WK03

Tuesday, 1/16

Lab 02: Redefining “Urban” Watersheds



Thursday, 1/18
 
Geo-Story

Egan, Dan. 2017. “Introduction” and Chapter 1, “Carving a Fourth Seacoast: Dreams of a Seaway,” in The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.

Media

Mathur, Anuradha, and Dilip da Cunha. Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. [selections]

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Mathur, Anuradha, and Dilip da Cunha. Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary. New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 2009. [selections]

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Brown, Catherine R., and William R. Morrish. “The Fourth Coast: An Expedition on the Mississippi River: 8 June - 22 July 1990.” Design Quarterly, no. 150 (1991): 1–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/4091279.

Kim, John. “The Fourth Coast, Revisited.” The Anthropocene Review 8, no. 3 (December 1, 2021): 241–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211044620.

Rosol, Christoph, Thomas Turnbull, and Jürgen Renn. “Introduction: The Mississippi River Basin—a Model for Studying the Anthropocene in Situ.” The Anthropocene Review 8, no. 2 (August 1, 2021): 99–114. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211053435.

Pickren, Graham. 2019. “The Frontiers of North America’s Fossil Fuel Boom: BP, Tar Sands, and the Re-Industrialization of the Calumet Region.” Journal of Political Ecology 26 (1): 38–56.







INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL SPATIAL MEDIA / CEGU 23517 / ENST 23517 / ARCH 23517 / DIGS 23517 / ARTV 20665 / MAAD 13517 | WINTER 2024

INSTRUCTORS: Alexander Arroyo, Grga Bašić, Sol Kim

URBAN THEORY LAB   |   COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY, AND URBANIZATION   |    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO