will have acquired a survey knowledge of the history of Barcelona from Roman times to the present.

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1 Course Title: Barcelona: The City and Its History Language of Instruction: English Professor: Stephen Jacobson Professor s Contact and Office Hours: Monday, (20.253) Course Contact Hours: 45 Recommended Credit: 3 US Credits / 6 ECTS credits Course Prerequisites: None Language Requirements: None Course Description: Boasting such labels as the "Paris of the Mediterranean" and christened by Newsweek as the coolest city in Europe, Barcelona enjoys the reputation of a bohemian and cosmopolitan city that embodies and embraces globalization. Like all places, however, it is not void of peculiarities and contradictions. Behind a glossy and tourist-friendly façade, the city has a complex history. Its population has exhibited intense class and ethno-linguistic divisions that have produced tensions down to the present day. In the meanwhile, municipal leaders have strove to overcome conflict by constructing an urban space open to visitors and residents from various walks of life. This course introduces the student to the city of Barcelona by studying its past and analyzing its present. This interdisciplinary course covers subject in history, art history, geography, cultural studies, and urban planning. Materials include images, maps, academic and literary texts, field studies, and films. We will also discuss issues relevant to people living within the city of Barcelona today 1 Learning Objectives: By the end of the course, the student: will have acquired a survey knowledge of the history of Barcelona from Roman times to the present. will have received an introduction to the basic elements of urban history with an emphasis on the transformation of the physical environment. will become familiar with successes and tensions inherent in the "Barcelona Model" of urban planning. will be versed in the historical origins of the challenges facing city residents in Barcelona today. Course Workload: The course is divided into lectures, discussions, and field studies. Students should be prepared to read between 50 to 150 pages per week. - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

2 Methods of Instruction: The course includes both lectures and field studies. Two-hour class sessions are normally divided into one-hour lecture and one-hour seminar. During field studies, students are expected to take notes and treat field studies as a normal lecture class. Method of Assessment: Class Participation: 25 percent Paper: 25 percent Midterm Exam: 20 percent Final Exam: 30 percent Absence Policy: Attending class is mandatory and will be monitored daily by professors. The impact of absences on the final grade is as follows: Absences Up to two (2) absences Three (3) absences Four (4) absences Five (5) absences or more Penalization No penalization. 1 point subtracted from final grade (on a 10 point scale) 2 points subtracted from final grade (on a 10 point scale) The student receives an INCOMPLETE for the course 2 The HESP attendance policy does not distinguish between justified or unjustified absences. The student is deemed responsible to manage his/her absences. Emergency situations (hospitalization, family emergency, etc.) will be analyzed on a case by case basis by the Academic Director of the HESP. Classroom Norms: No food or drink is permitted. No mobile phones, texting, internet surfing, chatting, etc. There will be a ten-minute break during the class. Students must come to class fully prepared. Field Studies: Each semester, the professor will choose a select number of field studies from the following list: City History Museum; National Museum of Catalonia; Industrial Museum; Medieval Barcelona Walking Tour; Maritime Museum; World Exhibition of 1929 (Montjuïc). - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

3 Weekly Schedule and Required Readings WEEK 1: The Barcelona Model I 25 September: No reading. 27 September: Mellissa Rossi, The Barcelona Model, Newsweek International (2 February 2004). WEEK 2: The Barcelona Model II 2 October: Lawrence A. Herzog, City of Architects : Public Space and the Resurgence of Barcelona in Return to the Center: Culture, Public Space, and City Building in the Global Era (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), ; and Antoni Luna-Garcia, Just another Coffee! Milking the Barcelona Model, Marketing a Global Image, and the Restoration of Local Identities, in Consuming the Entrepreneurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle, ed. Anne M. Cronin and Kevin Hetherington (London: Routledge, 2007), October: Francisco Javier Monclús, "Barcelona 1992" in Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World's Games, , ed. John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold (London: Routledge, 2011), ; and Donald McNeill, "The Politics of Architecture in Barcelona," Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, (2006): WEEK 3: The Barcelona Model III 9 October: Sonia Arbaci and Teresa Tapada-Berteli, "Social Inequality and Urban Regeneration in Barcelona City Centre: Reconsidering Success," European Urban and Reginal Studies, 19, no. 3 (2012): ; Mari Paz Balibrea, Urbanism, Culture, and the Post-Industrial city: Challenging the Barcelona Model, in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2, no. 2 (2001): October: Antonio Paolo Russo and Alessandro Scarnato, "Barcelona in Common": A New Urban Regime for the 21st Century Tourist City?" Journal of Urban Affairs (2017); Ian Mount, "Besieged by Tourists, Barcelona Rolls up the Welcome Mat," Financial Times (August 7, 2015). 35e55cbae175.html#axzz44yDELixT. WEEK 4: The Medieval City - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

4 16 October: Field Study: Visit to the Museu d Història de la Ciutat of Barcelona." Papers due. 18 October: Paul H. Freedman. Cowardice, Heroism, and the Legendary Origins of Catalonia, Past and Present 121 (1988): WEEK 5: The Medieval City 23 October: Field Study: Walking Tour of the Medieval City. 25 October: No Class (Professorial Absence) WEEK 6: The Imperial City 30 October: Sílvia Planas and Manuel Forcano, A History of Jewish Catalonia: The Life and Death of Jewish Communities in Medieval Catalonia (Barcelona: Ambit Serveis Editorials, 2020), 15-59, November: No class holiday. WEEK 7: The Renaissance City 4 6 November: David Nirenberg, Sex and Violence between Majority and Minority, in Communities of Violence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), November: J.H. Elliott, Castile and Aragon in The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963), WEEK 8: The Industrious City 13 November: Midterm Exam 15 November: Robert Hughes, Selections from Blind with a Love for a Language, in Barcelona (New York: Vintage, 1992), WEEK 9: The Industrial City 20 November: Montserrat Miller, "Market building through the Long Nineteenth Century," in Feeding Barcelona (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 2015), November: Joan Ramon Resina, The Bourgeois City, in Barcelona s Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), Universitat Pompeu Fabra

5 WEEK 10: The Cosmopolitan City I 27 November: Stephen Jacobson, Interpreting Municipal Celebrations of Nation and Empire: The Barcelona Universal Exhibition of 1888, in Nationalism and the Reshaping of Urban Communities in Europe, ed. William Whyte and Oliver Zimmer, (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), November: Colm Toiben, City without Walls, A Dream of Gaudí, "Picasso's Quarter," and "Miró in Barcelona" in Homage to Barcelona, 2d ed. (Basingstoke: Picador, 2002), WEEK 11: The Cosmopolitan City II 4 December: Field study to the World Fair of December: Chris Ealham, The Making of a Divided City and Mapping the Working Class City in Class, Culture, and Conflict in Barcelona, (London: Routledge, 2005), WEEK 12: Final Exam 5 11 December: Final Exam Recommended bibliography: Students are encouraged to consult the following sources on their own. Amelang, James S. Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations ( ). Princeton: Princeton University Press, Bensch, Stephen P. Barcelona and its Rulers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Blanco, Ismael. "Does a Barcelona Model Really Exist? Periods, Territories and Actors in the Process of Urban Transformation," Local Government Studies, 35, no. 3 (2009): Degen, Mónica and Marísol García. "The Transformation of the Barcelona Model: An Analysis of Culture, Urban Regeneration, and Governance," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36.5 (2012): Bou, Enric and Jaume Subirana. The Barcelona Reader: Cultural Readings of a City. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

6 Corteguera, Luis. For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Davidson, Robert A. Jazz Age Barcelona. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Barcelona. A Thousand Years of the City s Past. London: Sinclair- Stevenson, Illas, Edgar. Thinking Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Kaplan, Temma. Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso s Barcelona. Berkeley: University of California Press, McDonogh, Gary W. Good Families of Barcelona. A Social History of Power in the Industrial Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Monter, William. Frontiers of Heresy: The Spanish Inquisition from Basque Lands to Sicily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Smith, Angel ed. Red Barcelona: Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge, Thomson, J.K.J. A Distinctive Industrialization: Cotton in Barcelona, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Vives, Antoni. Smart City Barcelona: The Catalan Quest to Improve Future Urban Living. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, Syllabus last updated, September Universitat Pompeu Fabra