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Topic |
Readings |
Supportive Materials |
| 1/28 |
Introduction Review class outline |
Text: Chapter 1Reserve Reading: Sandeen, summit Ave (for field
work)Extra Credit: Write a paragraph on your favorite urban place and one
on your least favorite place. |
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| 1/30 |
The Development of the American City
A. American Attitudes Toward Cities
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| 2/1 |
B. Analytical Concepts |
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| 2/4 |
C. The European Foundation of North American Urbanization
1. Earliest Cities
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Text: Chapters 2-5 |
n/a |
| 2/6&2/8 |
2. Northwestern Europe
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n/a |
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2/11
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D. Epochs of US Urbanization
1. Basic Principles
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Reserve: Borchert, "American Metropolitan Evolution" |
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2/13
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2. Sail and Wagon Epoch
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2/15
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3. Steamboat & Iron Horse Epoch
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Reserve: Relph Ch. 1-15 |
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2/18
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4. Railroad Epoch5. Air Auto Epoch |
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2/22
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TEST #1 |
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2/25
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E. Evolution of The Twin Cities
1. Pre-contact Landscape 2. Koposia
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Reserve Borchert, America's Northern Heartland, entire book |
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2/25
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3. Founding and Establishment of the Core |
Reserve: Lanegran & Sandeen, The Lake District; Borchert
et al., Legacy of Minneapolis: Preservation Amid Change, Part I |
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2/27
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4. Emergece of Metro Region
5. Deindustrialization
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Reserve: Borchert et al., Legacy of Minneapolis, Part IV
Text Chapter 9
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n/a
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3/2&3/4
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II. Theories and Notions About the Arrangement of Cities in SpaceA. Generalizations
on Center and Hinterland Relationships
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Text: Chapter 6 |
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3/6
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B. Central Place TheoryC. Uses of Central Place Theory1. Upper
Midwest2. Appalachia |
Reserve: Moore, "Core-Periphery Models"; and Lanegran " Range
Landscapes" |
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3/8
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III. Internal Structure of CitiesA. Non?industrial cities1.
General Principles |
n/a |
n/a
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3/11
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2. The Case of Ibadan |
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| 3/13 |
B. Industrial Cities1. Generalized Patterns2. Classic Models
of Land Use |
Text: Chapters 7 & 8 |
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| 3/15 |
3. Neighborhood Commercial Development the Case of Grand Avenue
4. Residential Patterns of Twin Cities |
Reserve: Young and Lanegran, Grand AvenueText: Chapter 10Text:
Chapter 12 Reserve: Martin/Lanegran, Where We Live and Lanegran, St. Anthony
Park |
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3/18
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TEST #2 |
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TEXT Ch. 35
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3/20
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TC Video Festival
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3/25-3/29
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Spring Break |
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4/1
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5. Concepts of Neighborhooda. Lanegran's Model |
Text: Ch. 11-12 revisited |
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4/3, 4/8 and 4/10
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b. Ethnic and Racial Based Neighborhoods
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Lanegran, "Swedes in the TC, Riverfront Neighborhoods"American
Apartheid, Ch. 1-4
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4/12
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c. Ethnic Commercial Streets
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Waldinger, Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Ch. 1, 2, &
4 |
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4/15
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d. Geography of Housing
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Text: Ch. 12 and p. 399 |
n/a |
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4/17
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e. Women and Space in Industrial Cities
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Text: Ch. 13 |
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4/19
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TEST #3 |
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4/22
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IV. Urban Planning ProcessA. Invention of Medium Town Planning
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Relph, Ch. 4, 5 & 6
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4/24
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B. Planning in Last Half of 20th Century
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Relph, Ch. 7-10 |
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4/26&4/29
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C. Post Modern Urban Planning1. Gentrification2. New Urbanism |
Relph, Ch. 11 & 12 |
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5/1
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V. Managing the City
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Relph, Ch. 14, 15 & 16 |
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5/3&5/6
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Discussion of Field Assignment
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URBAN
GEOGRAPHY SYLLABUS