Geography 350 - Metropolitan Los Angeles

Spring 2010 -- Ticket #12408

Syllabus

Worksheets

Term paper

Geography journals

Class Readings:

Week 1

Week 2:

Scheldahl, "To Pico"

Houston, "Six Reasons Why I Love Los Angeles"

Baugh, “Site of Early Los Angeles”

Weber, "The Spanish Legacy in North America"

Week 3

McWilliams, "The Folklore of Climatology"

McWilliams, “The Growth of a Legend”

Fogelson, “From Pueblo to Town”

Week 4

Horvath, "Machine Space"

Banham, "Autopia"

Sui, "Musings on the Fat City"

Week 5:

Jackson, “Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream”

Week 6:

Davis, “Fortress L.A.”

Davis, "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn"

Week 7:

Pulido: “Rethinking Environmental Racism”

Week 8

Week 9:

Reisner, “The Red Queen”

Week 10

Week 11:

Davidson, “The Beach versus ‘Blade Runner’”

McPhee, "Los Angeles Against the Mountains" (excerpt)

Week 12:

Week 13:

Dear, “Postborder cities, Postborder World”

Week 14:

Fulton, "Cocoon Citizenship and Toon Town Urbanism"

Crawford, “Contesting the Public Realm”

Loukaitou-Sideris, "Privatization of Public Open Space"

Powerpoints

pueblo map

California Dream

Diseno

Ignore the links below:

Jackson, "Sheep-Shearing Time"

Loukaitou-Sideris, “Urban Form and Social Context”

Cranz, "Women in Urban Parks"

Roderick, “The Valley Myth” and “Suburbia No More”

Kotkin, “The New Suburbanism"