PS 32 511
New York City and Los Angeles: Contrasting Politics in the Global City
Prof. Dr. Mayer
Fr 16 – 18. Raum 201. Start:19.04.02
This seminar deals with the politics in and of New York and Los Angeles
in a comparative perspective. The two cities/metropolitan regions will serve
as our cases to learn about the importance of urban politics in an era of
globalization. After familiarizing ourselves with the concept of the so-called
"Global City", with relevant theories of urban politics, with the
structure of federal/state/local relations, and with the specific historical
development and political-economic situation of the two cities, we will compare
the cities' approach to different policy areas (such as immigration/ethnicity,
policing/security, housing and (re-)development, community organizing, welfare/workfare
etc.) We will make use not only of secondary sources but also of the New York
Times, the LA Times and other local sources available through their web sites.
Requirements.
Besides regular attendance and your participation in a working group making
regular presentations about your homework and current events reading to the
class, you will be expected to write up a report of one class session, a response
paper/summary to a text (like this model
book review), as well as a 10 page term paper dealing with a topic to
be negotiated with the professor.
26.04.2002 -- Global Cities in the US Minutes
*Ed Soja, "Poles Apart: Urban Restructuring in New York and Los Angeles,"
Chapter 14 in:
Mollenkopf/Castells, Dual City: Restructuring New York. New York: Russell
Sage Foundation, 1991.
Janet L. Abu-Lughod, "Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles:
testing some world city hypotheses," in: Paul L. Knox/Peter J. Taylor
(Eds) World Cities in a World System. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1995.
Roger Keil, "Urbanisierung und Internationalisierung,"
Chapter 1 in: Keil, Weltstadt - Stadt der Welt. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot,
1994.
John Friedman/Goetz Wolff, "World City Formation: an Agenda for research
and action", International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol.
6/3 (1982): 209-344.
Saskia Sassen, Cities in a World Economy, Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi:
Pine Forge Press, 1994. Ch.2.
David Harvey (1998) "Cities or Urbanization?," In: City, Vol.
1/ 2 (1989): 38-61.
03.05.2002 -- Global City New York Minutes
*John Mollenkopf/ Manuel Castells (Eds) Dual City: Restructuring New York.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1991. Introduction.
Janet L. Abu-Lughod, "The New York Region: Expanding, Contracting,
and Restructuring," Chapter 10 in: Abu-Lughod, New York, Chicago, Los
Angeles: America's Global Cities. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Matthew P. Drennan, "The Decline and Rise of the New York Economy,"
Ch.1 in: Mollenkopf/Castells (Eds.) Dual City, 1991.
10.05.2002 -- Global City Los Angeles Minutes
*Edward W. Soja, "It all comes together in Los Angeles," Chapter
8 in: Soja, Postmodern Geographies, London: Verso, 1989.
Edward W. Soja/Rebecca Morales/ Goetz Wolff, "Urban Restructuring:
An Analysis of Social and Spatial Change in Los Angeles," Economic Geography
59 (1983): 195-230.
Janet L. Abu-Lughod, "The Los Angeles Region Transformed," Chapter
12 in: Abu-Lughod, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities.
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1999.
17.05.2002 -- Urban Politics Minutes
*Margit Mayer, "Post-Fordist City Politics," in: Ash Amin (Ed.)
Post-Fordsim - A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
Roger Keil, "Globalization makes states: perspectives of local governance
in the age of the world city," In: Review of International Political
Economy, Vol. 5/4 (1998): 616-646.
24.05.2002 -- Urban Form - Sprawl vs. Core/Suburb Minutes
*Robert Fishman, "Die befreite Megalopolis: Amerikas
neue Stadt," in: ARCH+, 109/110 (Dezember 1991)
Robert Fishman, "Re-imagining Los Angeles," in: Michael Dear et
al. (Eds.) Rethinking Los Angeles. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage.
Joel Garreau, Edge City. Life on the New Frontier. New York: Doubleday,
1991.
USC Southern California Studies Centre, "Sprawl Hits The Wall,"
A downloadable version of the Atlas is available online through the following
URL: http://sc2.usc.edu/sg/atlas3.html
Global Sprawl: Urban form after Fordism? (Editorial) Environment and Planning
D: Society and Space, Vol. 12 (1994): 131-136.
31.05.2002 -- Inner City/ "Ghetto" Minutes
*Peter Marcuse, "The Enclave, the Citadel, and the Ghetto: What has
Changed in the Post-Fordist US City." In: Urban Affairs Review, Vol.
33/2 (1997): 228-264.
*Cynthia Hamilton, "Apartheid in an American City. The Case of the
Black Community in Los Angeles," Labor Community Strategy Centre, n.d.
Allen J. Scott/Richard Brown (Eds) South-Central Los Angeles: Anatomy of
an Urban Crisis. Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, UCLA, Working Paper
Series 1993. Chapter I & II.
07.06.2002 -- Homelessness Minutes
*Peter Marcuse, "Space and race in the Post-Fordist City: The Outcast
Ghetto and Advanced Homelessness in the US Today." In: Enzo Mingione
(Ed) Urban Poverty and the Underclass. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Ralph Nuñez, "Family Homelessness in New York City," Political
Science Quarterly, Vol. 116/3 (2001): 367-380.
Susann M. Ruddick, Young and Homeless in Hollywood: Mapping Social Identities.
New York: Routledge, 1996.
Madeleine R. Stoner, "The Globalization of Urban Homelessness,"
in: Michael Dear (Ed) From Chicago to L.A.Making Sense of Urban Theory. Thousand
Oaks, London, New Delhi: 2002.
14.06.2002 -- Gentrification Minutes
*Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City.
London: Routledge, 1996. Chapter 1&2.
*Peter Marcuse, "Abandonment, gentrification, and displacement: the
linkages in New York City," in: Neil Smith/Peter Williams (Eds.) Gentrification
of the City. Winchester, MA: Allen&Unwin, 1986.
21.06.2002 -- Security, Surveillance, "Zero Tolerance"
*Mike Davis, "Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space,"
in: Michael Sorkin (Ed.) Variations on a Theme Park. New York: Hill and Wang,
1992.
*Neil Smith, "Which New Urbanism? New York City and the Revanchist
1990s," in: Robert Beauregard, Sophie Body-Gendrot (Eds.) The Urban Moment.
Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage, 1999.
Frederick E. Siegel, "The Politics of Public Order, " in Siegel:
The Future Once Happened Here: NY, DC, LA and the Fate of America's Big Cities.
New York: The Free Press, 1997.
28.06.2002 -- Immigrant Worlds Minutes
*John R. Logan et al., "Minorities in Global Cities: New York and Los
Angeles," In: Mingione, Urban Poverty and the Underclass. Oxford: Blackwell,
1996.
Jerome Straughan/ Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, "From Immigrants in the
City, to Immigrant City", ch.7 in: Michael Dear (Ed) From Chicago to
LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi: Sage, 2002.
Thomas Bailey/Roger Waldinger , "The Changing Ethnic/Racial Division
of Labor," in: Mollenkopf/Castells (Eds.) Dual City. The Restructuring
of New York. New York: Russell Sage, 1991
Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism. Latinos reinvent the US City, London: Verso,
2000
Lawrence D. Bobo et al., "Prismatic Metropolis. Inequality in Los Angeles.
New York: Russell Sage, 2000. (Check also the review thereof by Michael Dear
in LA Times Book Review Feb 11, 2001)
John R. Logan, "Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segregation
of New York," in: Peter Marcuse/Ronald van Kampen (Eds.) Globalizing
Cities. A New Spatial Order? Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
05.07.2002 -- Welfare / Workfare
*Jamie Peck, "Workfare in the sun: politics, representation, and the
method in U.S. welfare-to-work strategies," in: Political Geography,
Vol. 17/5 (1998): 535-566.
*Frederick E. Siegel, "The Welfare Explosion. A Case of Malign Intentions,"
Ch. 4 in: Siegel, The Future Once Happened Here. NY: Free Press, 1997
Jamie Peck, "'Help and Hassle': means, motive and method in local workfare
strategies". Paper presented at theconference Model USA: social justice
through growing employment? Freie Universität Berlin, 19-20
November 1998.
John Krinsky, "Election Affinities: Union Symbolism and Organization
in the Fight Against Workfare in New York City." Paper presented at the
meetings of the International Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada,
26 July-1 August 1998.
12.07.2002 -- Urban Activism
Andrew Van Kleunen, "The Squatters: A Chorus of Voices... But Is Anyone
Listening?" in: Janet Abu-Lughod et al., From Urban Village to East Village:
The Battle for New York's Lower East Side. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994
Kelly Candaele / Peter Dreier, "LA's Progressive Mosaic," The
Nation, August 21, 2000.
Gilda Haas/Allan David Heskin, "Community Struggles in Los Angeles,"
in IJURR 5/4 (1981): 546-563.
Jacqueline Leavitt, "Los Angeles Neighborhoods Respond to Civil Unrest:
Is Planning an Adequate Tool?" in: W. Dennis Keating et al., Revitalizing
Urban Neighbourhoods. U of Kansas Press, 1996.
19.07.2002 -- Evaluation Minutes
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