Week Eight: Gentrification, Part II

• Chicago Housing Authority, "Cabrini-Green Homes." 
• Ramsin Canon, "The Most Complicated Simple Issue," Gapers Block, 2003. 
• Deirdre Pfeiffer, "Displacement Through Discourse," Urban Anthropology, Spring 2006. 
• Check out this culture jam of the Chicago Housing Authority's 'CHAnge' campaign, from 2005. 

REMINDER: On March 19th we will be joined by Ronit Bezalel, a Chicago filmmaker who will be giving a short talk and presenting her film Voices of Cabrini. Since our normal room lacks the proper media equipment, our class will be held here: 623 S. Wabash, Room 203, 12:30-3:20.

Week Nine: NO CLASS (Spring Break

Week Ten: Grafitti & Street Art

• Bombing Modernism
• Lisa Prothers, “Culture Jamming with Pedro Carvajal,” Bad Subjects #37 
• D.S. Black, "Fauxvertising, FSU-ism and other Semiotic Attacks on Consensual Reality."
• Emily Pohl-Weary, "Postering Public Space: Can DIY Poster Pirates Reclaim Your Downtown?"
• FINAL PAPER PROPOSAL DUE TODAY (SEE EMAIL FOR DETAILS)

In-class screening: City Space

Week Eleven: Urban Waste & Reclamation

• Jeff Ferrell, Empire of Scrounge (excerpts). Click HERE and HERE
• Joseph Sciorra, "Return to the Future: Puerto Rican Vernacular Architecture in New York City," in Re-Presenting the City, pp. 60-87. Also, here is a study guide for Sciorra, courtesy of Professor Ann Gunkel.
• Free Lunch Foragers

Week Twelve: NO CLASS

• No class due to professor illness.

Week Thirteen: Automobility & Driving

• André Gorz, "The Social Ideology of the Motorcar."
• Cotten Seiler, "So That We As a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By: African American Automobility and Cold-War Liberalism." American Quarterly, Volume 58, Number 4 (December 2006): 1091-1117
• Peter Norton, "Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street," Technology and Culture, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2007): 331-359.

Week Fourteen: Critical Mobility

• Michel DeCerteau "Walking in the City," from The Practice of Everyday Life.  Here's a helpful synopsis/commentary on DeCerteau's 'Walking'. 
• Iain Borden, "A Performative Critique of American Cities."
• Chris Carlsson, "Bicycling Over the Rainbow."

For further reading and research:

• The Evolution of Reclaim the Streets. 
• PARK(ing) Day

Week Fifteen: Mapping the Future?

• David Pinder on the need for Utopian Urbanism. 
• Interview with Mike Davis, Part One & Part Two. 
• On maps: "In Italy, Creating Worlds Takes Precision, Yes, and Politics."
• In-Class: Presentation of your psychogeographical maps! 

For further reading/research on maps and mapping:

• Michael Heffernan, "The Politics of the Map in the Early Twentieth Century," Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2002, pp. 207-226. 
• Cristina Grasseni, "Skilled landscapes: mapping practices of locality," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2004, Vol. 22, pp. 699-717.