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assignmentsAll assignments are identified by their DUE DATE. Assignments should be posted by midnight of the date they are due. Do not wait until the last minute to post. The traffic on cooldaze may slow down the time it takes to post. Post your completed assignments in REVERSE chronological order, most recent first. The following set of reading summaries will substitute for the 30% of the grade that was set aside for PedEx. (The first set of summaries (ending with 10.20) will continue to count for 35% of the grade). The second set of summaries will be due: 11.05, 11.10, 11.17, and 11.24. assignment 11.24 ASSIGNMENT CANCELLED DUE TO SNAFU WITH THE RESERVES. THE READINGS LISTED BELOW WILL BE UP AGAIN MONDAY. BEGIN WORK ON YOUR FINAL EXAM PREPARATION. EXPECT NEW QUESTIONS THIS WEEKEND. Required Nelson, Allen, Dagenhart, et. al, "You are How you Subdivide: A Renewal of Traditional American Subdivision Design". Recommended A.E.J. Morris, "Urban USA" assignment 11.17 Summarize all Required Readings separately. The readings are available thru library online reserves. Required Readings 1. Mary Ryan, "Introduction: From Public Realm to Civic Warfare", in Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century, pp.1-18. 2. Blair Ruble, "Living Apart Together: The City, Contested Identity, and Democratic Transitions", in Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities, pp.1-20. Recommended Readings 1. Mary Ryan, "Epilogue", in Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century, pp. 305-316. 2. Pep Subiros, "Barcelona; Cultural Strategies and Urban Renewal, 1979-1997", in Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities, pp. 291-319. assignment 11.10 Summarize all Required Readings separately. The readings are available thru library online reserves as noted. Required Readings 1. Andrew Blauvelt, "Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life", pp 14-37 coa 1060 online reserves. The exhibition catalog is on reserve at the architecture library in case you want to see the pieces refered to in the article. 2. Donald Norman, "The Psychopathology of Everyday Things", pp 1-33 coa 1060 online reserves. this book is on reserve at the main library as well. Recommended Reading 1. Aaron Betsky, "The Strangeness of the Familiar in Design", pp 38-55 This article is uploaded to coa 1011 khan. assignment 11.05 Summarize all Required Readings separately. The readings are available thru library online reserves. 1. McCoy, Katherine. "Good Citizenship: Design as a Social and Political Force." Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. New York: Allworth Press, 2003. 2-8. 2. Szenasy, Susan. "Ethical Design Education." Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. New York: Allworth Press, 2003. 20-24. 3. Bush, Anne. "Beyond Pro Bono: Graphic Design's Social Work." Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. New York: Allworth Press 2003. 25-31. assignment 10.24 Recommended Readings. NO SUMMARIES DUE. These readings will help with the walks (pedex) and with the final exam. Oswald Mathias Ungers & Stefan Vieths. Introduction: The Dialectic City. Skire Editore Press. Go to http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 William H. Whyte. "The Design of Spaces" from City: Rediscovering the Center, New York 1988. http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 assignment 10.20 Read both required and recommended readings. They will help you with the walk and with the final exam. Summarize only the Required Reading. Required Reading Sorkin, Michael. "Introduction: Traffic In Democracy." Giving Ground. Eds. Joan Copjec and Michael Sorkin. London: Verso, 1999. 1-15. Available library online reserves. Recommended Readings 1. Solnit, Rebecca. "The Solitary Stroller and the City." Wanderlust A History of Walking. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. 171-180. Available library online reserves. 2. Perec, Georges. "The Strret." Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. Ed. John Sturrock. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. 46-56. Available library online reserves. assignment 10.13 extended due to late posting of reading. sk Read and summarize the following article: 1. Solnit, Rebecca. "Paris, or Botanizing on the Asphalt." Wanderlust A History of Walking. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. 198-213. Available at gatech library online reserves assignment 10.03 Read all four articles. The first pair relates to lecture 09.22, the second to lecture 09.24. ALL FOUR ARTICLES are available on the Readings Page. Go to http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 Post one summary of one article from the first pair. Post one summaryof one article from the second pair. TWO summaries by 10.03. LECTURE 1, WED 9.22 1. Sennett, Richard. Chapter 1-The Public Domain, in the Fall of Public Man. New York: Knopf, 1977, c1976 2. Deutsche, Rosalyn. Tilted Arc and the Uses of Democracy; in Evictions Art & Spatial Politics. MIT Press LECTURE 2, FRI 9.24 1. Alexander Culberth & Keith McKinnell. Ambiguous Spaces and Ambiguous Rights: Corporate Power and Social Control in Hong Kong. Cities, vol 14 # 5, pp.295- 311, 1997 2. Halsey M. & Young A.. The Meanings of Graffiti and Municipal Administration. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 1 June 2002, vol. 35, no.2, pp. 165-186(22) assignment 09.19 You are not required to post a summary of any of these articles. This should give you a little breather as you prepare for your coa 1011 reviews 09.20 and 09.21. 1. Grady, Henry (1886). "The New South" speech. Available at http://douglassarchives.org/grad_a12.htm 2. Washington, Booker T. (1895). The so-called "Atlanta Compromise" speech. Available at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/ 3. Charles Rutheiser, "Building the Imaginary City". Go to http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 4. Mike Davis, "Buscando America" http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 5. Mike Davis, "Tropicalizing Cold Urban Space" http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 assignment 09.13 READ ALL FIVE ARTICLES. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MATERIAL IN ALL FIVE ARTICLES FOR THE FINAL EXAM. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ THEM ALL RIGHT AWAY BUT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO READ AND SUMMARIZE THEM WHILE THE ISSUES ARE FRESH. THIS WILL HELP YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR FINAL EXAM SUMMARIZE ONE ARTICLE FOR POSTING POST BY 09.13 ALL FIVE ARTICLES CAN BE FOUND AT http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 1. Larry Keating, "Race Class at the Atlanta Housing Market" 2. Ronald Bayor, "The Second Ghetto, Then and Now" 3. Charles Connerly, "From Racial Zoning to Community Empowerment: The Interstate Highway System and the African American Community in Birmingham, Alabama" 4. Harvey Newman, "Race and the Toursit Bubble in Downtown Atlanta" 5. Harvey Newman, "Decatur Street: Atlanta's African American Paradise Lost" assignment 09.06 Primary Readings READ BOTH AND SUMMARIZE BOTH 1. Jackson, J.B., "The Discovery of the Street" Go to http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 2. Crimmins, Timothy, "Atlanta Palimpsest: Stripping Away the Layers of the Past" Go to http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/cooldaze/753 Instructions
assignment 09.01 Primary Reading Hayden, Delores. "The Evolution of American Housing." Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989, 3-16. Go to http://www.library.gatech.edu. go to course reserves, pull down online reserves, browse by college, click college of architecture, go to coa 1060 khan. Secondary Readings 1. Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. "What is Sprawl, and Why?" Suburban Nation. New York: North Point Press, 2000. 3-20. 2. Hayden, Delores. "Decoding Everyday American Landscapes." A Field Guide to Sprawl. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. 7-16. Go to http://www.library.gatech.edu. go to course reserves, pull down online reserves, browse by college, click college of architecture, go to coa 1060 khan. Instructions
assignment 08.25 This assignment has two parts. You will post this assignment on your Reading Summaries Page. Go to the Official Class List page under coa 1060 to find your Reading Summaries page. Go to the official class list, scroll down until you find your name, then click on 'yourname reading summaries' (or the 'create' button). When the page opens, click on edit and start typing in the 'comment box' that appears. Make sure you click the 'save' button when you are done. Part One Write a 700-word essay (max) describing a street where you live or once lived. We would like you to think about and describe both its physical and its social characteristics. Next describe the relationship between them: how the kinds of spaces it made influenced the kind of life that took place. Finally see if you can speculate on how a different set of material or formal qualities might have sponsored a different set of possibilities. We strongly recommend that you write the essay in msword first. Once you have checked for spelling etc., copy and paste it into your reading summaries page's comment box. Part Two In her essay, "The Solitary Stroller and the City", Rebecca Solnit quotes at length from a memoir about growing up in late-eighteenth century San Francisco. The excerpt below gives an account of a father and a daughter walking on Saturday nights in downtown San Francisco. The picture the author paints is rich, vibrant, and almost alien compared to how most contemporary Americans experience and imagine cities and city life. First read through the quote; then respond to the following;
"On Saturday night, the city joined in the promenade on Market Street, the broad thoroughfare that begins at the waterfront and cuts its straight path of miles to Twin Peaks. The sidewalks were wide and the crowd walking toward the bay met the crowd walking toward the ocean. The outpouring of the population was spontaneous as in response to an urge for instant celebration. Every quarter of the city discharged its residents into the broad procession. Ladies and gentlemen of imposing social repute; their German and Irish servant girls, arms held fast in the arms of their sweethearts; French, Spaniards, gaunt hardworking Portugese; Mexicans, the Indians. . . everybody, anybody, left home and shop, hotel, restaurant, and beer garden to empty into Market Street in a river of color. Sailors of every nation deserted their ships at the waterfront, hurrying up Market Street in groups, joined the vibrating mass excited by the lights and stir and the gaeity of the throng. 'This is San Francisco', their faces said. It was carnival; no confetti, but the air of a criss-cross of a thousand messages; no masks, but eyes frankly charged with challenge. Down Market to Powell to Kearney, three long blocks, up Kearney to Bush, three short ones, then back again, over and over for hours, until a glance of curiousity deepened to one of interest; interest expanded into a smile, and a smile into anything. Father and I went downtown every Saturday night. We walked through avenues of light in a world hardly solid. Something was happening everywhere, every minute, something to be happy about. . . We walked and walked and still something kept happening afresh." assignment 08.22 cooldaze orientation 3 Objectives:
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