This reading list is not compete at this time, however, it at least gives a broad idea of what will be covered in class.
|
Date |
Subject |
Reading |
Assignment |
|
Sept 11 |
Intro |
|
See movies in class on cultural hearths of America. Write 3 page paper on the relationship of the 4 cultural hearths the reading by Meinig. |
|
18 |
Settlement patterns Rural Cultural hearths and the beginning of expansion |
Rural settlement Geography (Terry Jordan) |
|
|
25 |
Settlement of the midwest "heartland" |
|
|
|
October 2 |
Houses and Barns |
|
|
|
9 |
Urban production Site and situation |
The setting of towns (Smaile) |
|
|
16 |
Ethnic imprints |
Migration to North America: Before, during, and after the Nineteenth Century (Allen Noble |
|
|
23 |
Water routes/ Railroads/ interstates/air traffic Downtown to hiway town |
Towns of the western Railroads (John Hudson) Trading Land for Technology (Opie) Transportation Corridors (Patrick) |
|
|
30 |
Great Plains settlement & boom and bust |
|
|
|
Nov 6 |
America as Utopia
|
Heavens on Earth (Holloway) Read: Intro, chapter 1, 4 and 12 |
|
|
13 |
Utopia and the present Celebration, Florida, Cohousing and communes |
http://user.gru.net/domz/duany.htm http://www.urbanecology.org/journal/ue98n1c.htm Cohousing's new cachet (Cordes) Common Grounds (Landau) |
|
|
20 |
Urban sprawl |
Movie: Urban sprawl |
|
|
27 |
Senior retirement living The state of the affordable house |
|
|
|
Dec 4 |
presentations |
|
|
|
11 |
presentations |
|
|
|
18 |
Final |
|
|