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Class
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Between
Classes Tuesday
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Class
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Between
Classes Thursday
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Date
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Class
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Between
Classes Weekend
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1
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Dang summer is over but
at least I’m taking a cool urban geography course.
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Cartography Rocks! Can’t
wait for urban geography.
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Aug
26
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What
is Urban Geography?
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Read Syllabus Pacione Chap.
1, examine figure 1.1b
Write Urban Autobiography
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Aug
28
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A
conceptual Framework; Socio-spatial dialectic
Urban Autobiography
Due
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Pacione Chapter 2 pp. 18-24
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2
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Aug
31
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What
is a City? Discussion and Census/Map
NWI exercise. SCH 34
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Pacione Chapter 2 pp. 24-34
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Sept
2
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Approaches
to Urban Geography (Urban Theory Gone to the Dogs)
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Pacione Chapter 3, pp.
37-49
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Sept
4
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Urbanization
& Urban Systems
City
origins and The Pre-industrial City
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Pacione Chapter 3 pp. 49-67
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3
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Sept
7
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The
Development of the Contemporary City
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Pacione Chapter 4 (Optional
Read Chapter 5)
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Sept.
9
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Urbanization
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Pacione Chapter 6
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Sept
11
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Urban
Systems Central Places
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Study for Exam
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4
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Sept
14
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Exam
1
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Pacione Chapter 7 pp.137-150
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Sept
16
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Models
of Urban Form
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Pacione Chapter 7 pp. 151-158
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Sept
18
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Actors
in the production of the urban landscape, Field
Study I assigned
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Pacione Chapter 7 pp. 158-163
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5
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Sept
21
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Field
Study I: City Structure and Reading the Urban Landscape (meet
Garfield and Lincolnway)
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Read Pacione Chapter 8
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Sept
23
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Urban
Planning
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Pacione Chapter 9
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Sept
25
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New
Towns, Case Study of Jonathan, MN, (Possible Friday Evening
Field Trip to Aberdeen, Coffee Creek, and Dinner?)
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Pacione Chapter 10 pp.
202-17
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6
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Sept
28
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Neighborhood
Change and Gentrification,
Gentrification and Neighborhood Change Case Studies
Field
Study I Due
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Relax or Read ahead
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Sept
30
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Urban Studies Program Visit
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Read Pacione Chapter 11,
pp. 218-239
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Oct
2
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Housing
and Homelessness
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Read Pacione Chapter 15,
pp. 308-329
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7
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Oct
5
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Urban
Poverty And Deprivation
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Pacione Chapter 11 pp.
232-240, Chapter 16 pp. 330-351
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Oct
7
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Urban
Renewal and Other Responses to Uneven Development
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Relax or respond to uneven
development.
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Oct
9
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No Class
(Urban Studies Program Conference)
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Read Pacione Chapter 17
pp. 352-367
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8
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Oct
12
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Social
Justice in the City
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Pacione pp. 368-395.
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Oct
14
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Residential
Segregation
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Relax Fall Break
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Oct
16
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No Class Fall Break
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Relax
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9
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Oct
19
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Video Flag Wars
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Write Reflection Paper
on Flag Wars,
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Oct
21
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Flag
Wars Video Continued Reflection Due
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Write Analytical Essay.
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Oct
23
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Flag Wars Discussion First
Analytical Essay Due
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Sun Oct
25,Chicago Field Study
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10
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Oct
26
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Social
Dimensions of Urbanism I: "Urbanism as a way of life"
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Do Social Networks Mapping
Assign.
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Oct
28
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Social
Dimensions of Urbanism II: Community without Propinquity?
Chicago
Field Study Results Due
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Pacione Chapter 19 pp.
396-417
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Oct
30
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Social
Dimensions of Urbanism III: Neighborhoods and Community Urban
Environment and Livability and Environment (Big City/Small Town
Debate)
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Study for the
Exam Trick
or Treat?
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11
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Nov
2
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Exam
II
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Rushing Introduction pp.
1-33
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Nov
4
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Memphis as a unique and
interconnected city.
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Pacione Chapter 26 pp.
544-558
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Nov
6
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Urban Environment and Parks
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Rushing Chapter 2
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12
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Nov
9
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Parks and museums as symbolic
space
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Pacione pp. 418-434 Pacione
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Nov
11
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Political
and Economic Geography
Political Spaces of cities
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434-446
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Nov
13
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Urban
Governance and Power
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Rushing Chapter 3
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14
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Nov
16
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Parks and Power in Memphis
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Pacione Chapter 14 pp.
283-307
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Nov
18
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Economic
Geography
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Pacione Chapter 12 pp.
240-262
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Nov
20
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The Mall and the City Urban
Retailing
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Be Thankful you don’t have
class for a week.
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13
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Nov
23
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Thanksgiving
Break
Rent Blade Runner Analyze
in terms of LA model for parents
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Explore the city where
you live
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Nov
25
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Thanksgiving
Break
Impress your relatives
with your urban knowledge
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Eat Turkey, Ham, Tofurkey
or whatever you usually eat.
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Nov
27
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Thanksgiving
Break
Play Sim City or start
reading Memphis if ambitious
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Back to Work
Rushing Chapter 4
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15
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Nov
30
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Memphis as a Global City
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Pacione Chapter 21 449-465
Chapter 22 pp. 466-483
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Dec
2
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Non-Western Cities Non-Western
City Structure
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Rushing Chapter 5 Work
on Analytical Essay
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Dec
4
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Cities and Culture: Memphis
and the Blues
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Ruishing Chapter 6-7 Work
on Analytical Essay
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16
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Dec
7
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Race, Gender, and Power
in Memphis
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Finish Analytical Essay
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Dec
9
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Cybercities, Sci-Fi Cities
and Sim Cities
Analytical
Essay due
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Review Rushing Chapter
7 Pacione pp. 605-626. Write End of Class Reflection Paper
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Dec
11
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The Future of Cities
End of
Class Reflection Paper Due
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Goof off a bit then study
for the final exam.
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Finals
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Dec
17
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Study some more for the
final Exam
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Tuesday
Dec 15 Final Exam 10:30-12:30.
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Dec
19
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Study for that Cartography
Exam or whatever you’ve got.
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Relax, you’re almost done.
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Look forward to taking
urban planning next semester Consider yourself an Urban Geographer!
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Buy presents
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