Urbánní antropologie JSM 027
Section outline
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0. Introduction, syllabus
1. . Conceptualization of urban space. The historicizing European approach, the Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles schools. The Chicago School in more detail.Literature:
•Dennis R. Judd 2011. Theorizing City. In Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson (eds), City Revisited. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 3–27. -
2. Chicago School and Theory of Social Ecology.
Lit.:
Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press 1980: 18 - 58.
Robert Ezra Park, The City. Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. New York 1916: 1 - 46. -
- Critique of the Burgess Concept
- LA School, postmodernism versus modernism
- NY School and decline of the US urbanism
Literature:
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3. Manchester School and Research in African Urban Environment - British Colonial City, Concepts of Detribalization, Disqualification, Modernity, Social Network Research, Situational Analysis.
Literature
Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press, 1980.
Epstein, AL Senes: Collected Copperbelt Papers. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992. -
4. Urban dweller and Robert Redfield, Louis Wirth and Herbert Gans
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a) German approaches to the city, urban culture and nationalism, the concept of community and society, urban society as a tribal community metaphor, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Baussinger's "third way", anthropology and mass media, German contemporaries.
b) Urban sociology and anthropology in the Interwar in the Czech lands
Literature:
Bausinger, Hermann: Grundzüge der Volkskunde. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978.
Uherek Zdeněk: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchćques. Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire. Septembre 1997: 111 - 127.
(Social Institutions in the City, Nordic Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Gothenburg School.
Literature:
Douglas Mary, Think Institutions. Syracuse University Press 1986.
Ek, Sven B. Noden and Lund. Lund: Liber vörlag 1982.)
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Ethnographies of Socialist and Post-socialist Cities (examples from Poland, Germany, Czechia and Slovakia); workers, national identities, suburbanization, and city and city shrinkage, methodology of the city research.
Uherek, Zdeněk: Antropologie města. In: Cichá Martina (ed.) Integrální antropologie. Praha: Triron 2014: 263 – 268.
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Public Space, Public Greenery, Insiders, Outsiders, Tourists
Compulsory reading
Gehl, J. 2011. Life between buildings. Using Public Space. Washington DC: Island Press.
Recommended reading:
Uherek, Z. 2017. Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal Economy. In. Krase, J.–Uherek, Z., et al. Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration: 93–109.
Huai, S., & Van de Voorde, T. (2022). Which environmental features contribute to positive and negative perceptions of urban parks? A cross-cultural comparison using online reviews and Natural Language Processing methods. Landscape and Urban Planning, 218.
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a) Kevin Lynch and his The Image of the City.
b) Amsterdam urban anthropology, concept of city danger and exploration of mental maps ..
Literature:
Lynch, Kevin The Image of the City. MIT Press 1960-
Brunt, Lodevijk. Coping with Urban Danger. In: Uherek, Z. (ed.) City in Supranational and Regional Networks. Praha, Institute of Ethnology 1992.
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City Narratives: Reconstructing Urban Life
Compulsory reading
Choi, R. 2009. Reconstructing Urban Life. Places 21(1): 18–20.
Recommended reading
Stehle, M. 2010. Berlin's Potsdamer Platz as an Interactive Textbook: Space, Perspective, and Critical Research Skills. Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 2(1), 139-153.
Dieteke van der Ree: Enquiries on social memory.
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11. Post-modern Cities and Edge Cities
Compulsory reading:
Day, J., Phelps, N.A., Veeroja, P., Yang, X. 2022. From Edge City to City? Journal of the American Planning Association, 88:4, 565–577.
Recommended reading:
Garreau J. 1991 Edge City: Life on the Frontiers. New York, Doubleday.
Oatley, N. 2001. L'Apparition de l'Edge (of) City: quels mots pour les nouveaux espaces urbains? In: Riviere d´Arc, H. (ed.) Nommer les nouveaux territoires urbains. Paris: UNESCO: 17–38.
Simpson, D., Kelly, T. 2011. Studying Twenty-first Century Cities. Judd, D.R., Simpson, D. (eds) The City, Revisited Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Mineapolis, London: University of Minesota Press: 356 – 366.
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12. World Cities and Neoliberalism; Sustainable and Smart Cities
Compulsory reading:
Sodig, A. et al. 2019. Towards modern sustainable cities: Review of sustainability principles and trends. Journal of Cleaner Production 227: 972–1001.
Recommended reading:
Sassen S. 2005: The Global City: Introducing a Concept. The Brown Journal of World Affairs XI: 2.
Prague the biggest problems, Contemporary trends in urban anthropology - discussion.