The stranger will thus not be considered here in the usual sense of the term, as the wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow, but rather as… Read more “Simmel on Being a “Stranger””

ebscohost (3).pdf Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing,… Read more “DuBois on Double-Consciousness”

Read the Sharon Zukin profile in the Times and watch the Big Think interview with her. Also read the Schwartz article. Think about how you would describe… Read more “Gentrification and the Soul of New York Reading Questions”

In the excerpt from Logan and Molotch’s book, Urban Fortunes, Logan and Molotch talk about the “use values” and the “exchange values” of places. Write about a case in… Read more “Real Estate, Power, and Place Reading Questions”

A couple of questions on our readings from the famous book by Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. You’ll probably just want to… Read more “Public Spaces Reading Questions”