Readings, Topics, Assignments Class Mode LegendIP = In Person OL = Online IP: Session 1 Week 1 Introduction to the Course Introduction to Open Educational Resource OL: Session 2 Week 2 NYC Government – Part 1 All CUNY members have free access to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Chronicle of Higher Education. For the NY Times: Anyone who initiates an account will have an active subscription for one year from the date she/he creates the account. If you already have an annual subscription to the NYTimes, you can cancel it and will receive a refund. However, if you only have a monthly subscription, the New York Times will not issue a refund for that month. Create Account: New York Times Create Account: Wall Street Journal Create Account: Chronicle of Higher Education Reading #1: Policy Issues in New York City Hu, W., & Chen, S. (2024). It was a haven for new york families. now they Can’t afford to stay. New York Times Company, NY, (Dec 19, 2024) [NY Times account] Hu, W., & Chen, S. (2024). It was a haven for new york families. now they Can’t afford to stay. New York Times Company, NY, (Dec 19, 2024) ProQuest.[off-campus login] Reading #2: How Los Angeles Works (or does not) Nagourney, A. The L.A. Fires Expose a Web of Governments, Weak by Design. New York Times Company, NY, (Jan. 19, 2025) [NY Times account] Nagourney, A. The L.A. Fires Expose a Web of Governments, Weak by Design. New York Times Company, NY, (Jan. 19, 2025) ProQuest, [off-campus login] NYC Government – “Official Website of the City of New York” Reading #3: New York City official website: https://www.nyc.gov Assignments Due: Questionnaire Where Am I? Journal #1 – posted on Blackboard OL: Session 3 Week 2 NYC Government – Part 2 Borough Government Reading #1: NYCMap360: https://nycmap360.com/nyc-boroughs-map Reading #2: Office of the Brooklyn Borough President https://www.brooklynbp.nyc.gov/ Reading #3: Manhattan Borough President https://www.manhattanbp.nyc.gov/ Reading #4: What does our office do? Scroll down on https://www.manhattanbp.nyc.gov/about-mbpo/ Reading #5: How do the boroughs, and borough presidents fit it? https://www.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/about-the-city-of-new-york.page IP: Session 4 Week 3 NYC Government – Part 3 Borough Government cont. Reading #1: “In Brooklyn, a Grand Temple of Government, without Much Governing Going on.” New York Times (Online)New York Times Company, 2003. ProQuest, [off-campus login] Reading #2: Office of Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, in partnership with the Regional Plan Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, and Hester Street. (October 2023) The Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn https://www.brooklynbp.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Comprehensive_Plan.pdf OL: Session 5 Conversion Day Week 4 NYC Government – Part 4 New York City Council Reading #1: NYC Council https://council.nyc.gov/ Reading #2: What We Do: https://council.nyc.gov/about/ Reading #3: “Planning and Land Use Guidelines & Application Toolkit” https://council.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Speaker-Land_Use_Guidelines_Report-121522.pdf OL: Session 6 Week 4 NYC Government – Part 5 NYC Public Advocate Reading #1: New York City Public Advocate: Jumaane D. Williams: https://www.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/about-the-city-of-new-york.page NYC Comptroller Reading #2: New York City Comptroller: Brad Lander: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/ IP: Session 7 Week 5 NYC Government – Part 6 Community Boards Reading #1: Find your Community Board & read the website: https://www.nyc.gov/site/communityboards/index.page Reading #2: The Future of New York City’s Community Boards https://www.nyc.gov/assets/communityboards/downloads/FINAL-Future-of-CBs-Report.pdf IP: Session 8 Week 5 NYC Government – Part 7 Policy Issue: Land Use, I Reading #1: Department of City Planning: https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/about/department.page Reading #2: City of Yes: https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/city-of-yes/city-of-yes-overview.page OL: Session 9 Week 6 NYC Government – Part 7 Policy Issue: Land Use, II Reading #1: ULURP: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/applicants/applicant-portal/lur.pdf Reading #2: Community Board #14 (the C.B. that includes Brooklyn College) works and interacts with the following city agencies. Choose two of the following to review and be prepared to report on your findings: Department of Buildings (DOB): http://nyc.gov/dob Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD): https://nyc.gov/hpd Housing Connect: https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/ Department of City Planning (DCP): http://nyc.gov/dcp Public Design Commission (PDC): http://nyc.gov/designcommission Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC): http://nyc.gov/landmarks Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants: http://nyc.gov/tenantprotection Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA): http://nyc.gov/bsa and all other relevant agencies. OL: Session 10 Week 6 Contexts for Urban Theory, Pt. 1 “Urban” Reconsidered Reading #1: Davidson, M., & Deborah, M. (2014). Thinking critically about urban politics. In M. Davidson, D. Martin (Eds.) Thinking critically about urban politics (pp. 1-13). SAGE Publications, Ltd, [off-campus login] OL: Session 11 Week 6 Contexts for Urban Theory, Pt. 2 Theorizing “Urban” Politics Reading #1: Ward, K., Davidson, M., & Martin, D. (2014). Splintered Governance: Urban Politics in the Twenty-First Century. In Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (pp. 42–54). SAGE Publications, Ltd. [off-campus login] IP: Session 12 Week 7 Examples of Urban Theory, Part 1 New Urbanism Reading #1: Davidson, M., & Martin, D. (2014). Is Class Relevant to Urban Politics? In Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (pp. 189–205). SAGE Publications, Ltd. [off-campus login] Reading #2: Grant, J. (2006). New Urbanism is Born: The American Experience In Planning the Good Community : New Urbanism in Theory and Practice (pp. 107–130) Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] IP: Session 13 Week 7 Examples of Urban Theory, Part 2 Neo-Liberal City, 1 Reading #1: Judd, D. R., McKenzie, E., & Alexander, A. (Eds.). (2021). Introduction: Shadow Governments and the Remaking of the American Local State In Private metropolis : the eclipse of local democratic governance (First edition.). University of Minnesota Press. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] OL: Session 14 Week 8 Examples of Urban Theory, Part 3 Neo-Liberal City, 2 Reading 1: James Smith, “City-building capacity and special-purpose authorities : institutions, interests, and the local state” In Private metropolis : the eclipse of local democratic governance (First edition.). University of Minnesota Press. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] Reading 2: Steven P. Erie, Scott MacKenzie, and Jameson W. Doig, “Transportation empires in the New York and Los Angeles regions : from the old to the new politics of governance and development” In Private metropolis : the eclipse of local democratic governance (First edition.). University of Minnesota Press. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] Reading 3: Hackworth, J. (2002). Local autonomy, bond-rating agencies and neoliberal urbanism in the United States. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 26(4), 707–725. [off-campus login] OL: Session 15 Week 8 Examples of Urban Theory, Part 4 Municipal Socialism Reading #1: Booth, D. E. (1985). Municipal Socialism and City Government Reform: The Milwaukee Experience, 1910-1940. Journal of Urban History, 12(1), 51–74. [off-campus login] Reading #2: Vassallo, Justin H., The World That Municipal Socialists Built, Dissent Magazine, Fall 2023, [free access] IP: Session 16 Week 9 Examples of Urban Theory, Part 5 New Municipalism Reading #1: Thompson, M. (2021). What’s so new about New Municipalism? Progress in Human Geography, 45(2), 317-342. ProQuest, [off-campus login] IP: Session 17 Week 9 Examples of Urban Theory, Part 6 Urban Regime Reading #1: Pierre, J. (2014). Can Urban Regimes Travel in Time and Space? Urban Regime Theory, Urban Governance Theory, and Comparative Urban Politics. Urban Affairs Review, 50(6), 864-889. [off-campus login] Urban Growth Machine Reading #1: Molotch, Harvey . “Urban Growth Machine”. In obo in Sociology. 6 [no full-text access] OL: Session 18 Week 10 Whose Streets?, Part 1 Readings: Preface, Chapter 1, “Whither Urban Studies?” Chapter 2: “Old Urban Questions Revisited (and Reconstituted” Chapter 3: “Cities Under Tension” In Merrifield, Andy. The New Urban Question, Pluto Press, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] IP: Session 19 Week 11 Whose Streets?, Part 2 Readings: Chapter 6. “Urban Jacobinism” Chapter 7. “Old Discourse on New Inequality” Chapter 8. “Every Revolution has Its Agora” Chapter 9. “Taking Back Urban Politics.” Chapter 10. “Whose City? The Parasites’, of course…” “Afterword: The Parasitic Mode of Urbanization” In Merrifield, Andy. The New Urban Question, Pluto Press, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] IP: Session 20 Week 11 Progressive Community Planning, Part 1 Readings: Foreword: So What’s Community Planning?, Preface Chapter 1: “Community Planning without Displacement: Strategies for Progressive Planning” In Angotti, Tom. New York for Sale : Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, MIT Press, 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] IP: Session 21 Week 13 Progressive Community Planning, Part 2 Readings: Chapter 2, “The Real Estate Capital of the World” Chapter 3, “From Dislocation to Resistance: The Roots of Community Planning,” Chapter 4, “From Protest to Community Plan” Chapter 5, “From Environmental Justice to Community Planning” Chapter 6, “Making the Plans Official,” In Angotti, Tom. New York for Sale : Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, MIT Press, 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] IP: Session 22 Week 13 Progressive Community Planning, Part 3 Readings: Chapter 7, “Community Planning for the Few” Chapter 8, “Progressive Directions for Community Planners” In Angotti, Tom. New York for Sale : Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, MIT Press, 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] OL: Session 23 Week 14 Right to the City Reading 1: Right to the City: https://www.right2city.org/the-right-to-the-city/ Reading 2: Chapter 6, The Right to the City and the Production of Differential Space,” in Butler, Chris. Henri Lefebvre : Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, [off-campus login] OL: Session 24 Week 14 Right to the City to Rebel Cities Readings: Preface: Henri Lefebvre’s Vision Chapter 1, “The Right to the City” In Harvey, David. Intro. In Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. E-book, London: Verso, 2013 [off-campus login] OL: Session 25 Week 15 Rebel Cities, Part 1 Readings: Chapter 2, “The Urban Roots of Capitalist Crises” Chapter 3, “The Creation of the Urban Commons,” Chapter 4, “The Art of Rent” In Harvey, David. Intro. In Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. E-book, London: Verso, 2013 [off-campus login] OL: Session 26 Week 15 Rebel Cities, Part 2 Readings: Chapter 5, “Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle,” In Harvey, David. Intro. In Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. E-book, London: Verso, 2013 [off-campus login] IP: Session 27 Week 16 Rebel Cities, Part 3 Readings: Chapter 6, “London 2011: Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets” Chapter 7, “#OWS: The Party of Wall Street Meets Its Nemesis” In Harvey, David. Intro. In Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. E-book, London: Verso, 2013 [off-campus login] IP: Session 28 Week 16 Sanctuary Cities Readings: Introduction In Darling, J., & Bauder, H. (Eds.). (2019). Sanctuary cities and urban struggles : Rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights. Manchester University Press. ProQuest Ebook Central,