11.469 Urban Sociology SYLLABUS V6 for Stellar(2)

11.469 URBAN SOCIOLOGY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Department of Urban Studies + Planning Spring 2012

Class meetings: Wednesdays, 5:30-8:30 PM, Room 10-401 Faculty: Xavier de Souza Briggs, Room 9-521, [email protected], voice 253-7956 Office hours: sign up online or make appointment through staff assistant Staff assistant: Harriette Crawford, Room 9-519, [email protected], voice 253-7736 Instructor: Abby Spinak, [email protected], 773-354-2691

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This graduate-level seminar introduces students to a set of core writings in the field of urban sociology. Topics include the changing nature of community, social inequality, political power, socio-spatial change, use and impacts of technology and technological change, and the relationship between the built environment and human behavior (and how changes in each interact). We examine the key theoretical paradigms that have constituted the field since its founding, assess how and why they have changed over time, and discuss the implications of these shifts for urban research, policy and planning practice. As such, the course has two goals: (1) To give students a more critical appreciation of the contemporary, comparative, and historical contexts in which planning skills and sensibilities have been developed and could be applied; and (2) To offer a “sociology of knowledge” approach to the field of urban sociology, so as to prepare more advanced students to pursue the urban sociology doctoral exam.

LEARNING APPROACH AND EVALUATION

The seminar is centered on intensive discussion, rather than lectures, on assigned readings. Students will be encouraged to discuss how the theoretical and practical concerns that have preoccupied urban sociologists can be applied to their individual interests.

Requirements and grading are as follows (additional guidance on assignments to come):

• Six brief reaction papers, in the form of blog postings of 1-2 single-spaced pages each (20%). These will offer a critical assessment of assigned material—outlining and assessing the central problem or question, unit of analysis, research approach, and solutions proposed, for example—and not mere restatement of content. You will choose which 6 of the 14 weeks to submit for; postings are due before the start of class. • In-class participation (20%). • Book review of an ethnography (20%). • Term paper or research proposal, 15-20 double-spaced pages, on a topic of individual interest (40%).

DUSP PhD students who plan to take the general exam in Urban Sociology may complete their exam proposal in place of the final paper, with permission of the instructor. To meet this requirement student should meet regularly with their exam committee. Please pay close attention to due dates, and contact the teaching team asap in case of genuine emergency; in fairness to your colleagues, unexcused late submissons will be penalized.

Recitation. There will be a weekly recitation section, open to all students, to further engage with urban sociology core readings at the doctoral level. This recitation has two main purposes: first, to engage more deeply with the foundational texts of the field; and, second, to discuss how these theoretical frameworks are used, contested, and reinterpreted through research. In other words, the recitation is especially important for the sociology-of-knowledge agenda of this course, outlined above. Because the primary focus of 11.469 is to introduce a wide range of ideas in urban sociology, across more than a century of publication, we often read more recent summaries of major theories in the field. However, there are many important reasons to go back to original texts, not least because every writer has biases about what is important and why, and these biases are heavily influenced by the era in which that writer is working. This recitation section, therefore, will help students examine both ideas and ideas about ideas. In addition, the recitation will address how practicing research is different from practicing planning or policy. Practicing research means placing yourself in (or against!) an epistemological tradition. Understanding why and how people are compelled to ask the research questions they do, and how they set about answering those questions, is as important as understanding the theories they eventually propose. Finally, while doctoral exams are designed to test your knowledge of your field, they are also intended to encourage you to identify areas for future inquiry in the subjects you care about. In this recitation, we will approach the class readings with all of these goals in mind, going further than the main class discussion can typically go: Why were these theorists writing about urban phenomena when they were? How are their theories still useful today? What's the difference between how these theorists are usually summarized and the arguments they were actually making? How have these traditions evolved? What do they fail to address sufficiently?

COURSE MATERIALS will be made available through the Stellar course website.

KEY TEXTS

Though there are no required texts for the course, these are particularly important works, or collections of same, that we will draw on over the course of the semester:

Anthologies Fainstein, Susan and Scott Campbell (eds.). 2002. Readings in Urban Theory. New York: Blackwell. Le Gates, Richard T. and Frederick Stout (eds). 1996. The City Reader. London and New York: Routledge. Susser, Ida (ed.). 2002. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Primary sources Clark, Terry Nichols. 2004. The City as an Entertainment Machine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. de Filippis, James. 2004. Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital. New York: Routledge. King, Anthony D. 1990. Post-Imperialism and the Internationalization of London. London: Routledge.

2 Gamm, Gerald. 2000. Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Gans, Herbert. 1962. The Urban Villagers. New York: Free Press. Gans, Herbert 1967. The Levittowners. New York: Pantheon. Horton, John. 1995. The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Diversity and Resistance in Monterrey Park, California. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Hyra, Derek S. 2008. The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Klinenberg, Eric. 2003. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Levitt, Peggy. 2001. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Lin, Jan. 1998. Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Logan, John and Harvey Molotch. 1988. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley: University of California Press. Merrifield, Andrew. 2002. Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. London and New York: Routledge. Mollenkopf, John. 1983. The Contested City. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Park, Robert and Ernest Burgess. 1967 [1925]. The City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pattillo, Mary. 2007. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race & Class in the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Portes, Alejandro and Alex Stepick. 1993. City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami. Berkeley: University of California Press. Sassen, Saskia. 1991. The Global City. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Small, Mario Luis. 2004. Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Smith, Robert. 2005. Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants. Berkeley: University of California Press. Sugrue, Thomas. 1996. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-war Detroit (Part II and III). Princeton: Princeton University Press. Wellman, Barry. 1999. Networks in the Global Village. Boulder: Westview Press.

Further reference:

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And see best-book-of-the-year award winners of the ASA’s Urban and Community Sociology section over the past two decades plus (we’ve included several in the list of key texts above).

3 COURSE OUTLINE (assignment due dates in italics)

Week 1 (February 8) Introduction: The Sociological Eye

Week 2 (February 15) Classical Foundations

Week 3 (February 22) Early Urban Sociology in the United States and the Rise of The Chicago School

Week 4 (February 29) Community and How to Study it

Week 5 (March 7) The Ethnographic Tradition Book review due

Week 6 (March 14) The Ecological View: From Culture to Nature

Week 7 (March 21) Urban Political Economy I: Cities, Industrialization, and Socio-Spatial Change

Week 8 (March 28) NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK

Week 9 (April 4) Urban Political Economy II: Capitalism and Urban Dynamics

Week 10 (April 11) Urban Political Economy III: Elites, Political Power, and Urban Dynamics

Week 11 (April 18) Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

Week 12 (April 25) Social Networks, Social Capital, and Information and Communications Technology

Week 13 (May 2) Postmodernism

Week 14 (May 9) Globalization and Comparative Urban Development

Week 15 (May 16) Review and Synthesis

Term paper due 9AM, Monday, May 21st

4 WEEKLY READINGS

This reading list is subject to change. Rely on the Stellar website to prep for class.

Each week’s readings are listed in three categories: required readings, additional core readings, and recommended further readings. All students should read the required readings for each week. PhD students studying for their general exam in Urban Sociology should read the starred exam-list readings (*), whether shown as required or not.

Week 1 – Introduction: The Sociological Eye Duany, Andrés. 2007. “Restoring the Real New Orleans.” Metropolis. Posted February 14, 2007. Marcuse, Peter. 2005. “The City” as Perverse Metaphor. City 9(2): 247–254. Mills, C. Wright. 2000. The Sociological Imagination (Fortieth Anniversary Edition). New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. (Chapter 1: The Promise) Fainstein, Susan S. and Scott Campbell. 2002. “Introduction: Theories of Urban Development and their Implications for Policy and Planning.” In Susan S. Fainstein and Scott Campbell (eds.), Readings in Urban Theory, Second Edition (pp. 1-13). Oxford and Malden: Blackwell Publishers Inc.

Week 2 – Classical Foundations Durkheim, Emile. 1883. Division of Labour in Society. Excerpts in Gordon Baily and Noga Gayle (Eds.) (1993) Sociology An Introduction: From the Classics to Contemporary Feminists (pp. 121-134). New York: Oxford University Press. Aldous, Joan, Emile Durkheim, and Ferdinand Tonnies. 1972. “An Exchange Between Durkheim and Tonnies on the Nature of Social Relations, with an Introduction by Joan Aldous.” American Journal of Sociology 77(6): 1191-1200. Simmel, Georg. 1950. “The Metropolis and Mental Life.” In Kurt H. Wolff (translator), The Sociology of George Simmel (pp. 409-424). New York: Free Press. Weber, Max. 1958. The City. Translated by D. M. a. G. Neuwirth. New York: Free Press; 1st Collier Books edition. (Chapter: "The Nature of Cities") Merrifield, Andrew. 2002. “Karl Marx: Commodities and Cities with Sober Senses” In Metromarxism (pp. 13-30). London and New York: Routledge.

Additional Core Readings: * Merrifield, Andrew. 2002. “Friedrich Engels: Backstreet Boy in Manchester.” In Metromarxism (pp. 31-48). London and New York: Routledge. * Tönnies, Ferdinand. 1887. Community and Society (1957 edition). Translated by C. P. Loomis. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. *Karl Marx. [1867] 1976. "The Commodity," and "The Process of Exchange" Pp. 125-177, and 178-187 in Capital, Volume 1. New York: Vintage Books.

Additional Suggested Readings: Engels, Friedrich. 1984. The Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1944. London: Penguin. Redfield, Robert. 1947. “The Folk Society.” American Journal of Sociology LII: 293-308.

Week 3 – Early Urban Sociology in the United States and the Rise of The Chicago School Du Bois, W.E.B. 1899. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia: Published for the University. Look at the Contents, pp. xvii-xx; then read: Chapters I and II (The Scope of This Study

5 and The Problem): pp. 1-9; "The Influx of the Freedmen, 1870-1896," pp. 39-45; "The Seventh Ward," pp. 58-65; skim Chapters XV-XVII (The Environment of the Negro, The Contact of the Races, and Negro Suffrage), pp. 287-383; and read Chapter XVIII: A Final Word, pp. 385-397. Park, Robert. 1915. "The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment." American Journal of Sociology 20:577-612. Wirth, Louis. 1928. “Urbanism as a Way of Life.” American Journal of Sociology 44(1): 3-24. [in The City Reader.] Park, Robert. 1936. “Human Ecology.” The American Journal of Sociology XLII(1): 1-15. Ernest Burgess. [1925] 1967. "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project." Pp. 47 -62 in Robert Park, Ernest Burgess, and Roderick McKenzie, The City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Roderick McKenzie. [1925] 1967. "The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community." Pp. 63-79 in Robert Park, Ernest Burgess, and Roderick McKenzie, The City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Gans, Herbert. 2009. “Some Problems for and Futures of Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements.” City & Community 8(3).

Additional Core Readings: Fischer, Claude. 1995. “The Subcultural Theory of Urbanism: A Twentieth-Year Assessment.” The American Journal of Sociology. 101(3): 543-577. *Milgram, Stanley. (1970). “The Experience of Living in Cities”. Science 167: 1461-1468. *Dear, Michael. “The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An Intellectual History.” Miller, D. W. 2000. “The New Urban Studies.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (August 18). *Beauregard, Robert. 2003. “City of Superlatives” and replies by Michael Dear and Neil Brenner. In City and Community 2(3): 183-216.

Other Suggested Readings Harris, Chauncy, & Edward Ullman (1945). “The Nature of Cities.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 242: 7-17. Hoyt, Homer (1939). “The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Federal Housing Administration. Gans, Herbert. 1962. “Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life.” Human Behavior and Social Processes: 625-48. Whyte, William H. 2000. The Essential William H. Whyte. New York: Fordham University Press. Maier, Richard. 1976. “The Civic Bond.” In Charles Tilly (ed.), An Urban World (pp. 382-405). Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

Week 4 – Community and How to Study it Kasarda, John D., and Morris Janowitz. 1974. Community Attachment in Mass Society. American Sociological Review 39, no. 3 (June): 328-339. Wellman, Barry. 1979. "The Community Question." American Journal of Sociology 84:1201-31. Sampson, Robert J. 2008. What “Community” Supplies. In The Community Development Reader, eds. James DeFillippis and Susan Saegert, 163-173. New York: Routledge. Briggs, Xavier de Souza et al. 2010. “When Your Neighborhood is Not Your Community,” in Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.3-6, 109-126. Brint, Steven. 2001. “Gemeinschaft Revisited: A Critique and Reconstruction of the Community Concept.” Sociological Theory 19, no. 1 (March): 1-23.

6 Other Suggested Readings Wellman, Barry, and Scot Wortley (1990). “Different Strokes From Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support.” American Journal of Sociology 96(3):558-88. Fischer, Claude. 1982. To Dwell Among Friends. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chs.1, 2, 7, 8, 10. Briggs, Xavier de Souza. 2007. “Some of My Best Friends Are …”: Interracial Friendship, Class and Segregation in America. City & Community 6(4):263-290.

Week 5 - The Urban Ethnographic Tradition Abu-Lughod. 1994. “Welcome to the Neighborhood,” in From Urban Village to East Village. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Gans, Herbert. 1962. The Urban Villagers. New York: Free Press. (Excerpt TBD) Small, Mario Luis. 2004. Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Excerpt TBD) Jacobs, Jane. 1961. “The Use of Sidewalks.” In The Death and Life of Great American Cities (pp. 29-88). New York: Random House. Whyte, William H. 1996. “The Design of Spaces.” In Richard Le Gates and Frederick Stout (eds). The City Reader (pp. 429-436). London and New York: Routledge.

ETHNOGRAPHIES to choose from for the book review Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bourgois, Phillippe. 1996. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York: Cambridge University Press. Dunier, Mitchell. 1999. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straux, and Giroux. Dunier, Mitchell. 1992. Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Gans, Herbert. 1962. The Urban Villagers. New York: Free Press. Gans, Herbert 1967. The Levittowners.New York: Pantheon. Hannerz, Ulf. 1969. Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community. New York: Columbia University Press. Liebow, Elliot. 1967. Tally's Corner. Boston: Little Brown. MacLeod, Jay. [1987] 2009. Ain’t No Makin’ It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Revised edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Pattillo, Mary. 2007. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race & Class in the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Smith, Robert C. 2005. Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants. Berkeley: University of California Press. Sullivan, Mercer. 1989. Getting Paid: Youth, Crime, and Work in the Inner City. Cornell University Press. Small, Mario L. 2004. Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Venkatesh, Sudhir. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto. Harvard University Press. Whyte, William Foote. 1943. Street Corner Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Additional Core Readings: Young, A.A. 2007. “Herbert Gans and the Politics of Urban Ethnography in the (Continued) Age of the Underclass.” City & Community. 6(1): 7-20.

Other Suggested Readings:

7 Hughes, Everett Cherrington. 1943. French Canada in Transition. Chicago, Ill: The University of Chicago press. Clark, Samuel D. 1966. The Suburban Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Vidich, Arthur and Joseph Bensman. 1960. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community. New York: Doubleday.

Week 6 – The Ecological View: From Culture to Nature Capek, Stella M. 2010. “Foregrounding Nature: An Invitation to Think About Shifting Nature- City Boundaries.” City & Community 9(2): 208-224. Gottlieb, Robert. 2005. “Urban and Industrial Roots: Seeking to Reform the System.” In Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the Environmental Movement (pp. 83-120). Washington, D.C.: Island Press. Jacobs, Jane. 1961. “The Kind of Problem a City Is.” In The Death and Life of Great American Cities (pp. 428-448). New York: Random House, Vintage Books Edition (1992). Schweitzer, Lisa and Max Stephenson. 2007. “Right Answers, Wrong Questions: Environmental Justice as Urban Research.” Urban Studies 44(2): 319-337. Campbell, Scott. 1996. “Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities?: Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development.” Journal of the American Planning Association, 62: 3, 296-312.

Additional Core Readings: *Brulle, Robert J. 2000. “The Social Dynamics of Environmental Degradation.” In Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective (pp. 49-59, rest of chapter optional). Cambridge: MIT Press. (NOTE: Brulle is interested in how Habermas’s theory of communicative action can be used to address environmental problems, which he discusses in greater length in the second part of the chapter. Feel free to read this if you want, but it’s not required.) *Davis, Mike. 1998. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Vintage Books. (Chapter 5: “Maneaters of the Sierra Madre”) Bookchin, Murray. 2005. The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy. AK Press. Lynch, Kevin. “The Pattern of the Metropolis.” In Charles Tilly (ed.), An Urban World (pp. 298- 315). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Hawley, Amos. 1986. Human Ecology: A Theoretical Essay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. *Dunlap, Riley E. and William R. Catton Jr. 1994. “Struggling with Human Exemptionalism: The Rise, Decline and Revitalization of Environmental Sociology.” The American Sociologist 5: 243-273. Dunlap, Riley. 2002. “Paradigms, Theories, and Environmental Sociology.” Pp. 329-350 in Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights, edited by R. Dunlap, F. H. Buttel, P. Dickens, and A. Gijswijt. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Other Suggested Readings: Alonso, William. 1976. “The Historic and the Structural Theories of Urban Form: Their Implications for Urban Renewal.” In Charles Tilly (ed.), An Urban World (pp. 441-446). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Michelson, William. 1976. Man and His Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach (revised). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Dunlap, Riley E. and William R. Catton Jr. 1979. “Environmental Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 5: 243-273.

8 Dunlap, Riley E. and Kent D. Van Liere. 1978. “The ‘New Environmental Paradigm.’” Journal of Environmental Education 9 (Summer): 10-19. Field, Donald R. and Darryll R. Johnson. 1986. “Rural Communities and Natural Resources: A Classical Interest.” The Rural Sociologist 6(2): 187-196. Michelson, William. 1977. Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction. New York: Oxford University Press. Hawley, Amos. 1950. Human Ecology: A Theory of Community Structure. New York: Ronald Press.

Week 7 – Urban Political Economy I: Cities, Industrialization, and Socio-Spatial Change Mumford, Lewis. 1961. The City in History (Excerpt TBD) New York: Harcourt. Howard, Ebenezer. 1996. “The Town-Country Magnet.” In Richard Le Gates and Frederick Stout (eds). 1996. The City Reader (pp. 309-316). London and New York: Routledge. Wright, Frank Lloyd. 1996. “Broad-Acre City: A New Community Plan.” In Richard Le Gates and Frederick Stout (eds). 1996. The City Reader (pp. 325-330). London and New York: Routledge. Tilly, Charles. 1974. “The Chaos of the Living City,” In Charles Tilly (ed.), An Urban World (pp. 86-107). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Tilly, Charles. 1988. “Misreading, then Rereading, Nineteenth-Century Social Change." Pp. 332- 58 in Social Structures: A Network Approach, edited by B. Wellman and S. Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sennett, Richard. 1976. The Fall of Public Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (Chapter 1: The Public Domain.)

Additional Core Readings: *Engels, Friedrich. 1984. The Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1944. London: Penguin. *Riis, Jacob. [1890] 2005. How the Other Half Lives. Studies among the Tenements of New York. Stilwell, KS: Digireads.com Publishing. Sennett, Richard. 1976. Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago (pp. 59-149). New York: Vintage Books. Warner, Sam Bass. 1974. “If All the World Were Philadelphia: A Scaffolding for Urban History, 1774-1930.” In Charles Tilly (ed.), An Urban World (pp. 315-331). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Le Corbusier. “A Contemporary City.” In Richard Le Gates and Frederick Stout (eds). 1996. The City Reader (pp. 317-324). London and New York: Routledge.

Additional Recommended Readings: Sjoberg, Gideon. 1960. The Preindustrial City: Past and Present. Glencoe, Il: Free Press. Merrifield, Andrew. 2002. “Walter Benjamin: The City of Profane Illumination.” In Metromarxism (pp. 49-70). London and New York: Routledge. *Benjamin, Walter. 1999. “Paris, Capital of the Twentieth Century.” In The Arcades Project. Cambridge: Harvard University Press/Belnap.

Week 8 – SPRING BREAK/NO CLASS

Week 9 – Urban Political Economy II: Capitalism and Urban Dynamics Merrifield, Andrew. 2002. “Henri Lefebvre: The Urban Revolution.” In Metromarxism (pp. 71- 92). London and New York: Routledge.

9 Merrifield, Andrew. 2002. “Manuel Castells: The City of Althusser and Social Movements.” In Metromarxism (pp. 113-132). London and New York: Routledge. Merrifield, Andrew. 2002. “David Harvey: The Geopolitics of Urbanization.” In Metromarxism (pp. 133-157). London and New York: Routledge. Merrifield, Andrew. 2002. “Marshall Berman: A Marxist Urban Romance.” In Metromarxism (pp. 157-173). New York and London: Routledge. Sawers, Larry. 1984. “New Perspectives on Urban Political Economy.” In William Tabb and Larry Sawyers, Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy (pp.3-20). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gordon, David. 1984. “Capitalist Development and the History of American Cities.” In William Tabb and Larry Sawyers, Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy (pp. 54-81). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Additional Core Readings: *Harvey, David. 2008. “The Right to the City.” New Left Review 53(September-October): 23– 40. *Mayer, Margit. 2009. “The ‘Right to the City’ in the context of shifting mottos of urban social movements.” City 13(2-3): 362–374. Saunders, Peter. 1983. Urban Politics: A Sociological Interpretation (pp. 66-136). London: Hutchinson. Susser, Ida (ed.) 2002. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory (Part I.) London and New York: Blackwell.

Other Suggested Readings: Lefebvre, Henri. 2003. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. David, Harvey. 1985. The Urbanization of Capital. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Week 10 – Urban Political Economy III: Elites, Political Power, and Urban Dynamics Logan, Jonathan and Harvey Molotch. 2002. “The City as a Growth Machine.” In Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell (eds.), Readings in Urban Theory (Chapter 10). New York: Blackwell. [Updates and condenses a seminal 1976 article by Molotch and 1987 book by the two co-authors.] Squires, Gregory D. 2002. “Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City.” In Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell (eds.), Readings in Urban Theory (Chapter 11). New York: Blackwell. Hyra, Derek. 2008. The New Urban Renewal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Preface, Introduction, Building a Theoretical Framework, Conclusion]

Additional Core Readings: Mollenkopf, John. 1983. The Contested City. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Sugrue, Thomas. 1996. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-war Detroit (Part II and III). Princeton: Princeton University Press. *Painter, Joe. 2002. “Regulation Theory, Post-Fordism, and Urban Politics.” In Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell (eds.), Readings in Urban Theory (Chapter 5). New York: Blackwell. Fainstein, Susan. 2001. The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas [first edition, 1984, Blackwell]. *Kimelberg, S. M. (2011). Inside the Growth Machine: Real Estate Professionals on the Perceived Challenges of Urban Development. City & Community, 10(1), 76–99.

10 *Smith, Neil. 2002. “Gentrification, the Frontier, and the Restructuring of Urban Space.” In Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell (eds.), Readings in Urban Theory (Chapter 12). New York: Blackwell.

Other Suggested Readings: Katznelson, Ira 1981. City Trenches: Urban Politics and The Patterning of Class in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Knoke, David. 1986. Associations and interest groups. Annual Review of Sociology 12, no. 1: 121. Friedland, Roger. 1982. Power and Crisis in the City: Corporations, Unions, and Urban Policy. New York: MacMillan Press. Logan, Jonathan and Harvey Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Abu-Lughod, Janet. 1994. From Urban Village to East Village. Cambridge, MA 1994.

Week 11 – Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Zukin, Sharon. 1996. “Whose Culture, Whose City.” In Richard Le Gates, Richard T. and Frederick Stout (eds.), The City Reader (pp. 136-146). London and New York: Routledge. [Also in Fainstein and Campbell, Readings in Urban Theory, Chapter 15]. Merrifield, Andrew. 1996. “Social Justice and Communities of Difference: A Snapshot from Liverpool.” In Andrew Merrifield and Eric Swyngedouw (eds.), The Urbanization of Injustice (pp. 200-219). New York: New York University Press. Sampson, Robert. 2009. “Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City.” British Journal of Sociology Vol. 60 no. 1 (March 2009). Davis, Diane. 2009 “Taking Place and Space Seriously: Reflections on `Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City’ by Robert Sampson“ British Journal of Sociology Vol. 60 no.1 (March 2009). Davis, Mike. “Fortress L.A.” In Richard Le Gates, Richard T. and Frederick Stout (eds.), The City Reader (pp. 201-205). London and New York: Routledge.

Additional Core Readings: Bonner, Kieran. 2002. Understanding placemaking: Economics, politics and everyday life in the culture of cities. Canadian Journal of Urban Research vol. 11, no. 1: 1-16 pgs. Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Klinenberg, Eric. 2002. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Chapter Two: Race, Place, and Vulnerability) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Massey, Doreen. (1994). Space, Place, and Gender (Chapters 4, 8, 11). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Wilson, William Julius. 1996. “From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos.” In Richard Le Gates, Richard T. and Frederick Stout (eds.), The City Reader (pp. 126-135). London and New York: Routledge.

Other Suggested Readings: Zukin, Sharon. 1995. The Culture of Cities. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Davis, Mike. 1992. City of Quartz. New York: Vintage Books. Katz, Michael. 1993. The `Underclass’ Debate. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. 1994. American Apartheid. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.

11 Massey, Doreen. 1997. “Space/Power, Identity/Difference.” In Andrew Merrifield and Eric Swyngedouw (eds.), The Urbanization of Injustice (pp. 100-116). New York: New York University Press. Briggs, Xavier de Souza. 2004. Civilization in Color: The Multicultural City in Three Millennia. City & Community 3(4):311-342.

Week 12 – Social Networks, Social Capital and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Schneider, J. 2006. “Social Capital,” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Bryan S. Turner, ed., 557-559. New York: Cambridge University Press. Briggs, Xavier de Souza. 2003. “Social Capital, Types of,” In The Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Karen Christensen and David Levinson, eds.. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Gladwell, Malcolm. 1999. “Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg.” The New Yorker 11: 52–63. Granovetter, Mark. 1973. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” American Journal of Sociology 78(6): 1360-1380. * Wellman, Barry (1999). “The Network Community: an Introduction.” in Barry Wellman (Ed.), Networks in the Global Village (pp. 1-48). Boulder: Westview Press. * Putnam, Robert. 2007. “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century.” Scandinavian Political Studies 30(2):137-174. * Sampson, Robert et al. 1997. “Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multi-Level Study of Collective Efficacy.” Science 277(5328):918-925.

Additional Core Readings: * Portes, Alejandro. 1998. Social capital: its origins and applications in modern sociology. Annual Review of Sociology 24, no. 1: 1-24. * Sampson, Robert J, Doug McAdam, Heather MacIndoe, and Simón Weffer Elizondo. 2005. Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action. American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 3: 673-714. * Putnam, Robert. 2001. Social Capital Measurement and Consequences. Canadian Journal of Policy Research 2(1): 41-51. Fischer, Claude. 2001. “Bowling Alone: What's the Score?” Paper delivered to Author-Meets- Critics Session on Putnam's Bowling Alone, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, CA, August. Webber, Melvin. 1963. "Order in Diversity: Community without Propinquity." Pp. 23-54 in Cities and Space: The Future Use of Urban Land, edited by J. Lowdon Wingo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Other Suggested Readings: Putnam, Robert, editor. 2002. Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society. New York: Oxford University. Briggs, Xavier de Souza et al. 2010. Excerpt on “the weakness of strong ties,” (conclusion) MTO. New York: Oxford University Press. Festinger, L. Schachter, S. and Back, K. W. (1950) Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing, New York: Harper.

Week 13 - New Technology, Postmodernism and the City Fischer, Claude S. 1997. “Technology and Community: Historical Complexities.” Sociological Inquiry 67: 113–118. Mitchell, William J. 2003. ME++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. MIT Press. “Networks” (pp. 9-11); “Discontinuities”,”Habitats”, and “Communities” (pp. 14-17);

12 “Sensorium” and “Gaze” (pp. 24-29); “Electronic Nomadicity” and “Access Rules” (pp. 57-60); “Eyewitness Narratives” (pp. 105-109); “Hertzian Public Space” (154-158); “Epilogue” (pp. 203-211) Castells, Manuel. [1996] 2002. “The Space of Flows,” in The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory, ed. Ida Susser, 314-366. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Matei, Sorin and Sandra Ball-Rokeach. 2001. “Real and Virtual Social Ties: Connections in the Everyday Lives of Seven Ethnic Neighborhoods.” American Behavioral Scientist 45(3), 550-564. Calhoun, Craig. 1998. “Community Without Propinquity Revisited: Communications Technology and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere.” Sociological Inquiry 68(3), 373-379. Sassen, Saskia. 1996. "The Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Cities." In The City Reader, pp. 212-220. Hampton, Keith. 2003. "Grieving for a Lost Network: Collective Action in a Wired Suburb." The Information Society 19:417-428.

Additional Core Readings: Graham, Stephen. 2002. “Bridging Urban Digital Divides? Urban Polarisation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).” Urban Studies. 39(1): 33– 56. Castells, Manuel. [1996] 2002. “The Culture of Cities in the Information Age,” in The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory, ed. Ida Susser, 367-389. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Ling, Rich. 2004. The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society. Boston: Morgan Kaufman.

Other Suggested Readings: Chen, Wenhong and Barry Wellman. 2005. “Charting the Digital Divide: Comparing Socioeconomic, Gender, Life Stage and Rural-Urban Internet Access in Five Countries,” In Transforming Enterprise, eds. William Dutton, Brian Kahin, Ramon O'Callaghan and Andrew Wyckoff, 467-497. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Wellman, Barry. 1999. Networks in the Global Village. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Fischer, Claude. 1992. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press. Katz, James E. and Ronald E. Rice. 2002. Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Schon, Donald, Bishwapriya Sanyal and William Mitchell. 1999. High Technology and Low Income Communities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Week 14 - Globalization, Transnationalism and Comparative Urban Development Davis, Diane. 2005. “Cities in Global Context: A Brief Intellectual History.” International Journal of Urban and Regional research. 29(1): 92-109. Soja, Edward. 1996. “Taking L.A Apart: Towards A Post-modern Geography.” In Richard Le Gates, Richard T. and Frederick Stout (eds.), The City Reader (pp.189-200). London and New York: Routledge. Roy, Ananya. "Transnational Trespassings: The Geopolitics of Urban Informality." In Ananya Roy and Nezar Alzayad (eds.), Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (pp. 289-313). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. Smith, Michael Peter. 2005. “Transnational Urbanism Revisited.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(2): 235-244.

13 Landolt, Patricia. 2008. “The Transnational Geographies of Immigrant Politics: Insights from a Comparative Study of Migrant Grassroots Organizing.” The Sociological Quarterly 49(1): 53–77. Chen, X., L. Wang, and R. Kundu. 2009. “Localizing the production of global cities: A comparison of new town developments around Shanghai and Kolkata.” City & Community 8(4): 433–465.

Additional Core Readings: Zukin, Sharon. 2010. The Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-34, 219-247. * Sassen, Saskia. 1991. The Global City. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Levitt, Peggy. 2001. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. *James de Filippis. 2004. Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 17-60. Roberts, J. Timmons and Peter E. Grimes. 2002. “World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a New Synthesis.” Pp. 167-194 in Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights, edited by R. Dunlap, F. H. Buttel, P. Dickens, and A. Gijswijt. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Sandercock, Leonie. 2003. Cosmopolis II: Mongrel Cities in the 21st Century (pp. 85- 153).London: Continuum Press. *Drainville, Andre. 2004. Contesting Globalization: Space and Place in the World Economy. New York and London: Routledge.

Other Suggested Readings: Graham, Stephen. 2004. “Beyond the ‘Dazzling Light’: From Dreams of Transcendence to the ‘Remediation’ of Urban Life: A Research Manifesto.” New Media Society. 6(1): 16-xx. Clark, David. 1996. Urban World/Global City. New York and London: Routledge. Anjaria, J. S. 2009. Guardians of the Bourgeois City: Citizenship, Public Space, and Middle‐Class Activism in Mumbai1. City & Community 8(4): 391–406. Marcuse, Peter and Ronald Van Kempen, 2000. Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? London and New York: Blackwell. Sites, William. 2003. Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. King, Anthony D. 1990. Global Cities: Post-Imperialism and the Internationalization of London. London and New York: Routledge. Dear, Michael. From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Davis, Mike. 2006. Planet of Slums. New York: Verso. Beck, Ulrich. 1999. World Risk Society. Cambridge: Polity Press. Beauregard, Robert. 2003. “City of Superlatives” and replies by Michael Dear and Neil Brenner. In City and Community, 2(3): 183-216.

Week 15 – Course Review and Synthesis Gieryn, Thomas. 2002. “A Space for Place in Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:463–96. Sassen, Saskia. 2000. “New Frontiers Facing Urban Sociology at the Millennium.” British Journal of Sociology. 51(1): 143–159. Gans, Herbert. 2009. “Some Problems for and Futures of Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements.” City & Community 8(3).