human
Geography, 29(1), 83-94
Popke, J. 2008. Geography and ethics: non-representational encounters, collective responsibility and
economic difference, Progress in Human Geography, 28, 1-10
Thrift, N. 2008. Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect. Routledge: London, 75-105

Theoretical discussions
Calhoun, C. 1994. Social Theory and the Politics of Identity, in C. Calhoun (ed) Social theory and the politics of
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Zizek, S. 2002. A Plea for Leninist Intolerance, Critical Inquiry, 28(2), 542-566

Recommended Further Reading
Bondi, L. 1992. Gender symbols and urban landscapes. Progress in Human Geography 16:157-170 L
Bondi, L. and Rose, D. 2003. Constructing gender, constructing the urban: a review of Anglo-American
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Jackson, P. 1994. Constructions of criminality. Antipode, 26:216-235 P
Knopp, L. 1998. Sexuality and urban space: Gay male identity politics in the United States, the United
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Massey, D. and Denton, D. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge,
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Nagar, R. and Leitner, H. 1998. Contesting social relations in communal places: identity politics among Asian
communities in Dar es Salaam. In Fincher, R. and Jacobs, J. eds. Cities of Difference. Guilford Press:
Guilford, pp. 226-251 (ch 10) B


16

Theory at work: Gentrification
Monday, April 30, 2012

Rose, D. 1984. Rethinking gentrification: beyond the uneven development of Marxist urban theory.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2:47-74 P
Bondi, L. 1991. Gender divisions and gentrification: a critique. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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Bridge, G. 1995. The space for class? On class analysis in the study of gentrification. Transactions of the Institute
of British Geographers 20:236-247P
Buzar, S., Hall, R. Ogden, P. 2007. Beyond gentrification: the democratic re-urbanisation of Bologna.
Environment and Planning A 39: 6485
Davidson, M. 2007. Gentrification as global habitat: a process of class construction or corporate creation?
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