Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
Section I: Theoretical Lenses on Space in the City
1	Introduction
2	The urban economics lens about urban land and housing	Before Ses #3: Turn in one page description of proposed final paper/map topic
3	Political and sociological lens about urban land and housing
4	Legal theory lens about property rights	Before Ses #5: Hand in a write-up (up to 2 pages) refining the topic and approach with a preliminary reference list
5	Everyday property practices and public space
6	Critical cartography and the unmasking of spatial relations	Before Ses #7: Schedule a meeting with the professor to discuss your paper or project topic
Section II: Property Rights Interventions Mediating the Struggle for Space in the City
7	Guest speaker: Kanarinka, artist and faculty, RISD Affective geography and public space	Before Ses #8: Submit an outline of the paper with an extended reference list of if you are doing a project, or a mockup of your map
8	Land titling and regularization
9	Land trusts and affordable housing
10	Guest speaker: May Louie, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Community’s power of eminent domain
11	Land takings and compensation: How to make change, social cognition
12	Class presentations Students make a 15 minute presentation of their final paper, followed by questions and answers	At the end of the semester, final papers or map projects are due