University of California, Berkeley Spring 2007
Architecture & City and Regional Planning Professor Nezar AlSayyad
ARCH 111 / CP 111
HOUSING: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 pm-2:00 pm
Room: 112 Wurster
Units: 3
Section Times: TBA
Course Description
How do we dwell in our cities? Through what processes are our living environments constituted? What does it mean to be shelterless and homeless in our propertied world? This course will look at housing processes and housing policies in and across a range of contexts. It will explicitly adopt a comparative and transnational approach to housing, showing how a globalized perspective provides important insights into local shelter struggles and policy debates. In the broadest sense, the course will use housing as a lens to study space and society, state and market, power and change.
Course Requirements and Grading
Students are expected to attend classes regularly and to participate in discussions in the class and assigned sections. Doing well on class and section assignments will depend on diligently attending lectures and keeping up with weekly readings. Students are also required to attend discussion sections with the GSIs every 2 weeks. These sessions (time to be announced) will also provide review information for exams and assignments.
Participation in Class and Sections (20%)
Mid Term Response Paper (10%)
Mid Term Simulation game (20%)
Final Exam (50%)
The reader is available at Cal Copy, 1748 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, Tel.: 549-7171.
University of California, Berkeley Spring 2005
Architecture & City and Regional Planning Professor Nezar AlSayyad
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, 112 Wurster 3 units
ARCH 111/ CP 111
HOUSING: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY
1. January 18 (Tuesday)
Housing as a Field of Study
Housing as a Problem
2. January 20 (Thursday)
Housing Form, Culture and Tradition
(slide lecture)
1. Rapoport, Amos, “Alternative Theories of House Form” Chapter 2 in House Form and Culture, Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1969, pp. 19-45.
2. Oliver, Paul, “Introduction” in Dwellings, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987, pp. 7-15.
3. January 25 (Tuesday)
Housing, Urbanization and Development
1. Roberts, Bryan, “Urbanization and Underdevelopment” in The Making of Citizens: Cities of Peasants Revisited, New York: Arnold, 1995, pp. 1-27.
2. Gore, Charles, Excerpts from “Some Anti-Theses: Polarization and the Development of Underdevelopment” in Regions in Question: Space, Development Theory and Regional Policy, New York: Metheun, 1984, pp. 118-121, 127-145.
4. January 27 (Thursday)
Migration and Urbanization
(Film: Cairo: The City Victorious)
1. Gilbert, Alan and Josef Gugler, “The Urban-Rural Interface and Migration” in Gilbert, A and J. Gugler, eds. Cities, Poverty, and Development, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 62-86.
2. Gilbert, Alan and Owen Crankshaw, “Comparing South African and Latin American Experience: Migration and Housing Mobility in Soweto” Urban Studies 36:13, 1999, pp. 2375-2400.
5. February 1 (Tuesday)
Housing as a Program: Historical Notes
(slide lecture)
1. Hall, Peter, “The City of Dreadful Night” in Cities of Tomorrow, Oxford: Blackwell, 1988, pp. 14-46.
2. Bristol, Kate, “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” Journal of Architectural Education, 1991, pp. 163-171.
6. February 3 (Thursday)
Colonial and Postcolonial Legacies: The Bungalow
1. King, Anthony, “India 1600-1800” in The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 14-64
2. Dethier, J., “Evolution of the Concepts of Housing, Urbanism, and Country Planning in a Developing Country: Morocco 1900-1972” in Brown, L.C. ed. From Medina to Metropolis, Princeton: Darwin Press, 1973, pp. 197-243.
7. February 8 (Tuesday)
Home and Nation: The Anglo American Ideal
(Guest Lecture: Prof. Ananya Roy)
1. Boyer, Christine M., “The Rupture of a Rural Order” and “The Quest for Disciplinary Control” in Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983, pp. 3-32.
8. February 10 (Thursday)
Squatting and Governments’ Response to Squatting
(slide lecture)
1. Castells, Manuel, “Squatters and the State in Latin America” in Gugler, J. ed. The Urbanization of the Third World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 338-365.
2. Perlman, Janice, “Six Misconceptions about Squatter Settlements” Development 4, 1986, pp. 40-44.
3. Angel, Shlomo and Stan Benjamin, “Seventeen Reasons why the Squatter Problem Can’t be Solved” Ekistics 242, 1976, pp. 20-26.
9. February 15 (Tuesday)
Housing and the Informal Economy
(Film: A City in the Sand)
1. De Soto, Hernando, “Informal Housing” in The Other Path, New York: Harper and Row, 1989, pp. 17-55.
2. De Soto, Hernando, “The Five Mysteries of Capital,” “The Mystery of Missing Information,” and “The Mystery of Capital,” in The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, New York: Basic Books, 2000, pp. 1-67.
10. February 17 (Thursday)
Housing and Land Markets: The Colonias
(slide lecture)
1. Ward, Peter, “Informality of Housing Production at the Urban-Rural Interface: The ‘Not-So-Strange Case’ of the Texas Colonias,” in Roy, A and N. AlSayyad, eds. Urban Informality: Transational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America, Lanham: Lexington Press, 2004, pp. 243-70.
2. Roy, Ananya, “The Gentleman’s City: Urban Informality in the Calcutta of New Communism” in Roy, A and N. AlSayyad, eds., Urban Informality: Transational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America, Lanham: Lexington Press, 2004, pp. 147-170.
11. February 22 (Tuesday)
The Political Economy of Housing and the Squatting Triangle
1. Castells, Manuel and Alejandro Portes, “World Underneath: The Origins, Dynamics and Effects of the Informal Economy,” in The Informal Economy, Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp. 11-37.
2. AlSayyad, Nezar, “Urban Informality as a ‘New’ Way of Life” in Roy, A and N. AlSayyad, eds. Urban Informality: Transational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America, Lanham: Lexington Press, 2004, pp. 7-30.
12. February 24 (Thursday)
The Politics of Squatting
(Film: On Borrowed Land)
1. Berner, Erhard, “Poverty Alleviation and the Eviction of the Poorest: Towards Urban Land Reform in the Phillipines” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24:3, 2000, pp. 554-566.
13. March 1 (Tuesday)
Urban Informality, Culture and Squatting
1. AlSayyad, Nezar, “Squatting and Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Informal Developments in Latin America and the Middle East” Habitat International 17:1, 1993, pp. 33-44.
2. Bayat, Asef, “The Housing Rebels: The Occupation of Homes and Hotels, 1979-1981” in Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, pp. 59-67.
14. March 3 (Thursday)
Self Help Housing Strategies
1. Turner, John, “Who Decides?” and “Authority Over Housing” Chapters 1 and 5, Housing by People, New York: Pantheon Books, 1977, pp. 3-34, 94-107.
2. Ward, Peter and G.Chris Macoloo, “Articulation Theory and Self-Help Housing Practice in the 1990s” Urban Studies 16:1, 1992, pp. 60-80.
15. March 8 (Tuesday)
Critiquing Self Help Housing
Alternatives
(slide lecture)
1. Harms, Hans, “Historical Perspectives on the Practice and Purpose of Self-Help Housing” in Ward, P, ed. Self Help Housing: A Critique, London: Mansell, 1982, pp. 17-53.
2. Burgess, Rod, “Self-Help Housing Advocacy: A Curious Form of Radicalism. A Critique of the Work of John F. C. Turner” in Ward, P, ed. Self Help Housing: A Critique, London: Mansell, 1982, pp. 55-97.
16. March 10 (Thursday)
MID TERM SIMULATION GAME
17. March 15 (Tuesday)
MID TERM SIMULATION GAME
18. March 17 (Thursday)
DEBREIFING SESSION
19. March 29 (Tuesday)
The Genesis of American Housing Policy
1. Jackson, Kenneth, “Federal Subsidy and the American Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market” and “The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision” in Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, New York: Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. 190-218, 231-245.
20. March 31 (Thursday)
Public Housing: American Experience in Context
1. Hanchett, Thomas W., “The Other ‘Subsidized Housing’: Federal Aid to Suburbanization, 1940s-1960s” in John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Szylvian (eds.), From Tenements to the Taylor Homes, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, pp. 163-179.
2. Marcuse, Peter, “Housing Policy and the Myth of the Benevolent State” in Bratt, R., C. Hartman and A. Meyerson, eds. Critical Perspectives on Housing, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986, pp. 248-257.
21. April 5 (Tuesday)
Public Housing: The Asian Miracle
(slide lecture)
1. Castells, Manuel et al, Excerpts from “The Public Housing Program and the Planning of Singapore,” “Public Housing as Political Strategy,” and “The Crisis of the Public Housing System” in The Shek Kip Mei Syndrome: Economic Development and Public Housing in Hong Kong and Singapore, New York: Pion, 1990, pp. 209-211, 226-247, 290-295, 303-328.
2. Goh, Robbie, “Ideologies of ‘Upgrading’ in Singapore Public Housing: Postmodern Style, Globalization, and Class Construction in the Built Environment” Urban Studies 38:9, 2001, pp. 1589-1604.
22. April 7 (Thursday)
Public Housing: France
(Film: La Haine)
1. Wacquant, Loic, “Urban Outcasts: Stigma and Division in the Black American Ghetto and the French Urban Periphery” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 17:3, 1993, pp. 366-383.
23. April 12 (Tuesday)
Public Housing: European Experiences
(Film: La Haine)
1. Kleinman, Mark, “Housing, Welfare and the State” in Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1996, pp. 1-17.
2. Merrifield, Andy, “Fredrick Engels: Backstreet Boy in Manchester,” in MetroMarxism, New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 31-48.
24. April 14 (Thursday)
Urban Renewal and Gentrification
1. Auyero, Javier, “The Hyper-Shantytown: Neo-liberal Violence(s) in the Argentine Slum,” Ethnography 1:1, 2000, pp. 93-116.
2. Beauregard, Robert, “The Chaos and Complexity of Gentrification” in Smith, N and P. Williams, eds. Gentrification of the City, Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1986, pp. 35-55.
25. April 19 (Tuesday)
Homelessness
(Film: Justiceville)
1. Mitchell, Don, “To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights, and Social Justice,” in The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space, New York: Guilford Press, 2003, pp. 13-41.
2. Corr, Anders, “Homes Not Jails: The Secret Success of a Squatting Movement to House the Homeless,” in No Tresspassing! Squatting, Rent Strikes, and Land Struggles Worldwide, Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999, pp. 17-37
26. April 21 (Thursday)
Housing and Ethnicity
(Film clip: Do the Right Thing)
1. Mele, Christopher, “Neighborhood ‘Burn-Out’: Puerto Ricans at the End of the Queue” in Abu-Lughod, J, ed. From Urban Village to East Village, Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994, pp. 125-140.
27. April 26 (Tuesday)
Designing Community: The Utopia of New Urbanism, here and elsewhere
(Film clip: Truman Show)
1. Frantz, Douglas and Catherine Collins, “Prologue,” “The Cult of the Mouse,” “Back to the Future” and “Citizen Disney” in Celebration, U.S.A: Living in Disney’s Brave New Town, New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1999, pp. 5-81.
2. Till, K., “Neotraditional Towns and Urban Villages: The Cultural Production of a Geography of Otherness” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 11:6, 1993, pp. 709-732.
28. April 28 (Thursday)
Housing and Sustainability
(Film: At Home with Mother Earth)
1. Islam, Nazrul, “Sustainability Issues in Urban Housing in a Low-Income Country: Bangladesh” Habitat International 20:3, 1996, pp. 377-388.
29. May 3 (Tuesday)
Housing, Globalization, Tourism and the New Virtual World
(Final Lecture)
1. AlSayyad, Nezar, “Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism: Manufacturing Heritage, Consuming Tradition” in AlSayyad, N., ed. Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage, London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 1-33.
30. May 5 (Thursday)
FINAL REVIEW
31. May 10 (Tuesday)
FINAL IN-CLASS EXAM
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