Readings for 08.01

Aldo Rossi :: 'Structure of Urban Artifacts"
Simon Sadler :: "Re-Thinking the City"
Ivan Chtcheglov :: "Formulary for a New Urbanism"

All are available in the class reader on the blog.

Mount Royal :: 'Model City'

On Sunday, July 29th at 10:00a, lets meet at the convergence point in the City of Mount Royal.
We will continue to the Garden Suburb later in the day. Expect an entire trip of about 3 hours.

readings for 07.25 [07.29]

Stern, Robert. "Anglo-American Suburbs" [soon to be available via reader on blog]

Hall, Peter. "The City of Monuments" [available in-class today]

Howard, Ebenezer. "Garden Cities of To-Morrow" [available at: http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/howard.htm ]

As a reminder, for class next week, we will be meeting at the City of Mount Royal station on Sunday, July 29. Please bring your readings and discussion questions as we will have a seminar there. I will post a map in the coming days. If possble, please arrive with some means of transportation as I would like for us to continue the day at the Garden Suburb northeast of Olympic park.

Good discussion last week. Keep it up.

readings for 07.18

Berman, Marshall. 'Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets.'
Harvey, David. 'Modernity and Modernism.'

These are available on the MTL Reader as well as being made available in class last Wednesday.
As always, please come with thoughtful questions and a reading response printed.

THEORIZING THE URBAN :: MTL07 SUM2

We will be meeting on Wednesdays, 10-12.30 for those of you in Urban Theory.
For this coming meeting, please read the Lois Wirth article 'Urbanism as a Way of Life' and the Goerge Simmel article "The Metropolis and Mental Life."
For all meetings, please have typed and printed out a 200-400 word response/question which engages the weeks readings. We will discuss the readings in class.

Writing Issues

We would like to meet briefly with everyone from the Urban Theory class after Pat's workshop today (approx. 16:00h). It seems there are significant problems with your ability to write that indicate that you don't necessarily have the fundamental skills expected of a student enrolled in a writing intensive course. The issues we'd like to discuss are:
1) You follow the given instructions for a writing assignment.
2) You write in the third person for all academic and professional presentations.
3) Our assessment of your intellectual and professional development comes from your making factual and direct observations about the subject, bundling those observations into collections of facts with larger meaning and inference, using those facts as bundled in support of an intellectual position, and using conventions of writing together to form a stylistically sophisticated form of argument.
These are the standard way that people communicate intellectual and professional ideas between each other. They are not radical. They are not advanced. You should be able to complete these three by the time you enter a university.

Place Ville Marie

The fact that Place Ville Marie is called a "Place" is not necessarily enough validation that it is the sort of Place that we discussed on our rainy walk. We do not see how this location is a place and few of you have enough factual observations to back up your assertion that this is a place in the way that we discussed and labored over in class.

We are accepting your comparisons but we agree between us that this is not a place that we'd call a place.