COURSE SCHEDULE (subject to change as needed):

SECTION I:  INTRODUCTION AND SETTING THE CONTEXT

Tu

1/13

Course introduction, personal introductions, discussion of writing assignments and evaluations

Th

1/15

Setting the Context:  Pittsburgh and Durban: Industrial Restructuring and Renewal

Jezierski, Louise (1996) “Pittsburgh:  Partnerships in a Regional City”  in Savitch, H.V. and Vogel, Ronald K. Regional Politics:  America in a Post-City Age Urban Affairs Annual Review #45.  (Thousand Oaks:  Sage Publications) (electronic version)

Morris, Mike et al. (2002) “From Import Substitution Industrialisation to Globalised International Competitiveness” pp. 107-133 in (D)urban Vortex. 

Tu

1/20

Race and Racism in the U.S.

Roediger, David R. (1994) “From the Social Construction of Race to the Abolition of Whiteness” in Towards the Abolition of Whiteness (New York: Verso Press) pp. 1-17 (electronic reserve)

Marable, Manning (1995)  “History and Black Consciousness:  The Political Culture of Black America” in Beyond Black and White:  Transforming African-American Politics (New York:  Verso) pp 216-229

Omi, Michael and Howard Winant (1994)  Racial Formation in the United States:  From the 1960s to the 1990s (New York:  Routledge) Chapter 4 (Racial Formation) and Epilogue (Closing Pandora’s Box:  Race and the “New Democrats”

Th

1/22

Race and Racial Narratives in South Africa

Greenstein, Ran (1993) “Racial Formation:  Towards a Comparative Study of Collective Identities in South Africa and the United States” Social Dynamics 19.2, pp. 1-29 (electronic reserves)

Steve Biko, (1996) I Write What I Like(Aelred Stubbs. London: Boweredean Publishing)  “Introduction”, pp. x-xxiv and “Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity”,  pp. 87-98. (electronic reserve)

Nelson Mandela, (1986) No Easy Walk to Freedom (London:  Heinemann) pp. 21-31. (electronic reserve)

 

SECTION II: EARLY PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION

Tu

1/27

Origins of industry and the industrial revolution in Pittsburgh

Lorant, Stefan (1999)  “Gateway to the West”  Chapter 2 of Pittsburgh:  The Story of an American City (Pittsburgh:  Esselmont Books)  (electronic version in three parts:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

Muller, Edward. (2001) “Industrial Suburbs and the Growth of Metropolitan Pittsburgh 1870-1920” Journal of Historical Geography 27:1, 58-73  (electronic version)

Th

1/29

 Pittsburgh: Immigration, ethnicity and urban development in Pittsburgh, 1870-1920

From Hays, Samuel (1989) City at the Point:

Chapter 1:  Faires, Nora  “Immigrant and Industry:  Peopling the ‘Iron City’”.

Chapter 3:  Glasco, Laurence “Double Burden:  The Black Experience in Pittsburgh”

Tu

2/3

Snow day, no classes

Th

2/5

Pittsburgh: Class formation and class conflict, 1870-1920

From Hays, Samuel (1989) City at the Point:

Chapter 4:  Oestreicher, Richard “Working-Class Formation, Development, and Consciousness in Pittsburgh, 1790-1960”

Chapter 8:  Ingham, John “Steel City Aristocrats”

 

Tu

2/10

Pittsburgh: Government and Urban Services

From Hays, Samuel (1989) City at the Point:

Chapter 5:  Kleppner, Paul “Government, Parties and Voters in Pittsburgh”

Chapter 7:  Tarr, Joel “Infrastructure and City-Building in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

 

Th

2/13

Durban: Early Industrialization and Urbanization

Swanson, Maynard (1983) “The Asiatic Menace:  Creating Segregation in Durban, 1870-1900”  The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 16:3, pp. 401-421 (electronic version)

La Hausse, Paul (1990)  “The Cows of Nongoloza:  Youth, Crime and Amalaita Gangs in Durban, 1900-1936” Journal of Southern African Studies 16:1, pp. 79-111 (electronic version)

 

Tu

2/17

Durban: Development of an Apartheid City

Maharaj, B. 1996. The historical  development of the apartheid local state in South Africa: the case of Durban. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 20: 587-600

 

Maylam, Paul and Iain Edwards The People’s City:

 “Introduction:  The Struggle for Space in Twentieth Century Durban”.

 

SECTION III: 20th CENTURY DEVELOPMENT AND RESTRUCTURING

 

Th

2/19

First Video Conference: Industrialization and Urbanization in Durban and Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh economic decline and renewal, post WWII.

Lubove, Roy (1995)  “ The Pittsburgh Renaissance:  An Experiment in Public Paternalism” Chapter six of Twentieth Century Pittsburgh:  Volume 1, Government, Business and Environmental Change (electronic reserve)

 

 

Tu

2/24

End of the Steel Era in Pittsburgh

Lubove, Roy (1996) Twentieth Century Pittsburgh, Vol. II

Chapter 1: “Elegy for a Bygone World”

Chapter 2: “Economic Development Strategy in the Post-Steel Era”

 

 

Th

2/26

Pittsburgh: Socio-Economic Realities of “New Economy”

University Center for Social and Urban Research (1999)  The State of the Region:  Economic, Demographic and Social Conditions and Trends in SWPA September 1999.  (http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/State%20of%20Region.htm)

Keystone Research Center (2002)  The State of Working Pennsylvania 2002  (http://www.keystoneresearch.org/releases/swp_2002.html)

 

 

Tu

3/3

Durban: Class formation and class conflict, 1930s-1980s

Maylam, Paul and Iain Edwards The People’s City:

Hemson, David “In the Eye of the Storm:  Dock-workers in Durban”

Nuttal, Tim “The Leaves in the Trees are Proclaiming our Slavery:  African Trade-Union Organisation, 1937-1949

Sitas, Ari “The Sweat was Black:  Working for Dunlop”

 

Th

3/5

Durban:  Economic Development and Change

Freund and Padayachee (2002) (D)urban Vortex

Chapter 5:  Padayachee, Vishnu “Financing Durban’s Development, 1970-1999”

(Maybe also Durban: Society and Governance Basic Needs and Informalization

Freund and Padayachee (2002) (D)urban Vortex

Chapter 6:  Maharaj, Brij “Segregation, Desegregation and De-racialisation”

Chapter 7: Hemson, David “Breaking the Impasse, Beginning the Change

Chapter 10:  Nesvag, Stein Inge “The Development of Mass Street Trading in Durban”

 

 

T/Th

3/10-3/12

No Class—Spring Break

 

T/Th

3/16-

3/18

No Class-work on research projects

 

 

 

SECTION IV:  POST 1970s & CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS

 

Tu

3/23

The New Economy:  Splintering Metropolis

Graham, Stephen and Simon Marvin (2001) Splintering Urbanism:  Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition (London:  Routledge)  Chapter 6 “Social Landscapes of Splintering Urbanism” , pp. 217-301 (electronic reserve)

Th

3/25

Reconnecting the Splintered Metropolis:  Community-Based Regionalism

Pastor Manuel. 2000. Regions that work : how cities and suburbs can grow together. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.  Chapter 1 (The New Regionalism and the New Community Building ) and Chapter 7 (Growing Together:  Policies for Regional Prosperity and Equity)  (electronic copy)

 

Tu

3/30

Durban: Economic Development Policy

Freund and Padayachee (2002) (D)urban Vortex

Chapter 1:  Fruend, Bill “City Hall and the Direction of Development”

Chapter 2:  Hall, Peter and Glen Robbins “Economic Development for a New Era””

 

Th

4/1

Durban: Contemporary Economic Development Issues and Initiatives

Monitor Company (200)) Durban at the Watershed  (Economic Competitiveness Report)

 

City of Durban (eThekwini) (2002) Integrated Development Plan Summary

 

Tu

4/6

Durban:  Specific Development Initiatives

To be determined…

Th

4/8

Pittsburgh: Regional Development and Governance

Lubove, Roy (1996) Twentieth Century Pittsburgh, Vol. II

Chapter 4: “A Second Renaissance”

Chapter 5:  “Pittsburgh Neighborhoods:  A System of Subsidized Empowerment”

Chapter 9: “Amenities and Economic Development”

 

Tu

4/13

Pittsburgh: Workforce Development

Working Together Consortium Working Together to Connect Workers to the Jobs of the Future:  Critical Steps for Regional Success (aka The Nordenberg Report)

Workforce Alliance, Background Report on the Workforce Investment Act. http://www.workforcealliance.org/policy/wia.shtm

The Reinvestment Fund, Summary of Workforce Investment System in Pennsylvania

 

Th

4/15

Pittsburgh: “New Economy” Development Strategies

Carnegie Mellon University (1994) The Greater Pittsburgh Region:  Working Together to Compete Globally Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Conference on Community Development

Detrick, Sabina (1999)  “The post-industrial revitalization of Pittsburgh:  myths and evidence”  Community Development Journal 34:1, pp. 4-12

 

Tu

4/20

Pittsburgh: Specific ‘New Economy’ Development Initiatives

Review web-sites:

Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse (http://www.digitalgreenhouse.com/)

Innovation Works (http://www.innovationworks.org/)

Pittsburgh Technology Council (http://www.tc-p.com/)

Carnegie Mellon Center for Economic Development, especially recent reports on Bio-technology in Pittsburgh (http://www.smartpolicy.org/)

 

SECTION V:  RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

 

Th

4/22

Student Research Presentations

Tu

4/27

Student Research Presentations

Th

4/29

Student Research Presentations