Urban Studies Paper 2 pages (double space)

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PPD 4: URBAN STUDIES

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Core Question:

How do urban environments produce effects on the opportunities, social relations, and cultures of inhabitants?

The Centrality of Theory

Applying General Theory to Southern California

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Learning Objectives

  • Acquire knowledge about cities and urbanization as objects of research.

  • Be able to combine strands of theory to explain for current urban issues.

  • Explain for the underlying processes that give rise to major problems in today’s cities.

  • Understand basic methods of urban research.

  • Critically assess and weigh the validity of competing arguments.

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Readings

Readings:

Most readings on Canvass

Dikeç, Mustafa (2018) Urban Rage. Princeton: Princeton University Press

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Assignments

Required Assignments

Participation 15points Weekly IClicker

Midterm 1 50 points Handout 10/19 Due 10/24

Midterm 2 75 points Handout 11/16 Due 11/21

Final 100 points Handout 12/7 Due 12/14

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Part 1: Making the Urban: From Industrialism to Globalization

Week 1: Big Cities in Modern Times

Week 2: Creating (dis)Orderly Urban Environments

Week 3: Urban Restructurings

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Part II. The City in the Age of Inequalities

Week 4. Race and the City

Week 5. The Migrant City

Week 6: Neoliberalism and Urban Governance

Week 7:Housing and Gentrification

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Part 3. Subversive

City

Week 8. Rebellions and Riots (November 26)

Week 9. Subversive Cultures (November 26

Week 10: Subversive Politics: Struggle for Rights and Equality

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INTRODUCTIONS

  • Name

  • Major

  • City of origin

  • Something interesting, problematic, or striking about your city (and why)

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Income level, educational attainment alone cannot explain the gradient

The community’s economic and social setting may steepen the gradient

Dr. Walter J. Nicholls

Associate Professor

Urban Planning and Public Policy

Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00

forthcoming

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INTRODUCTIONS

  • Major: Urban Studies

  • City of origin: Los Angeles

  • Something interesting or striking about city (and why)

  • Migrant City: 37.8% Foreign Born; My neighborhood of Highland Park 51%

  • Really Expensive City: Median Home: $686,000; My Neighborhood $756,00

  • Gentrification and Homelessness

Zillow

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Income level, educational attainment alone cannot explain the gradient

The community’s economic and social setting may steepen the gradient

Teaching Assistants

Nathan Mahaffey

Ph.D. Student

Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, 320, Social Ecology 1

Office Hours: Monday: 4:00 – 5:00 pm

[email protected]

Sara O’Connor

Ph.D. Student

Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, 320, Social Ecology 1

Office Hours: Thursday: 1:00 – 2:00

[email protected]

Omar Perez

Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, 244 Social Ecology 1

Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-3:00

[email protected]

Qi Song

Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy 256, Social Ecology 1

Office Hours: Monday 4:30-5:30

[email protected]

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What is the URBAN?

  • The Objective of Urban Studies:

  • How to define the Urban?
  • As a dense and discrete geographical unit?
  • Maybe … Maybe not…

  • As a large settlement?
  • Maybe …Maybe not….

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The Urban as a Messy Agglomeration:

Size, Density, Diversity

  • The Messiness of Cities
  • Messy Moral and Cultural Worlds: The City as Space of Freedom AND Deviance
  • Messy Relational Spaces: The City as Space of Conflict AND Cooperation

  • The Significance of a Mess:
  • Innovations
  • Tolerance - Indifference
  • Social Disorder

  • Spreading the Mess: The Urban Unbound
  • Connecting Regionally
  • Connecting Globally

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What is URBAN ?

  • Cities are environments with high numbers, density, diversity, and flux/mobility.

  • These conditions influence the social relations and cultural values of those residing within these environments.

  • These effects can be expressed in terms of innovation, social disorder, tolerance, indifference, ‘buzz’, etc.

  • The ‘urban effects’ are produced in cities but not necessarily contained in cities. Urban ‘effects’ can travel from one locale to the other.

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Main Points

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Discussion: What is Urban?

  • Why is this place urban or not? Identify at least three qualities to support your point.

  • How does living in this particular environment produce distinctive urban or non-urban cultures?

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Discussion: What is Urban?

  • Is this place urban or not?

  • Yes
  • No
  • All of the Above!

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Program: Mapping Urban Theory

Part 2.

Capitalist Urbanization

Max Weber

Ferdinand Tönnies

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The Early Modern City:

Paris in the 18th Century

Gemeinschaft – Community

  • Everybody in the Smaller Town
  • Family and Patriarchy
  • Everybody Knows Each Other
  • Strong Solidarity
  • Strong Norms
  • Community Before Individual

The Urban Revolution

Paris in the 1850s

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The Modern Capitalist City Emerges

Characteristics of the Modern Capitalist City

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1. CONNECTED

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2. BIG and

Dense

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Growth of Metro Los Angeles

Source: http://cgge.aag.org/PopulationandNaturalResources1e/

2. BIG

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2. BIG and Sprawling

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3. SUPER DIVERSE

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4. Segregation

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Gemeinschaft URBAN REVOLUTION Gesellenschaft
Community, strong connections between families, strong solidarity Weak ties between people; strangers; Anonymity
Strong norms and conformity Weak norms, relativism, instrumentalism
Individual will subsumed by the community Individualism – Maximizing Self-Interest
Culturally rule bound Formal institutions keep order (contracts, transactions, state)

The Urban Revolution

Connected

Big, Dense, Sprawling

Super Diverse

Segregated

Commodified

Chaotic

Rationalized

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