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URBAN
GEOGRAPHY
SPRING 2005
COURSE SCHEDULE
(subject
to change)
Wednesday Jan 19
Lecture: Introduction
to the Instructor and the Course
Friday Jan
21
Lecture: Introduction
to the Instructor and the Course (continued)
Discussion:
Grant Proposals, Class Field Project, and Individual GIS Projects
Handouts:
Grant Writing Basics
See: U.S.
EPA Grant Proposal Writing Tutorial
See: Sample
Request for Bids
Important Terms: Quantitative Revolution,
Systems Approach, Spatial Analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Remote Sensing
Geographic
Information Systems
Global
Positioning Systems
Remote
Sensing
Topographic
Maps
Geography
at About.com
Monday Jan
24
Discussion:
Weekly Article Reviews
See:
APA
Style Guide for Citing On-Line Articles
See:
MLA
Style Guide for Citing On-Line Articles
Lecture:
What is Land?
Read:
Platt pp. 3-6, 72-73 (Garrett Hardin), and 310-311 (Aldo Leopold)
Read:
The
Tragedy of the Commons
Read:
Exerpts
from Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic
Wednesday Jan
26
Lecture:
Land Use Philosophy "The Tragedy of the Commons"
Review:
The
Tragedy of the Commons
Friday Jan
28
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration TBA
Monday Jan
31
Lecture:
Foundations of Land Use Law
Read:
Platt Chapter 2 and pp. 63-73
Assignment:
Write a 1000 word abstract on your Individual GIS Paper.
Due:
Monday, February 7
Important Terms:
Spatial
Organization, Scale, Function, Externalities, Land Management Hierarchy,
Commons, Land-Law Interaction
Wednesday Feb
2
Lecture:
Property Rights and Land Use Control
Read:
Platt, Chapter 7 pp. 209-226, Chapter 9 (all)
Important Terms:
Transfer
of Development Rights (TDR), Easements, Eminent Domain, Land Trusts, Covenants,
Conservation Easements, Riparian Rights, Zoning, Legislated Actions
Read:
Article
on Easements
Read: Supreme
Court to hear Eminent Domain Case
Read: Easement
Used in Conservation Effort
Read:
Local
Eminent Domain Case - Part 1
Read:
Local
Eminent Domain Case - Part 2
Read:
Property
Rights versus The Public Good
Read:
Williamson
County Adopts TDR Option
Friday Feb 4
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration TBA
Monday Feb 7
Lecture:
Urban Land Use Patterns (handout)
Read:
Platt pp. 3-26
Wednesday Feb 9
Lecture:
Land Use Zoning
Read:
Platt, Chapter 9, and Chapter 10 pp. 317-318
See: Metro
Nashville's Urban Zoning Overlay
See: Metro
Nashville's UZO Map
See: Metro
Nashville's Land Use Zoning Tables
See:
Impacts
of Historic District Overlay in Nashville
See:
Belmont
Conservation Zoning Case Study - 1
See:
Belmont
Conservation Zoning Case Study - 2
See:
Belmont
Conservation Zoning Case Study - 3
See:
Commentary
on local conservation zoning projects
Important Terms:
NIMBY,
Fiscal Zoning, Exclusionary Zoning, Euclidean Zoning (pp. 297-298, and
p. 320)
Friday Feb
11
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration TBA
Monday Feb
14
Lecture:
Gentrification and Urban Renewal
Read:
Platt, pp. 325-330
Read: History
of Urban Renewal in Nashville
See Also:
From
the Tenements to the Taylor Homes
See: North
Nashville's Sub Area 8 Plan
Read:
Urban
Development along 8th Avenue North
Read: Eminent
Domain
Conflict Related to 8th Ave N Case
Read:
Urban
Development in the Jefferson Street Area
Read:
Urban
Development in East Nashville
Read:
Urban
Development along Dickerson Road
Read:
Urban
Development in Nashville's "Railroad Gulch" District
Read:
Conflict
Over Development in Downtown Nashville
Read:
Editorial
on Downtown Development
Read: HUD's
Hope VI Program
Read:
Hope
VI Implementation at Preston Taylor Homes
Read: Home
Value Reassessment in Nashville
Read: Rising
Housing Prices in Nashville
Read:
Gentrification
Fears in the Edgehill Community
Wednesday Feb
16
Lecture:
Gentrification and Urban Renewal, continued.
Read:
Platt, pp. 325-330.
Friday Feb
18
Discussion: Individual
Term Papers, Class Project, Group Projects, etc...
See: Status
of Recycling in Nashville
See:
Metro
Nashville's Recycling Data in Dispute
Monday Feb
21
Lecture:
Watershed and Wetlands Land Use Management
Read:
Platt, Chapter 10 pp. 295-311 (*pp. 309-310 "Just Wetlands Case"),
Chapter 12 pp. 396-401.
Read:
Chicago
Wetlands Case Study
Read:
Background
on Wetlands and Takings Issues
Read:
Rutherford
County Wetlands Controversy
Read:
President
Bush vs CWA Section 404
Important Terms:
Takings
Issues, CWA Section 404
Discussion:
Class Urban Field Project
Assignment:
Monthly Progress Report 1 - Due Friday Mar 4
Wednesday Feb
23
Lecture: Urban
Watershed Planning and Management
Read:
Impacts
of Sprawl Upon the Radnor Lake Watershed
Friday Feb 25
No Formal Class
Meeting
Discussion:
Group Grant Proposal and Class Urban Field Project Progress
Assignment:
Draft Grant Proposals - Due Friday Mar 4
Monday Feb 28
Video:
"Keeping Pollution at Bay"
Discussion:Term
Papers, Class Project, Group Projects, etc...
Wednesday Mar 2
Lecture:
Introduction to Urban Quality of Life Issues
Read:
"Best Cities for African Americans" in Black Enterprise - July 2004
by David A. Padgett and Carolyn Brown
(go to "Files" at GEOG 4850 at MyTSU)
See: Money
Magazine's Best Places to Live
Assignment:
Answer the following questions below -
Your answer to
each essay question should be at least 750-1000 words!!!!
1 - What are the differences and similarities
between the top cities on
the Money Magazine list and
those on the Black Enterprise list in
terms of demographics, location, population,
housing prices, etc?
2 - Are the reasons given for the top
cities being listed by Money
Magazine the same or different
than those reasons for Black
Enterprise's listings?
3 - Is your hometown on either list?
If so, explain why it should, or should not
be listed. If your hometown is
not listed, pick a city where you would like to live
and explain why you want to live there.
You will find helpful data to support
your essays at:
U.S. Census Bureau web site www.census.gov
Read: Wanted:
A Plan for Cities to Save Themselves (3 parts)
See: The
National Urban League
See: Data
from the Mumford Center
Due - Monday March 14
Fri Mar 4
Discussion:
Group Grant Proposal and Class Urban Field Project Progress
SPRING BREAK!!!!
Monday Mar 14
Roundtable Discussion:
Urban Quality of Life Assignment
Discussion:
Class Recycling Project Progress
Discussion: Group
Grant Projects Progress
Wednesday Mar 16
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration - Grocery Store Audits
mapping
with ArcGIS
Friday Mar 18
No Formal Class
Meeting
Discussion:
Class Recycling Project Progress
Discussion: Group
Grant Projects Progress
Monday March 21
Lecture:
Crime Mapping
Film:
Crime in Baltimore, Maryland
See:
Crime
Mapping Resources on the Internet
See:
Crime
Mapping in Nashville
See:
Crime
Mapping in Memphis
See: Nashville's
"Prison Zip Codes"
Wednesday March
23
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration - Washington DC AIDS
incidence mapping
with ArcGIS
Friday Mar
25
No Class - Holiday
Monday Mar
28
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration - Using ArcIMS in
a corridor analyis
for Nashville's
proposed re-naming of Clarksville Highway as Dr. Martin Luther
King Boulevard;
Using the U.S. Census Bureau's American Factfinder to access data
on immigrant
population trends in Nashville 1990-2000
Wednesday Mar 30
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration - GPS Applications
in the Development of
an Urban Design
Model to Improve Community Health
Friday Apr 1
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration - Wal-Mart Case Study
Analysis
with LandView
6 GIS
Monday April 4
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration TBA
Wednesday April 6
Applied Urban
Geography Demonstration TBA
Class Recycling
Project - Monthly Report 2 Due
Friday April 8
No Formal Class
Meeting
Discussion:
Class Recycling Project Progress
Discussion: Group
Grant Projects Power Point Presentations
Monday April 11
Lecture:
Impacts of Urban Sprawl
See: Environmental
Equity and Smart Growth Initiative
Read:
"Introduction" pp. 1-19 Sprawl City
Read: "Divided
We Sprawl"
See: The
Sierra Club's Sprawl Page
See: Metro
Nashville Pays for Sewers in Sprawling Suburbs
See: States'
Rankings by Rate of Urban Land Conversion
Sprawl and Urban
Transportation Issues
Read:
Sprawl
City chapter 2
Read:
"Transportation
Apartheid"
Read: "Public
Transportation Apartheid"
See: The
Nashville Metropolitan Transportation Authority Audit Report
See: The
Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
Read:
Chapter 3 Sprawl City "Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere"
Read:
840
and Urban Sprawl
See: "A
Comprehensive Look at Sprawl in America"
See: The
Pierce Report.
Sprawl and Residential
Segregation
Read:
Sprawl
City chapters 4 and 5
See:
City
by City Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Performance
See:
US
Census Residential Segregation 1990-2000
See: USA
Today Diversity Index
See: "Job
Sprawl: Spatial Mismatch of Blacks and Jobs"
See: U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Wednesday April 13
Lecture:
Environmental Issues in Urban Planning and Development
Floodplain Planning
and Management
Read:
Platt, Chapter 10 pp. 305-308, and Chapter 12 pp. 386-394.
See: Zoning
and Floodplain Management in Nashville
Read:
Floodplain
Management in a Growing Urban Area
See: Flood
Hazards in Metro Nashville
See: Floodplain
Management in Nashville
See: Flood
Destroys Princeville, NC
See: National
Flood Insurance Program
Friday April 15
Lecture:
Eco-Friendly Development
Video:
"Building With Nature"
Read:
Handout "Building with Nature"
See: The
Importance of Urban Trees
Monday April 18
Lecture:
Brownfields Redevelopment and Superfund
Film:
"Brownfields Redevelopment: Tools for Environmental Justice"
Read: Nashville
Brownfields Pilots
See: US
EPA Brownfields Program
See: US
Mayors Brownfields Report
Read:
Potential
Development of Downtown "Brownfields" Site
Wednesday April 20
Lecture:
Urban Waste Management and Recycling
Read:
Platt, pp. 455-466
Case Study:
Nashville's Solid Waste Management Saga
Read: Nashville
Thermal Transfer Corp and Metro's Solid Waste Plan
Read: Protests
against Nashville Thermal Plant
Read: Downtown
Development and the Thermal Plant Site
Read: Downtown
Development and the Thermal Plant Site - Part 2
Read:
Metro
Considers Exporting Waste
Read:
"Black
Trash"
Friday Apr 22
Lecture:
Environmental Justice History and Contemporary Issues
Film:
"Toxic Racism"
See: Clark
Atlanta University Environmental Justice Resource Center
Read:
Dr.
Robert Bullard, Dumping in Dixie, Chapter 2
Read: E
Magazine Special Issue on Environmental Justice
Read: Two
Environmental Justice Superfund Case Studies
See: University
of Michigan EJ Case Studies
Read: US
EPA Guidance on Civil Rights Act and Environmental Justice Cases
Read: The
Escambia (Pensacola, FL) Case Study
Read: The
Select Steel Case - Flint, MI
See: Environmental
Racism in Chester, PA
Read: Background
on Chester, PA and Camden, NJ Cases
Read: Camden,
NJ Case Ruling - December 2001
Read: Camden,
NJ Case Final Ruling
Earth Day Activity TBA
Monday April 25
Lecture:
Urban Landscapes in the Developing World
Film:
"A Flight of Flamingoes"
Read:
Case Study:
Lake
Nakuru and Sustainable
Development at Nakuru Town, Kenya
Read:
More information on Lake
Nakuru- Ecosystem Impacts
See: Satellite
imagery of urban growth around Africa's Great Lakes.
See: Profile
of Lake Nakuru
Wednesday April 27
No Formal Class
Meeting
Meet with your proposal writing groups
to make final preparations
for your Power Point presentations
FINAL EXAM DAY
-
Group Projects
PowerPoint Presentations
Group Projects
(Proposals) Due
Applied Urban
Field Project Due
Individual Urban
GIS Projects Due