Vergara, Camilo. Detroit Is on Dry Bones. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016. Vergara, Camilo. American Ruins: Energies of the Outmolded. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999. Vergara, Camilo. “Tracking COVID.” Urban, no. 160_7 (2021) Vergara, Camilo. “Harlem Intro.” In Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto, 7–20. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Fishman, Robert. “Camilo Vergara’s Detroit.” In Camilo José Vergara: Detroit Is No Dry Bones, edited by Camilo Vergara,…
Jane Hutton, Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements (Routledge, 2020), selections. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/lib/yale-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5892429Links to an external site.. Daniel Campo, Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rustbelt Icons (Fordham University Press, 2024), selections. Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, selections
Observing and documenting public space Readings: Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City, eds. Dana Cuff, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Todd Pressner, Maite Zubiaurre, and Jonathan Jae-an Crisman (MIT Press, 2020)
Report briefly on Field Work exercises; submit and assemble photos or anything students want to share. Discuss Project Development James Michael Buckley, “Just Fieldwork: Exploring the Vernacular in the African American Community in Portland Oregon’s Albina District,” Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, Winter 2020, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1 – 16. Sarah Lopez, “A Personal Reflection on People as ‘Subjects’ for Built Environment Research,” Buildings…
A guide to researching a local building that focuses on digital resources and a Word Doc that is the form that we will essentially follow to record our building research are also on Canvas to peruse. Reading responses for this week are below. Readings: Jessica Larson, “The Black Building Environment of Benevolence in New York’s Tenderloin District” Robert W. Craig, “Fire Insurance Records and the Architectural Historian,” Buildings and Landscapes: …
Readings: Gabrielle Brainard, “Party Walls: Understanding Urban Change Through a Block of New Haven Row Houses, 1870-1979,” Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, 2001. Douglas Rae, City: Urbanism and its End (Yale Univ. Press, 2004), as much as you can. Paul Groth, “ ‘Marketplace’ Vernacular Design: The Case of Downtown Rooming Houses,” Perspectrives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 2 (1986): 179-191. J.B. Jackson, “Stranger’s Path” Landscape Journal. Suggested: Paul…
Sites and Stakes: Where and Why we do this work. Readings: Paul Groth, “Frameworks for Cultural Landscape Studies,” in Understanding Ordinary Landscapes, eds. Paul Groth and Todd W. Bressi, Paul Groth, “Generic Buildings and Cultural Landscapes as Sources of Urban History,” Journal of Architectural Education, Spring 1988: 41-44 Paul Groth, “Guidebooks as Community Service” Sarah Lopez, “A Personal Reflection on People as ‘Subjects’ for Built Environment Research,” Buildings and Landscapes: …
