Schedule

Week Date Topic Due
1 T 01/30/24 Introduction to Urban Geography
R 02/01/24 Introduction to Urban Geography
F 02/02/24 Reflection 1: ‘The uses of sidewalks: Safety’ from The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2 T 02/06/24 Quiz 1, How cities work
R 02/08/24 Discussion, Emergence of world cities
F 02/09/24 Reflection 2: ‘One Mile’ from The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
3 T 02/13/24 Quiz 2, Emergence of world cities
R 02/15/24 Discussion, US urban policy
F 02/16/24 Reflection 3: A Theory of the Urban Land Market
4 T 02/20/24 Quiz 3; Urban form and structure
R 02/22/24 Library archives (meet on 5th floor of the library)
F 02/23/24
5 T 02/27/24 Library archives (meet on 5th floor of the library)
R 02/29/24 Economic geography
F 03/01/24
6 T 03/05/24 Course project introduction
R 03/07/24 Course project introduction
F 03/08/24 Writing assignment and Reflection 4: Excerpts from Walkable City
7 T 03/12/24 Transportation geography
R 03/14/24 Transportation geography
F 03/15/24 Reflection 5: Defining the 15-minute city
8 T 03/19/24 NO CLASS (Spring break)
R 03/21/24 NO CLASS (Spring break)
F 03/22/24
9 T 03/26/24 Transportation geography
R 03/28/24 Transportation geography
F 03/29/24 Reflection 6: Excerpts from Confessions of a recovering engineer
10 T 04/02/24 Transportation geography
R 04/04/24 Transportation geography
F 04/05/24 Reflection 7: TBA (Various)
11 T 04/09/24 Course project
R 04/11/24 Course project
F 04/12/24 Reflection 8: The Magic of the mall: An analysis of form function and meaning in the contemporary retail built environment
12 T 04/16/24 Commercial and retail geography
R 04/18/24 Commercial and retail geography
F 04/19/24 Reflection 9: Taking Los Angeles apart: some fragments of a critical human geography
13 T 04/23/24 Postmodern urban geography
R 04/25/24 Postmodern urban geography/Course project
F 04/26/24
14 T 04/30/24 Exam 1
R 05/02/24 Course project
F 05/03/24
15 T 05/07/24 Course project
R 05/09/24 Course project
F 05/10/24 Final project
16 M 05/13/24
T 05/14/24 FINALS WEEK (NO CLASS)
R 05/16/24 FINALS WEEK (NO CLASS)
F 05/17/24 Course project presentations (10:00 AM)