Urban History: Theory and Practice

HIST 5521 Urban History: Theory and Practice

Fall 2011 Monday, 5:15-7:45pm Rosemary Wakeman Office: Dealy 208B/LC Room 414B [email protected]

Sept. 7 Readers, Encyclopedias, and Web Sites in Urban History NO REQUIRED READING

Neil Brenner & Roger Keil, eds., The Global Cities Reader (Routledge, 2006) Gary Bridge & Sophie Watson, eds., The Blackwell City Reader (Blackwell, 2010) Susan S. Fainstein & Scott Campbell, eds., Readings in Urban Theory (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) Lisa Krissoff & Steven Corey, eds., The American Urban Reader: History and Theory (Routledge, 2011) Kenneth Jackson, The Encyclopedia of New York City, 2nd ed. (Yale, 2011) Donald Judd, ed., The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York (2011) David Goldfield, Encyclopedia of American Urban History, 2 vols., (Sage, 2006) Richard LeGates & Frederic Stout, eds., City Reader, 5th ed. (Routledge, 2011) Malcolm Miles et al., eds., The City Cultures Reader (Routledge, 2000)

Sept. 12 The Classics in Urban History READINGS: Lewis Mumford, The City in History (1968) Lewis Mumford, “What is a City?” Architectural Record (1937) Screening: “The City: Part I” (1939) and “The City: Cars or People?” (1963)

Carl Abbott, Urban American in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present Alexander Cowan, Urban Europe 1500-1700 (1998) Peter Hall, Cities in Civilization (2001) Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (1993) Joel Kotkin, The City: A Global History (2006) Andrew Lees, Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940 (1985) Andrew Lees & Lynn Lees, Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 (2008) John Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States (1992) Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: the Body and the City in Western Civilization Gareth Stedman Jones, Outcast London (1971) Sam Bass Warner, The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City (1995)

Sept. 19 City Biographies READINGS: To be decided

Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (2003) Edwin Burrows & Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (2000) Robert Fogelson, The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 (1993) Christopher Hibbert, Rome: The Biography of a City (1988) Colin Jones, Paris: The Biography of a City (2006) David Clay Large, Berlin (2001) Lillian Li, Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City (2008) Bruce Lincoln, Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia (2002) Donald Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (1997) Dominic Pacyga, Chicago: A Biography (2011) Roy Porter, London: A Social History (1998) Edward Seidensticker, Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake (1991) Wen-hsin Yeh, Shanghai Splendor: A Cultural History, 1843-1949 (2008) Garry Wills, Venice: Lion City. The Religion of Empire (2002)

Sept. 26 18th Century Urban Enlightenment and the Public Sphere READINGS: Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1991), Parts 1, 2, and 4. David Garrioch, The Making of Revolutionary Paris (2004) James Van Horn Melton, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (2001)

Donatella Calabi, The Market and the City: Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe (2004) Robert Darnton, Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in 18th Century Paris (2010) Markman Ellis, The Coffee House: A Cultural History (2004) Julie Flavell, When London was Capital of America (2010) David Garrioch, Neighborhood and Community in Paris, 1740-1790 (2002) Deborah Harkness, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (2008) David Nicholas, Urban Europe 1100-1700 (2003) Donald Olsen, The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna (1988) Daniel Roche, The People of Paris. An Essay on Popular Culture in the 18th Century (1987) Russell Shorto, The Island in the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (2005)

October 3 Urban Modernity and Public Space: 19th Century READINGS: Walter Benjamin, “Paris, Capital of the 19th Century” The Arcades Project (1999) “The Foundations of Urban Theory” in Simon Parker, Urban Theory and Urban Experience (2004) Lisa Keller, Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London (2010) Vanessa Schwartz, Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (1999) Patrick Joyce, The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City (2003)

Robin F. Bachin, Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919 (2008) Peter Bailey, Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City (Cambridge, 2003) Michel Carmona, Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris (2992) Daniel Frost, Cultivating Madrid: Public Space and Middle-Class Culture in the Spanish Capital, 1833-1890 (2008) Graeme Gilloch, Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City (1997) David Harvey, Paris, Capital of Modernity (Routledge, 2005) John F. Kasson, Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th Century Urban America (1990) Lynda Nead, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in 19th Century London (2005) Jessica Sewell, Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890- 1915 (2011) Ross, Kristin. The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988) Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late- Victorian London (1992) Walter Benjamin, "Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century," (1939) in The Arcades Project (1999)

October 10 Columbus Day: University Closed

October 17 The Debates on Urban Modernity: 20th Century READINGS: George Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903) Marie-Claire Bergère, Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity (2009) Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles (2006)

Philip Broadbent & Sabine Hake, Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989 Katerina Clark, Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941 (2011) Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge. A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (1995) ___ City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (1997) Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900 (1996) Peter Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret (1993) Leif Jerram, Streetlife: The Untold Story of Europe’s Twentieth Century (2011)

John Lukacs, Budapest 1900 (1990) Deborah Parsons, A Cultural History of Madrid. Modernism and the Urban Spectacle (2003) Gyan Prakash & Kevin Kruse, The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life (2008) Joachim Schloer, Nights in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London, 1840-1930 (1998) Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1980)

October 24 Where Lies Social History in the City? READINGS: “The City Described: Social Reform and the Empirical Tradition” in Parker, Urban Theory and the Urban Experience Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (2008) Bryant Simon, Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America (2004) Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (2005)

George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1995) Arnold Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (1998) Kenneth Kusmer, African American Urban History since World War II (2009) Carla Peterson, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in 19th Century New York (2011) Pablo Piccato, City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931(2001) Ronn F. Pineo, Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930 (2000) Wendell Pritchett, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (2003) Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2005) Carl Smith, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (1995) William Tuttle, Race Riot: Chicago in the Summer of 1919 (1996)

October 31 Spring Recess

Nov. 7 Urban History and Visual Culture READING: Janet Ward, Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (2001) Eric Gordon, The Urban Spectator: American Concept-Cities from Kodak to Google (2010) Gyan Prakash, Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City (2010)

Nezer Alsayyad, Cinematic Urbanism: a History of the Modern from Reel to Real (2006) Yomi Braester, Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract (2010)

Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City (2006) Edward Dimendberg, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (2004) Anna D’Souza & Tom McDonough, eds., The Invisible Flâneuse: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in 19th Century Paris (2010) Otto Friedrich, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (1997) Jason Kuo, Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s (2007) Ranjani Mazumdar, Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2010) Leo Ou-fan Lee, Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 (1999) Samuel Liang, Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourner’s City, 1853-98 (2010) Mark Shiel ed., Screening the City (2003) Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (2007) Ian Walker, City Gorged with Dreams: Surrealism and Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris (2002) Andrew Webber & Emma Wilson, eds., Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis (2007) Yingjin Zhang, Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (1999)

Nov. 14 Responding to Colonial-Postcolonial Debates READINGS: Zeynep Celik, Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters: 1830-1914 (2008) Gyan Prakash, Mumbai Fables (2010) Felix Driver & David Gilbert, eds., Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (2003)

Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (2006) Zeynep Celik et al, eds. Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image (2009) Preeti Chopra, A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay (2011) John Eade, Placing London: From Imperial Capital to Global City (2001) Eldem, Edhem, The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul (2008) Mia Fuller, Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism (2009) William Glover, Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City (2007) Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar, ed., Alternative Modernities (2001) Prashant Kidambi, The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 (2007) Jay Kinsbruner, The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism (2005) Joseph McLaughlin, Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot (2000) Gwendolyn Wright, The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism (1991)

Meng Yue, Shanghai and the Edges of Empire (2006)

Nov. 21 Architecture, Planning, and Urban History READING: Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (2002) To be decided

Daniel Abramson & Carol Willis, Skyscraper Rivals (2000) Eve Blau, The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934 (1999) Christine Boyer, The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments (1994) Jean-Louis Cohen, Scenes of the World To Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge 1893-1960 (1995) David Diaz, Barrio Urbanism: Chicanos, Planning and American Cities (2005) Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Bauhaus Culture from Weimar to the Cold War (2006) John Gold, The Experience of Modernism: Modern Architects and the Future City 1928- 1953 (1997) Sabine Hake, Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin (2008) Robert Kargon, Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century (2008) Helen Meller, European Cities, 1890-1930s: History, Culture and the Built Environment (2001) Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Chicago 1890. The Skyscraper and the Modern City (2009) Eric Mumford, The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (2000) Daniel Okrent, Great Fortune. The Epic of Rockefeller Center (2003) Bordon W. Painter, Mussolini's Rome. Rebuilding the Eternal City (2005) Lisa Schrenk, Building a Century of Progress. The Architecture of Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair (2007) Wolfgang Sonne, Representing the State. Capital City Planning in the Early 20th Century (2003) Despina Stratiqakos, A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City (2008) Stephen Ward, Planning the Twentieth-Century City (2002) Carol Willis, Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (1995)

Nov. 28 Cities and Environmental History READINGS: William Deverall & Greg Hise, eds., Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2006) Zachary Falck, Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America (2010) Harold Platt, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (2005)

Christoph Bernhardt, Environmental Problems in European Cities in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2001) Peter Clark, ed., The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg, 1850-2000 (2006)

William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1992) Stephen Halliday, The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis (2001) Martin Melosi, The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial times to the Present (2008) Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001) Dieter Schott, et al., eds. Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe (2005)

Dec. 5 Postwar Modernization READINGS: “The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique,” in James Scott, Seeing Like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998) Christopher Klemek, The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin (2011) Samuel Zipp, The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (2010)

Robert Beauregard, Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities (2002) Nicholas Bullock, Building the Postwar World: Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Britain (2002) Larry Busbea, Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970 (2007) Robert Caro, The Power Broker. Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) Jeffry Diefendorf, Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities (1990) John Foot, Milan since the Miracle. City, Culture and Identity (2001) Sarah Goldhagen and Réjean Legault, Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture (2000) Cor Wagenaar, ed., Happy Cities. Cities and Public Happiness in Post-War Europe (2004) Matthew Taunton, Fictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris (2009) Tom Vanderbilt, Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America (2010) Rosemary Wakeman, The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958 (2009)

Dec. 12 Urban Landscapes, Memory, and Public History READINGS: Andreas Huyssen, “Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia,” Public Culture 12(1) 2000. Randell Mason, The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City (2009) Brian Ladd, The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (1998) Max Page, The Creative Destruction of Manhattan 1900-1940 (2001)

Marc Augé, Non-places. Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995) Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (2002) Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory (1992)

Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (1997) Gary Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2006) Suleiman Osman, The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York (2011) Max Page & Randall Mason, eds., Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (2003) Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, and Forgetting (2006) Cathy Stanton, The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City (2006) Marita Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (2007)

Dec. 19 Presentation of Papers

COURSE REQUIREMENTS Class Participation: 50% Research Paper: 50%

Active participation in the seminar discussion is a basic requirement of the course. It is expected that all students will critically read the book or article assigned each week and be prepared to participate in discussion and debate.

Each student will formally present critical reviews of at least two of the assigned readings listed in the syllabus. The review should be in the form of a book critique that emphasizes the book’s sources, its argument and interpretation as well as its value for research and teaching.

The written work for the seminar consists of a 20-25 page research paper on a particular city, theme, or problem in urban history that integrates analysis of urban theory.