Geography 350

Reading worksheets

Week 1

Week 2:

Schjeldahl, "To Pico"

Houston, "Six Reasons Why I Love Los Angeles"

Baugh, “Site of Early Los Angeles”

Weber, "The Spanish Legacy in North America and the Historical Imagination"

Week 3:

McWilliams, “The Growth of a Legend”

McWilliams, "The Folklore of Climatology"

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"

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"

Week 15:

Ignore the worksheets below!

Putnam, “The Lessons of History”

Banham, "The Plains of Id"

Harvey, “The Political Economy of Public Space”

Fulton, “The Collapse of the Growth Machine”

Fishman, “Los Angeles: Suburban Metropolis”

Putnam, Chapter 3, 6

Putnam, Chapters 17-21

Putnam, Chapters 1-2

Martinez, “The Impeachment of Mike Davis”

Sears, “Black-White Conflict”

Gottlieb, “Nature in the City”

Beaverstock et al, “World-City Network”

Soja, “From Crisis-Generated Restructuring” pp. 426-445

Soja, “From Crisis-Generated Restructuring” pp. 445-462

Boudreau, “Seceding from responsibility?” pp. 1701-1715

Boudreau, “Seceding from responsibility?” pp. 1715-1731

Jackson, "Sheep Shearing Time"

Cranz, "Women in Urban Parks"

Loukaitou-Sideris, "Urban Form and Social Context"

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

Kotkin, “The New Suburbanism"