GEG-236 Urban Geography
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Spring 2004
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Week Three:
Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?

Week Seven Readings:
The Fringe as Center: The Enduring Allure of Edge Cities

Week Ten: 
Red-Lining

Week 11:  Transportation
Southworth, M. and E. Ben-Joseph. "Streets for People Too." Architecture Week, May 5, 2004.

Down, Anthony. 2001. "Testimony to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, U.S. House of Representatives, 107th Congress." 

Week 12:  Urban Politics
Fiscal Zoning:  "Housing Doors Close on Parents," USA Today, May 5, 2004.

Pekar, Harvey. "How Regionalism Works in Minneapolis-St. Paul." Cleveland Free Times, May 5, 2004.

Week 13:  Cities Outside North America
 Life Without a Car in European Cities 
 

Week 14:  Urban Sprawl vs. Smart Growth
Downs, Anthony. 2004. The Cost of Sprawl Revisited

Toronto at Home, May 6, 2004. "The Upside of Urban Sprawl."

F. Kaid Benfield, Matthew D. Raimi, and Donald D.T. Chen. 1999.  Paving Paradise:  Sprawl and the Environment. (New York: Natural Resources Defense Council).

Thoreau Institute, undated. The Coming War On the Automobile.

Keifer, Matthew J., 2003. Suburbia and its Discontents, Harvard Design Magazine (19).
 

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Gustavus Adolphus College
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