GEOG 4040 AMENDED SYLLABUS: MARCH 2010

March 9, 11: Introduction to Modernist Architecture

• Edward Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape (Baltimore, 1987), pp. 98-118
• Excerpts from Jon C. Teaford, The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America (New York, 2006)
• March 11: FIELD TRIP TO Toronto Community Housing (Black Creek Regional Office), 5 Needle Firway (south of Jane-Finch intersection)

March 16, 18: Modernist Landscapes and the Modern Metropolis

Same readings as March 9, 11, and some post-field trip discussion

March 23, 25: Deindustrialization, Destruction and Nostalgia

• Goldfield and Brownell, Urban America, Ch. 6 “Central City and Out-Town: The Metropolitan Shift”, pp. 410-443
• Camilo Jose Vergara, American Ruins (New York, 1999), 11-24
• Chris Waters, “Representations of Everyday Life: L.S. Lowry and the Landscape of Memory in Postwar Britain”, Representations, vol. 65 (1999), 121-150 EJOURNAL

March 30, April 1: Reworking History in Late Twentieth-Century Toronto

• Jason Hackworth and Josephine Rekers, “Ethnic Packaging and Gentrification: The Case of Four Neighborhoods in Toronto”, Urban Affairs Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (2005), 211-236 EJOURNAL
• Jennifer Hall, “Consuming the Past at a Suburban Heritage Site: Markham Heritage Estates, Ontario”, Canadian Geographer, vol. 43, no. 4 (1999), 433-438 EJOURNAL