schedule

** Introduction **
Readings: –


 * Week 2 | January 11th **
 * 20th Century Urban Theory (The Modern City) **

Readings:

Scott, James. [|“The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique”], in //Seeing Like a State//. Yale University Press: New Haven, 1998. pp. 103-14 Harvey, D. [|“Postmodernism in the City: Architecture and Urban Design”], in //The Condition of Post-Modernity//. Basil Blackwell: Cambridge, 1989. pp. 66-98 Steinbeck, John. [|Chapter 5] of //The Grapes of Wrath//. Viking Press, New York, 1939. pp. 31-39

Screening: //[|The London Particular]//


 * Week 3 | January 18th **
 * Networked Urbanism **

Readings:

Galloway, Anne. [|"Intimations of Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and the City."]//Cu// // l //// t //// u //// r //// a //// l // // S //// t //// udi //// e //// s // Vol. 18, No. 2/3 March/May 2004. Pg. 384–408 Hill, Dan. “The Street as Platform.” //City of Sound// Feb. 11, 2008. [] Mitchell, William J. [|“The Teleserviced City”] in Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout (eds) //The City Reader// (3rd edition). New York: Routledge, 2003. Pg. 497-503. Sassen, Saskia [|“The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities”] in Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout (eds) //The City Reader// (3rd edition). New York: Routledge, 2003. Pg. 212-220.

Screenings: sequences from //Taxi Driver vs.// //The Departed//, //The Wire//, //Minority Report//, Keiichi Matsuda’s - [|Augmented City 3D]


 * Week 4 | January 27th **
 * Negotiating the City (Automobility) **

Readings:

Taylor, Nigel. [|“The aesthetic experience of traffic in the modern city”] //Urban Studies// 2003, 40(8):1609-1625 Talsma, Matthew [|“Driver’s Ed. and Technologies of the Self”] from //Technologies of the City and Technologies of the Self: Lessons from the road//. University of Toronto Master’s Thesis, Department of Geography, unpublished, 2010.  Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. [|“The automatic managem] [|e]  [|nt of drivers and driving spaces”] //Geoforum// 2007 38: 264-275 De Certeau, Michel. [|“Walking in the City”], in //The Practice of Everyday Life//. University of California Press, 1988. pp. 91-110 (notes 219-221).


 * Week 5 | February 1st **
 * Memory and the City **

Readings:

Benjamin, Walter. [|“Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century – Exposé ”] in //The Arcades Project//. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1999. Pg. 14-26 Benjamin, Walter. [|Selections from The Arcades Project]. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1999. Donald, James. [|“The City, the Cinema. Modern Spaces”] in Chris Jenks (ed) //Visual Culture//. New York: Routledge, 1995. Pg. 77-95 Manovich, Lev. [|“Database as Symbolic Form”] in Victoria Vesna (ed) //Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow//. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Pg. 39-60. Rossi, Aldo. [|“Primary Elements and the Concept of Area”] in //The Architecture of the City//. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982. Pg. 62-102

Screening: Selections from //Dark City//, //[|Man with a Movie Camera]//


 * Week 6 | February 8th **
 * GIS, State and Society **

Guest Speaker: [|Marcel Fortin]

Readings:

Scott, James. [|'Nature and Space']in //Seeing Like a State//. Yale University Press: New Haven, 1998. pp. 33-52 Charles, D. '[|Do Maps Have Morals?]' // Technological Review, //2005 Pg. 77-79 Hutchinson, Alex. [|Global Impositioning Systems: Is GPS technology actually harming our sense of direction?] The Walrus Magazine, November 2009


 * Week 7 | February 15th **
 * DIY Cartography, Counter-Cartography & Sounding out the City **

Guest Speaker: [|Tori Foster]

Readings:

Butler, Toby. [|“A Walk of Art: The Potential of the Sound Walk as Practice in Cultural Geography”.] //Social & Cultural Geography// 7, no. 6 (2006): 889-908. Cosgrove, Dennis. [|“Carto-City”] in Janet Abrams & Peter Hall (eds) //Else/Where: Mapping//. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2006. Pg. 148-157. Holmes, Brian. [|“Counter Cartographies”] in Janet Abrams & Peter Hall (eds) //Else/Where: Mapping//. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2006. Pg. 20-25. Varnelis, Kazys and Leah Meisterlin. “The invisible city: Design in the age of intelligent maps.” //Adobe Think Tank//, July 15, 2008. [|http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/tt_varnelis.html]

Screening/demonstrations: Foursquare/WeePlaces, EveryBlock, Fuzzy Boundaries, Oakland Crimespotting, Spatial Information Design Lab


 * Week 8 | March 1st **
 * Google and the Archive **

Readings:

Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” //Atlantic Monthly//, July/August 2008, 56-63. [|http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/] Gibson, William. “Google’s Earth.” //The New York Times//, August 31, 2010. [|http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01gibson.html] Toobin, Jeffrey. “Google’s Moon Shot: The quest for the universal library.” //The New Yorker//, February 5, 2007. [|http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/05/070205fa_fact_toobin] De Vries Hoogerwerff, Marijn. “Googlized Censorship Research.” //Society of the Query Blog//, September 21, 2009. []

Screenings: //[|Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village]//


 * Week 9 | March 8th **
 * Technology and Politics **

Readings:

Dean, Jodi. [|“Technology: The promises of communicative capitalism”] in //Democracy and other neoliberal fantasies: Communicative capitalism and left politics//. Duke University Press, 2009. Pg. 19- 48 Castells, Manuel. [|"Wireless Communication and Socio-Political Mobilization: Case Studies"] in //The Mobile Communication Society: A cross-cultural analysis of available evidence on the social uses of wireless communication technology//, 2004 Pg. 196-222 Robinson, Pamela. "City cleanup, web 2.0 style.” //[|Spacing Magazine]// 19 Fall 2010, Pg. 60 Gladwell, Malcolm "[|Why the revolution will not be tweeted]" The New Yorker 4 October, 2010 pp1-5 Cascio, Jamais '[|Get Smarter]' the Atlantic July/August 2009

Suggested Readings

David Lyon, “Everyday Surveillance: Personal data and social classifications//.” Information, Communication & Society//, 5 (2), 2 0 0 2, P g. 242-257.  Burrows, Roger and Nick Gane, "Geodemographics, software and class," //Sociology//, 40 (5) 2006, Pg. 293-812.


 * Week 10 | March 15th **
 * The City as Gameboard **

Readings:

Boron, Dariusz, Jacob. [|“A Short History of Digital Gamespace”] in //Space Time Play – Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level//. Boston: Birkhäuser, 2007. Pg. 26-31. Schweizer, Bobby. //[|Representations of the City in Video Games]//. MA Thesis. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 2009. Soja, Edward W. Ch 11: [|“Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary”] in //Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions//. London: Blackwell, 2000. Pg. 323-345. Smith, Greg J. “Urban Screens: The Schematic City in Gaming and Architectural Representation.” //Serial Consign// July 5, 2010. []

Screenings/demonstrations: BERG’s //[|Here and There]//, //Grand Theft Auto//, //Civilization//, //Simcity//


 * Week 11 | March 22nd **
 * Securing the City **

Readings:

Graham, Stephen. [|“Cities as Battlespace: the new military urbanism”] City Journal 2009 13(4):383-402 Hobsbawm, E. J. //Cities and Insurrections.// Global Urban Development, 2005. 1(1). pp.1-8 Mitchell, D. [|"The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy."] //Annals of the Association of American Geographers// 1995 85(1) pp. 108-133 Cowen, D. and Smith, N. “[|Martial Law in the Streets of Toronto]”:G20 Security and State Violence //Human Geography// 3 (3)

Suggested Readings:

Keller, Lisa. Prologue in //Triumph of Order: Democracy & Public Space in New York and London//. Columbia University Press, New York, 2009. Pg. 1-14

Screenings: G20 clips


 * Week 12 | March 29th **
 * Redesigning Utopia **

Readings:

Greenfield, Adam and Mark Shepard. “Urban Computing and its Discontents.” //Situated Technologies Pamphlet// (1) 2007. []