Course Schedule: Fall 2022

	Topic and Readings
08/25	The first day –Intro to this course!
08/30	Topic 1. Modernity and modern cities Introduction to Urban Sociology: why cities matter? Read: Introduction to Urban Sociology Overview For further instructions, click this link –Week 2. Introduction: Modernity and modern cities
09/1	Table of Contents Toggle Topic 1. Modernity and modern cities Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism Topic 3. Urbanism as a way of American life Topic 4. Suburbanization Topic 5. New Urban Sociology: May 68 & Lefebvre Topic 5. New Urban Sociology: Urban Crisis in the U.S. Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City Topic 7. Gentrification Topic 7. Gentrification Topic 7. Gentrification Topic 7. Gentrification in New York City Topic 8. Urban Branding Topic 9. Global Cities Topic 10. Ethnicity and authenticity in ethnic enclaves Topic 10. Ethnicity and authenticity in ethnic enclaves Topic 1. Modernity and modern cities Introduction to Urban Sociology Read: Urbanization and Its Challenges The era of industrialization Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 & Photos For further instructions, click this link- Week 3: Juxtapositions and complexity of modern cities
09/06	Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism Urban residents in modern society Read “World’s Fair” in Britannica Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life
09/08	Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism Modernity and consumptionRead Thorstein Veblen. 1899. “Conspicuous Consumption James Surowiecki, 2009, “Inconspicuous Consumption” Elsa Partan & Heather Goldstone, 2019, “Inconspicuous Consumption Still Has A Cost” For further instructions, click this link-Week 4: Modern Consumerism
09/13	Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism Modernity and consumptionContinued
09/15	Workshop: Downtown Brooklyn Project — Writing Assignments
09/20	Topic 3. Urbanism as a way of American life American traditionRead Louis Wirth, “Urbanism as a Way of Life” in The City Reader, Pages 96-104 Click The City Reader and go to Page 96. NOTE: Click this link in order to learn about off-campus access.
09/22	Topic 3. Urbanism as a way of American lifeReading Jane Jacobs Watch “Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses: Urban Fight of the Century” Read Jane Jacobs. 1961. “The Uses of Sidewalks: safety” in The City Reader, Pages 105-109 This chapter is available at City Tech’s library.§ Click The City Reader and go to Page 105. Assignment 1: 09/25
09/27	No classes scheduled
09/29	Classes follow Monday schedule
10/04	No classes scheduled
10/06	Topic 4. Suburbanization Urbanism VS. SuburbanismRead Becky Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, “Suburbanization in the United States after 1945“
10/11	Topic 4. SuburbanizationRead Shelley Nickles. 2002. “More is Better: Mass Consumption, Gender, and Class Identity in Postwar America.” American Quarterly. 54(4):Pp 581-622
10/13	Topic 5. New Urban Sociology: May 68 & Lefebvre Read Events of May 1968 by Richard Wolin “Henri Lefebvre: philosopher of the ordinary” by Michael Gardiner “The Right to the City” in The Right to the City Listen In France, The Protests Of May 1968 Reverberate Today — And Still Divide The French in NPR. Assignment 2: October 16
10/18	Midterm exam review
10/20	Midterm exam
10/25	Topic 5. New Urban Sociology: Urban Crisis in the U.S. Read Zhandarka Kurti. “Why the Bronx Burned: an interview with Vivian Vazquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran” Jacobin “Watts Riots of 1965” in Encyclopedia Britannica Daniel Denvir. “1968 and the Invention of the American Police State,” City Lab
10/27	Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City ·Urban Ghettos and the Inner CityRead “The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City: by Loic Wacquant and William Julius Wilson in The Urban Sociology Reader, pages 182-191 “Segregation and the Making of the Underclass” in The Urban Sociology Reader Douglass Massey and Nancy Denton, pages 192-201
11/01	Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City Eviction Read Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and profit in the American city, excerpt (Blackboard) “Stark Symbol of Pandemic in N.Y.: Homeless People Huddled on the Subway” in The New York Times
11/03	Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City Eviction — Continued
11/08	Topic 7. Gentrification Gentrification Overview Read “Overview: The Gentrification Debates” “PART I: What is gentrification?: Definitions and key concepts” & “PART II: How, where and when does gentrification occur?” in The Gentrification Debates by Japonica Brown-Saracino “Gentrification: Timeline” in Next City§ Gentrification in National Geographic
11/10	Topic 7. Gentrification TheoriesRead “Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City,” in The Gentrification Debates: 45-50 “Toward a theory of gentrification: a back to the city movement by capital, not people,” by Neil Smith, in The Gentrification Debates: p71-85Assignment 3: November 13
11/15	Topic 7. Gentrification Theories: Continued
11/17	Topic 7. Gentrification in New York City Commercial gentrification in New York CityRead “Gentrification as Market and Place,” by Sharon Zukin, in The Gentrification Debates:37-44 Sharon Zukin. 2010. “How Brooklyn Became Cool” and “Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto.” Naked city: The death and life of authentic urban places: Pp35-62 and 64-94 “When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing” in The New York Times Creative class and new economyRead “Building the Creative Community” in The Gentrification Reader: p345-354 The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited in City Lab ‘Everything is gentrification now’: but Richard Florida isn’t sorry in The Guardian The Curse of the Creative Class by Steven Malanga in City Journal
11/22	Topic 8. Urban Branding Read Miriam Greenberg. 2010. “Branding, Crisis, and Utopia: Representing New York in the Age of Bloomberg” Sewell Chan. 2008. “When New York Branded Its Way Out of Crisis” New York Times Design Rush, 2018. “The I Love New York Logo Is An Iconic, Widely-Imitated Tourism Symbol.” Medium Guardian Culture. 2015. “I Love New York: Meet Milton Glaser, creator of the ‘I Love NY’ logo.” Archie D’Cruz. 2016. “Does ‘I Love New York’ Help Create a Brand for New York City?” Observer December 28, 2016
11/24	College closed
11/29	Topic 9. Global Cities Read Sassen, Saskia. “The Global City: Introducing a Concept” Jesus Leal Trujillo and Joseph Parilla. 2016. “Redefining Global Cities” Brookings Institute
12/01	Topic 10. Ethnicity and authenticity in ethnic enclaves Ethnic enclaves: from traditional enclaves to new settlement patterns Read Wei Li’s “Ethnoburb versus Chinatown : Two Types of Urban Ethnic Communities in Los Angeles” in The European Journal of Geography. Timothy Egan’s “Rise of the Ethnoburbs” in The New York Times Opinion Ethnic food and authenticity in urban AmericaRead Elisabeth Becker’s “Little of Italy? Assumed Ethnicity in a New York City Neighbourhood.” in Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(1): pp. 109–124. “How Little Italy Became Little Albanian-Mexican Italy” in The New York Times Assignment 4: December 4
12/06	Topic 10. Ethnicity and authenticity in ethnic enclaves Continued
12/08	Topic 11. The right to the CityWho can claim right to the city? Read David Harvey, “The Right to the City”Jane Jacobs, “The kind of problem a city is,” in Death and Life of Great American Cities (Blackboard)
12/13	Final exam review
12/15	Final exam.

Topic 1. Modernity and modern cities

Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism

Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism

Topic 2. Modernity and modern cities/ Modern Consumerism

Topic 3. Urbanism as a way of American life

Topic 4. Suburbanization

Topic 5. New Urban Sociology: May 68 & Lefebvre

Topic 5. New Urban Sociology: Urban Crisis in the U.S.

Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City

Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City

Topic 6. Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City

Topic 7. Gentrification

Topic 7. Gentrification

Topic 7. Gentrification

Topic 7. Gentrification in New York City

Topic 8. Urban Branding

Topic 9. Global Cities

Topic 10. Ethnicity and authenticity in ethnic enclaves

Topic 10. Ethnicity and authenticity in ethnic enclaves

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