UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE School of Architecture and Urban Planning URB PLAN 316 Planning for Great Cities of America [U.S.A.] Tuesday and Thursdays, 9:30-10:45 AUP 110 Fall 2016 Instructor: Associate Professor Nancy Frank, Ph.D., AICP AUP 264 229-5372 frankn@uwm.edu (email preferred over voicemail) Office Hours: Tuesdays, after class to 11:15 am Tuesdays, 4:00-5:15 pm Thursdays, 10:45 am - Noon It is best to call or email ahead since I may, on occasion, have a meeting I cannot miss at these times. Or by appointment (contact by email) COURSE OBJECTIVES The focus of this course is on the origins and development of Great Cities in the United States. How these cities have evolved is examined along with planning, design and regulatory interventions that have been implemented in response to decline and the need to continually adapt and improve the quality of life for residents and commerce in these significant settlements. GRADING Two Pecha Kucha presentations (15% each) 30% Four Great Cities in the News presentations (5% each) 20% Midterm 25% Final exam 25% Course policies on disability accommodation, religious accommodation, etc., are posted with the syllabus on D2L. COURSE READINGS Textbook: Garvin, Alexander. The American City: What Works, What Doesn't. New York: McGraw Hill. Third Ed., 2014. Available through multiple booksellers, ranging from $10 and up (used, many in pristine
condition). Please don t let your copy be in pristine condition at the end of the semester! This is an excellent book from which you can learn a lot. A complete bibliography of the other readings for the course is located near the end of the syllabus that is posted online. If you notice a reading missing from that list, please let me know so that I can correct the omission. TOPICS AND READINGS (due by class session) readings delve deeper into topics covered in that class session. Date Topics and Readings HISTORICAL, REGULATORY, AND PLANNING CONTEXT: How Great Cities are Built Sept 6 Class 1 Sept 8 Class 2 Introduction Evolution of Cities and City Planning: Major Movements in Planning and Urban Design Garvin: Parks and the Urban Sanitation Movement pp. 33-46 Frederick Law Olmsted pp. 376-382 Garden Cities Movement pp. 437-445 City Beautiful Movement: Columbia World Exposition pp. 123-125 Burnham and the Planning Movement pp. 573-581 Le Corbusier s Vision: Modernism and Urban Renewal pp. 193-199 : Gerckens, Historical Development of American City Planning, pp. 20-59 Sept 13 Class 3 Garvin s Elements of Successful Plans Garvin, Chapter 2 Sept 15 Class 4 Land Use Regulation and Comprehensive Planning Garvin: Chapter 1 (8 pp) Chapter 17, pp. 490-511 (22 pp) Chapter 19, pp. 574-588 (15 pp)
EARLY AMERICAN CITIES: Boston and Philadelphia Sept 20 Class 5 Boston Parks and Historic Preservation Garvin, Chapter 3 Megan Turchi, South End Landmark District Has Complicated Past Garvin, excerpt: pp. 108-110 (Quincy Market) Sept 22 Class 6 Boston 150 Years of Urban Growth and Revitalization Garvin, Chapter 18 (more about Historic Preservation) Bainbridge Bunting, The Plan of the Back Bay Area in Boston, pp.19-24 Peter Dreier, Boston s West End 35 Years After the Bulldozer West End Boston Condos, http://www.firstbostonrealty.com/west-endcondos--boston.shtml Sept 27 Class 7 Video (in class): Gaining ground: building community on Dudley Street. Boston: Community-Led Renewal Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Yvonne Abraham, Trust and transformation in a Roxbury neighborhood. The Boston Globe, July 24, 2014. Meehan, Reinventing Real Estate about Community Land Trust (CLT) tool for affordable housing Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, www.dsni.org Take links on the About Us menu
Sept 29 Class 8 Philadelphia: Ed Bacon s Legacy Another View on Historic Preservation and Urban Renewal Halpern, Philadelphia, pp. 103-122 Garvin, Chapter 6 pp. 445-446 (Chestnut Hill) McGarth, The Next Great American City THE INDUSTRIAL ERA CITY: Chicago Oct 4 Class 9 ARTICLE 1 DUE Chicago: Redeveloping Downtown and Preserving or Redeveloping Industrial Areas Review sections of Garvin, Chapter 6--assigned for Philadelphia class session pp. 164-165 (Chicago arterial streets) p. 172, 412-415 (Dearborn Station) pp. 182-183 (State Street) Jay Koziarz, Chicago Lakeside Development Mega-Project Abandoned as Developer and UW Steel Split UWM, Curbing Industrial Decline, pp. 2-9 Oct 6 Class 10 Chicago: Remaking Public Housing Chicago-Style Garvin, Chapter 10 Austen, The Last Tower Schmich, Plan for Cabrini Green: For Residents 20 years in the Making Badger, Moving Poor People Prince, The Robert Taylor Homes
AMERICA S MOST FAMOUS CITIES: New York and Washington, DC Oct 11 Class 11 New York, New York A Tale of Two (or more) Cities Garvin, Chapter 11 Pp. 424-428 (Battery Park City) Pp. 511-514 (Times Square and the Theater District; Yorkville) Kelly Echavarria and Avantika Kumar (2012) Big developments bring changes to Frederick Douglass Oct 13 Class 12 Video (in class), Brooklyn Matters New York: City of Boroughs Garvin, Chapter 13 Pp. 336-339 (Crown Heights, Brooklyn) pp. 409-411 (Co-op City, The Bronx) pp. 417-421 (Roosevelt Island) Zacks, The Affordable-Housing Complex Oct 18 Class 13 Guest Speaker Manhattan Neighborhoods: Urban Decline, Urban Renewal, and the City of Tomorrow Garvin, Chapters 12 Amy Plitt, Construction on Hudson Yards Megaproject is Coming Along," Readings West Village Houses a Monument to 1960s Development Battle Fraser, Holding on to Harlem Rasbury, An Uptown Revival Oct 20 Class 14 ARTICLE 2 DUE Washington, DC: The Mall and Beyond pp. 124-134 (McMillan Plan, 1909) pp. 428-430 (Pentagon City) pp. 460-464 (Reston and Columbia, Maryland) Continued on next page
pp. 475-478 (Kentlands and Clopper s Mill, Maryland) Oct 25 Class 15 Oct 27 Class 16 Student Presentations: Chapter Summaries and Review Midterm Exam GREAT LANDMARKS IN RETAIL AND ENTERTAINMENT Nov 1 Class 17 Minneapolis: Downtown Skywalk; Mall of America Garvin, Chapter 4 First U.S. Shopping Center, Country Club Plaza, pp. 91-93; 112-113 pp. 75-78 (Minneapolis parks) pp. 416-417 (Cedar-Riverside) Nathanson, Minneapolis Oldest Skyway Moore, Ground broken on $325 million Mall of America Expansion Nov 3 Class 18 Denver: Downtown Baseball, Convention Center, Cultural Centers Garvin, Chapter 5 GREAT (QUANTITIES) OF SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT First look at Los Angeles: Civic Center, Cultural Center, and Sports Arenas Nov 8 Class 19 Video (in class), Taken for a Ride Nov 10 Class 20 Los Angeles: Motoring City Garvin, Chapter 14 pp. 446-449 (Beverly Hills and Sea Ranch) pp. 453-457 (Palos Verdes Estates) pp. 465-466 (Irvine, CA) Los Angeles in the 21st Century: Re-Thinking Density and Sprawl Sorenson, Moving Los Angeles pp. 422-242 (Century City)
Nov 15 Class 21 Atlanta: Commercial and Transport Hub of the South Garreau, Atlanta, pp. 139-178. pp. 73-75 (Beltline) pp. 175-176 (MARTA) pp. 430-431 (Atlantic Station) Nov 17 Class 22 Phoenix City of Phoenix, Land Use, https://www.phoenix.gov/oep/environment/land City of Phoenix, Water, https://www.phoenix.gov/oep/environment/water SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING Nov 22 Class 23 Seattle: Pike Place Market; Incentive Zoning; Sustainability pp. 518-524 o Smart Growth and Sustainable Development and pp. 505-510 o Incentive zoning Knute Berger, How Our 107-Year-Old Pike Place Market Survived, Seattle Magazine, http://www.seattlemag.com/article/how-our-107-year-old-pikeplace-market-survived Moving the Needle: Seattle s First Citywide Environmental Accomplishments Report Pike Place Market, History THANKSGIVING RECESS (gobble-gobble)
Nov 29 Class 24 ARTICLE 3 DUE Portland, Oregon: Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Vitality, and Sustainability Case Study: Saturday Market Portland Metro, Urban Growth Boundary--History 1000 Friends of Oregon, Making the Connections: A Summary of the LUTRAQ Project, 1997, pp. 3-16. pp. 351-353 (Pearl District) pp. 421-422 (RiverPlace) pp. 598-600 (Planning Portland) Macht, RiverPlace, pp. 156-173 Dec 1 Class 25 San Francisco Parilla, Clark, and McDearman, The 10 Traits of Globally Fluent Areas: San Franciso Garvin: p. 108 (Ghirardelli Square and Fisherman s Wharf) Homan, Old San Francisco: A Look Before and After the Embarcadero Freeway Came Down Preservation Institute, San Francisco--Embarcadero Freeway GREAT CITIES: THEN AND NOW Dec 6 Class 26 Detroit: Challenges to Its Greatness Garvin, Chapter 10 Katz and Bradley, How to Save Detroit Glaeser, Shrinking Detroit Back to Greatness Hollander, A Plan to Shrink Detroit (Well) READING ASSIGNMENT 4 DUE Dec 8 Class 27 ARTICLE 4 DUE Milwaukee: A Great City (or the Greatest City)? Garvin, Chapters 8 and 11
Dec 13 Class 28 Dec 19, 10:00-Noon Student Presentations: Chapter Summaries and Exam Review Final Exam: This will be an IN-CLASS EXAM. Academic Misconduct (cheating) Cheating on exams or plagiarism are violations of the academic honor code and carry severe sanctions, including failing a course or even suspension or dismissal from the University. http://www4.uwm.edu/acad_aff/policy/academicmisconduct.cfm Articles and Book Chapters (available on D2L): 1000 Friends of Oregon, Making the Connections: A Summary of the LUTRAQ Project, 1997, pp. 3-16. http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fhwa/id/1405 Abraham, Yvonne, Trust and Transformation in a Roxbury Neighborhood, The Boston Globe, July 24, 2014, https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/23/roxbury-neighborhood-oncemonument-racism-and-neglect-undergoestransformation/qcwotbyjzygozd3ou4u0lo/story.html Austen, Ben. The Last Tower: The Decline and Fall of Public Housing, Harper s Magazine May 2012: 42-50 Badger, Emily. Moving Poor People Into a Neighborhood Doesn t Cause Crime, The Atlantic: City Lab, August 5, 2013. http://www.citylab.com/crime/2013/08/hard-data-proves-housing-vouchersdont-cause-crime/6404/, accessed August 8, 2015. Berger, Knute, How Our 107-year-Old Pike Place Market Survived, Seattle Magazine, August 2014. http://www.seattlemag.com/article/how-our-107-year-old-pike-place-market-survived Bunting, Bainbridge, The Plan of the Back Bay Area in Boston, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May, 1954), pp.19-24 Boston, City of South End: History, CityofBoston.gov, http://www.cityofboston.gov/landmarks/historic/southend.asp, accessed August 13, 2015. City of Phoenix, Land Use, https://www.phoenix.gov/oep/environment/land City of Phoenix, Water, https://www.phoenix.gov/oep/environment/water Dreier, Peter. Boston s West End 35 Years After the Bulldozer, Planning 61(8), August 1995: 14.
Echavarria, Kelly and Avantika Kumar (2012) Big developments bring changes to Frederick Douglass, Columbia Daily Spectator,October 3, https://columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/bigdevelopments-bring-changes-frederick-douglass Gaining ground: building community on Dudley Street. Produced by Holding Ground Productions. 2013 Garreau, Joel, Edge Cities, Chapter 5, Atlanta: The Color of Money, Anchor Books, 1992. Gerckens Laurence. Historical Development of American City Planning, Chapter 2. In So, Frank and Judith Getzels, eds., The Practice of Local Government Planning, Second Edition, Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association, 1988. Glaeser, Ed. Shrinking Detroit Back to Greatness, New York Times March 16, 2010. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/shrinking-detroit-back-to-greatness/?_r=0 Halpern, Kenneth. Philadelphia, Downtown USA: Urban Design in Nine American Cities, London, The Architectural Press Ltd. 1978. Hollander, Justin. A Plan to Shrink Detroit (Well) Planetizen, February 23, 2013. http://www.planetizen.com/node/60940 accessed August 10, 2015. Homan, Jenna. Old San Francisco: A Look Before and After the Embarcadero Freeway Came Down, UpOut. http://www.upout.com/blog/san-francisco-3/old-san-francisco-a-look-at-before-andafter-the-embarcadero-freeway-came-down accessed August 19, 2015. Katz, Bruce, and Jennifer Bradley, How to Save Detroit, New Republic, December 9, 2009. Koziarz, Jay Chicago Lakeside Development Mega-Project Abandoned as Developer and UW Steel Split, Curbed Chicago, March 1, 2016. http://chicago.curbed.com/2016/3/1/11140996/chicagolakeside-development-project-abandoned. Accessed July 30, 2016. Macht, William F., RiverPlace: Portland, Oregon, in Urban Land Institute, Remaking the Urban Waterfront, 2004. McGarth, Tom. "The Next Great American City" Philadelphia, December 2005. Meehan, J. (2014). Reinventing Real Estate: The Community Land Trust As a Social Invention in Affordable Housing. Journal of Applied Social Science, 8(2), 113-133. Moore, Janet. Ground broken on $325 million Mall of America Expansion. Minneapolis Star-Tribune, March 19, 2014. http://www.startribune.com/ground-broken-on-325-million-mall-of-americaexpansion/250815941/ accessed August 8, 2015 Nathanson, Iric. Minneapolis Oldest Skyway Still in Use Turns 50, Minnpost, July 3, 2013. http://www.minnpost.com/minnesota-history/2013/07/minneapolis-oldest-skyway-still-useturns-50 accesssed August 8, 2015.
Parilla, Joseph, Greg Clark, and Brad McDearman The Ten Traits of Globally Fluent Metro Areas: San Francisco. Brookings Institution, October 29, 2013. Plitt, Amy, Construction on Hudson Yards Megaproject is Coming Along," Curbed New York, Feb 5, 2016, http://ny.curbed.com/2016/2/5/10941218/construction-on-hudson-yards-megaprojectis-coming-along Portland Metro, Urban Growth Boundary--History. http://www.oregonmetro.gov/urban-growthboundary Preservation Institute. San Francisco, CA Embarcadero Freeway, http://www.preservenet.com/freeways/freewaysembarcadero.html accesssed August 19, 2015. Prince, Ariel. The Robert Taylor Homes: Failure of Public Housing, The Urban Fringe: Blog of the Berkeley Planning Journal, June 4, 2013. http://ced.berkeley.edu/bpj/2013/06/the-roberttaylor-homes-failure-of-public-housing/ accessed August 8, 2015. Schmich, Mary. Plan for Cabrini-Green Residents, 20 Years in Making, Chicago Tribune, April 23, 2015. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/schmich/ct-schmich-0424-met-20150423- column.html accessed August 13, 2015. Seattle, City of, Moving the Needle: Seattle s First Citywide Environmental Accomplishments Report, http://www.seattle.gov/environment/moving-the-needle Sorenson, Paul. Moving Los Angeles, Access 35 (Fall 2009), http://www.accessmagazine.org/articles/fall-2009/moving-los-angeles/ accessed August 10,2015. Turchi, Megan, South End Landmark District Has Complicated Past, Real Estate at Boston.com, http://realestate.boston.com/news/2015/03/05/south-end-landmark-district-has-complicatedpast/ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Curbing Industrial Decline or Thwarting Redevelopment? An Evaluation of Chicago s Clybourn Avenue, Goose Island, and Elston Corridor Planned Manufacturing Districts, Center for Economic Development, 2005. West End Boston Condos, First Boston Realty International, http://www.firstbostonrealty.com/westend-condos--boston.shtml Zacks, Stephen. The Affordable-Housing Complex, Metropolis, October 2008, pp. 128-13 and 170-171.