13 Jan

Topic: Introducing International Urban Development

Course overview

Discussion points:

Economic geography perspective

Cultural historical perspective

Political economy perspective

City perspectives: Seoul & Malacca

Required readings:

Course syllabus

Heikkila (2002), “Seoul”

Mahatir (1970) The Malay Dilemma

20 Jan

No meeting: Martin Luther King Day

27 Jan

Topic: Urban geography & economics

Discussion points:

two key questions re: geography & economics

Van Thunen model of land use

Henderson model of cities

central place theory

base multiplier analysis

market potential analysis

bifurcations

Required readings:

Anas (2001), Review of FKV

FKV, Ch 1, “Introduction”

FKV, Ch 2, “Antecedents I: Urban Economics”

FKV, Ch 3, “Antecedents II: Regional Science”

Rosser (1999), Complex economic dynamics

3 Feb

Topic: Urban culture & history

Discussion points:

culture & urban transformation

function, symbolism & power

historicality of the global order

traditional cities

social & spatial order

urban form & cultural continuity

historical roots of current forms

culture as slow-moving systems

Required readings:

Batten (1993) “Culture and Region Revisited”

KDCH, ch 1, “Introduction”

KDCH, ch 2, “Culture, History, and the City in East Asia”

Mahatir (1970) The Malay Dilemma

10 Feb

Topic: Urban political economy

Discussion points:

Neo-Marxian perspectives on development

Inherent contradictions of capitalism

Capitalism and colonialism

Required readings:

Kiely (1995), “Marxism and development”

Storper (2001), “The poverty of radical theory”

17 Feb

No meeting: Presidents Day

24 Feb

Topic: Student presentations

3 Mar

Topic: Spatial implications of monopolistic competition

Discussion points:

monopolistic competition

modeling consumer behavior

multiple locations & transport costs

modeling producer behavior

the home market effect

comparing spatial and non-spatial models

Required readings:

Dixit and Stiglitz (1977)

FKV, Ch 4, “The Dixit-Stiglitz Model of Monopolistic Competition and its Spatial Implications”

10 Mar

Topic: Modernity vs. tradition

Discussion points:

tradition, modernity & post-modernity

traditional, modern, and post-modern cities

Required readings:

Harvey (1989) selections from Post-modern condition

Inglehart and Baker (2000), Modernization and tradition

Popke (2001) “Modernity in Durban”

Smith (1996) selections from Nietsche, Heiddeger

Soja (1986) “Taking LA apart”

17 Mar

No meeting: spring break

24 Mar

Topic: Student presentations

31 Mar

Topic: Core & Periphery

Discussion points:

dependency theory

flying geese models

Required readings:

Bernard and Ravenhill (1995), Flying geese

Clark (1998) Interdependent urbanization

FKV, Ch 5, “Core and Periphery”

7 Apr

Topic: Identity & development

Discussion points

Being and becoming

Being in space and time

Identity formation

Required readings:

Casey (2001) “Between geography and philosophy”

Cowherd and Heikkila (2002), “Orange County, Java”

Entrikin (2001) “Hiding places”

Harvey (1989) selections from Post-modern condition

Heikkila (2001 ) “Identity and Inequality”

Heikkila (2002) “Introduction to SC/W”

Khalaf (1998) “Contest space in Beirut”

14 Apr

Topic: Models of urban systems

Discussion points:

cities within systems

locations of cities

urbanization patterns

global city systems

specialization & hierarchies

Required readings:

Arbia (2001), “Modelling the geography of economic activities on a continuous space”

FKV, Ch 8, “Spatial Models of Urban Systems: A Heuristic Introduction”

Hall (2001) Global city-regions

Lo and Marcotullio (2001), Functional specialization in East Asia

Smith and Timberlake (1995) Global city system

21 Apr

Topic: Culture & the built environment

Discussion points:

built form and culture

grammar of built shapes

Required readings:

Bloom and Keil (2001), “Thinking Through Language”

KDCH, ch 5, “Studying Culture and the Built Environment”

Heikkila (2001) “Beijing: Lost in Translation?”

Stiny (1980), Shape grammars

Knight (1999), Shape grammars

28 Apr

Topic: Student presentations

 

References

Main texts

Fujita, Masahisa; Paul Krugman, and Anthony Venables (1999)

The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade; MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Kim, Won Bae; Mike Douglass, Sang-Chuel Choe, and Kong Chong Ho (1997)

Culture and the City in East Asia; Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Additional readings

Anas, Alex (2001)

Book Review of The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade; by Fujita, Krugman and Venables 1999.

Arbia, Giuseppe (2001)

Modelling the geography of economic activities on a continuous space, Papers in Regional Science, vol. 80(4), 411-424.

Batten, David F. (1993)

Culture and region revisited, Papers in Regional Science, vol. 72(2), 103 – 112.

Bernard, Mitchell and John Ravenhill (1995)

Beyond product cycles and flying geese: Regionalization, hierarchy, and the industrialization of East Asia, World Politics, vol. 47(2), 171-209.

Bloom, Paul and Frank. C. Keil (2001)

Thinking through language, Mind & Language, vol. 16(4), Sept, 351-367.

Casey, Edward S. (2001)

Between geography and philosophy: What does it mean to be in the place-world?, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 91(4), 683-693.

Clark, David (1998)

Interdependent urbanization in an urban world: an historical overview; The Geographical Journal, March, vol. 164(1) 85-96.

Cowherd, Robert and Eric J. Heikkila (2002)

Orange County, Java: Hybridity, Social Dualism and an Imagined West; in Eric J. Heikkila and Rafael Pizarro, eds., Southern California and the World, Praeger Press.

Dixit, Avanish and Joseph Stiglitz (1977)

Monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity, American Economic Review, vol. 67(3), 297-308.

Entrikin, J. Nicholas (2001)

Hiding Places, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 91(4), 694-697.

Hall, Sir Peter (2001)

Global city-regions in the twenty-first century; in Allen J. Scott, editor, Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy; Oxford University Press, 59-77.

Harvey, D. (1989)

The condition of postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of cultural change, Blackwell, Oxford.

Heikkila, Eric J. (2001a)

Beijing: Lost in Translation?, paper presented to the World Planning Schools Congress, Shanghai, July.

Heikkila, Eric J. (2001b)

Identity and Inequality: Race and Space in Planning, Planning Theory & Practice, vol. 2(3), Dec, 261-276.

Heikkila, Eric J. (2002)

Seoul: Global ambitions and regional realities, presented to ACSP Conference, Baltimore

Inglehart, Ronald and Wayne Baker (2000)

Modernization, cultural change, and the persistence of traditional values; American Sociological Review, vol. 65(1), February, 19-51.

Khalaf, Samir (1998)

Contested space and the forging of new cultural identities; in Peter G. Rowe and Hashim Sarkis, eds., Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of a Modern City, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 140-164.

Kiely, Ray (1995)

Marxism, post-Marxism and development fetishism; Capital & Class, no. 55 (Spring), 73-101.

Knight, Terry W. (1999)

Shape grammars in education and practice: history and prospects; Author’s webpage, Department of Architecture & Planning, MIT; http://www.mit.edu/%7Etknight/IJDC/

Lo, F.C. and P.J. Marcotullio (2000)

Globalisation and urban transformations in the Asia-Pacific region: A review; Urban Studies, vol. 37(1), Jan, 77-111.

Mahatir bin Mohammed (1970)

The Malay Dilemma, Times Books International, Singapore.

Popke, E. Jeffrey (2001)

Modernity's abject space: the rise and fall of Durban's Cato Manor, Environment and Planning A, vol. 33(4), 737-752.

Rosser, J. Barkley Jr. (1999)

On the complexities of complex economic dynamics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 13(4), 169-192.

Smith, David A. and Michael Timberlake (1995)

Conceptualising and mapping the structure of the world system's city system; Urban Studies, vol. 32(2), 287-

Smith, Gregory Bruce (1996)

Nietzsche, Heiddegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity; University of Chicago Press.

Soja, Edward W. (1986)

Taking Los Angeles apart: some fragments of a critical human geography, Environment & Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 4

Stiny, George (1980)

Introduction to shape and shape grammars, Environment and Planning B, vol. 7, 343-351.

Storper, Michael (2001)

The poverty of radical theory today: From the false promises of Marxism to the mirage of the cultural turn, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 25(1), March, 155-179.