CITB02H3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - City, Chicago Reader, Urban Planning
CITB02H3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Course Overview & Introduction
• Course Overview:
o Professor: Beyhan Farhadi - e-mail: beyhan.farh[email protected].
o Office hours: Thursdays from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM in MW379, and Mondays, by appointment
only, from 9:00 AM-11:00 AM.
▪ Another option of communication: Remind (a texting app where students and
teachers can communicate via text) - register on Quercus.
o WebOption available the day after lecture - will be posted for 2 weeks.
o Tutorials start next week (September 13th) and are bi-weekly - check syllabus for tutorial
schedule.
o Grading breakdown:
▪ Reading Journals & Book Review: 20% (3 readings responses worth 2% each, and
book review worth 14%).
▪ Mid-term Exam: 20%.
▪ Review Essay: 20%.
▪ Final Exam: 35%.
▪ Tutorial Attendance & Participation: 5%.
• All assignments to be submitted through Quercus by 11:59 PM day of due date.
o Course textbook: The City Reader 6E by: LeGates & Stout.
▪ Book options for reading journals & book review:
• Triumph of the City by: Edward Glaeser.
• Evicted by: Matthew Desmond.
• Naked City by: Sharon Zukin.
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• Introduction to City Studies - Mayoral Election:
o John Tory & Jennifer Keesmaat -- leading the mayoral race.
o Public transit and housing are two big issues that mayors must deal with.
• What are the biggest challenges facing our city?
o Housing.
o Public transit.
o Poverty.
o Violence.
• Personally, which issue is your priority?
o Housing: the price of housing in the city is becoming so high that millennials wishing to buy
a house in the city in the future have a slim chance of doing so without accumulating an
unbearable amount of debt, on top of university debts.
o Poverty: on a less personally relatable note, poverty (especially in downtown Toronto, to
use my own city as an example), is prominent; there are many homeless people stuck on the
hectic streets of our city - even during harsh winters - who are denied any sort of necessities
because it seems as though nobody cares about them.
▪ Some even die in the winters because of extreme cold weather.
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▪ In my opinion, regardless of what other people think, homeless people are still people
who need to be cared for, and our city lets them down by ignoring them and their
needs.
▪ More homeless shelters are needed because the ones we do have fill up so quickly,
thereby leaving the remainder to suffer on the streets unnoticed and uncared for.
o Violence: our city's rate of violence has been increasing drastically (especially in 2018),
which is an obvious issue.
• Big Themes in City Studies:
o The origins and evolution of cities.
o Contemporary (global) urbanization trends.
o Cities and globalization.
o Urban space and morphology.
o Urban culture and creativity.
o Urban inequality and social exclusion.
o Urban planning.
o Urban design.
o Sustainability and the future of cities.
• Key Concepts from this week's reading:
o City Studies is interdisciplinary.
o In cities, phenomena is produced by urban practice.
o Urban theory is an interpretive framework for understanding events and phenomena.
o Qualitative and quantitative methodology offer tools for systematically gathering
information about events and phenomena.
• How Do We Study Complex Urban Problems?
o An interdisciplinary perspective integrates knowledge into a whole that is greater than the
sum of its parts.
• Common Methods in Urban Research:
o Literature search and review.
o Archival research.
o Statistical analysis.
o Observation.
o Interviewing.
o Surveys.
o Focus groups.
o Community-based and participatory research.
o Mapping/GIS.
• Dimensions of Urban Research:
o Quantitative research.
o Qualitative research.
o Time & space:
▪ Cross-sectional versus longitudinal research.
▪ Geographical space.
o Triangulation.
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