Dr. J. Mark Souther
Rhodes Tower 1904
Department of History
Cleveland State Univ.
Spring 2005

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Euclid Corridor Project

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Schedule (Updated Mon., April 25)

An * denotes readings found on ECR.
A "G & M" denotes readings found in Goings & Mohl, The New African American Urban History.



Week 1 - Journal Questions

1/19 Course Introduction
Calvino, Invisible Cities, "Lares & Penates" (handout)
1/21 Thinking About Cities: Concepts and Approaches
Mumford, “What Is a City?” *
Mohl , “New Perspectives on American Urban History” *
Project for Public Spaces - Review examples of each of 6 categories: Streets, Markets, Parks, Buildings, Neighborhoods & Districts, Hall of Shame.

Week 2 - Journal Questions

1/24 Reading the Urban Landscape
Brand, How Buildings Learn, viii-87 (lots of pictures!)
1/26 Memory and Urban History
Hayden, “Place Memory and Urban Preservation” *
G & M: Lewis, “Connecting Memory, Self, and the Power of Place”
1/28 Introduction to Euclid Corridor Project
Due (via Email): Site Selection


Week 3 - Journal Questions

1/31 Colonial Seaports
Nash, “The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities” *
“Early Cities of the Americas”
2/02 The Development of Urban Networks
Chudacoff and Smith, “Commercialization and Urban Expansion” *
Pred, “Biography Formation” *
2/04 The Urban Social Order
Ryan, “The American Parade” *
Powers, “The Poor Man’s Friend” *
Peiss, “Leisure and Labor” *
Due: Landscape Essay

Week 4 - Journal Questions

2/07 The Perilous City: Crime, Fire, and Disorder
Duis, “Saloon Crime” *
Tebeau, “Scaling New Heights” *
2/09 The Urban Park and Sanitary Movements
Peterson, “Sanitary Reform and Landscape Values, 1840-1900” *
2/11 The Rise of Urban-Industrial America
Cronon, “Annihilating Space: Meat” and “The Busy Hive” *

Week 5 - Journal Questions

2/14 The Rise of Downtown
Fogelson, “The Business District” *
2/16 The Immigrant City
Chudacoff and Smith, “Newcomers and the Urban Core” *
Riis, How the Other Half Lives - Read any 3 (very short) chapters.
2/18 The Emergence of Urban Mass Culture
Barth, “The Department Store” *

Week 6 - Journal Questions [PDF] [HTML]

2/21 President’s Day–No Class
2/23 The Rise of Urban Tourism
Cocks, “Why Not Visit Chicago?” and “The Noble Spectacle” *
Due: Timeline Essay/Source Collection
2/25 Urban Expositions and the City Beautiful
Kolson, “Cleveland As City Beautiful” *
Peterson, “Civic Art, 1890-1900” *

Week 7 - Journal Questions [PDF] [Word]

2/28 Oral History Workshop
Guest: David Barnett, WCPN
3/02 Political Machines and Progressive Reform
Chudacoff and Smith, “City Politics in the Era of Transformation” and “Refashioning the Social and Physical Environment” *
3/04 African Americans in the Urban South
G & M: Brown and Kimball, “Mapping the Terrain of Black Richmond”
G & M: Hunter, “Domination and Resistance ... in New South Atlanta”

Week 8 - No Journal Questions This Week

3/07 The Great Migration
G & M: Hine, “Black Migration to the Urban Midwest”
Wiese, “Who Set You Flowin’?” *
3/09 African American in the Urban North, 1910s-20s
3/11 American Cities and Suburbs in the 1920s
Fogelson, “The Central Business District” *
Due Friday, 3/11: Reading Journal

Mar. 13-20 Spring Break–No Classes

Week 9 - Journal Questions [PDF] [Word]

3/21 Special Topic: Reading the Landscape in Lower Manhattan
3/23 Ethnic Responses to Urban Mass Culture
Cohen, “Encountering Mass Culture” *
3/25 City and Suburb in Depression and War
Jackson, “Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream” and “The Cost of Good Intentions” *
Fogelson, “The Specter of Decentralization” *

Week 10 - Journal Questions [PDF] [Word]

3/28 Victor Gruen and the Urban Future
Hardwick, Mall Maker, 1-7, 48-90 (skim 8-47)
3/30 The American City in the 1950s
Read either Johns, “The Downtown” or “The Neighborhoods” *
4/01 Creating the Crabgrass Frontier: Postwar Suburbanization
Cohen, “Residence: Inequality in Mass Suburbia” *
Jackson, “The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America” *

Week 11 - Journal Questions [PDF] [Word]

4/04 The New Main Street: Shopping Malls
Hardwick, Mall Maker, 118-161
4/06 Suburban Alchemy: Planned Suburbs
Bloom, “Columbia, Maryland” and “The Shame of the Suburbs” *
4/08 Urban Renewal
Bloom, Merchant of Illusion, 1-106

Week 12 - Journal Questions [PDF] [Word]

4/11 Origins of the Urban Crisis
Sugrue, “Crabgrass-Roots Politics” *
G & M: Mohl, “Making the Second Ghetto in Metropolitan Miami”
4/13 African Americans in City and Suburb Since 1945
G & M: Kusmer, “African Americans in the City Since World War II”
Wiese, “Something Old, Something New” *
4/15 Open Date - No Class (Work on People Essay and Oral History Transcription)

Week 13 - Journal Questions [PDF] [Word]

4/18 The Urban Preservation Movement
Hodder, “Savannah’s Changing Past” *
Due: People Essay
4/20 The Suburbanization of the City
Menking, “From Tribeca to Triburbia” *
Smith, “New City, New Frontier” *
4/22 The Entertainment City
Bloom, Merchant of Illusion, 150-180
Souther, “Making ‘America’s Most Interesting City’” *

Week 14 - Journal Questions [PDF] [Word]

4/25 Postindustrial Urban Decay
Teaford, “The Making of the Rust Belt” *
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
4/27 Urban Futures?: Edge Cities and Technoburbs
Fishman, “Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb” *
4/29 Urban Futures?: The New Urbanism
Hayden, “Nostalgia and Futurism” *
Due: Interpretive Essay

Week 15 - Journal Questions [PDF] [Word]

5/02 New Migrations
Wiese, “The Next Great Migration” *
Mohl, “Blacks and Hispanics in Multicultural America” *
5/04 Reflecting on the Euclid Corridor Project
Due: Reading Journal
5/06 Walking Tour: Lower Euclid/Playhouse Square/Quadrangle
Meet at Public Square, 8:15 AM. Our tour will last approximately 1½ to 2
hours, but those needing to attend a 9:45 AM class may break away and
return to campus at 9:30 AM.
Due: Oral History Tape/Permission Form/Transcript

5/13 Due: Final Course Project (with revised clean copies of all materials in appropriately sized three-ring binder)