Greetings and Welcome

Students:

Welcome to USP3 The City and Social Theory. This is just a quick hello and a reminder that the scheduled discussion section is not going to be held. Instead, I will be available after every Tuesday class meeting.

And remember that your 1 paragraph proposal is due no later than the start of class next Thursday, July 10th. You need to have:

• --your 2 sites selected

• --your area of focus selected, or an idea of why you are interested in these spaces and how this relates to the course [this can of course change, but you need to get your wheels turning now]
• --1-2 sources. These can be used either as:

1. models of how to do this kind of project. Here see the Whyte book, Professor Herzog's text, Chapter 1 of Mike Davis' City of Quartz [especially for those of you doing LA], or Hal Rothman's The Neon Metropolis [although it's about Las Vegas, it's an excellent and fun to read model for how to do public space research.]
2. sources you are relying on for specific information regarding the history of the space you're covering, and/or the issue you're going to focus on. I recommend Mike Davis' Under the Perfect Sun, one of the only histories of our city, or the San Diego Historical Society's online history at: http://www.sandiegohistory.org/timeline/timeline.htm

Keep in mind you cannot actually cite the SDHS timeline unless you use it as an example of the "booster"/advertised version of San Diego history. Of course all sources have a bias, but this one is so biased it does not count as an academic source. I highly encourage you to go to the SDHS, however, as it is an excellent starting point for learning of the history of public spaces in our city & county.