| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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| Part 1 - Processes, Practices, Theories, and Traditions | ||
| 1 | Boston: Transforming and Constructing Nature | Required Williams, Raymond. "Ideas of Nature." In Problems in Materialism and Culture. New York, NY: Verso, 1980, pp. 67-85. ISBN: 0860917290. Spirn. "Reclaiming Common Ground: Water, Neighborhoods, and Public Spaces." In The American Planning Tradition. Edited by Robert Fishman. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Press, and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN: 094387596X.Further Reading Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1973. ISBN: 0195197364.Thomas, W. L., ed. Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth. Chicago, IL: Published for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation by the University of Chicago Press, 1956. Melosi, Martin. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0801861527.Tarr, Joel. Infrastructure and Urban Growth in the Nineteenth Century. Essays in Public Works History No. 14. Kansas City, MO: Public Works Historical Society, 1985. Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston: A Topographical History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1968. ISBN: 0674079515. Kennedy, Lawrence. Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1992. ISBN: 0870237802. Krieger, Alex, et al. Mapping Boston. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262112442.Baxter, Sylvester. "Report of the Secretary." and Charles Eliot, "Report of the Landscape Architect." In Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners . Boston, MA: Wright and Potter Print. Co., 1893. Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1983. ISBN: 0674318315.Emmet, Alan. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Changing of a Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1978. Skehan, James. Puddingstone, Drumlins, and Ancient Volcanoes: A Geological Field Guide to Boston. Dedham, MA: WesStone Press, 1979. Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1991. ISBN: 0393308731. Hurley, Andrew, ed. Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis. St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society, 1997. ISBN: 1883982162. Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998. ISBN: 0805051066. Cosgrove, Dennis. Palladian Landscape. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1993. ISBN: 027100942X. Nishimura, Kimiko. Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. ISBN: 0520071352. |
| 2 | Urban Nature and City Design: Practice, Theory, and Tradition I | Required Spirn. The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984. ISBN: 0465026990. Further Reading Creese, Walter. Search for Environment. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966. ISBN: 0801843634. Spirn. "Urban Nature and Human Design: Renewing the Great Tradition." In Classic Readings in Urban Planning. Edited by Jay Stein. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1995. ISBN: 0070611386. Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature. New York, NY: C. Scribner, 1864. ISBN: 0295983167. Sutton, S. B., ed. Civilizing American Cities: A Selection of Frederick Law Olmsted's Writings on City Landscapes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971. ISBN: 0262650126. Spirn. "Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted." In Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. Edited by William Cronon. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1995. ISBN: 0393038726.Geddes, Patrick. Cities in Evolution. London, UK: Williams and Norgate, 1915. Mumford, Lewis. Urban Prospect. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. ISBN: 0844661147. McHarg, Ian. Design with Nature. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1969. ISBN: 0385055099.Wallace McHarg Rpberts and Todd, Comprehensive Plan for Sanibel, Florida (1974). Juneja, Narendra, and Spirn. Environmental Resources of the Toronto Central Waterfront. Philadelphia, PA: Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd, 1976. Lynch, Kevin. Good City Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. ISBN: 0262620464. Spirn. "The Authority of Nature." In Nature and Ideology. Edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1997. ISBN: 0884022463. Hough, Michael. Cities and Natural Process. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415121981. |
| 3 | Urban Nature and City Design: Practice, Theory, and Tradition II | Required Hise, Greg, and William Deverell, eds. Eden By Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 0520224159. See Original Illustrations. Further Reading Schön, Donald. The Reflective Practitioner. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1983. ISBN: 046506874X. Lynch, Kevin. "Urban Design," and "City Design: What It Is and How It Might Be Taught." In City Sense and City Design. Edited by Banerjee and Southworth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 0262121433. Fogelson, Robert. The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. ISBN: 0520082303. Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998. ISBN: 0805051066. Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 0262581523Copeland, Robert Morris. The Most Beautiful City in America: Essay and Plan for the Improvement of the City of Boston. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1872. Fein, Albert. Landscape into Cityscape: Frederick Law Olmsted's Plans for a Greater New York City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968. ISBN: 0442225393.Baxter, Sylvester. "Report of the Secretary." and Charles Eliot, "Report of the Landscape Architect." In Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners . Boston, MA: Wright and Potter Print. Co., 1893. Nolen, John. City Planning. New York, NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1916. Hubbard, Theodora Kimball, and Henry Vincent Hubbard. Our Cities To-Day and To-Morrow. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929. McHarg, Ian. Design with Nature. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1969. ISBN: 0385055099. |
| 4 | West Philadelphia's Mill Creek: Rebuilding Urban Communities and Restoring Natural Environments | Required Spirn. The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan: A Framework for Action. University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, 1991. West Philadelphia Landscape Project. Further Reading Spirn. Language of Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0300082940.McHarg, Ian. "An Ecological Method for Landscape Architecture." Landscape Architecture 57 (January 1967): 105-7. Lynch, Kevin. "Environmental Adaptability (1958)." In City Sense and City Design. Edited by Banerjee and Southworth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 0262121433. ———. Good City Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. ISBN: 0262620464. Jakle, John, and David Wilson. Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1992. ISBN: 0847677362. Bryant, Bunyan, ed. Environmental Justice. Washington, DC: Island, 1995. ISBN: 1559634170. Warner, Sam Bass. To Dwell Is to Garden. Boston, MA: Northeastern, 1987. ISBN: 1555530079. Cobb, Edith. Ecology of Imagination in Childhood. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1977. ISBN: 0231038704.Tree People of Los Angeles. |
| 5 | Earth and Water | Required Select one of the two sets of readings below. Earth Robinson, G. D., and A. M. Spieker. "Nature to be Commanded: Earth Science Maps Applied to Land and Water Management." Geological Survey Professional Paper 950. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1978. McPhee, John. "Los Angeles against the Mountains," In The Control of Nature. New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. ISBN: 0374128901.Or Dunne, Thomas, and Luna Leopold. Water in Environmental Planning. San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman and Co., 1978. ISBN: 0716700794.Tree People, Trans-Agency Resources for Environmental and Economic Sustainability, Los Angeles. Further Reading Leveson, David. Geology and the Urban Environment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN: 0195025784. Leggett, R. F. Cities and Geology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1973. ISBN: 0070370621. Craul, Philip. Urban Soils. New York, NY: Wiley, 1999. ISBN: 0471189030. Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998. ISBN: 0805051066. Weiskel, Peter, et al. Water Resources and the Urban Environment, Lower Charles River Watershed, Massachusetts, 1630-2005. Reston, VA: USGS, 2005. ISBN: 0607968745. (USGS Circular 1280.) Hedeen, Stanley. The Mill Creek: An Unnatural History of an Urban Stream. Accord, NY: Blue Heron Press, 1994. ISBN: 0964343606. Marchione, William. The Charles: A River Transformed. Dover, NH: Arcadia, 1998. ISBN: 0752408275. Crouch, Dora. Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 0195072804.Blake, Nelson. Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the US. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1956. Juneja, Narendra, and Spirn. Environmental Resources of the Toronto Central Waterfront. Philadelphia, PA: Wallace, McHarg, Roberts, and Todd, 1976. Spirn. Woodlands New Community: Guidelines for Site Planning. Philadelphia, PA: Wallace, McHarg, Roberts, and Todd, 1973. |
| 6 | Air and the Urban Biome | Required Select one of the two sets of readings below. Arnfield, A. John. "Two Decades of Urban Climate Research." International Journal of Climatology 23 (2003): 1-26. Spirn. "Better Air Quality at Street Level: Strategies for Urban Design." Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 007068507X.Battle McCarthy. Or Olmsted, Frederick Law, and J. B. Harrison. "Observations on the Treatment of Public Plantations, More Especially Related to the Uses of the Axe." In Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park. Edited by F. L. Olmsted, Jr. and Theodora Kimball. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1973. ISBN: 0262150093. Page, Max. "Uses of the Axe." In The Creative Destruction of Manhattan. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 177-215. ISBN: 0226644685. Hough, Michael. "Plants." In Cities and Natural Processes. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415298555.Casey Trees. Further Reading Landsberg, Helmut. The Urban Climate. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1981. ISBN: 0124359604. Givoni, B. Man, Climate, and Architecture. London, UK: Applied Science, 1976. ISBN: 085334678X. Spirn. "Better Air Quality at Street-Level: Strategies for Urban Design." In Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 007068507X. Trefil, James. A Scientist in the City. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1994. ISBN: 0385247974. Anderson, Edgar. Landscape Papers. Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island Foundation, 1976. ISBN: 0913666114.Boston Redevelopment Authority. Boston Urban Wilds. Boston, MA: The Boston Redevelopment Authority, 1976. Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998. ISBN: 0805051066. Platt, R. H., R. A. Rowntree, and P. C. Muick. The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. ISBN: 0870238841. Lynch, Kevin. Wasting Away. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1990. ISBN: 0871566753. Nicholson-Lord, David. The Greening of the Cities. New York, NY: Routledge, 1987. ISBN: 0710203284. Lyle, John. Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development. New York, NY: John Wiley, 1994. ISBN: 0471555827. Hough, Michael. Cities and Natural Process. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415121981. Todd, Nancy Jack, and John Todd. From Eco-Cities to Living Machines. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic, 1994. ISBN: 1556431503. Roseland, Mark, ed. Eco-City Dimensions. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 1997. ISBN: 0865713537.Tree People of Los Angeles. |
| 7 | Dilemmas and Decisions: New Orleans | Required Select one book. Colten, Craig E. An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0807129771. Lewis, Peirce. New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1976. ISBN: 0884104338. Kelman, Ari. A River and Its City the Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 0520234324. Mathur, Anuradha. Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0300084307. |
| Part 2 - Presentation and Discussion of Student Papers | ||
| 8-12 | Presentation and Discussion | Required and recommended readings will be selected in consultations between student authors and the instructor, and placed on reserve prior to each week's presentations. |
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