1) the effect of economic and technological changes on the physical character of the city; and

2) the interaction of the physical city with major class and racial groups.

There will be a required term paper. The topic will be an historical sketch of your home town using recent federal census tract data. If your town does not have census tract data you will have to pick another community or neighborhood for the paper. Additional guidelines will be provided in class and there will be a presentation by the library staff on how to locate and use the census materials. A first draft of the term paper must be submitted no later than Monday, April 13. This is mandatory and the deadline is firm.

There will be two in-class term exams and a comprehensive final.

• Barth, Gunter. City People.
• Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land.
• Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States.
• Mohl, Raymond, ed. The Making of Urban America.
• Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, 2nd ed.

TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Jan. 19 -- Introduction and Definitions.

Jan. 24 -- Central Place Theory, the Urban Hierarchy, the National Economy: 1870-1920.
Mohl, Introduction to Part Two, pp. 71-80.

Jan. 26 -- The Form and Structure of the City.
Mohl: article by Schultz and McShane, pp. 81-98.

Jan. 31 -- The Urban Middle Class.
Barth, entire book.

Feb. 2 -- Immigrants and Immigration.
Mohl: articles by Vecoli and Bodnar et. al., pp. 157-188.

Feb. 7 -- The Political Machine.
Mohl: article by Riess, pp. 99-121.

Feb. 9 -- The Urban Working Class.
Mohl: articles by Kingsdale and Peiss, pp. 122-156.

Feb. 14 -- Suburbs and the Middle Class: Nineteenth Century.
Jackson, Introduction, chs. 1-7.

Feb. 16 -- Origins and Promise of Urban Planning.

Feb. 21 -- FIRST EXAM

Feb. 23 -- Progressive Era Reformers.

Feb. 28 -- The Black Urban Ghetto.
Osofsky, entire book.

Mar. 2 -- LIBRARY PRESENTATION FOR TERM PAPER.

Mar. 7 -- The National Economy and the Urban Hierarchy Since 1920.
Mohl: Introduction to Part Three; articles by Lotchin and Luckingham, pp. 189-213, 252-267.

Mar. 9 -- The 1920s: Planning, Zoning, the Automobile and Mass Culture.
Jackson, chs. 8-10.

Mar. 14 -- The Great Depression.

Mar. 16 -- The New Deal and the Cities.
Jackson, ch. 11;
Mohl: article by Mohl, pp. 214-227.

Mar. 28 -- Planning in the Thirties.
Film: "The City," Lewis Mumford

Mar. 30 -- Public Housing During and Since the 30's.
Jackson, ch. 12.

Apr. 4 -- SECOND HOUR EXAM

Apr. 6 -- Post-War Suburbanization.
Jackson, chs. 13-14.

Apr. 11 -- Decline of the Central City: Welfare and Ghettoes.
Brown, entire book.

Apr. 13 -- The Impact of the Urban Renewal Program.

Apr. 18 -- The Urban Crisis and the Public Response.

Apr. 25 -- Philadelphia: the Structure of a Metropolis
FIRST DRAFT OF TERM PAPER DUE IN CLASS.

NO EXCUSES OR EXTENSIONS.

Apr. 27 -- REQUIRED FIELD TRIP.
ALL DAY. RAIN OR SHINE. NO EXCUSES.

May 2 -- The Structure of the Metropolis in the 1970s and 80s.
Mohl: article by Conzen, pp. 277-289;
Jackson, ch. 15.

May 4 -- Modern Urban Life.
Jackson, ch. 16;
Mohl: Article by Wade, pp. 268-276.

May 8 -- TERM PAPER DUE
DUE AT HISTORY DEPT. OFFICE NO LATER THAN 4 PM.

LATE PAPERS WILL BE PENALIZED.

TERM PAPER ASSIGNMENT
Write a history of your home community, town, or neighborhood which emphasizes social, economic, demographic, racial, and housing changes over the past thirty or forty years. If you have difficulty identifying the exact area to research, or limiting the scope of your neighborhood, talk to me individually.

You must utilize census material, particularly census tract data. If you town does not have census tract data since at least 1960 you must select another area or urban neighborhood for your study. Consult with me individually. There will be a Library presentation to introduce you to census tract data and other census reports.

You should make use of a wide range of social and economic characteristics. You may extend the study backward in time and explore other elements in the growth of the community, such as the role of transportation or of employment opportunities. Your local planning commission may provide valuable publications for this information. Zoning maps or charts may prove very informative.

Your actual paper should not be just a compilation of tables. The data is your starting point. The paper should present the information, but also place it in an interpretative framework, utilizing the information and concepts derived from the course. A map or maps will be helpful.

Several term papers submitted in the course in previous years will be on reserve at the Fairchild Library. Titles of these papers will be provided in class.

All students must submit a first draft of the paper which is due Friday, April 22; no extensions. The final paper must be typed and is due on Tuesday, May 9. Late papers will be marked down.

[In presenting the census data, you should compare your town with the averages (means) or medians for the city, county and/or the metropolitan area (SMSA) as appropriate. Where inflation has distorted dollar values, as in family income and housing, you should calculate the ratio between your town or neighborhood and the SMSA average or median. For example, if average family income in your town was 35% above the SMSA average over a thirty year period, it demonstrates a consist and a stable pattern of socio- economic status.]