Assignments
1.
Important
Cities Homework
This Assignment helps you
to understand
the identity of the city: Sept. 30
th.
Generate Class Discussion
- Using the "scapes" concept
of Appadurai, Craft a "cityscape" of a city most important to you.
(see Anthony
King, p: 32)
- Label the different "scapes " of your city with
key
words giving reason/s why they are important/interesting
for you.
- You may make a photo collage, and
include
portions of artwork and texts,, photographs. magazine
and newspaper clippings and other found objects
- synthesize evidence and concepts from course materials to
articulate a statement about each "scape', (ethno, finance etc. be
creative and come up with your own SCAPES) and the "cityscape" as a
whole, ( you can bring your talking points in about a page ot two
no more. to present in class. )
- 2. Billions
of Vehicles
Assignment DUE Oct. 28th, 2014
- How
might change happen?
- This assignment aims to
help
you
think about issues of accessibility/mobility, environment
pollution
etc. and progress as to where the city is going and how
this can
shape the future of cities.
THE
EXERCISE:
- New airports are being designed and there are maybe 600
million cars today; some projections propose a doubling by 2030.
- What would the urban world be like with twice as many planes
and cars (and
also more motorized vehicles of other types)?
- Discuss this in context of Global Warming and environment
pollution in your chosen city.
- What are the viable alternatives?
- Explain your answer
with examples from Your Megacity
in up to two pages of text.
- Provide
up to one additional page of illustrations in the form of one or more,
matrices, charts,
tables, maps, or diagrams. These should have short captions or titles.
CITYSCAPES
FINALAssignment
and
Presentation
A
Tale of Two Cities, Presentations Due Dec. 9th.
Final
Paapers Due Dec. 9th inclass. NO
Extentions PLEASE .
Paper 6-8 pages with references.
(3000-4000 words)
Using the analogy of the The
Apartheid City students
will analyze the "cityscape" of a chosen
"Megacity." Students will generate a contemporary
understanding of what makes their city an apartheid city.
1. Your assignment
is to
Create a profile of two cities within your own chosen city,
drawing/highlighting the contrasts as if it were a "tale of two
cities" as discussed in class.
2.
For your contrast focus
on
at least ONE key issues (e.g. architecture,
(traditional/modern
or verticality/horizontality), transportation/accessibility,
exclusion/inclusion, home/homelessness, public/private spaces,
technocrats/beggers, health/sanitation, hope/hopelessness,
population
density, westernization, poverty, wealth, creativity, slums/citadels,
etc.)
3. Finally, it will involve some
reflection on the role of "global Capital" in creating these
disparities/
contrasts. Has it been a positive/negative, or integrative/enabling
process etc. in your city
2.
Presentation of research findings to the class
Some General Guidelines for your
Presentation
A
digital Presentation
BRING THEM ON A USB DRIVE NO EMAILS PLEASE
1. Your
posters/presentation, should contain text highlights and appropriate
images, formatted in a clear and engaging manner.
Better lists (explanation pages and
posters) will:
2. Include a clear theme that is well
developed i.e. backed up by strong evidence not just a personal
opinion. If you do make a claim about the topic make sure you
provide a strong evidence in your paper that is capable of
countering reasonable objections from the reader.
3. Merely citing one or two
statistics/images may well not be enough.
4. Make a compelling argument about
the importance of the contrasts in your theme.
5. Use carefully selected and
composed comparison matrices, charts, statistical tables, and images.
This is a key issue.
6. Provide thoughtful
commentaries clearly linked to class subject matter and readings (i.e.
citing class readings).
7. The viewer should be able to see
you did the course and have really engaged with the topic of cities.
Using academic essays,
images and other media of distinctive skylines/a
democratic street grid, "streetscapes" to "ethnoscapes" of
diverse ethnic neighborhoods, images/visuals of the depths
of poverty to the heights of conspicuous consumption, illustrate how we
comprehend the city's urban past, the present and anticipate/
imagine its future.
For Helpful Pointers on your
research go to