Thursday, February 24, 2011

Screening of City in 60 Seconds by the students of UAP 1024. Quite impressive.

Midterm I

Class today included:

Video (Acoustic Soul): Indie.Airie (4:02); Summer in the City (Begin to Hope): Regina Spektor (3:50)



MIDTERM I

The Right to the City

Class today included:

Revolution (Isle of View): The Pretenders (5:23); Boplicity (Birth of the Cool): Miles Davis (3:00)

Revolution

As we watch the children play,
Remember, it was me and you,
So far away,
The things we got out to do.
The fond fear of danger,
That's what sets us apart,
Couldn't wait for the real world
To test the strength of the lion's heart.
Cats like me and you,
Have got laws,
That they adhere to.
Laws outside the laws,
As laid down
By those we don't subscribe to.
The world is getting stranger.
But we'll never lose heart.
We can't just wait for the old guard to die,
Before we can make a new start.
Bring on the revolution,
Keep the pressure on.
I want to die for something.
Bring on the revolution,
I want to die for something, want to die for something.
Bring on the revolution,
I want to die for something. (nothing)
Bring on the revolution,
Don't wanna die for nothing. (something, something)
For every freedom fighter,
I want to hold on tighter.
To the hope and will you gave
You were the brave, you were the brave.
And one day, when I hear your children sing,
Freedom will ring, Freedom.
When we watch the children play,
Remember how the privileged classes grew.
And from this day, we set out
To undo what won't undo.
Looking for the grand in the minute.
Every breath justifies
Every step that we take to remove what the powers that be can't prove
And the children will understand why.
Bring on the revolution,
Keep the pressure on,
I want to die for something.
Bring on the revolution,
I want to die for something.
Bring on the revolution,
Don't want to die for nothing.
Bring on the revolution,
I want to die for something.

Midterm next Tuesday (2/22/10)

Sustainable Cities

Included in class today:

Heartbeat (Heartbeat): Ryuichi Sakamoto (4:46); Jane Says (Nothing's Shocking): Jane's Addiction (4:52)

Guest Speaker: Stephen Goldsmith

The Urban Divide

Included in class today:

Free Money (Horses): Patti Smith (3:51); Big City (Down Every Road): Merle Haggard (3:01)

City Haiku

Smoky city night
Piercing yowl shatters the dark.
Nonchalant to the
Bloodshot glares from dark windows,
The city cat tiptoes by
Cicero Grey


The Wave

 

State of the World's Cities: The Urban Divide

Noche Buena (Latino!): Compay Segundo (3:00)

State of the World's Cities

Class today included:

My Old Home (The Dusty Foot Philosopher): K'Naan (3:08); The Waitress (When Life Gives You Lemons...): Atmosphere (3:00)

UN Habitat Report: Bridging the Urban Divide (2010-2011) Click for report.

Stepping Stone (Rockferry): Duffy (3:29)

The City Experience

Class today included:

The Real Slim Shady (Instrumental - The Singles Boxset): Eminem (4:45); Jesus, etc. (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot): Wilco (4:00)


Reading review:

Mumford, “What is a city” – social nature of cities

Jacobs, “The kind of problem a city is” – what to consider in looking at cities

Lynch, “The image of the environment” – identity, structure, and meaning

Mumford, “The Disappearing City” – formless urbanization

Ellin, “The Tao of Urbanism” – integrated nature of cities

Torres-Fleming, “Of things seen and unseen” – how experience shapes vision

Macek, “The Cinema of Suburban Paranoia” – familiar urban movie themes

Sandercock, “A Planning Imagination…” – reshaping planning thought

Sandercock, “A New Spin on the Creative City” – the role of creativity

Krieger, “Pervasive Urban Media Documentation” – urban tomography

Krieger, “Urban Tomography” – examples and application

Koolhaas, “The Generic City” – considering urban form and reality

Sitte, “The Meager and Unimaginative Character of Modern City Plans” and “Artistic Limitations of Modern City Planning” – cities as art?

Video: A Man a Camera



The class that came in after ours was about mushrooms. Interesting.

Locals and Tourists

Sensing Cities

Class today included:

New Millennium Homes (The Battle of Los Angeles): Rage Against the Machine (3:43); Metropolitan Glide (Real Gone): Tom Waits (4:13)

City Sounds (from Assignment 3)

Urban Tomography (link)
















Future-cities-lab (link)

Digital Urban (link)

Power of web / video (link)

Assignment 4 – City in 60 Seconds (10 pts)

Assigned: February 1, 2011

Due: February 21, 2011 (by 5:00pm)

Create a one minute video that is your interpretation of “city” or “urban”. You are encouraged to be (very) creative. Post the file to: www.flickr.comwith the file name as firstname+lastname.avi (or other video type). The account name is public.issues@yahoo.com and the password is uap1024.

* Hint: Innovation Space