Unit VII, Part Two: THE URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD: Local Architecture & the New Urbanism

• WRITTEN TEXTS:
• Bell hooks, "Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice," in Art on My Mind
• Jane Jacobs, "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"
• Chapter 5, The Urban Experience
• FILM/VIDEO TEXTS:
  • Neighborhood Street Processions;
  • Sweet Home Chicago: The Bungalow (Chicago Stories)
• DISCUSSION TOPIC: City Neighborhoods and Cultural Resistance
• EXTRA RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE AMBITIOUS:
• Robert Orsi, on Italian Harlem, from The Madonna of 115^th Street
• See also, Yard Shrines of Italian New York
• "Ethnic Life in Chicago," Introduction to Ethnic Chicago, Holli and Jones
• Brooklyn's Dancing Tower by Sheldon Posen, Joseph Sciorra, & Martha Cooper
• Dominic Pacyga, "Chicago’s Ethnic Neighborhoods," in Holli and Jones Ethnic Chicago
• STUDY GUIDE for Unit VII, Part Two Readings and AudioVisual