Syllabus

NEWS 21 METROPOLIS
SPRING 2009

SCHEDULE

Jan 26 Overview, data sources and experts, what others are doing and Josh’s Big Idea.

Feb 2 Demography – California Cities vs All the Rest - HANS JOHNSON, demographer for the Public Policy Institute of California
America By the Numbers: A Field Guide to the American Population
William Frey, et al
Latino Metropolis, Victor Valle and Rodolfo Torres
Latinos Remaking America, Marcelo Saurez Orozco and Mariela Paez
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration, Richard Alba and Victor Nee

Feb 9 Patchwork Nation, Claritas Clusters, and how come the marketers and political consultants know so much more than reporters do? DANTE CHINNI, Christian Science Monitor

The New Political Geography of California (from IGS)
A California State of Mind, Mark Baldassare
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration, Richard Alba and Victor Nee
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, Joel Garreau The United States of Suburbia, G. Scott Thomas Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes, Mark Penn and Kenny Zalesne

Feb 16 History of the American City, emphasis Chicago. And Taxing Matters. PROFESSOR ROBIN EINHORN, UC Berkeley Dept of History.
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Sudhir Venkatesh
Downtown America, Alison Isenberg
Imperial San Francisco, Gray Brechin

Feb 23 Oakland’s 10 Big Development Projects and what we can learn from them - LAURA COUNTS, alum and former oakland tribune reporter
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, Robert O. Self
The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century, Eds Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, William Julius Williams

March 2 Open Space, Architecture and Public Space, PROFESSOR PETER BOSSELMANN, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Urban Transformation, Peter Bosselmann

March 9 Municipal Government Finance: How the money really works, MICHAEL COLEMAN, finance director for the League of California Cities and MICHAEL COLANTANO, Attorney for city, redevelopment agencies and planning departments
Morning Glories: Municipal Reform In the Southwest
Amy Bridges
Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government, Evan McKenzie
America’s Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy
Helen F. Ladd and John Yinger

March 16 Discussion of Proposed Summer Project topics and applications/ Memos due and circulated March 12

March 23 Spring Break

March 30, Crime PROFESSOR STEVE RAPHAEL, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy

April 6 Transportation (TBA)

April 13 Housing Finance, PROFESSOR NANCY WALLACE, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business

April 20 Income Disparity (TBA)
Bobos In Paradise, David Brooks
Social Stratification, Stephen Rose
High Wire, Peter Gosselin

April 27 TBA

May 4 TBA

May 11 LAST CLASS