Week One (May 26) - The City as a Plan

Readings for today: 

• Chapter 1 ("Progressive Reform Through Environmental Intervention") and Chapter 3 ("The City- Film as Artifact") in Howard Gillette Jr, Civitas By Design (University of Pennsylvania Press: 2010).

In-class:

• FILM: Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke, The City (1939).
• Images that accompanied our class lecture on urban planning.

For further reading and research:

• David Pinder, "Modernist Calls to Order," Visions of the City (Edinburgh University Press: 2005).
• Jane Jacobs, "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety," from The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961).
• Le Corbusier, excerpt from The City of Tomorrow.
• Constant, "Another City for Another Life," Internationale Situationniste #3 (December 1959).
• Attila Kotanyi and Raoul Vaneigem, "Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism," Internationale Situationniste #6 (August 1961).