REQUIRED TEXTS

Raymond A. Mohl
The New City: Urban America in the Industrial Age, 1860-1920.

Carl Abbott
Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present

READER: Alexander B. Callow, Jr., ed.
American Urban History, 3rd edition.

M. Christine Boyer
Dreaming the Rational city: The Myth of American City Planning.

Robert M. Fogelson
Big-City Police.

PAPER

A 10-15 page paper is required. The subject matter is chosen by the student, as long as it relates to the History of American Cities. On Wednesday, January 24, the students will submit a brief description of the subject of their paper, along with five primary sources. The due date for the papers is Monday, March 5. They should be typed and doubled-spaced with one-inch margins. They will be graded on how well they are thought through and organized, how well the subject is dealt with, and how well they are written. Spelling, grammer, sentence structure, Organization, and style also will affect your paper's grade.

Footnotes must be used for any direct quotation, or when you paraphrase on author. Failure to give proper credit is PLAGIARISM. It will not be tolerated. Plagiarism is literary theft When you copy the words of another, put those words inside quotation marks and acknowledge the souce with a footnote. When you paraphrase the words of another, use your own words and your own sentence structure, followed by a footnote citing the source of the idea. The punishment for plagiarism is either an "F" on the paper, or an "F" in the course, depending on the scope of the infraction.

BOOK REVIEWS

Each student will write a five-page book review of one of the supplementary readings. The review of Dreaming the Rational City is due Monday, February 5; the the review of Big-City Police is due Monday, February 26. A half-grade of extra credit will be given to those who turn in the first book review. To assure an approximate class balance between the two books, the instructor may assign students which book to review. These book reviews will be photocopied and returned to the other members of the class to familiarize them with the material to be covered by the guest speaker the following week.

DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS

Every week a student, or students will volunteer to orally present an essay from the reader to the class. Those who volunteer for the first presentation will receive double credit. In these presentations, the student will summarize the main points of the essay, and if possible, bring outside information to bear concerning the validity of the author's conclusion. The students are encouraged to give their opinion of the essay. These presentations should last between ten and twenty minutes. Questions from the other members of the class are highly encouraged! Following these presentations, the class will discuss the greater issues raised by the essays and the presentations.

EXAM

GRADING

40% of your grade --- Final Exam
30% of your grade --- Paper
20% of your grade --- Book Review
10% of your grade --- Presentation

COURSE GRADE DISTRIBUTION

A=3.7-4.0
B=2.7-3.69
C=1.7-2.69
D=0.7-1.69
F= 0.69, or below.
I= Incomplete (given only to students with a legitimate request)

ATTENDANCE

Attendance is mandatory! After the second week the student may miss four classes without penalty. But beginning with the fifth absence, a half-grade will be deducted from the course grade for every class missed.

CLASS SCHEDULE

Callow:
-Boston: "A City Upon a Hill."
-Philadelphia: The Private City.

Callow:
-Urban Life in Western America.
-Urban Growth in the South.
-The Businessman as City Booster.

JANUARY 15

Mohl:
-Section I: The Dynamics of Urban Growth.
-Chapter I: Peopling the American City.
-Chapter X: Communalism.

Callow:
-The Making of Immigrant Ghettoes.
-Generations.
-Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City.
-Harlem Tragedy: An Emerging Slum.

GUEST SPEAKER:
Dr. William Jenkins
Professor of Social History

JANUARY 22

Mohl:
-Chapter II: Streetcars, Skyscrapers, and Urban Space.
-Chapter III: The Factory and the City.
-Chapter IV: Boosters, Builders, and Planners.

Callow:
-The English and American Industrial City of the Nineteenth Century.
-The Emergence of Industrial Cities.
-Urbanization and Criminal Violence in the Nineteenth Century.
-Ball Park.

JANUARY 29

Mohl:
-Section II: Urban Government and Politics.
-Chapter V: City Bosses and Machine Politics.

Callow:
-Latent Functions of the Machine.
-The Crusade Against the Tweed Ring.
-Knocko Minihan's Wake.

FEBRUARY 5

Mohl -- Chapter VI: The Varieties of Urban Reform.
-Section III: City and Society.
-Chapter VII: The Problem of Social Order.
-Chapter VIII: Social Control.
-Chapter IX: Environmentalism.

Callow:
-Varieties of Urban Reform.

FEBRUARY 12

Boyer:
Dreaming the Rational City.

Mohl:
-Epilogue: The Twentieth-Century City.

Abbott
-Chapter I: The First Modern Cities.

Callow
-American Intellectuals versus the City.
-Some Varieties of American Urban symbolism.
-Planners in the Changing American City,1900-40.
-Failure of Urban Renewal.

FEBRUARY 19

Abbott:
-Introduction: The Metropolitan Era.
-Chapter II: Building and Rebuilding.

Callow:
-The Modern Metropolis.
-Evolution of the Suburbs.

FEBRUARY 26

Abbott:
-Postcript: The Promise of Urban Life.

Callow:
-The Changing Political Structure in Industrial America
-The Urban Crisis Leaves Town.
-American Cities Are (Mostly) Better Than Ever.

MARCH 5

Fogelson:
Big-City Police.

Abbott:
-Chapter III: A New Urban America.

Callow:
-The Dilemma of the Urban Police.
-Race and Poverty in Cities: A Liberal View.
-Race and Poverty in Cities: A Conservative View
-Patterns of Collective Racial Violence.