The syllabus consists of 949 pages of mandatory specified literature. You are also expected to read at least about 10 more articles (ca 150-200 pages) of your choice in connection with course paper work.
Total including course paper-related literature: about 1100 pages.
URBAN CLASSICS
@Barnes, T. J., & Abrahamsson, C. (2017) The imprecise wanderings of a precise idea: the travels of spatial analysis. In H. Jöns, P. Meusberger and M. Heffernan (eds.) Spatial Mobility of Knowledge. (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer), pp. 105-122.
*Benjamin, W. and A. Lacis (1979), “Naples”, in W. Benjamin (1979), One-Way Street and Other Writings (London: NLB), pp. 167-176.
*Benjamin, W. (1979), “Moscow”, in W. Benjamin (1979), One-Way Street and Other Writings (London: NLB), pp. 177-208.
*Christaller, W. (1966 [1933]). Central places in southern Germany (London: Prentice-Hall), pp. 14-132.
Park, R.E. and E.W. Burgess (1925), The City – Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press), chapters I-IX (160 pages).
@Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a Way of Life. American Journal of Sociology, 44(1), 1-24.
[359 pages]
URBANIZATION AND COUNTER-TRENDS
Phelps, N. A., & Wu, F. (2011). Introduction: International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-suburban World?. In N. Phelps and F. Wu (eds.), International Perspectives on Suburbanization (pp. 1-11). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
@Martinez-Fernandez, C., I. Audirac, S. Fol and E. Cunningham-Sabot (2012), Shrinking Cities: Urban Challenges of Globalization, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36 (2): 213-225.
@Harris, R. (2015). Using Toronto to explore three suburban stereotypes, and vice versa. Environment and Planning A, 47(1), 30-49.
@Butler, T. (2007). Re‐urbanizing London Docklands: Gentrification, Suburbanization or New Urbanism?. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31(4), 759-781.
@Filion, P. (2015). Suburban inertia: the entrenchment of dispersed suburbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39(3), 633-640.
@Shen, J. & F. Wu. (2012). The development of master-planned communities in Chinese suburbs: A case study of Shanghai’s Thames Town. Urban Geography, 33(2), 183-203.
@Boudreau, Julie-Anne & Danielle Labbe. (2011). Understanding the causes of urban fragmentation in Hanoi: The case of New Urban Zones. International Development Planning Review, 33(3), 273-291.
Todes, A. (2014). New African Suburbanisation? Exploring the Growth of the Northern Corridor of eThekwini/KwaDakuza. African Studies 73 (2): 245-270.
[134 pages]
CONTEMPORARY URBANISM
*Amin, A. (2003). ‘The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities’. In G. Bridge and S. Watson (eds.), A Companion to the City (Oxford (UK) and Malden (MA): Blackwell), 115-129.
@Anderson, B. and C. McFarlane (2011), Assemblage and geography, Area 43 (2): 124-127.
@Davidson, M. (2007), Gentrification as a global habitat: a process of class formation or corporate creation? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32 (4): 490-506.
@Dear, M. & Flusty, S. (1998): "Postmodern urbanism." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 88, nr. 1, s. 50-72. 23 sider.
@Gentile, M. and Ö. Sjöberg, 2010, Spaces of Priority: The Geography of Soviet Housing Construction in Daugavpils, Latvia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100 (1): 1–25.
@Lees, L. (2002): Rematerializing geography: the ‘new’ urban geography. Progress in human geography, vol. 26, nr. 1, s. 101-112.
@Ley, D. (2003): "Forgetting postmodernism? Recuperating a social history of local knowledge." Progress in Human Geography, vol. 27, nr. 5, s. 537-560.
@Storper, M. and M. Manville (2006), Behaviour, preferences and cities: urban theory and urban resurgence, Urban Studies 43 (8): 1247-1274.
@Ward, K. (2010), Towards a relational comparative approach to the study of cities, Progress in Human Geography 34 (4): 471-487.
[159 pages]
Recommended reading:
@Scott, A. and M. Storper (2015), The nature of cities; The scope and limits of urban theory, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39 (1): 1-15.
COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND THE CITY
@Edensor, T. (1997). National identity and the politics of memory: remembering Bruce and Wallace in symbolic space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 15(2), 175-194.
@Forest, B., Johnson, J., & Till, K. (2004). Post‐totalitarian national identity: public memory in Germany and Russia. Social & Cultural Geography, 5(3), 357-380.
@Gentile, M. (2017), “Geopolitical Fault-line Cities”, in A. Pikulicka-Wilczewska and G. Uehling (Eds.), Migration and the Ukraine Crisis: A Two-Country Perspective (Bristol: E-International Relations Publishing), forthcoming. The entire book will be available online for free. Ca 15 pages.
[55 pages]
COMPARATIVE URBANISM
@Dear, M. (2005), Comparative urbanism, Urban Geography 26 (3): 247-251.
@Lees, L. (2012). The geography of gentrification: Thinking through comparative urbanism. Progress in Human Geography, 36(2), 155-171.
@Nijman, J. (2015), The theoretical imperative of comparative urbanism: a commentary on ‘Cities beyond compare’ by Jamie Peck, Regional Studies 49 (1): 183-186.
@Peck, J. (2015), Cities beyond compare? Regional Studies 49 (1): 160-182.
@Robinson, J. (2005), Urban geography: world cities, or a world of cities, Progress in Human Geography 29 (6): 757-765.
@Roy, A. (2011). Slumdog cities: rethinking subaltern urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(2), 223-238.
@Schindler, S. (2014). Understanding urban processes in Flint, Michigan: Approaching ‘subaltern urbanism’ inductively. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(3), 791-804.
[82 pages]
Recommended reading:
@Robinson, J. (2011), Cities in a world of cities: The comparative gesture, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35 (1): 1-23.
RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND “PLACE POVERTY”
*Castaneda, E. (2012) “Places of Stigma: Ghettos, Barrios, and Banlieus”. I Hutchinson, R. and Haynes, B.D. (red.) The Ghetto. Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies. Westview, Phil. PA, pp. 159-190.
*Wacquant, L. (2008), ch. 5 “From Conflation to Comparison: How Banlieus and Ghettos Converge and Contrast” I Urban Outcasts. Polity Press: Cambridge side 135-162.
@Wessel, T. (2009). Does diversity in urban space enhance intergroup contact and tolerance?. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 91(1), 5-17.
*Atkinson, R., Buck, N. and Kintrea, K. (2005) "Neighbourhoods and poverty: linking place and social exclusion". I Buck, N., Gordon, I, Harding, A. og Turok, I. (red.) Changing Cities. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 18 pages.
@Brattbakk, I. and Wessel, T. (2011) "Long-term neighbourhood effects on education, income and employment among adolescents in Oslo". Urban Studies 50: 381-406.
@Fainstein, S. (2005), Cities and diversity – Should we want it? Can we plan for it?, Urban Affairs Review 41 (1): 3-19.
*Galster, G. (2012) “Neighbourhoods and Their Role in Creating and Changing Housing”. I Clapham, D. F., Clark, W.A.V. and Gibb, K. (red.) The Sage Handbook of Housing Studies. Sage Publications, London, side 84-106.
@Galster, G. and A. Santiago (2017), Neighbourhood ethnic composition and outcomes for low-income Latino and African American children, Urban Studies 54(2): 482-500.
*Van Kempen, R. og Bolt, G. (2012) “Social Consequences of Residential Segregation and Mixed Neighbourhoods”. I Clapham, D. F., Clark, W.A.V. and Gibb, K. (red.) The Sage Handbook of Housing Studies. Sage Publications, London, side 439-460.
[152 pages]