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Introduction
Part I: Readings from Philosophy: Classic to Contemporary
Classic and Medieval Readings (500 B.C.E-1499 A.D.)
· Thucydides, Pericles’ funeral oration
· Plato, Crito and Republic
· Aristotle, Politics
· Augustine, City of God
Modern Readings (1500-1899)
· Machiavelli, The Prince, and Discourses
· St. Thomas More, Utopia
· Hobbes, De Cive
· Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, The Letter to M. D’Alembert on the Theater
· Jefferson, Thomas, “Manufactures”
· Addams, Jane, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”
Late Modern Readings (1900-1969)
· Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life “
· Weber, Max, “Concepts and Categories of the City”
· Dewey, John, “Philosophy and Civilization”
· Benjamin, Walter, Arcades Project
· Heidegger, “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”
Mumford, Lewis, “Retrospect and Prospect”
Contemporary Readings (1970-present)
· Lefebvre, Henri, “Philosophy of the City and Planning Ideology”
· Gavin, William J. “The Urban and the Aesthetic”
· Habermas, Jürgen, “The Public Sphere”
· Foucault, “Panopticism”
· Norberg-Schulz, “The Loss and Recovery of Place”
· Young, Iris Marion, “City Life as a Normative Ideal”
· hooks, bell, “Homeplace: A Site of Resistance”
· Grosz, Elizabeth, “Body Politic and Political Bodies”
· West, Cornell, “Race Matters”
· Grange, Joseph, “The Philosopher as Master of Heartfelt Conflict”
· Conlon, James, “Cities and the Place of Philosophy”
· Bickford, Susan, “Constructing Inequality: City Spaces and the Architecture of Citizenship”
· Mendieta, Eduardo, “A Phenomenology of the Global City”
· Weiss, Gail, “Urban Flesh: The Fragility of Dwelling”
Part II: Philosophy Matters, City Matters: Cases for Discussion
Section A. What is a City?
§ Philosophy Matters: Engels, Friedrich, “The Failure of the City for 19th Century British Working Class”
§ City Matters: Ginsberg, Robert, “Aesthetics in Hiroshima: The Architecture of Remembrance”
B. Citizenship
§ Philosophy Matters: Gooding-Williams, Robert, “Citizenship and Racial Ideology”
§ City Matters: Kemmis, Daniel, “Taxpayers vs. Citizens”
C. Urban Identity and Diversity
§ Philosophy Matters: Francis, Lee, “We, the People: Young American Indians Reclaiming their Identity”
§ City Matters: Pratt, Geraldine, “Domestic Workers, Gentrification and Diversity in Vancouver”
D. The Built Environment (planning and architecture)
§ Philosophy Matters: Mugerauer, Robert, “Design on Behalf of Place”
§ City Matters: HRH The Prince of Wales, “Tall Buildings”
E. Social Justice and Ethics of the City
§ Philosophy Matters: Light, Andrew. “Elegy for a Garden: Thoughts on an Urban Environmental Ethic“
City Matters: Hayek, Friedrich, “Housing and Town Planning
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