Class Schedule

URP 6100 - History and Theory of Planning
Fall 1998
Dr. Ruth L. Steiner

 

Tuesday, August 25 Course Overview. Course goals and requirements.

**Assignment 2 (Historical Case) handed out.

Thursday, August 27 Introduction to Course; Common Themes
What is Planning? What do planners do?

Required readings:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 1: Cities of Imagination
  • Hall, Peter 1989. "The Turbulent Eighth Decade: Challenges to American City Planning," Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Summer), pp. 275-82.
  • Campbell and Fainstein. Readings in Planning Theory, Chapter 1: Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory.

**Assignment 1 (What is Planning?) handed out.

** Bring in top four choices of presentations for Assignment 2 (this can be handwritten!).

Tuesday, September 1 Primary Election -- Remember to vote!
Introduction to Planning History
The City Pathological and Responses to The City Pathological

Required reading:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 2: The City of the Dreadful Night; and Chapter 3: The City of By-pass Variegated

Optional reading:

  • Gerckens, Laurence Conway. 1988. "Historical Development of American City Planning," Chapter 2 in The Practice of Local Government Planning, edited by F. S. So and J. Getzels, 20-59, Washington, DC: International City Management Association.

** Schedule of Presentations and Seminar Critiques handed out.

** Assignment 3 (Seminar Critique) handed out.

Thursday, September 3 The Ideal of the City
The Garden City

Required readings:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 4: The City in the Garden
  • Jackson, Kenneth. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapters. Chapters 5-7, pages 87-137.
  • Fishman, Robert. 1977 (1996). "Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier," in Campbell and Fainstein (eds.), pp. 19-57. Also skim: pp. 57-67.
Tuesday, September 8 The City of Monuments

Required readings:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 6: The City of Monuments.
  • Wilson, William H. 1989 (1996). "The Glory, Destruction, and Meaning of the City Beautiful Movement," in Campbell and Fainstein (eds.), pp. 68-102.

Presentation: Wilson, William H. 1989. The City Beautiful Movement. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Press.

Assignment 1 (What is Planning?) due at beginning of class.

Thursday, September 10 No class; Instructor to attend Smart Growth Conference in Ft. Lauderdale
Tuesday, September 15 The City Functional

Required readings:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 9: The City on the Highway

also review

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 3: The City of By-pass Variegated

Presentation: Warner, Sam Bass Jr., 1978. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston (1870-1900). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Thursday, September 17 The City Functional (cont’d)

Required readings:

McDonough, Michael. 1998. "Selling Sarasota: Architecture and Propaganda in a 1920s Boom Town, The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 23: 10-31.

Presentation: Weiss, Marc R. 1987. The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. New York: Columbia University Press.

Presentation: Barrett, Paul. 1983. The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Tuesday, September 22 The City Visionary (The New Deal and Regional Planning)

Required readings:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 5: The City in the Region
  • Parsons, Kermit. 1994. "Collaborative Genius: The Regional Planning Association of America," Journal of the American Planning Association 60, 4: 462-82.
  • Sussman, C. 1976. Planning the Fourth Migration: The Neglected Vision of the Regional Planning Association of America. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 1-45.

Students will be assigned into four groups to read additional portions of Sussman, C. 1976. Planning the Fourth Migration: The Neglected Vision of the Regional Planning Association of America. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. During this class, students will meet in small groups to prepare for small in-class presentation on September 24.

Thursday, September 24 The City Visionary (cont’d)

Presentation: Creese, Walter L. 1990. TVA’s Public Planning: The Vision, the Reality. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press

Tuesday, September 29 The City Renewable

Required readings:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 7: The City of Towers

Optional Reading:

  • Jacobs, Jane. 1961 (1996). "The Death and Life of Great American Cities, in Campbell and Fainstein, eds., pp. 103-120.

Presentation: Sugrue, Thomas. 1996. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-War Detroit. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Presentation: Gans, Herbert. 1967. The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community. New York: Vintage Books.

Thursday, October 1 The City Renewable (cont’d)

Presentation: Hartman, Chester. 1984. The Transformation of San Francisco. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld.

Tuesday, October 6 The City Grassrooted

Presentation: Peattie, Lisa. 1987. Planning: Rethinking Cuidad Guayana. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Required reading:

Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 8: The City of Sweat Equity

Thursday, October 8 The City Grassrooted, (cont’d)

Presentation: Clavel, Pierre. 1986. The Progressive City: Planning and Participation, 1969-1984. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Required reading:

  • Davidoff, Paul. 1965 (1996). "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning," in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 305-322.
Tuesday, October 13 The City Enterprising

Presentation: Frieden, Bernard and Lynne Sagalyn. 1991. Downtown, Inc.: How America Builds Cities. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Required reading:

Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 11: The City of Enterprise

Thursday, October 15 The City of the Permanent Underclass
The City of Ecologically Conscious NIMBYism

Required reading:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 12: The City of the Permanent Underclass
  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 13: The City of the Tarnished Belle Epoque

Presentation: Portes, Alejandro and Alex Stepick. 1993. City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Presentation: Bullard, Robert. 1993. Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Cambridge: South End Press.

Tuesday, October 20 Current Issues in Planning

Presentation: McKenzie, Evan. 1994. Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Required readings:

  • Teitz, Michael B. 1996. "American Planning in the 1990’s: Evolution, Debate, and Challenge," Urban Studies 33, 4-5: 649-71
  • Teitz, Michael B. 1997. "American Planning in the 1990’s: Part II, The Dilemma of the Cities," Urban Studies 34, 5-6: 775-97.
Thursday, October 22 No class; Florida APA Conference in Pensacola
Tuesday, October 27 Relationship between Planning History and Theory

Required readings:

  • Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Chapter 10: The City of Theory
  • Friedmann, John. 1996. "Two Centuries of Planning Theory: An Overview," Chapter 1 in Explorations in Planning Theory, edited by S.J. Mandelbaum, L. Mazza and R.W. Burchell, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Center for Urban Policy Research.

Also review:

  • Campbell and Fainstein, Chapter 1: Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory.
Thursday, October 29 Justifications for Planning

Required readings:

  • Klosterman, Richard, "Arguments for and Against Planning," in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 150-168
  • Foglesong, Richard E. "Planning the Capitalist City" in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 169-175.
  • Harvey, David "On Planning the Ideology of Planning," in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 176-197. 
Tuesday, November 3 Fall General Election; Remember to Vote!
Justifications for Planning (cont’d)

Required readings:

  • Ridley, Matt and Bobbi S. Low. "Can Selfishness Save the Environment?" in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 198-212.
  • Beauregard, Robert A. "Between Modernity and Post-Modernity: The Ambiguous Position of U. S. Planning" in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 213-233.
Thursday, November 5 No class. Instructor to attend the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in Pasadena, California
Tuesday, November 10 Justifications for Planning (cont’d)

Required readings:.

  • Innes, Judith E. 1998. "Information in Communicative Planning," Journal of the American Planning Association 64, 1: 52-63.
  • Campbell, Scott and Susan Fainstein (and other authors). Part V: A Discussion on Gender, pp. 443-474.

***Assignment 4 (Synthesis paper) distributed in class

Thursday, November 12 Planning Types

Required readings:

  • Campbell, Scott and Susan Fainstein. Introduction to Part III, Planning Types, pp. 261-264.
  • Fainstein, Susan and Norman Fainstein. "City Planning and Political Values: An Updated View," in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 265-287.
Tuesday, November 17 Planning Types (cont’d)

Required reading:.

  • Krumholz, Norman. "A Retrospective View of Equity Planning: Cleveland, 1969-1979 in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 344-362.
  • Innes, Judith E. 1996. "Planning Through Consensus Building: A New View of the Comprehensive Planning Ideal," Journal of the American Planning Association 62, 4: 460-72.
Thursday, November 19 Planning Types (cont’d)

Required readings:

  • Lindblom, Charles E. "The Science of ‘Muddling Through,’" in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 288-304.
  • Kaufmann, Jerome L. and Harvey M. Jacobs. "A Public Planning Perspective on Strategic Planning" in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 323-340.
  • Bryson, John M. and Barbara C. Crosby. "Planning and the Design and Use of Forums, Arenas, and Courts," in Mandelbaum, S. et al. Eds. Explorations in Planning Theory, pp. 462-82.
Tuesday, November 24 Planning Types (cont’d)

Required readings:

  • Checkoway, Barry. 1994. "Paul Davidoff and Advocacy Planning in Perspective," Journal of the American Planning Association. Vol. 60, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 139-161. (Contributions by Peter Marris, Pierre Clavel, Norman Krumholz, Lisa R. Peattie, John Forester, Chester Hartmann and Delores Hayden)

Also review:

  • Davidoff, Paul. "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning," in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 305-322.
Thursday, November 26 Thanksgiving; No class
Tuesday, December 1 Planners in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies

Required readings:

  • Levy, John M. "What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases," in Campbell and Fainstein, pp.367-382.
  • Issermann, Andrew and Terance Repham. 1995. "The Economic Effects of the Appalachian Regional Commission: An Empirical Assessment of 26 Years of Regional Development Planning," Journal of the American Planning Association 61, 3 (Summer): 345-64.
  • Widner, Ralph R. 1968. "The First Three Years of the Appalachian Program: An Evaluation," Appalachia 1,11: 16-21.
  • Widner, Ralph R. 1971. "Appalachia after Six Years," Appalachia 5,2: 14-23.

Optional Reading (in AFA Library):

  • Appalachian Regional Commission. 1985. "Appalachia: Twenty Years of Progress," Appalachia 18,3 (special issue)
Thursday, December 3 Planners in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies (cont’d)

Required readings:

  • Hall, Peter. "London’s Motorways" in Campbell and Fainstein, pp. 383-406.
  • Innes, Judith Eleanor. 1992. "Group Processes and the Social Construction of Growth Management: Florida, Vermont and New Jersey," Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Autumn), pp. 440-53.

Optional reading:

  • Gale, Dennis E. 1992. "Eight State-Sponsored Growth Management Programs: A Comparative Analysis," Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Autumn), pp. 425-39.
Tuesday, December 8 Summary and Conclusions

***Assignment 4 (Synthesis paper) due by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9.  

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