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Course Guide: 2003 Syllabus SECTION 1: REMEMBRANCE AND REDEVELOPMENT: Planning the WTC Site Week 1Jan 21: Creation of World Trade Center Proposals Assignment: WTC area redevelopment articles - New Yorker, Jan 6, 2003 62-69. �Designing Downtown� Paul Goldberger Jan 23: Visit to Winter Garden to Examine and Assess the 9 Ground Zero plans Assignment: Write up WTC Assessment Read �The Value of Community - Review of Rudy Bruner Awards Program and Publication by Liane Lefaivre, in New Village: Building Sustainable Cultures, Issue 1, 1999.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECTION 2: METHODOLOGY Week 2 Jan 28: WTC Plans - Discussion Wrap up Discuss �The Value of Community�Jan 30: In Class writing and Class Discussion of �Here is New York� and Rybcyznski
Chapter 1 and 2Week 3 Feb 4: Assignment: �Starting to Look� and "Clues" from Alan Jacobs, Looking at Cities: (handout)Feb 6: Assignment: Poem: HeartBeats, Melvin Dixon---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECTION 3: HISTORY History & The American Immigrant experience Week 4 Feb 11: theatre/music: Introduction to Street Scene � music, stage sets, story Assignment: RBA Case Study - Lower East Side Tenement MuseumFeb 13: Maxine Hong Kingston Excerpt from The Woman Warrior Movie: La CuidadWeek 5 Feb 18: No Class Feb 20: Paule Marshall �From the Poets from Kitchen� Isaac Bashevis Singer �The Cafeteria�Week 6 Feb 25: Urban Renewal City Life Chapter 3 and 4 Urban Renewal: Baron von Haussman and Baudelaire Feb. 27: New Urbanism & Smart Growth Assignment: �The New Urbanism� by Michael Pyatok, FAIA , New Village, Issue 2, Spring 2000 Community Scale Economics http://www.newvillage.net/2newurbanism-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECTION 4: ART & RESTORATION: Week 7 March 4: �Sonny�s Blues� and Jazz, the Quintessential American City Art March 6: RBA-Village of Arts and Humanities
Week 8 March 11: Artistic Collaboration and Renewal in the City Leger/ Milhaud and Cendrars Creation du Monde March 13: RBA Project Row House Strom, E. (1999). Let�s put on a show. Journal of Urban Affairs, 21 (4), 423-435. --------- March 18 & 20 Spring Break --------- NATURE Week 9 March 25: The Pastoral Tradition: The Rake�s Progress/ The Harlot�s Progress Hogarth/ Stravinsky/ Auden/ Kallman � Art and Music/ 18th and 20th Century March 27: RBA- NYC Greenmarket
Bibliophilia - Read one of the following Spirn - Granite Garden - chapters 1-3 Week 10 April 1: Walt Whitman �Crossing Brooklyn Ferry� Olmsted Article RBA � Harlem Meer April 3: Prof. Phillips Walking Tour of Central Park -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECTION 5: CITY PEOPLE: Connections/ Disconnections Week 11 April 8: Dennis Hopper Paintings/ �Bartelby the Scrivener� April 10: Taipei Stories TBA / Multiplicity in the Post Colonial City: Hanoi/ Saigon Stanley Milgram �The Experience of Living in Cities� -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECTION 6: CRIME, DANGER, APOCALYPSE Week 12 April 15: RBA - Maya Angelou Homes RBA - Harbor Point Assignment: "Defensible Space: Deterring Crime and Building Community"April 17: German Expressionism in Art and Music Edvard Munch/ Excerpts from Brecht/ Weill Three Penny Opera/ Mahagonny Week 13 April 22: After Apocalypse: Hiroshima Stories WTC Status Update April 24: Theater and The City: Excerpts and Full theater piece TBA�Discussion ----------------------------Class Performance in the City---------------------------- Week 14 April 29: In Class Project Time/ Wrap Up ---------- May 5- May 16: Exam Period -------- GROUP CASE STUDY PROJECT PRESENTATIONS (at the Scheduled Final Exam � date/time TBA) |