(in Polish) Global History - Global Cities 1500-SZD-GHGC
Engaging with some of the major discussions on urban issues, this course will provide a platform for critical reading and discussion of the various important topics of urban studies. My main aim is to make doctoral students question and analyze “the city” – a progressively dominant form of human settlement, often (correctly or not) associated with “civilization,” thus human achievement of culture, religion, science, technology, hygiene, industry etc. We shall question to what extent city is the nodal point of people’s achievement, to what extent it is a threat, what functions cities took, how urban networks function, how political power shapes urban space, and what the era or urban sprawl and global industrialization brings to this discussion. The course will make students think in comparative and global perspectives and focus on the themes and analytical tools in which history can be read.
1. Defining the City: from Göbekli Tepe to Metropolis
Excerpts from Schmidt, Klaus. Göbekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia. Berlin: Ex Oriente, 2012; Hansen. Mogens Herman. Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006: 1-28; fragments of Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, UFA GmBH, 1927.
2. Uniqueness of Western Experience? Discussing Max Webber’s Influence on Urban Studies
Weber, Max. The City. Translated and edited by Don Martindale and Gertrud Neuwirth. Clencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1958.
3. Cities and the Holy: Pilgrimage across Time and Space.
Naquin, Susan. “The Peking Pilgrimage to Miao-feng Shan: Religious Organizations and Sacred Site.” In Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China. Edited by Naquin Susan and Chün-fang Yü, 333-369. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
Peters, Francis E. The Hajj: the Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
4. Cities in Network
Walter Christaller down to “global networks” (Skinner, Christaller, Peter Taylor and Ben Derudder, World City Network: A Global Urban Analysis. Second Edition. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. G. William Skinner. “Cities and the Hierarchy of Local Systems.” In The City in Late Imperial China. Edited by G. William Skinner, 275–351. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1977. G. William Skinner. “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China.” In The City in Late Imperial China. Edited by G. William Skinner, 211–249. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1977.
5. Cities and Their Kings: Courts, Arts and Sciences
Exerts from Luchinat, Cristina Acidini, ed. The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002; Turner, Richard. Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1997. Ibn Khaldun, Qing Forbidden City; Hong Kong’s Central, New York Stock Exchange); Geremie R. Barmé. The Forbidden City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
6. The Industrial City
Simmel, Georg. “Chapter 4: Metropolis and Mental Life” In The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1950, 409-424.
Henry Mayhew. London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition. Edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. 1851. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
7. Hygiene and Modernity: On the Origins of the Modern Urbanism
Exerts from Rogaski, Ruth. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-port China. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
8. Cities and Societies
Castells, Manuel. The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. London: E. Arnold, 1983.
9. Destruction and Reconstruction: from Warsaw to Aleppo, through “Reform and Opening” Rebuilding of China: Planning, Politics, Necessities, Memory and Heritage.
Yok-shiu F. Lee, Hilary du Cros, Lynne DiStefano, and William Logan. “Introduction.” In Cultural Heritage Management in China: Preserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta. Edited by Du Cros, Hilary and Yok-shiu F. Lee, 1-21. New York: Routledge, 2007; Selected fragments of Vale, Lawrence J. and Thomas J. Campanella, eds. The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
10. Building the Monumental Space in Communism
Hung Chang-tai. Mao’s New World: Political Culture in the Early People’s Republic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011, 25-72; Kulić, Vladimir and Timothy Parker, eds. Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014, 11-89.
11. Global Metropolis.
Sasskia Sassen. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
13. Consuming Countryside Locally and Globally: Cities at the End of the Food Chain.
Exerts from Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism. London: Allen Lane, 2014; McMahon, Paul. Feeding Frenzy: Land Grabs, Price Spikes, and the World Food Crisis. London: Greystone Books, 2014.
14. Who is the city for?
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, 91-110; Middleton, Jennie. “The Socialites of Everyday Urban Walking and the “Right to the City.” Urban Studies, First Published 19 Jul. 2016: 1-20.
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Bibliography
1. Defining the City: from Göbekli Tepe to Metropolis
Excerpts from Schmidt, Klaus. Göbekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia. Berlin: Ex Oriente, 2012; Hansen. Mogens Herman. Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006: 1-28; fragments of Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, UFA GmBH, 1927.
2. Uniqueness of Western Experience? Discussing Max Webber’s Influence on Urban Studies
Weber, Max. The City. Translated and edited by Don Martindale and Gertrud Neuwirth. Clencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1958.
3. Cities and the Holy: Pilgrimage across Time and Space.
Naquin, Susan. “The Peking Pilgrimage to Miao-feng Shan: Religious Organizations and Sacred Site.” In Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China. Edited by Naquin Susan and Chün-fang Yü, 333-369. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
Peters, Francis E. The Hajj: the Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
4. Cities in Network
Walter Christaller down to “global networks” (Skinner, Christaller, Peter Taylor and Ben Derudder, World City Network: A Global Urban Analysis. Second Edition. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. G. William Skinner. “Cities and the Hierarchy of Local Systems.” In The City in Late Imperial China. Edited by G. William Skinner, 275–351. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1977. G. William Skinner. “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China.” In The City in Late Imperial China. Edited by G. William Skinner, 211–249. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1977.
5. Cities and Their Kings: Courts, Arts and Sciences
Exerts from Luchinat, Cristina Acidini, ed. The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002; Turner, Richard. Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1997. Ibn Khaldun, Qing Forbidden City; Hong Kong’s Central, New York Stock Exchange); Geremie R. Barmé. The Forbidden City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
6. The Industrial City
Simmel, Georg. “Chapter 4: Metropolis and Mental Life” In The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1950, 409-424.
Henry Mayhew. London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition. Edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. 1851. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
7. Hygiene and Modernity: On the Origins of the Modern Urbanism
Exerts from Rogaski, Ruth. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-port China. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
8. Cities and Societies
Castells, Manuel. The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. London: E. Arnold, 1983.
9. Destruction and Reconstruction: from Warsaw to Aleppo, through “Reform and Opening” Rebuilding of China: Planning, Politics, Necessities, Memory and Heritage.
Yok-shiu F. Lee, Hilary du Cros, Lynne DiStefano, and William Logan. “Introduction.” In Cultural Heritage Management in China: Preserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta. Edited by Du Cros, Hilary and Yok-shiu F. Lee, 1-21. New York: Routledge, 2007; Selected fragments of Vale, Lawrence J. and Thomas J. Campanella, eds. The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
10. Building the Monumental Space in Communism
Hung Chang-tai. Mao’s New World: Political Culture in the Early People’s Republic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011, 25-72; Kulić, Vladimir and Timothy Parker, eds. Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014, 11-89.
11. Global Metropolis.
Sasskia Sassen. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
13. Consuming Countryside Locally and Globally: Cities at the End of the Food Chain.
Exerts from Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism. London: Allen Lane, 2014; McMahon, Paul. Feeding Frenzy: Land Grabs, Price Spikes, and the World Food Crisis. London: Greystone Books, 2014.
14. Who is the city for?
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, 91-110; Middleton, Jennie. “The Socialites of Everyday Urban Walking and the “Right to the City.” Urban Studies, First Published 19 Jul. 2016: 1-20.
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