schedule for his 400

gang:

our schedule for the coming weeks.

Oct. 24 Consumer Landscapes

 • Cohen,
“Encountering Mass Culture” *

 • Goldberg,
“Nordics to the Front” *

 • Goldberg, “KKK”
*

 

Oct 29 Suburbs—Baby
Boom:

South Euclid


 

Jackson

, “CH11: Federal Subsidy …,” “CH12: The Cost of Good
Intentions” *

 

Oct 31 Downtown Landscapes

 • Kenneth Kolson,
“Cleveland as a City Beautiful,” *

 • Alison
Isenberg, “Downtown,” 42-123

 

Nov. 2 Suburbs—Automobiles:

Shaker Heights


and Alfred Porter

 • Jackson, “CH13,
“The Baby-Boom …,” and “CH14, “The Drive-In Culture …” *

 

Nov. 5  Shopping Malls

 • Margaret
Crawford, “The World in a Shopping Mall” *

 • Malcolm
Gladwell, “The Terrazzo Jungle,” from The New Yorker * <
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040315fa_fact1>

  

Nov. 7  Riotous Spaces: the 1960s

 • Leonard
Nathaniel Moore, “The School Desegregation Crisis of Cleveland, Ohio, 1963-1964
…,” Journal of Urban History (2002) Vol 28, 135-157 *

 • Michney:
Journal of Urban History

 • David Sibley,
“Border Crossings” *

 • Henri Lefebvre,
“Plan of the Present Work,” from The Production of Space *

 

Nov. 9 Costs
& Consequences of Suburbia

 • Cohen, “CH5:
Residence …,” “CH6: Commerce…” *

  

Nov. 12, Veteran’s Day, No Class

 

Nov. 14 Deindustrialization

 • Sharon Zukin,
Landscapes of Power, “Disney World,” & “Mill & Mall” *

 

Cleveland

, 1970-1990,
reading tbd

 

Nov 16 Virtual Cities & Virtual Centers

 • Mitchell, City
of

Bits

*

Great Migration Image

      

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To the right is an image
commissioned by the Future Outlook League by Charles in 1952. The image
was found on the wall of a barbershop in Cleveland. It now resides in
the Western Reserve Historical Society.

Read this image in the
context of the Great Migration. What do you see? What symbols are
prominent? How does it tell the story of the Great Migration? CLICK HERE TO LINK TO A LARGER VERSION.

Be prepared to discuss in class on Monday October 22, 2007.

Click
the image at right for a larger copy, in FLICKR; the photo at right is
by Charles for the Future Outlook League, from the collection of the
Western Reserve Historical Society.