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【Journal & Assignments due-- Tues before Class

2018 F Tentative Schedule

Wk

Date

Theme

Text

1

9/13

Introduction
1. Urban Flows & Urbanism as a Way of Life

《台北四非》

1 Introduction, 2 Taipei Four-Way

2

9/20

  1. Features of Modern and Postmodern City

1. “Urbanism as a Way of Life” (Louis Wirth) (T1)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve 2013) [Toronto]

3

9/27

  1. Flight of the Red Balloon and the Poetics of Urban Flows

Flight of the Red Balloon [Paris] (Hsiao-hsien Hou 2007)


4

10/4

2. Urban Flows vs. History

2. "Flows" & "Global Scapes” (T1-1)
When Yesterday Comes

5

10/11

Taipei: Past & Present

3. “Space/Place” (T3)
Super Citizen Kuo (萬仁1994)

6

10/18

3. Global Flows vs. Wars
Montreal, Canada & Beirut, Lebanon 

4. “Cities of Connection and Disconnection” (T4)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve 2010) G6 G 6; Kate

7

10/25

 

The Insult G1 G 1; Kate
Photo-Project Proposal due online -10/22-

8

11/1

4. Time-Space Compression & Family in Flows

5. Time-Space Compression (T2)
What Time is it There? (蔡明亮2002) G 2; Kate

9

11/8

Mid-Term – Group Discussion of Photo Projects

6. “Introduction” The Consequences of Modernity (Anthony Giddens)(T5)
Photo-Project First Draft due—11/5

10

11/15

Toronto

7. “Postmodernism & Postmodernity”
Exotica
(1994)

11

11/22

【5. Flâneurism

8. “Flâneur” (T2)
《運轉手之戀》

12

11/29

(Monmatre) Paris, France

Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) G5 G 5; Kate

13

12/6

【6. Global Capital Flows and Simulation

Fight Club (David Finch 1999) G4 G 4; Kate

14

12/13

Beijing

The World (Jia Zhangke 2004) G7 G 7; Kate

15

12/20

7. Risk Society, Global Strangers and Connectivity

9. “Global Risk Society” (T1-1)
《流浪神狗人》
Photo-Project Proposal due on FB and/or at EngSite—12/19

16

12/27

Tel Aviv, Jerusalem

The Attack (Ziad Doueiri 2012)
11’09’01 September 11 (Youssef Chahine, etc. 2002) -2 episodes

17

1/3

Taipei, Paris

Lucy G3 G 3; Kate
11’09’01 September 11 (Youssef Chahine, etc. 2002) -2 episodes

18

1/10

Final Presentations

 

Textbook Sources:

1 Wirth, Louis.  "Urbanism as a Way of Life."  The City Reader.  Eds. Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.  NY: Routledge, 1996: 96-104. (T1)

    1-1. Ritzer, George. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. (Selections)

2. Gregory, Derek, et al, eds. The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th Revised edition edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. (T2)
3. Sibley, David, et al, eds. Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005. (T3)
4. Amin, Ash and Stephen Graham. “Cities of Connection and Disconnection.” Unsettling Cities: Movement/Settlement.  Eds. Allen, John, Doreen B. Massey and Michael Pryke. Psychology Press, 1999. (T4) 
5. Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1990.