Syllabus from Winter 1999 Course (taught as UP 681-030)
ADVANCED URBAN THEORY:    THE FUTURE OF THE CITY
Winter 1999 Schedule

Weeks 1 (Jan. 7)
Introduction

Weeks 2-3  (Jan. 14 - 21)
Harvey, David. 1989. The Urban Experience. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Weeks 4-5  (Jan 28 - Feb. 4)
Hall, Peter. 1996. Cities of Tomorrow : An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. updated ed. Oxford: Blackwell.

Weeks 6-7  (Feb. 11 - 18)
Sorkin, Michael, ed. 1992. Variations on a Theme Park. New York: Hill and Wang.

Weeks 8-9    (Feb. 25 & March 11)
Scott, James C. 1998. Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Weeks 10-11  (March 18 - 25)
Castells, Manuel. 1996. The rise of the network society. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Weeks 12-13    (April 1 - 8)
student-selected readings (to be selected by the class by Week 5)

Week 14  (April 15)
summary and presentations of papers