Assignment Instructions/ Description
Urban Affairs
3-page minimum, double-spaced, paginated, with cover page.
Writing Situation
We have been investigating, from a political economy perspective, how cities in the United States have grown and developed as a result of capitalist arrangements from capitalism’s mercantile roots to the present post-industrial economy based on neoliberalism. Along with the readings in City Politics and Taking Sides: Urban Studies, and videos we have viewed - Plutocracy I: Political Repression in the USA, and David Harvey in conversation with David Graeber - the major point thus far is that cities are the nexus where class unrest is taking place,specifically between labor and capital and the inherent conflicts that result in capitalist societies.
Writing Instructions
With this setting in mind, discuss the “urban crisis of the twentieth century”. Focus your analysis on: 1 chapter in City Politics (your choice between chapters 1-9) and 1 specific policy issue from Taking Sides: Urban Studies(your choice of issues 1-5).Then relate this discussion to the following videosmentioned above. After assessing this problem (the urban crisis of the twentieth century based on capitalist development in cities and its inherent class antagonisms), what would you propose as a solution?
Videos to Watch
Please view these following videos on YouTube or Google them, they relate to what we are discussing:
· Plutocracy I: Political Repression in the USA;
· Rebel Cities: David Harvey in Conversation with David Graeber (1:30:10).
Required Texts
Dennis Judd and Todd Swanstrom, City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America, 9th Edition, 2015 (Pearson: 978-0-205996391).
Myron Levine, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Urban Studies, 2013 (McGraw-Hill:
978-0-078050435).
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