Urban Change and the Right to the City Fall 2009 4 credits MA-level A History Course Cross-listed with

Sociology/Social Anthropology Judit Bodnar e-mail: bodnarj@ceu.hu office: Room 115

The focal point of this course is the globalizing city and the changes associated with urban restructuring. Its aim is a complex understanding of the contemporary urban condition, its method is the historicization of current urban change. The class starts with the construction of the modern city and the main elements of urban life and culminates in the analysis of various models of contemporary urban transformations textured by global capitalism. There is an overall emphasis on divisions in the urban project, the uneven production of space, the politics and inequalities of city-building and dwelling, and the differential rights to the city. Parallel to these themes and emphases runs the introduction of the conceptual staples of urban studies from a critical perspective interrogating the biases of urban theory, which has privileged the modern European city. The course is therefore comparative temporally, spatially and conceptually. There is no prerequisite for the class but you are expected to have some background in the social sciences and a willingness to read and think beyond your discipline. This is not a lecture course or a free-floating seminar; rather, a genre in-betweena seminar with structured summaries and background information provided by the instructor. Active and informed participation is essential and will count as part of your grade. Each of you will be asked to initiate a class discussion at least once, which should not be a mere summary of the readings but a problemoriented analysis of the themes of the class, or a further explication of a theme of your choice (from among the topics of the week) that relies on additional sources. Depending on class size, it can also be a group project. Learning outcomes You are expected to form a theoretically and historically grounded understanding of contemporary urban change; to identify both the forces that generate similar conditions and those producing difference in urban restructuring; to see the city both as a collective enterprise and a divided one; to develop serious doubts to the generality of urban theory; to stop thinking that every city is inferior to Paris yet understand why we all tend to think so; to go beyond your own region, and place it in a broader framework; to go beyond your discipline and see how the framing of urban questions varies with your starting point, and how a par excellence multi-disciplinary area, urban studies, can be approached; and finally to go beyond your politics and challenge your natural use and claims to urban space as well as ideas of what the good city should be like. Paper You are required to write a term paper, approximately 4000 words. It can be a critical analysis of an aspect of urban life, the politics of urban space, recent changes in a city of your choice relying on urban theory gained from the readings, or a study of theoretical and methodological issues of comparing urban change across time and space. Other genres that deal with the city in a novel and

intelligent way also qualify. You are to hand in the title of the paper along with a 100-word abstract by the sixth class. Papers are due by the last class. Assessment Your grade is a combination of 3 elements: class participation (30%), term paper (40%) and in-class presentation (30%). Schedule Week 1. Introduction + class organization + film screening Contemporary urbanity at/from different places: Bombay, New York, Moscow, Mexico City Megacities (dir. Michael Glawogger, 1998, 90 min) Week 2. Constructing the modern city: the garden and the workshop Central European urban modernity and imaginaries in two cities: Budapest and Vienna Carl Schorske: Fin-de-sicle Vienna: politics and culture. Vintage, 1981. The Ringstrasse, Its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism Pp. 24-115. Peter Hanak: The garden and the workshop: essays on the cultural history of Vienna and Budapest. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1998. Urbanization and Civilization Pp. 3-43. Recommended: The Garden and the Workshop Pp. 63-97. David Frisby: Streets, Imaginaries and Modernity: Vienna is not Berlin Pp.21-57 in Gyan Prakash and K.M Kruse (eds.) The Spaces of the Modern City. Princeton. Recommended: Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art. London, Paris, Vienna. Yale, 1986.

John Lukacs: Budapest 1900: a historical portrait of a city and its culture. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. Pp. 3-107. kos Moravnszky: Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918. MIT Press. 1997. Especially Ch 1 & 2 The identity of an imaginary region; The City as Political Monument Pp. 1-62.
Peter Lengyel: Cobblestone. A Detective Novel: A philosophical mystery for the Millennium. Readers international, 1993 [1988]. Week 3. Living among strangers: the urban predicament, public space, its brief history and theory, and more comparisons Georg Simmel: Metropolis and Mental Life Pp. 324-39 in Donald Levine (ed. and intro.) Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms. Chicago, 1971. [1903] Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske: Budapest and New York Compared Pp. 1-28 in Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske (eds.): Budapest and New York: studies in metropolitan transformation, 1870-1930. Russell Sage, New York, 1994. Gbor Gyni: Uses and Misuses of Public Space in Budapest: 1873-1914 Pp. 85-107 in Budapest and New York.

Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig: The Park and the People: Central Park and Its Publics: 1850-1910 Pp. 108-134 in Budapest and New York. Recommended: Richard Sennett: The Fall of Public Man. Norton, 1974. Esp. Pp 130-49. Ch. 7 The impact of industrial capitalism on public life Elizabeth Wilson: The Sphinx in the City. Urban Life, the Control of Disorder and Women. California, 1992. Olsen, The City as a Work of Art. The city as playground Pp. 189-248. Week 4. The measure of modern urbanity: Paris restructured The history and theory of the citys transformation Walter Benjamin: Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century Pp. 46-57 in Philip Kasinitz (ed.) Metropolis: center and symbol of our time. New York: New York University Press, 1995. David Harvey: Paris 1850-70 Pp. 63-220 in Harvey: Consciousness and the Urban Experience. Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization. JHU Press, Baltimore, 1975. Recommended: Donald J. Olsen, The City As a Work of Art. Pp. 35-57. Eugen Weber: France, fin de siecle. Belknap, 1986. Chapters on Paris. Paul Rabinow: French Modern. Norms and Forms of the Social Environment. Chicago, 1995 [1989] Week 5. Colonial urban modernity: dual city, the transfer of urban forms, colonialism and capitalism Andrew Jones: Yellow Music. Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke U P, 2001. Introduction Pp. 1-20. Janet Abu-Lughod: Tale of Two Cities: The Origins of Modern Cairo Comparative Studies in Society and History 7, 4 (July 1965): 429-57. Anthony D. King: Colonialism, Urbanism, and the Capitalist World Economy International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 13, 1 (1989): 1-18. Sheila Crane: Architecture at the Ends of Empire: Urban Reflections between Algiers and Marseille Pp. 99-143 in Prakash and Kruse (eds.) The Spaces of the Modern City. Recommended: Leo Ou-fan Lee: Shanghai Modern: Reflections on Urban Culture in China in the 1930s Pp. 86-122 in Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar (ed.) Alternative Modernities. Duke, 2001. Gwendolyn Wright: The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism. Chicago, 1991. Short version: Gwendolyn Wright: Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930 Pp. 322-45 in Ann Stoler and Frederick Cooper (eds.) Tensions of Empire. Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. California, 1997.

Zeynep elik: Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontation. Algiers under French Rule. California, 1997.

Week 6. Constructing difference: the socialist city The socialist city as ideology, utopia, development project and state strategy, and the little tactics of the habitat Ivan Szelenyi. Urban Development and Regional Management in Eastern Europe Theory and Society 10 (1981): 169-205. Stephen Kotkin: Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. California, 1997. Chapter 3 The idiocy of urban life Pp. 106-45. Chapter 6 Bread and Circus Pp.238-279. Recommended: Judit Bodnar: Constructing Difference: Western versus Non-Western, Capitalist versus Socialist Urban Logic Pp. 13-34 in Bodnar: Fin de Millnaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life. Minnesota, 2001. R. A. French and F. E. Ian Hamilton: Is There a Socialist City? Pp. 1-21 in French and Hamilton (eds.) The socialist city: spatial structure and urban policy. Wiley, Chichester, 1979. David Harvey: Social Justice and the City. Ch 6 Urbanism and the cityan interpretive essay Pp. 195-284. Kotkin, Chapter 2 then the rest. Gordon Church: Bucharest: Revolution in the Townscape Art Pp. 493-506 in French and Hamilton, The Socialist City. Film: Budapest Retro (dir. by Gabor Zs. Papp, 1998) Week 7. The specter of community and good life in and outside the city: (sub)urban utopias Places and spaces of utopia, urbanization, suburbanization, class exclusion Herbert J. Gans: Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions in Gans: People, Plans and Policies, New York, 1991. Reprinted in Kasinitz, 170-95. Robert Fishman: Bourgeois Utopias. The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. Basic Books, 1987. Chapter 2: Building the Bourgeois Utopia Pp. 39-72. Kenneth Jackson: Crabgrass Frontier. The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford, 1985. Chapter 11: Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market Pp. 190-218. David Harvey: The Spaces of Utopia Pp. 133-81 in Spaces of Hope. California, 2000. John Friedmann: The Good City: In Defense of Utopian Thinking Pp. 103-18 in Friedmann, The Prospect of Cities. Minnesota, 2002. Recommended: Harvey, Jackson, Fishman, full books James Holston. 1989. The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Braslia. Chicago. Week 8. Pathways of global urban restructuring

Globalization, global cities and the new urban hierarchy, neoliberalism, postsocialism and the rule of informality David Harvey: Postmodernism in the city: architecture and urban design Pp. 66-98 in The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Basil Blackwell, 1989. Judit Bodnar: Fin de Millnaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life. Minnesota, 2001. Posted: Socialism, Modernity, State Pp. 1-12 Assembling the Square Pp. 103-28. Saree Makdisi: Laying Claim to Beirut: Urban Narrative and Spatial Identity in the Age of Solidere Critical Inquiry 23 (Spring 1997): 661-705. AbdouMaliq Simone: Emergency Democracy and the Governing Composite Social Text 26, 2 (2008): 13-22. Recommended: Saskai Sassen: The Global City. New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, 1991. Neil Brenner: New State Spaces. Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood. Oxford, 2004. Matthew Gandy: Learning from Lagos New Left Review 33 (May-June, 2005). AbdouMaliq Simone: For the City Yet to Come. Changing African Life in Four Cities. Duke, 2004. Week 9. The right to the city New forms of urban marginality, and the right to the city as minimal and maximal program: from participation to the right of radical imagination and change Henri Lefebvre: The right to the city Pp. 147-59 in Lefebvre, Writings of Cities. Selected, translated and introduced by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas. Blackwell, 1996. Saskia Sassen: Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims Public Culture 8 (1996): 205-223. Loc Wacquant: Urban Outcasts: Stigma and Division in the Black American Ghetto and the French Urban Periphery International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 17, 3 (1993): 366-83. Partha Chatterjee: The Politics of the Governed Pp. 53-78 in The Politics of the Governed. Columbia, 2004. Recommended: Franois Maspero: Roissy Express. A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs. Photographs by Anak Frantz. Translated by Paul Jones. Verso, 1994 [1990]. Pp. 154-205. David Harvey: The Right to the City New Left Review 53 (2008). Engin F. Iin: Citizenship in Ray Hutchison (ed.): Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. London: Sage. Forthcoming. (6 pgs) Alejandro Portes: Immigration and the Metropolis: Reflections on Urban History Journal of International Migration Research 1, 2 (Spring 2000): 153-75. Arjun Appadurai: Deep Democracy Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics Public Culture 14 (2002): 21-47.

Teresa Caldeira and James Holston: Democracy and Violence in Brazil Comparative Studies in Society and History 41, 4 (October 1999): 691-729. Film: Hate (dir. by Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995) Week 10. Uneven development on the urban scale and beyond Mike Davis: Fear and Money in Dubai New Left Review 41 (2006): 47-68. Judit Bodnar: Dual Cities, Globalization and Uneven Development Ms. Neil Smith: New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy Pp. 80-103 in Neil Brenner & Nik Theodore (eds.) Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe. Blackwell, 2002. Neil Smith: The Satanic Geographies of Globalization: Uneven Development in the 1990s Public Culture 10, 1 (1997): 169-89. Recommended: Neil Smith. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. 2nd edition. Blackwell, 1990. Kamran A. Ali and Martina Rieker: Urban Margins Introduction. Social Text 26, 2 (2008): 1-12. Mike Davis: Planet of Slums New Left Review 26 (March April) 2004 or book by same title, Verso, 2006. Week 11. The landscapes of power: gentrification, defensible architecture, theme parks, and the new philosophy of public space Mike Davis: Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space Pp. 154-80 in Michael Sorkin (ed.) Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space. Hill & Wang, 1992. Sharon Zukin: Landscapes of Power. From Detroit to Disney World. California, 1991. Gentrification, Cuisine, and the Critical Infrastructure: Power and Centrality Downtown Pp. 179-215. Don Mitchell and Lynn A. Staeheli: Clean and Safe? Property Redevelopment, Public Space, and Homelessness in Downtown San Diego Pp.143-75 in Setha Low and Neil Smith (eds.) The Politics of Public Space. New York, London: Routledge, 2006. Xuefei Ren: Forward the Past: Historical Preservation in Globalizing Shanghai City & Community 7, 1 (2008): 23-43. Recommended: Teresa Caldeira: Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation Public Culture 8, 2 (1996): 303-28. or longer version: Teresa Caldeira: City of Walls. Crime, Segregation and Citizenship in So Paolo. California, 2000. Neil Smith: The New Urban Frontier. Gentrification and the Revanchist City. Routledge, 1996.

Judit Bodnar: Becoming Bourgeois: (Postsocialist) Utopias of Isolation and Civilization Forthcoming in Mike Davis and Daniel Monk (eds.) Evil Paradises: The Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism. New York: New Press. Fulong Wu: The Global and local Dimensions of Place-making: Remaking Shanghai as a World City Urban Studies 37, 8 (2000): 1359-77. Setha Low and Neil Smith (eds.) The Politics of Public Space. New York, London: Routledge, 2006. Week 12. Place, memory and urban reconstruction: whose history, memory and city? Dolores Hayden: The power of place: urban landscapes as public history. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995. Ch 1 & 2. Pp. 2-43. Andreas Huyssen: The Voids of Berlin Critical Inquiry 24 (Autumn 1997): 57-81. Recommended: Christine Boyer: The City of Collective Memory. Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments. MIT, 1998. Especially Chapters 1 & 2, Pp. 1-70. Peter Marcuse: Reflections on Berlin. The meaning of reconstruction and the construction of meaning International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 22, 2 (1998): 331-8. Scott Campbell: Capital reconstruction and capital accumulation in Berlin. A reply to Marcuse IJURR 23, 1 (1999): 173-79. Hartmut Hussermann: Economic and political power in Berlin. A reply to Peter Marcuse IJURR 23, 1 (1999) 180-84. Film: Berlin Babylon. (dir. H. Siegert, 2001)