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Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning Fall 2010 School of Architecture, University of Texas CRP 980X Sec 1: MW 11:00-12:30 Planning History and Theory Sec 2: MW 4:00-5:30 Unique #: 01380/01385 Sutton 2.114 Professor Elizabeth Mueller Teaching Assistant: Gina Casey Office: Sutton Hall 4.114 Office: Sutton 3.114 Office hours: TBA Office hours: TBA Tel. 471-1151 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Course Description This course is required for all students enrolled in the Master's degree program in Community and Regional Planning. It is the first part of a three-semester sequence that will introduce you to planning principles and practice (the second semester focuses on planning methods, and the third semester is an integrative planning workshop). The goal of this first course is to help you understand the evolution of urban and regional planning and the changing concepts that have guided this evolution. In Western democratic societies, planners are duty bound to serve the "public interest", be concerned with long-range consequences of current actions, and understand the complex interconnections between economics, transportation, environment, land use, social equity, infrastructure, etc. At the same time, other powerful political and market processes are at work that often confound these duties for good or ill. Planners have been often criticized throughout the history of their profession, and yet the need for planning has been consistently recognized. In studying the history of planning, students will understand the development of the dynamic tension between planning and democracy, the various responses that have been proposed, and planning failures and successes. Within this historical context, we will explore the development of theories about how we ought to plan. Despite apparent changes in approach over time, we will identify consistent tensions and debates surrounding the role of planning and planners, and the ethical obligations of planners. We will focus primarily on American planning history, but will pay some attention to planning in other countries. The course schedule, including additional (optional) readings and resources and details on assignments can be found online at: https://webspace.utexas.edu/ejm1209/CRP980x/ Required Texts: Scott Campbell and Susan Fainstein. 2003. Readings in Planning Theory. (2nd Edition) Oxford: Blackwell. LeGates, Richard and Frederic Stout, eds. 2007. The City Reader (4th edition). Routledge. Additional readings will be made available on Electronic Reserves (http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/courseindex.asp). These will be denoted by an (e) in the syllabus. The course password is ‘mueller’. Please report any problems with Electronic Reserves to the library administrator and to the instructor. Other readings, available on the internet, are indicated by an *. Go to the course website and follow the web link. Course Requirements: Course work will consist primarily of discussions of reading assignments in class, two take home essay exams, two group research exercises, and a series of class exercises. There will be fairly heavy reading assignments every week, and you are expected to complete reading assignments for class discussion and to participate actively in class discussion and debate. We will use the course blackboard site to post answers to exercises and to communicate about group projects. To find the blackboard site, go to www.courses.utexas.edu and login using your UT eid. Details on assignments will be handed out in class and posted on the course website. Due Dates: Aug 27 Send team preference to TA by 5pm Sept 6 Exercise: post key questions planning should address on blackboard by 8pm Sept 20 Team meetings with instructor about planning workshops Oct 1 Post theme overview and criteria on blackboard by 5pm Oct 4 In-class planning workshop – Chicago Oct 13 Mid-term due by 11am (email to TA by deadline, bring hard copy to class) Oct 26 Exercise: send public space image to TA by 5pm Nov 8 In-class planning workshop –Austin Nov 23 Vote on public images by 5pm Dec 10 Final exam due by 5pm Grading: Please familiarize yourself with UT Austin's Academic Integrity policies http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/acint_student.php Your grade will be based on the following: *Class participation and attendance: 15 points Class participation will be based on class attendance and active and informed participation in class discussion. It will also include two class exercises. *Mid-term essay exam: 25 points *Final essay exam: 30 points *2 Group workshops -15 points each 30 points Grading will be decided as follows: · 94-100 A · 90-93 A- · 87-89 B+ · 83-86 B · 80-82 B- COURSE SCHEDULE AND READINGS: [SEE COURSE WEBSITE FOR ADDITIONAL READINGS AND RESOURCES FOR EACH WEEK] First class: Wednesday, August 25 Introduction to the course Send team preference to TA by 5pm Friday, August 27 Monday August 30 Viewing planning through an historical lens: benefits and challenges Why history matters to practice Sies, Mary Corbin and Christopher Silver. 1996. “Introduction: The History of Planning History” in M.C. Sies and C. Silver, eds., Planning the Twentieth-Century American City. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 1-26. (e) Abbott, Carl and Sy Adler. 1989. “Historical Analysis as a Planning Tool,” APA Journal, (Autumn): 467- 473. (e) Sandercock, Leonie. 1998. “Introduction: Framing Insurgent Historiographies for Planning,” in L. Sandercock, ed., Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History. UC Press. Pp. 1-20. (e) Wednesday Sept 1 Guest Speaker: Dave Sullivan, Chair, Austin Planning Commission The context for Austin’s current comprehensive planning effort Readings TBA Monday: Sept 6 Labor Day Holiday Post your key planning questions by Monday 8pm Wednesday: Sept 8 Classic themes in planning theory Simmel, Georg. "The Metropolis and Mental Life," in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, translated by Kurt H. Wolff Glencoe: The Free Press, 1950, pp. 409-424. (e) Peterson, Jon. 2003. Urban Planning in the American Past, in The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840-1917. Johns Hopkins. (pp. 1-28). (e) Burgess, Ernest W., ‘The Growth of the City’ (City Reader, Part 3) Mumford, Lewis, ‘What Is a City?’ (City Reader, Part 2) Melvin Webber, ‘The Post-City Age’ (City Reader, Part 8) Monday: Sept 13 Urban Conditions in the 19th Century, public awareness Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapters 1 ("Cities of Imagination") and 2 ("The City of the Dreadful Night") (e) Friedrich Engels, “The Great Towns” (City Reader, Part 1) Skim through the following text online: Jacob Riis. 1890. How the Other Half Lives* In this hypertext edition, go to "Contents" and look at: Chapter I. Genesis of the Tenements; Chapter XXIV. What Has Been Done; Chapter XXV. How the Case Stands (note especially Riis' ideas on what needs to be done); At least a couple chapters in between. Look at Jacob Riis’ photographs here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/davis/photography/images/riisphotos/slideshow1.html Wednesday: Sept 15 The Development of Zoning as a Planning Tool (or Substitute?) Wirka, Susan Marie. 1996. “The City Social Movement: Progressive Women Reformers and Early Social Planning,” in Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver, eds. Planning the Twentieth Century American City. Johns Hopkins. (e). Keith Revell, 2003. "City Planning versus the Law: Zoning the New Metropolis", from Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898--1938 (Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ. Press). (e). Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 3 ("City of the Bypass Variegated") Monday: Sept 20 Team meetings with Professor Mueller and TA Wednesday: Sept 22 Garden cities & garden suburbs: utopia, real estate development and the local fisc Hall, City Of Tomorrow, ch. 4 - "The City in the Garden" pp. 87-116; 128-141. Robert Fishman. 1977. "Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier." In Readings in Planning Theory, pp. 21-52. Ebenezer Howard. 1898. "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" (City Reader, Part 5) Mumford, Lewis. 1986. “The Ideal Form of the Modern City,” in The Lewis Mumford Reader New York: Pantheon Books. (e) Optional: Kenneth T. Jackson. 1985. The Crabgrass Frontier. Chapter 9: The New Age of Automobility. (e) Monday: Sept 27 The City Beautiful Movement, the 1893 Columbia Exposition and Daniel Burnham Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, chapter 6 ("The City of Monuments") p. 188-197. William Wilson, 1989. “The Glory, Destruction and Meaning of the City Beautiful Movement,” in W. Wilson, The City Beautiful Movement. (e) Daphne Spain. 2001. “Men Build Chicago’s Skyline, Women Redeem the City,” ch. 7 in D. Spain, How Women Saved the City. University of Minnesota. (e). Look through photographs from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition* in Chicago from THE DREAM CITY: a portfolio of photographic views of the World's Columbian Exposition/ with an introduction by Halsey C. Ives. St. Louis, MO.: N. D. Thompson Co., 1893-1894. Paul V. Galvin Library Digital History Collection, Illinois Institute of Technology. In particular, look at the section on The Dream City to get a feel for the layout and architectural styles of the fair. Wednesday: Sept29 Film: Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City Monday: Oct 4 Class workshop: planning in Chicago Details to be discussed in class. Wednesday: Oct 6 MID TERM HANDED OUT- DUE by 11am Wednesday, October 13 The Legacy of Modernist Planning and Architecture Le Corbusier, ‘A Contemporary City’ (City Reader, Part 5) Mumford, Lewis. 1986. Yesterday's City of Tomorrow. In The Lewis Mumford reader. New York: Pantheon Books. (e) Frank Lloyd Wright, ‘Broadacre City: A New Community Plan’ (City Reader, Part 5) Fishman, Robert. 1982. "Conclusion," in Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Basic Books, pp. 265 - 277 (e) Monday: Oct 11 The era of big projects: Robert Moses, Urban Renewal Marshall Berman.
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