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Steele Building
CB# 3504
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
27599-3504
email: fys@unc.edu
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PLAN 050 [006E]: This Land Is
Your Land
Social & Behavioral Science/Other (SS) [GC Social
Science]
Raymond Burby; David Moreau
Among the most difficult issues encountered in managing urban
communities and environmental quality concerns rights to land
ownership. A variety of environmental regulations limit our
rights to use land as we see fit. This seminar will explore
various processes by which rights to land, water, and environmental
resources of the United States have been acquired, reserved,
distributed, and regulated. Concepts of public and private
property and their implications for management of urban areas
and environmental issues will be examined. Wake County, North
Carolina, will be used as a case to examine issues in managing
land development in an urban setting.The Atlanta Metropolitan
Area will be used to explore land development issues related
to air pollution, land development, and public water supply.
PLAN 051 [006E]: Envisioning
Community
Social & Behavioral Science/Other (SS) [GC Social
Science]
Judith Wegner
How do we understand community as a concept used
to describe towns, universities, and other forms of social
interaction? Does theory match the realities of Chapel Hill,
Carrboro, and UNC? Can innovative tools such as case studies
and simulations be used to envision and bring about a better
future? This seminar will introduce students to basic theories
relating to urban planning, higher education, and social capital
and provide students with opportunities to explore and document
the views of local leaders concerning the towns' futures and
the university's anticipated growth. Students will gain experience
working with case studies and simulations, and will work with
the instructor to develop and test a role play exercise that
may prove helpful in mapping the future of Carolina North.
The course will qualify for service-learning recognition.
PLAN/WMST 052 [006E]: Race, Sex,
and Place in America
Social & Behavioral Science/Other (SS) [GC Social
Science]
Michele Berger, Thomas Campanella
This first year seminar will expose students to the complex
dynamics of race, ethnicity, and gender and how these have
shaped the American city since 1945. It will examine both
the historical record as well as contemporary works of literature,
film and music to probe the ways race, sex, and ethnicity
have contributed to the culture of our cities and popular
perceptions of urban life in the United States. It will also
explore the different ways women and men perceive, understand,
occupy and use urban space and the built environment. Drawing
upon the scholarship of several disciplines (sociology, political
science, urban planning, women's studies, and American history),
the seminar will examine a broad spectrum of topics, including
ghettoization and the inner city; the Harlem Renaissance and
its influence; "redlining" and restrictive covenants;
suburbanization, "white flight" and the "urban
crisis" of the 1960s; big city mayoral politics; immigration
and ethnic enclaving; the rise of urban nightlife; gangs;
graffiti and tagging; the multiple meanings of "the hood"
and "the ghetto"' hip hop culture and its popular
dissemination; the origins and transformation of vice districts
such as New York's 42nd Street; the politics of gentrification;
and the impacts of globalization on the inner city.
PLAN 053: The Changing American Job
Communication Intensive (CI); North Atlantic World (NA)
Nichola Lowe
What will the U.S. labor market look like when incoming UNC students graduate four years from now? How will employment opportunities differ from those facing their parents and relatives a generation or two ago, or even those of recent college graduates? This course explores these questions by looking at the changing nature of the American job and the transformative forces--from global trade and outsourcing to corporate restructuring , deregulation and new skill demands--that have influenced this change in recent decades and have added to economic insecurity in recent years. We will consider how these forces are experienced differently by urban and rural residents, by men and women, and by members of different socio-economic and ethnic groups, including native-born and immigrant workers. We will also consider local and regional strategies for helping workers adapt to this changing economic environment. The seminar will not only help students think about the larger economic and policy implications of U.S. labor market restructuring, but also how the forces behind this change might affect their own career goals and advancement opportunities.
PLAN 054 [006E]: Bringing
Life Back To Downtown: Commercial Redevelopment of North Carolina's
Cities & Towns
Social & Behavioral Science/Other (SS) [GC Social
Science]
Emil Malizia
The course objective is to understand the current realities
of inner-city communities in the context of their historical
evolution and the current proposals for revitalization. Each
student selects one city or town for case study work. The
student is expected to become familiar with 1) the current
situation to include redevelopment problems facing the area,
the strategies supported by community leaders, the sites under
consideration for commercial redevelopment, and the redevelopment
plans for those sites; 2) the history of the place with emphasis
on the community's early economic functions, why the area
has failed to experience relative prosperity over time, and
how current problems came to the fore; 3) plausible explanations
of redevelopment problems; and 4) the viability of commercial
redevelopment strategies and site-specific proposals. An important
skill to be developed in the course is the ability to use
scholarly research to understand the issues and to evaluate
alternative redevelopment strategies.
PLAN 055 [006E]: Sustainable
Cities
Social & Behavioral Science/Other (SS) [GC Social
Science]
Raymond Burby;
Todd BenDor
How can we improve the sustainability of cities—the
quality of life and prosperity of citizens—while also
protecting critical environmental systems and meeting the
needs of disadvantaged groups? In this course we will look
at the evolution of cities throughout history to find out
how they have coped with threats to sustainability. Using
the computer game SIMCITY, we will design cities that respond
to our own visions of sustainability. By the end of the course,
you will have developed a sound base of knowledge about theories
of sustainability and the strengths and weaknesses of various
strategies for achieving it. The course emphasizes a cooperative
approach to learning in which students actively contribute
to each class session based on their review of the required
reading and thinking about discussion questions. Thus, the
course is aimed not only at mastery of facts and theories
but also at higher order skills such as application, evaluation,
synthesis, and creativity.
PLAN 057 [006E]: What Is a Good
City?
Social & Behavioral Science/Other (SS) [GC Social
Science]
Harvey Goldstein
Do contemporary cities help us achieve our most important
human and social values? Or are cities symbols of modern civilization
gone amok? What makes a city "good"? Why do we prefer
some cities to others? What values have brought about and
underlie the contemporary American city? And what values do
our cities and settlements promote? What criteria should we
use for evaluating our contemporary cities and urban areas?
After a brief focus on the forces that have produced the American
urban landscape, we shall explore the city from the normative
perspectives of a variety of urban historians, planners and
architects, social scientists, social critics, and futurists,
including Olmsted, Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Anthony Downs, Michael
Porter, Kevin Lynch, Mel Webber, Kunstler, and Castells. We
shall critically assess and evaluate each author's views of
cities, as a way for each student to develop her/his own perspective
about what a "good city" might be.
PLAN 058 [006E]: Globalization
and the North Carolina Economy
Global Issues (GL); Social & Behavioral Science/Other
(SS) [GC Social Science]
Meenu Tewari
Walk down Franklin Street or into any Walmart store and you
will enter into the international economy of the 21st century.
These days it is hard to go far without encountering someone
or something that is part of a global network of production,
trade,
and consumption. This course examines how globalization impacts
economic, political, social and spatial structures of regional
and local landscapes.
Using directed readings, participative class exercises, and
cases that cut across developed and developing countries,
we will focus on how global pressures and economic integration
is changing local economies. Specifically, we will apply the
concepts we learn in class to understand the effects of globalization
on North Carolina's economy. We will ask how global pressures
are affecting jobs, communities, local industries and skills
in the region.
PLAN 006E: The American City
and Human Values.
GC Social Science
Thomas Campanella
Do contemporary cities help us achieve our most
important human and social values? Or are cities symbols of
modern civilization gone amok? What makes a city "good"?
Why do we prefer some cities to others? What values have brought
about and underlie the contemporary American city? And what
values do our cities and settlements promote? What criteria
should we use for evaluating our contemporary cities and urban
areas? After a brief focus on the forces that have produced
the American urban landscape, we shall explore the city from
the normative perspectives of a variety of urban historians,
planners and architects, social scientists, social critics,
and futurists, including Olmsted, Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Anthony
Downs, Michael Porter, Kevin Lynch, Mel Webber, Kunstler,
and Castells. We shall critically assess and evaluate each
author's views of cities, as a way for each student to develop
her/his own perspective about what a "good city"
might be.
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