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Plurality of Publics
READINGS Aimi Hamraie, “Designing Collective Access: A Feminist Disability Theory of Universal Design” in Disability Studies Quarterly Vol 33 No 4, (2013). Link to article. George Lipsitz, “The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape” in Landscape Journal 26:1, (2007) 10-23. Link to article. Gwendolyn C. Warren, Cindi…
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Waterfront Assemblages
READINGS Ben Metcalf, “American Heartworm” in The Baffler, 1998. Link to article. Boris Vormann, “Toward an infrastructural critique of urban change: Obsolescence and changing perceptions of New York City’s waterfront” in City 19:2-3, (2015). Link to article. Elizabeth Kolbert, “Down the river” in Under a white sky : the nature of the future, 2021. Link…
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Urban Renewal, Suburbs and Segregation
READINGS Beatriz Colomina, “The Lawn at War: 1941-1961,” in The American Lawn, ed. Georges Teyssot (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999). Link to book. Diane Harris, “Where was Jim Crow? Living in Frank Lloyd Wright’s America,” in Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas, eds. Eric Avila and Thaisa Way, (Harvard University Press,…
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Industry and Toxicity
Readings Elizabeth Hoover, “Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, and the Three Bodies of a Mohawk Community” in The River Is in Us, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Link to open access book. Scott Frickel and Jonathan Tollefson “When Environmental Inequality Racialized: Historical Evidence from Providence, Rhode Island” in Socius, Vol 8: 1- 14, 2022. Link…
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Multispecies Worlds
Readings/Video The Pursuit of Happiness: An Indigenous View: The Community Speaks, Yoo Nutahkeeun Productions with Route 120 Labs, 2005. Link to videos. Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, “Dump-Heap Naturalists,” in Design With Nature Now, eds. Frederick R. Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming (Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in association with the University…
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ON GRIDS, ROADS AND NODES
READINGS Andro Linklater “The Shape of Cities” in Measuring America (Penguin Publishing Group, 2003). Link to book. Jane Jacobs “The Use of Sidewalks” in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Random House, 1961). Link to article. J.B. Jackson, “Roads Belong in the Landscape,” in A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time, (Yale…
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Sanitation and Power
READINGS Ivan Illich, “The Dirt of the Cities, The Aura of Cities, The Smell of the Dead, and Utopia of an Odorless City”, in H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness, (London: Marion Boyars, 1986). Link to book. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, “Manifesto for Maintenance Art, Proposal for an Exhibition,” (New York, 1969). Link to manifesto. Sara…
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Landscape Narratives
READINGS John McPhee, “Travels of the Rock” in The Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferris/McGraw Writers at Princeton, University (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). Link to Article. Patricia E. Rubertone., “Lippitt Hill: Homelands of the Hill and Hollows, Unholy Water, and Traditional Knowledge” in Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the…
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Wastelands
READINGS Michael Holleran, “Filling the Providence Cove: Image in the Evolution of Urban Form” in Rhode Island History 48, no. 3 (August 1990). Link to article. Vittoria di Palma, Chapter 1 “Wasteland” in Wasteland: A History, (Yale University Press, 2014). Link to book. PROMPT Vittoria Di Palma describes the shifting use and multiple meanings of…
