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Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales
Universidad Nacional de San Martín
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Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs
Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy
The New School
Global Urban Futures / Futuros Urbanos Globales
Research Seminar
March 31- May 26, 2015 / Tuesdays 6:00 - 9:50 pm
Faculty
Margarita Gutman
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and International Affairs
Director of Programs, Observatory on Latin America (OLA)
The New School
[email protected]
72 Fifth Ave. Room 604, NY
Course Description
This Research Seminar is oriented to the analysis and interpretation of the impact of
globalization on cities and on disciplinary and extra-disciplinary anticipations of the urban
future.
The objective is to train students in the analysis and interpretation of the new urban
constellations in its different scales, understood as complex and changing products of
history and signed by a blurred but existing horizon of urban expectations.
Seven modules organize the course: 1. Analysis of the future as a concept; 2. A
reconceptualization of today cities and urban agglomerations; 3. A comparative study and
field research about the impact of globalization on the built environment of cities in
different scales; 4. Comparative analysis and field work about urban disciplinary plans and
its implementation; 5. Research and comparative study of the extra-disciplinary
imagination of the urban future; 6. The future of informality in our Latin American cities;
and 7. New urban trends.
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The course is composed of lectures, discussion seminars on the readings, and research
workshops for a field research in Buenos Aires conducted by students, examining and
applying concepts discussed in class and presented in the readings.
The debates and discussion about the readings will be led by students. In addition, students
are required to participate in the workshops to present and discuss their progress, in
different stages, of their comparative research about the disciplinary and extra-disciplinary
imagination of the urban future.
For this purpose, each class of 3 hours and 50 minutes each, organized in sections, will
consist of a lecture, a discussion on the readings, and a research workshop on students
research assignments.
Languages: most of the bibliography is in English, but lectures, student presentations and
discussions will be in Spanish. Assignments and Papers could be written in Spanish or
English.
Readings: they are divided in Required and Recommended. Students are expected to have
read the Required Readings before each of the classes. Those Required Readings are
selected to amount to not more than 100 pages per class. The Recommended Readings are
complementing issues addressed in each class, but students can read them when they
decide. All the Required Readings and most of the Recommended Readings will be available
as pdfs in Canvas The New School or by Dropbox. In any case all students should send me
their contact email for this class.
Course Schedule
Class 1, March 31. Introduction of the Course. Analysis of the Future as a concept.
-Presenting the syllabus and structure of the course: objectives, readings, assignments,
deadlines and evaluation criteria.
- Lecture: ways to imagining the future; disciplinary and extra-disciplinary anticipations;
the idea of future today; utopian thought; impact of globalization on the urban
future.
- Class discussion about the Required Readings.
- Explanation of the Research Assignment and discussion about options. Preparation for
Workshop Class 2: identifying a research site.
Required Readings
Ricoeur, Paul, "La imaginación en el discurso y en la acción" (fragmento: "El
imaginario social"), "La ideología y la utopía: dos expresiones del imaginario
social", Del texto a la acción, Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2001.
pp. 2010-218, pp. 349-360. (19 pgs). English version: Paul Ricoeur, “Ideology
and Utopia.” In Donald M. Borchert and David Stewart (editors), Being Human
in a Technological Age. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1979. pp.107-125.
Robert Heilbroner, Visiones del Futuro. El pasado lejano, el ayer, el hoy y el mañana,
Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1996. Caps.: "Preámbulo", "El Hoy", pp. 15-26, 83-108.
(36 pgs.). English version: Robert Heilbroner, Visions of the Future: The Distant
Past, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Chapters: “Preview”, “Today”, pp. 3–16, pp. 67–92.
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Kevin Lynch, What time is this space?, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press,
2001 (Fist ed. 1972), Fragment of Chapter 4: “The Future Preserved” pp.90103. (13 pgs.)
Arjun Appadurai, "Memoria, Archivo y Aspiraciones", Construir Bicentenarios:
Argentina, Margarita Gutman (ed.), Buenos Aires: OLA/The New School and
Caras y Caretas, 2005, pp. 129-135. (6 pgs). Also published as “Archive and
Aspiration” by Humanscape, Magazine, vol. XI, February 2004, Foundation for
Humanisation.
Arjun Appadurai, “The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination”, AAVV
Transurbanism, Rotterdam: V2_Publishers, 2002, pp.33-47. (14 pgs.)
Recommended Readings
Margarita Gutman, Buenos Aires: El poder de la Anticipación. Imágenes itinerantes del
futuro metropolitano en torno al Centenario, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Infinito,
2011. Capítulo I, pp. 45-77, y Comentarios Bibliográficos, pp. 733-746.
Ernst Bloch, El principio esperanza [1], Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2004 (1ª edición en
alemán, Fankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1959); Bloch, Ernst, El principio
esperanza [2], Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2006 (1ª edición en alemán, Fankfurt
am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1959). Capítulos seleccionados.
Krishan Kumar “Utopia and Anti-Utopia in the Twentieth Centruy”, in Roland
Schaer, Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (editors), Utopia: The Search
for the Ideal Society. New York and Oxford: The New York Public
Library/Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.251-267
F. Clarke, The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2001. New York: Basic Books, Inc.,
Publishers, 1979. Prologue, pp. 1-12
Class 2, April 7. Reconceptualization of today cities and urban agglomerations.
- Lecture: How can we understand cities today? by population, density, continuity of
buildings, administrative definitions, economic units? What and which are the
Global Cities? How are they different to older cities? Social, economic and physical
features. World distribution of urban agglomerations and linkages, demography
and growth. Invited guest speaker about urban demography: Michael Cohen,
Professor, GPIA/TNS.
- Student led discussion about ReqR.
- Second Workshop: Students will present in class a selected site and urban plan:
preliminary justification and possible available sources. Bring 1 page with this info
to be distributed in class, or send it as an email attachment. Preparation of third
workshop.
Required Readings
Edward W. Soja, Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions.
Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Inc, 2001. Chapter "Introduction", pp.147155 (pdf) (8 pgs.)
Edward W. Soja and Miguel Kanai, "The Urbanization of the World", in Neil Brenner
(editor) Implosions / Explosions. Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization,
Berlin: jovis Verlag GimbH, 2014, pp. 142-159. (17 pgs.)
United Nation Population Fund, Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth, State of
the World's Population 2007, Chapters1 and 2, pp. 4-35. (30 pgs.)
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Saskia Sassen “The Global City. Introducing a concept”, Elliott Morss (ed.) New
Global History and the City, Newton Center, MA The Global History Press, 2004,
pp. 35-54. (19 pgs.)
Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid, "The Urban Age in Question", International
Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 38, Number 3, May 2014, pp. 731755. (24 pgs.)
Review two interactive maps:
BBC NEWS, "Interactive Map: Urban Growth" Trace the past and future expansion of
the world's biggest cities with our interactive map". August 15, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/urbanisation/html/urbanis
ation.stm
The Economist Data Team, "Bright lights, big cities. Urbanisation and the rise of the
megacity", February 2015. http://www.economist.com/node/21642053
Recommended Readings
Elliott Morss, "Introduction", Elliott Morss (ed.) New Global History and the City,
Newton Center, MA The Global History Press, 2004, pp. xi-xxv.
Soja, Edward Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Massachusetts:
Blackwell Publishers Inc, 2001. Chapter 7 “Cosmopolis: The Globalization of
Cityspace”, pp.189-232 ; Chapter 8, “Exopolis: The restructuring of Urban
Form”, pp.233- 263.
Henri Lefebvre, "From the City to Urban Society", Neil Brenner (editor) Implosions /
Explosions. Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization, Berlin: jovis Verlag
GimbH, 2014, pp. 36-51.
David Harvey "Cities or Urbanization?", in Neil Brenner (editor) Implosions /
Explosions. Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization, Berlin: jovis Verlag
GimbH, 2014, pp. 52-66.
Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid, "Planetary Urbanization" in Neil Brenner
(editor) Implosions / Explosions. Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization,
Berlin: jovis Verlag GimbH, 2014, pp.160-163.
Witold Rybczynki, “City-States, Prime Cities, Global Cities", Elliott Morss (ed.) New
Global History and the City, Newton Center, MA The Global History Press, 2004,
pp. 15-28.
Edward Soja, "Why Spatial? Why Justice? Why LA? Why Now?" (fragment), Seeking
Spatial Justice, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010, pp.13-24.
Class 3, April 14. Impact of globalization on the built environment of cities at different
scales.
- Lecture: Impact on the territory and on infrastructure. Widening of the gap, fragmentation
and segregation. International flow of images, plans and models. Visualization of the
impact of globalization on the built environment.
- Student led discussion about ReqR.
- Third Workshop: Student will present in class a preliminary analysis of the selected urban
plan, in particular its diagnosis and objectives, followed by a class discussion. Bring
2 pages paper copy with this info, to be distributed in class or send it as an email
attachment. Preparation of fourth workshop.
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Required Readings
Peter Marcuse, "Globalization and the Form of Cities", Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak,
Pattaranan Takkanon (eds.) World Cities and the Urban Form. Fragmented,
Policentric, Sustainable?, London and New York: Routledge, 2008. pp.24-40.
(15 pgs.)
John Friedmann, "Becoming Urban: on Whose Terms?" in Neil Brenner (editor)
Implosions / Explosions. Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization, Berlin:
jovis Verlag GimbH, 2014, pp. 551-560. (9 pgs.)
Carlos A. De Mattos, "Globalización, negocios inmobiliarios, y mercantilización del
desarrollo urbano", Carlos A. De Mattos, Globalización y metamorfosis urbana
en América Latina, Quito: OLACCHI, 2010, pp. 203-227. (24 pgs.)
Xuefei Ren, “Architecture as Branding: Mega Project Developments in Beijing”, in
Built Environment, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2008, pp. 517-531. (14 pgs.)
Pablo Ciccolella y Nora Lucioni, "La ciudad corporativa. Nueva arquitectura
empresarial, redefinición de la centralidad y surgimiento de una red de
distritos de comando en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires", en Pablo
Ciccolella, Metrópolis latinoamericanas: más allá de la globalización, Quito
Olacchi, 2011. pp. 157-188 (30 pgs.)
Video: Nicolai Ouroussoff, "Two Cities, Four Architects. I. M. Pei, Frank Gehry,
Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel".
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/27/arts/design/museums.ht
ml?hp#overview
Recommended Readings
Saskia Sassen, "Who owns the city?" Urban Age New Delhi, November 2014
http://delhi2014.lsecities.net/newspaper/articles/who-owns-the-city/en-gb/
Shlomo Angel, Planet of Cities, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy, 2012. Chapters: "The Sustainable Densities Proposition", pp. 29-39;"The
Persistent Decline of Urban Densities", pp. 171-185; "From Centrality to
Dispersal", pp. 187-203; "Urban Land Cover projections, 2000-2050", pp.249263.
Rem Koolhass, Delirious New York New York: The Monacelli Press, 1994. Chapter
“The double life of utopia: The Skyscraper”, pp. 80-130.
Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen, The Skyward Trend of Thought, Cambridge: The MIT
Press, 1988. "Introduction", pp.1-10; Chapter “Some notes on the Theme: ‘The
Skyscraper- Innovation or Tradition’? ”, pp.11-37.
Graham, Stephen and Simon Marvin, Splintering Urbanisms: Networked
Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. New York:
Routledge, 2002. Chapters “Prologue”, “Introduction”, “Process Undermining
the Modern Infrastructural Ideal” pp. 1–36, 91–136.
Saskia Sassen 1/6 - Global Cities as Today's Frontiers - Leuphana Digital School,
2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-AU7parCI
Manuel Castells, "Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of
Urbanism in the Information Age", Stephen Graham (ed.) The Cybercities
Reader, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 82-93.
Mike Davis, The Planet of Slums, “The Illusions of Self-Help”, London:Verso, 2006.
Roger K. Lewis, “Architecture and the Global Cities", and Blair Ruble "Comments",
Elliott Morss (ed.) New Global History and the City, Newton Center, MA The
Global History Press, 2004, pp. 117-135.
Tschumi, Bernard and Irene Cheung, eds. The State of Architecture at the Beginning
of the 21st Century. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2003. Excerpts by: Michael
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Sorkin, “The Avant-Garde in Time of War,” p. 23; Frank Gehry, “Architecture
and Intuition,” p. 53; Bernard Tschumi, “Vectors and Envelopes,” p. 65; K.
Michael Hayes, “The Envelope as Mediator,” p. 67; Beatriz Colomina, “Skinless
Architecture,” p. 69; Greg Lynn, “Calculated Variations,” p. 73; Rem Koolhaas,
“Skyscraper: A Typology of Public and Private,” p. 75; Saskia Sassen,
“Globalization and an Architecture of Unsettlement,” p. 83; Terence Riley, “The
Global and the Local,” p. 89; Elizabeth Diller, “Liveness and Mediation,” p. 111
Echanove, Matias and Rahul Srivastava, “Boom and Bust at the Same Time”,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/opinion/boom-and-bust-at-the-sametime.html?ref=todayspaper
Rachel Heiman, "The Last Days of Low Density Living: Suburbs and the End of Oil",
Built Environment, Volume 33, Number 2, 2007, pp. 213-226.
April 21, no class, UGYCAMBA FADU UBA
Class 4, April 28. Urban disciplinary plans and their implementation.
- Lecture: Historic review of urban plans, projects and strategic plans. Some recent trends:
participatory plans, "creative city" model. Examples: Barcelona, Shanghai, Buenos
Aires.
- Student led discussion about ReqR.
- Fourth Workshop: Students will present in class the results of their search of the web or
visit to the field identifying extra disciplinary ideas or proposals, followed by a class
discussion. Bring 1 or 2 pages paper copy or email. Preparation for fifth workshop.
Required Readings
Carlos A. De Mattos, Globalización y metamorfosis urbana en América Latina, Quito:
OLACCHI, 2010, Capítulo (fragmento) “La obstinada marginalidad de las
políticas territoriales: el caso Latino Americano”, pp. 31-67. (36 pgs.)
Pedro Felipe Montes Lira, "El ordenamiento territorial como opción de políticas
urbanas y regionales en América Latina y el Caribe", División de Medio
Ambiente y Asentamientos Humanos, Naciones Unidas, CEPAL, Santiago de
Chile, diciembre de 2001. "Introducción", "El ordenamiento territorial y sus
principales aportes", "Antecedentes de las ciudades y los planes", pp.7-34. (27
pags.)
Patsy Healey, "Circuits of Knowledge and Techniques: The Transnational Flow of
Planning Ideas and Practices”, in International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research IJURR, Volume 37, Number 5, September 2013, pp. 1510-26. (13
pgs.)
Richard Sennett and Ash Amin"The City of Fragments", Interview to Sennett by
Amin, in Cytiscapes. Rethinking Urban Things, Cape Town: African Center For
Cities (ACC), University of Cape Town, Issue 05, pp. 51-56. (6 pgs.)
Vanessa Watson, "An New Old Story", in Cityscapes. Rethinking Urban Things, Cape
Town: African Center For Cities (ACC), University of Cape Town, Issue 05, pp.89. (2 pgs.)
UN-Habitat, “The Emergence and Spread of Contemporary Urban Planning”, Global
Report on Human Settlements 2009. Planning sustainable Cities. London:
Earthscan, 2009. pp.47-71. (23 pgs)
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Recommended Readings
Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin, "Planning Cyber'cities? Integrating
Telecommunication into Urban Planning", Stephen Graham (ed.) The
Cybercities Reader, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 341-347.
UN-Habitat, “Urban Challenges and the Need to Revisit Urban Planning” Global
Report on Human Settlements 2009. Planning sustainable Cities. London
Earthscan, 2009. pp.3-19.
Alice Coleman, Utopia on Trial: Vision and Reality in Planned Housing, London: Hilary
Shipman, 1985. Chapters 1-4, pp.1-54.
Jane M. Jacobs and Loreta Lees, "Defensible Space on the Move: Revisiting the Urban
Geography of Alice Coleman", in International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research IJURR, Volume 37, Number 5, September 2013, pp. 1559-1583.
Ricky Burdett "Designing Urban Democracy: Mapping Scales of Urban Identity", LSE
Cities Report, July 2012-September 2014. London: London School of Economics,
2014. pp.36-42.
Saskia Sassen "Open Source Urbanism", Op-ed, Domus, June 2011,
http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/2011/06/29/open-source-urbanism.html
UN-Habitat, “Key Findings and Messages” Global Report on Human Settlements 2009.
Planning sustainable Cities. London Earthscan, 2009. pp. XXII-XXX. (8 pgs.)
Franco Huertas. Planificar para Gobernar: El Método PES, Planificación Estratégica
Situacional. Entrevista a Carlos Matus. Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La
Matanza, 2006. Accesible completo en versión de la Editorial Aladir:
http://www.cepal.org/ilpes/noticias/paginas/2/36342/LIBRO_ENTREVISTA_
CON_MATUS.pdf
Secretaría de Modernización del Estado, Planificación Estratégica Situacional,
Buenos Aires: Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros, s/f
Javier Fernandez Castro et alt., "Teoría de la Periferia. Lineamientos para la
construcción de un modelo teórico para el proyecto y la gestión urbana del
Gran Buenos Aires", Buenos Aires: Laboratorio de Morfología, FADU UBA, 1999.
Eduardo Reese, “La situación actual de la gestión urbana y la agenda de las ciudades
en la Argentina”, Medio Ambiente y Urbanización Volumen 65, No. 1, Noviembre
2006, Buenos Aires: IIED América Latina, pp. 3-21.
Raul Fernández Wagner, “La administración de una ciudad más justa e inclusiva.
Nuevos instrumentos de planificación y desarrollo urbano” Ponencia
presentada en X Seminario, “Nuevo rol del Estado, nuevo rol de los Municipios”.
RED MUNI, 13 y 14 de agosto, de 2009, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza.
Jordi Borja, "Ciudad y planificación. La urbanística para las ciudades de América
Latina", Marcello Balbo, Ricardo Jordán, Daniela Simioni (compiladores), La
Ciudad Inclusiva, Santiago de Chile: Cepal, 2003, pp. 81-104.
Dirección Provincial de Ordenamiento Urbano y Vivienda, Lineamientos Estratégicos
para la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires , Provincia de Buenos Aires:
Subsecretaría de Urbanismo y Vivienda, 2007. Accesible en
http://www.scribd.com/doc/39612174/Lineamientos-Estrategicos-Para-LaRMBA#scribd
Class 5, May 5. Extra-disciplinary imagination of the urban future.
- Lecture: approaches and diversity of extra-disciplinary imagination, modes of expression,
themes, actors and audiences. Examples: Buenos Aires and other cities during the
turn of the20th century and some current.
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- Student led discussion about ReqR.
- Fifth Workshop: Student will present in class an analysis of the selected urban plan,
diagnosis, objectives, plans and projects, followed by a class discussion. If
information is available they will also present and discuss implementation or impact
of the urban plan. Bring 3 or 4 pages, paper copy or email. Preparation for sixth
workshop.
Required Readings
Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan, Yesterday’s Tomorrows. Past Visions of the
American Future. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University
Press,1996 (First ed 1984), Chapter 1 (fragment): "Finding the Future" pp.3-13,
Chapter 2: “The community of tomorrow” pp.34-59. (35 pgs.)
F. Clarke, The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2001. New York: Basic Books, Inc.,
Publishers, 1979. Chapter 8: “The exploration of the Future” pp. 197-221. (24
pgs.)
Margarita Gutman, Buenos Aires: El poder de la Anticipación. Imágenes itinerantes
del futuro metropolitano en torno al Centenario, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Infinito,
2011. Capítulo 3 (fragmento): "La ciudad vertical del porvenir: el futuro urbano
en las revistas ilustradas metropolitanas", pp. 151-185. (34 pgs.)
Vyjayanthi Rao, in Nathalie Boucher, Marina Cavalcanti, Stefan Kipfer, Edgar
Pieterse, Vyjayanthi Rao and Nasra Smith "Writing the lines of Connection:
Unveiling the Strange Language of Urbanization", International Journal of Urban
and Regional Research, IJURR, Vol. 32, No.4, December 2008, pp. 1006-1007. (2
pgs.)
Blogs: "Future Cities", https://www.pinterest.com/danwagstaff/future-cities/
Recommended Readings
Ruth Eaton, Ideal Cities. Utopianism and the (Un) Built Environment. London Thames
and Hudson, 2002. Chapter 8: “The revolt of the citizen” pp. 216-235.
James Sanders, Celluloid Skyline. New York and the Movies. New York: Knopf, 2002.
Fragment of Chapter “City of Giants: A town of the future”, pp.105-114.
Sutcliffe, Anthony, Metropolis 1890–1940. Anthony Sutcliffe (editor). Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1984, Chapter “The Metropolis in the Cinema”, pp.
147–169.
F. Clarke, The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2001. New York: Basic Books, Inc.,
Publishers, 1979. Chapter 4: “From Jules Verne to H.G. Wells. The Facts and the
Fiction of Science”, pp.90-114.
Neil Bingham, Clare Carolin, Peter Cook, Rob Wilson, Fantasy Architecture (15002036), Chapters: “The drawing as wish” pp. 24-27, Chapters: “Appliance of
Science” pp. 40-49; “Megastructures” pp. 50-59; “Vertical Visions” pp.60-67;
“Urban Futures” pp.68-79.
Fordham, Joe, “Future Reality.” Cinefex 91, October 2002, pp. 36–77.
Webpages:
Alain Korkos, "La nostalgie du future d'hier",
http://www.arretsurimages.net/breves/2012-04-10/la-nostalgie-du-futur-dhier-id13589
Rob Girvan, "A Very British Metropolis: H.G. Wells’ Things to Come"
http://hopelies.com/2011/11/03/a-very-british-metropolis-h-g-wells-things-tocome/
"Images de villes hallucinées", https://www.pinterest.com/vascogromy/images-devilles-hallucin%C3%A9es/
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Films:
Minority Report, Dir. Steven Spielberg. Dreamworks/United Artists, 2002.
Metropolis, Director: Fritz Lang, Germany Universum Film A.G., 1927.
Fiction:
Bellamy Edward, Looking Backward 2000-1887. New York: Penguin Books, 1982
(Fist edition USA: Ticknor and Company, 1888)
H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press,
1967 (1st edition 1905)
Class 6, May 12. The future of informality in Latin American cities.
Guest speaker: to be decided.
- Student led discussion about RR.
- Sixth Workshop: Student will present in class an analysis of extra disciplinary ideas or
proposals found, followed by a class discussion. Bring 3 or 4 pages, paper copy
or email. Preparation for seventh workshop.
Required Readings
Pablo Ciccolella, Metrópolis latinoamericanas: más allá de la globalización, Quito
Olacchi, 2011. Capítulos: "Aportes para una geografía crítica de la ciudad
latinoamericana", pp. 113-125; "Globalización y dualización en la Región
Metropoliana de Buenos Aires. Grandes inversiones y reestructuración
socioterritorial en los años noventa", pp. 129-156. (27 pgs.)
Ananya Roy, “Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism”, International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research, 35:2, pp. 223-238. (15 pgs.)
Leonie Sandercock, Towards Cosmopolis, Planning for Multicultural Cities, New York:
John Wiley, 1998. Chapter: “Planning for Cosmopolis: A New Paradigm” pp. 203219, Appendix. “The planner Tamed: Preparing Planners for the Twenty Fist
Century” pp.220-137. (17 pgs.)
others to be decided
Recommended Readings
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Class 7, May 19. New Urban Trends. Cities 3.0. Challenges of the Urban Century.
Guest Speaker: Michael Cohen.
- Student led discussion about RR.
- Seven and last Workshop: Student will elaborate about the comparison of disciplinary
plans and extra disciplinary ideas and proposals, followed by a class
discussion. Bring 3 or 4 pages, paper copy or email.
Required Readings
Michael Cohen “Reinventing the Future: Designing Urban 3.0", Harvard
International Review, June 2012.
Michael Cohen, “Reframing the Urban Future: Dynamics, Imbalances, and
Possibilities” (unpublished paper).
Michael Cohen, “Growth and Recovery in a Time of Default: Lessons from the Role of the
Urban Sector in Argentina, or Working Towards New Models of Latin American
Development”, Paper presented at UN Economic Commission for Latin America and
the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile, August 4, 2011
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Recommended Readings
Michael Cohen, Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s,
(Washington: World Bank, 1991), pp. 1-78
Caron Atlas, "Radical Imagination", in Ron Shiffman, Rick Bell and others (eds.),
Beyond Zuccotti Park. Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space,
New York: New Village Press, 2012, pp.146-155.
Class 8, May 26. Students brief comments about the assignments. Evaluation of the course,
opening of new research or study interests, and conclusions.
- Research Paper due. Maximum of 10 pages paper copy in class.
Description of Assignments & Workshops
As presented above, students will prepare the following Assignments, and participate in the
following Workshops:
Reading Assignments: Each student will be required to present in class one of the Required
Readings of the course. It is required for students to prepare a brief written guide for
the reading they will present. These guides will be distributed to all students in the
class. Frequency: to be agreed in class.
Research Assignment: Individually or in groups of 2 students, based on documents and fieldwork in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (RMBA). To be developed in steps
along 7 workshops. Final paper due May 26.
This research includes an analysis and comparison of two case studies:
1. Identify and analyze an urban plan in one municipality of the RMBA (disciplinary
plan). In the urban disciplinary plan analyze the different sections (objectives,
diagnosis, proposals, instruments, specific projects). Through field-work and
interviews research about the implementation and impact of the urban plan.
2. Search (in the field or/and in the web) and analyze one or more extra-disciplinary
urban anticipations (formulated by community groups or civil society
organizations, or found in blogs or social media) in the same municipality or in its
surroundings, in any scale (municipality, sections, neighborhood, street,
downtown, plazas). If you find them, compare them with the municipal plan.
7 Workshops:
Class 1, March 31. First Workshop: Explanation of the Research Assignment.
Class 2, April 7. Second Workshop: Students will present in class a selected site and urban
plan: preliminary justification and possible available sources. Bring 1 page with
this info to be distributed in class, or send it as an email attachment.
Class 3, April 14. Third Workshop: Student will present in class a preliminary analysis of the
selected urban plan, in particular its diagnosis and objectives, followed by a
class discussion. Bring 2 pages paper copy with this info, to be distributed in
class or send it as an email attachment.
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Class 4, April 28. Fourth Workshop: Students will present in class the results of their search
of the web or visit to the field identifying extra disciplinary ideas or proposals,
followed by a class discussion. Bring 1 or 2 pages paper copy or email.
Class 5, May 5. Fifth Workshop: Student will present in class an analysis of the selected
urban plan, diagnosis, objectives, plans and projects, followed by a class
discussion. If information is available they will also present and discuss
implementation or impact of the urban plan. Bring 3 or 4 pages, paper copy or
email.
Class 6, May 12. Sixth Workshop: Student will present in class an analysis of extra
disciplinary ideas or proposals found, followed by a class discussion. Bring 3 or
4 pages paper copy or email.
Class 7, May 19. Seventh and last Workshop: Student will elaborate about the comparison of
disciplinary plans and extra disciplinary ideas and proposals, followed by a
class discussion. Bring 3 or 4 pages, paper copy or email.
Class 8, May 26. Evaluation of the course. Research paper due, maximum of 10 pages.
All papers could be in English or Spanish. Use of visual documents in papers and class
presentations is strongly recommended.
Grades will be determined in the following manner:
20%:
20%
35 %
25%:
Participation in class discussions
Class presentations of Required Readings
Class presentations and participation in the workshops
Final Paper
Evaluation Criteria for Papers:
1. Pertinence and Consistency. The paper should reflect issues that we discussed in the
course, and contain information related to your selected object of research.
2. Structure and Coherence. The paper should present information and arguments in a
clearly structured format, and should set up clear relationships between the issues
and factors that the paper examines.
3. Conclusions and New Starting Points. The paper should include a well-thought-out
analysis of what you have studied, and should propose possible themes, questions,
and next steps that have been opened up during your study.
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Notes:
1. Required Readings are available as pdfs.
2. Every guide for discussion, workshop note, and final paper should have:
Name:
Course: Global Urban Futures, IDAES SGPIA, 2015
Assignment type and title:
Date:
3. Illustrations front page:
- Visionary City. Drawing by William Robinson Leigh, 1908.
- Michael Wolf, Architecture of Density, Hong Kong, 2006.
<http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/unten.html>
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