Syllabus

Lecturer: Professor Steven Hirsh
Department of Classics, Tufts University

Books
*The City: A Global History by Joel Kotkin, pp. 1-61

Handouts
* “How to build a city: Roman operating system” by A. Andraos et al from Mutation edited by Rem Koolhaas et al. (pp. 10-23)
* Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History by JN Postgate (selected readings)

September 11

Urban Warfare & Terrorism - Defensible and Indefensible Space

Lecturer: Sherman Teichman

Books
* Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State edited by Michael Sorkin, pp. 1-97
* State of the World’s Cities Report 2006/7 by the United Nations Human Settlements Program, pp. 142-151
* Planet of Slums by Mike Davis, pp. 199-206

Handouts
* “City without Joy: Urban Military Operations into the 21st Century” by M. Evans, from Australian Defence College Occasional Series. No. 2
* “Urban Warfare: Walking through Walls” by Eyal Weizman, from Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (pp.185-218)
* "Capital of Chaos: The New Kabul of Warlords and Infidels” by A. Fontenot et al, from Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism (pp.69-86)
* "The General’s Dilemma: David Patraeus and the Lessons of the Surge,” Steve Coll, The New Yorker, September 8th, 2008 (recommended)

September 12-14: Outward Bound Weekend Immersion

Megacities: Urbanization and its Implications

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Janice Perlman
Dr. Perlman is the Founder and President of The Mega-Cities Project, Inc. a global non-profit organization (with consultative status to UN ECOSOC) whose mission is: “to shorten the lag time between ideas and implementation”—particularly at the intersection of income generation, environmental re-generation and participatory democracy. Mega-Cities identifies, documents, and transfers/adapts innovative solutions to the problems cities face in common.

Books
* Shadow Cities by Robert Neuwirth, pp 1-66
* State of the World’s Cities Report 2006-07, United Nations Human Settlements, pp. 1-68
* Planet of Slums by Mike Davis, pp. 1-49
* The Endless City: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society, pp. 8-69 (recommended)

Handouts
* “A Dual Strategy for Deliberate Social Change in Cities” by Janice Perlman from Urban Innovation for the 21st Century by Perlman and Blueweisse (pp. 3-15)
* “Fighting Poverty and Environmental Injustice in Cities” by Janice E. Perlman and Molly O’Meara Sheehan, from State of the World 2007 (pp. 172-190)
* “Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969–2002” by Janice E. Perlman from Urban Informality edited by R. Ananya et al (pp. 105-146)
* “The Most Unjust Country in the World” from Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism by E. Sader et al (pp. 164-170)

September 16

Guests:
* EPIIC alum and now Assistant Prof. Ryan Center will come in to introduce himself and his work on Buenos Aires
* Ina Breuer, the Executive Director of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition (which now has an office at and partnership with the IGL) will introduce the Project's work
* Students from the new IGL group Power and Poverty Research Initiative will introduce their group

There will be further discussion of last Thursday's readings along with today's, led by Dahlia and Ester (the work and roles of journalists and international organizations in urban conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and cities in the context of state-building and a-symmetric conflict with examples from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict)

Reading:
* Indefensible Spaces (all)

October 16

Guests
Dr. Abebe Dinku
Dean of the Faculty of Technology Addis Ababa University

Dr. Heyaw Tereffe
Associate Dean of the Faculty of Technology,coordinating the Departments of Architectural Design and of Urban Planning

Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA
Associate Professor and Chair, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Handouts
-Timeline Ethiopia, BBC
-Urbanization: Ethiopia, US Library of Congress
-Signs of Power: Fascist Urban Iconographies in Ethiopia, Marco Antonisch
-Urban Development and Housing for Low-Income Groups in Ethiopia, Tarekegn Assefa
-Migration and Urbanization in Ethiopia, with Special Reference to Addis Ababa, chapters 1, 2, 4
-Urban Poverty in Ethiopia: A Multifaceted and Spatial Perspective, Elisa Muzzinia

November 18

Panel Discussion hosted by the International Resilience Program "Building Resilience in Cities: Case studies from New York, London, and New Orleans"

Moderator:
Dr. Astier M. Almedom
International Resilience Program

Panelists

Dr. Mindy Fullilove
Columbia University and Root Shock Institute, NYC

Mr. Wade Rathke
ACORN, International

Professor Richard Williams
University of Glamorgan

(L - R, A. Almedom, M. Fullilove, W. Rathke, R. Williams)

November 20

November 25

December 4

Guests

Jacob Silberberg

James Stockard
James Stockard, LF ’78, is an expert in affordable housing and community development. As a principal for over 25 years with the Cambridge-based consulting firm Stockard & Engler & Brigham, he worked with non-profit groups and public agencies across the country on such issues as affordable housing development, property and asset management, neighborhood revitalization, and supportive service planning. Shortly before coming to the GSD, he served as the court-appointed Special Master for the Department of Public and Assisted Housing in Washington, DC.

In addition to his Loeb Fellowship responsibilities, Jim teaches courses in housing and neighborhood development at the GSD. He has previously taught housing policy courses at MIT and Tufts University. He is the co-author of Managing Affordable Housing and wrote the epilogue for New Directions in Urban Public Housing. His most recent article, The Affordable Housing Imperative for America’s Cites: Can Government Solve It? was prepared as part of a study of affordable housing in New York City by a division of Baruch College. From 2000-2003 he was the GSD’s Principal Investigator for the Public Housing Operating Cost Study commissioned by the US Congress.

Jim has served as a Commissioner of the Cambridge Housing Authority for over 30 years (including seven terms as chair) and is a founding Trustee of the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust Fund. He has recently been appointed to the Housing Appeals Committee which rules on zoning override petitions as a part of Massachusetts’ unique Chapter 40B provisions aimed at facilitating affordable housing throughout the Commonwealth. He is a past president of the Citizens Housing and Planning Association, the largest research and advocacy group for housing and community development issues in Massachusetts. Jim is a graduate of Princeton University, an alumnus of the Loeb Fellowship Program, and earned a Master of City Planning degree from the GSD.

January 27th

Robert R. Kiley
(Chair) is the former commissioner of transport for London (TfL), the executive transportation agency of the Mayor of London. TfL is responsible for delivering London’s bus services, the Docklands Light Railway and Croydon Tramlink as well as regulating the licensed taxi and private hire industries. Prior to his appointment as commissioner of transport, Mr. Kiley was the president and CEO of the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce, the City’s preeminent business and civic organization. Immediately prior to joining the Partnership, Mr. Kiley served as a member of Kohlberg & Co. From 1991 to 1994, he was president of the Fischbach Corporation and in 1994 became its chairman. As chairman and chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from 1983 to 1990, Mr. Kiley directed the rebuilding of New York’s public transportation system (MTA) and restructured its management. Prior to working at the MTA, Mr. Kiley consulted with corporations and public agencies at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Management Analysis Center in 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was the chairman and CEO of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority from 1975 to 1979. Mr. Kiley also served as Boston’s deputy mayor from 1972 to 1975 and as associate director of the Police Foundation from 1970 to 1972. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and vice chairman of the Citizens Committee for New York, Mr. Kiley graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame.