For today's class
- Theory Toolbox, Chapter 8
- Murray Foreman,"'Represent': Race, Space and Place in Rap Music," Popular Music, Vol. 19, No. 1, (2000), pp. 65-90.
- Iain Borden, “A Performative Critique of the American City: the Urban Practice of Skateboarding, 1958-1998.” Skateboard Directory, May 2001.
- REMINDER: Be sure to be working on your CASE STUDY PAPER (due by the last day of class).
CULTURAL ARTIFACTS: Highways, Skateboards, Maps, Automobiles
For further reading & research:
- Zack Furness, "Utopia and the City: An Interview with David Pinder," Bad Subjects #78, 2007.
- Megan Shaw & Rick Prelinger, "Manifest Congestion: Freeway Landscapes and Timescapes," Bad Subjects #40, 1998.
- Mike Davis, "Fortress L.A.," City of Quartz, pp. 223-247 (chapter 4).
- Elisabetta Povoledo, "In Italy, Creating Worlds Takes Precision, Yes, and Politics," New York Times, August 15, 2007.
- Luis Aponte-Pares, “Casitas Place and Culture: Appropriating Place in Puerto Rican Barrios,” Places, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1997.
- Setha Low, "The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear," American Anthropologist, Vol. 103, No. 1 (2001), pp. 45-58.
- Don Mitchell, “The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 85, No. 1 (1995), pp. 108-133.
- Cotten Seiler, “'So That We as a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By': African American Automobility and Cold-War Liberalism," American Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 4 (2006), pp. 1091-1117.
- Gary Allan Tobin, “The Bicycle Boom of the 1890’s: The Development of Private Transportation and the Birth of the Modern Tourist,” Popular Culture, 7, 1974.
- Tim Cresswell, “Mobility as Resistance: A Geographical Reading of Kerouac’s On the Road,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1993), pp. 249-262.
- "Road Tripping Through Whitopia," In These Times, March 11, 2009 (an interview with Rich Benjamin, author of Searching for Whitopia)
- Kyra Kyles, "Navigating Chicago's Food Deserts," Chicago RedEye.com, August 9, 2010.
- "Chicago Most Closely Watched City," CBS News.com, April 6, 2010.
