| 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 PathologicalRequired
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 CityRequired 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 (contd) 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 (contd) Presentation:
Creese, Walter L. 1990. TVAs 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 (contd) 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, (contd) 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 NIMBYismRequired 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 1990s: Evolution, Debate,
and Challenge," Urban Studies 33, 4-5: 649-71
- Teitz, Michael B. 1997. "American Planning in the 1990s: 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 (contd)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 (contd) 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 (contd) 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 (contd) 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 (contd) 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
(contd) Required readings:
- Hall, Peter. "Londons 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. |