Fall 2012
URBAN REVITALIZATION
762:413 XL970:622 (Urban Redevelopment) Tuesdays 9:50-12:30
Kathe Newman
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-4:30
[email protected]
Course Overview and Objectives
The objective of this course is to present an opportunity for you to think critically about urban
revitalization. Each class period is split between lecture and discussion in the classroom and tours,
lectures, and meetings with private and public actors in the city of New Brunswick. This is a grounded
approach to learning. As a student, this course will bring you directly to the people, organizations, and
institutions that do the work of urban revitalization. You’ll hear first hand about their efforts, vision,
successes, frustrations, and concerns. Class lectures and readings will provide a contextual framework for
these visits. You’ll learn about why and how urban disinvestment happened and about historical efforts
to revive cities and you’ll be challenged to think critically about current revitalization efforts. At the end
of the course, you should be able to explain the forces that produced urban disinvestment, describe a
variety of strategies used to revitalize cities, and think critically about their objectives, goals, and
intended and unintended consequences.
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Your preparation and participation are essential for a productive and successful class. Please read all
assigned materials before class to provide a solid foundation for discussion and field visits. You’ll write 4
short reflection papers to link what you learn in the field with what you learned in the traditional
classroom. These reflection papers will help you to prepare for the mid-term and final. The midterm
and final exams are take home exams. Don’t get quite so excited. Take home exams require even more
careful and thoughtful answers that draw on the course material. If you intend to earn an A, that means
engaging with the readings, class discussions, and field visits.
Course Material
Course reading, viewing, and listening materials are available on the Sakai course website, on the Internet, and in a few
cases, on electronic reserve through the RU Library.
Undergraduate material is listed first. Material with asterisks is optional.
*Masters students read the undergraduate material plus the material with one asterisk. Readings with
two asterisks are optional.
**Doctoral students may elect to read any or all of the material assigned for undergrads and masters
students and select at least one item with two asterisks.
Grading
Attendance & Participation
10%
To get full credit for participation, attend class & tours, read, engage thoughtfully and come prepared to
discuss urban revitalization. If you miss class, download the presentation slides from Sakai and ask a
colleague for notes. Please turn off digital devices prior to entering class to ensure that nothing on your
person hums, vibrates, rings, or tweets. You are welcome to take photographs on tours.
Reflection Papers 20%
Submit four two-page reflection paper (undergraduates double space; graduates single space) on Sakai.
Due dates are noted in the syllabus. The reflection papers present an opportunity for you to think
critically about what you learn in the classroom and from the readings with what you learn while in the
classroom of the city. A well written reflection paper will do more than describe the literature and tours.
Think about a theme to unite your reflection paper. What did you take away from the tour? What key
issues and themes were discussed? How do you link the real world experience with the course materials?
Reflection paper check list
___ Integrated readings, tours, and discussion
___ Engaged critically with the material
___ Use quotes minimally and preferably not at all
___ Proofread
___ Did not use others’ work without attribution
___ Cited and sourced appropriately
I do not accept late reflection papers.
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Exams Mid-term 35%, Final 35%
Use blue or black ink. Make-up exams are only available in emergencies.
Academic Integrity
Please review the University’s Academic Integrity Policy here http://academicintegrity.rutgers.edu/
integrity.shtml. Please do not use someone else’s intellectual property without proper attribution. If you have any
questions about citing material, refer to an academic citation and style guide, ask me, another faculty member, or
a research librarian at one of the University’s libraries.
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Course Schedule
September 6. Introduction
Introductions and interests, Expectations, Disinvestment, Reading New Brunswick
12:00 Thinking Critically About Cities: New Brunswick Field Experience
View & Listen
• Gonzalez, David. 2009. “Faces in the Rubble.” New York Times. August 29. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/
nyregion/23bronx.html
• Revisiting the South Bronx, 35 Millimeters at a Time. NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/19/nyregion/
bronx_gonzalez/index.html
• Professor Briavel Holcomb talk on New Brunswick Urban Change http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/holcomb/newbrunswick.htm
• New Brunswick History website http://www.imhistories.org/newbrunswickwalk/
September 13. The Context for Urban Revitalization: Deindustrialization and Economic
Transformation
*Speaker: 10:00-­12:00 Dean James Hughes, EJB
Dreier, Peter, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom. 2004. Chapter 4. The Road Not Taken: How Government
Policies Promote Economic Segregation and Suburban Sprawl. In Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first
Century. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. Pp 103-151.
Gillette, Howard. 2003. “The Wages of Disinvestment: How Money and Politics Aided the Decline of Camden,
New Jersey.” in Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott. Ed. Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp139-158
**Fox Gotham, Kevin. 2001. Urban Redevelopment, Past and Present in Kevin Fox Gotham. Ed. Critical
Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. New York: JAI. 1-22.
**. Sidorick, Daniel. 2009. Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century.
**Beauregard, Robert. 2003. Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of Us Cities. New York: Routledge.
September 20. The Context for Urban Revitalization: Urban and “Stealth” Urban Policies
Dreier, Peter, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom. 2004. Chapter 5. Urban Politics and City Limits. In Place
Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century. 2nd Ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. pp 152-215.
**Jackson, Mandi Isaacs. 2008. Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press.
**Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. 2000. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press. Chapter 1. A Place to Call Home and Chapter 6. The Beginning of the End of a Modern
Ghetto. 13-64 & 238-280.
**Hirsch, Arnold. 1998 (1993). Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press.
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September 27. Public Private Partnerships
Tour 10:30 invited Chis Palladino, New Brunswick Development Corporation (DevCo) (arranged
with Jean Holtzv&Wayne Koehler) at the Heldrich Hotel
Hackworth, Jason. 2007. Chapter 4. The Public-Private Partnership. in Jason Hackworth. The Neoliberal City:
Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp61-76.
Godfrey, Brian. 1997. “Urban Development and Redevelopment in San Francisco.” Geographical Review. 87
3:309-333.
**Harvey, David. 1989. “From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance
in Late Capitalism.” Geografiska Annaler 71 B 1:3-17.
**Logan, John and Harvey Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
October 4. Neighborhoods - Community Development/ Community Planning
Tour 11:00 invited Lorena Gaibor, Unity Square Partnership
Wachter, Susan. 2005. “The Determinants of Neighborhood Transformations in Philadelphia. Identification and
Analysis: The New Kensington Pilot Study. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. http://
kabaffiliates.org/uploadedFiles/KAB_Affiliates.org/Wharton%20Study%20NK%20final.pdf
Parks, Virginia, and Warren, D. 2009. “The Politics and Practice of Economic Justice: Community Benefits
Agreements as Tactic of the New Accountable Development Movement.” Journal of Community Practice. 17:88-106.
Biberman, Nancy. 2009. “A Sense of Place: Mind and Body in Community Development.” Shelterforce. Fall/Winter
http://www.shelterforce.org/article/1854/a_sense_of_place_mind_body_in_community_development/
*Fisher, Robert. 1984. The Neighborhood Organizing “Revolution” of the 1960s. Chapter 5. Let the People Decide:
Neighborhood Organizing in America. Boston: Twayne. 91-120.
*Arnstein, Sherry. “A Ladder of Citizen Participation.” 1969. LeGates and Stout. The City Reader. 3rd Edition.
245-255.
1st REFLECTION PAPER DUE
October 11. Housing: Clearance, Ownership, HOPE VI, Multi-family, Mixed Income
Tour: 11:00 invited New Brunswick HOPE VI (Lord Stirling Management Office on George)
John Clarke, Executive Director, New Brunswick Housing Authority
Landis, John and McClure, Kirk. 2010. “Rethinking Federal Housing Policy.” Journal of the American Planning
Association 76 3: 319-348.
Axel Lute, Miriam with Michael Kane. 2009. “Slipping Away.” Shelterforce. Fall/Winter http://
www.shelterforce.org/article/1849/slipping_away/
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2010. Worst Case Housing Needs 2007. A Report to
Congress. http://www.huduser.org/portal/publications/affhsg/wc_HsgNeeds07.html
View
• The Community Builders. New Brunswick http://www.tcbinc.org/what_we_do/projects/fact_sheets/new_brunswick.pdf
2nd REFLECTION PAPER DUE
October 18. Midterm
October 25. Service Economy: Eds, Meds, and Peds
Invited: Tony Calcado, RU
Adams, Carolyn. 2003. “The Meds and Eds in Urban Economic Development.” Journal of Urban Affairs. 25
5:571-588.
Bartik, Timothy and Erickcek, George. 2008. “The Local Economic Impact of “Eds and Meds”: How Politics to
Expand Universities and Hospitals Affect Metropolitan Economies. Brookings. Metropolitan Policy Program.
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2008/1210_metropolitan_economies_bartik_erickcek/
metropolitan_economies_report.pdf
Gurwitt, Rob. 2008. “Eds, Meds and Urban Revival: In Many Cities, A Big University is Becoming the Economic
Engine that a Big Corporation Used to Be.” Governing. May. http://www.governing.com/topics/economic-dev/
Eds-Meds-and-Urban.html
Arden, Patrick. 2010. “Will NYC’s College Building Boom Bubble Pop?” Village Voice. July 27. http://
www.villagevoice.com/2010-07-27/news/nyc-college-building-boom-bubble?src=newsletter
Bagli, Charles. 2010. “Court Upholds Columbia Campus Expansion Plan.” New York Times. June 23. http://
www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/nyregion/25columbia.html
Pristin, Terry. 2010. “Lesson on Limits of Eminent Domain at Columbia. New York Times. January 19. http://
www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/realestate/commercial/20eminent.html
NYU Development. plannyc. Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. New York University http://
www.plannyc.org/taxonomy/term/713
Davis, Denise. 2003. “New Brunswick Community Health Assessment.” Background Report. New Brunswick:
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/
View
• Association for Children of New Jersey. City Kids County Data 2006. Newark City Profile http://www.acnj.org/main.asp?
uri=1003&di=946
• The University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia. Temple University. http://www.temple.edu/uccp/
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November 1. Reviving Commercial Corridors: BIDs/ Main Street Programs
Invited Tour 11:30 Tour of New Brunswick City Market (Special Improvement District)
Meltzer, Rachel, 2010. “Finding a Unified Research Agenda for the Many Faces of Business Improvement
Districts.” Review of Morcol, Hoyt, Meek, and Zimmerman Ed. Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories and
Controversies. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis Group CRC Press. Public Administration Review. May/June:
509-512. (Library E Reserve)
Morcol, Goktug, Hoyt, Lorlene, Meek, Jack, and Zimmermann, Ulf. 2006. Chapter 1. Business Improvement
Districts: Research, Theories and Controversies.” in Morcol, Hoyt, Meek, and Zimmerman Ed. Business
Improvement Districts: Research, Theories and Controversies. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis Group CRC Press. pp 1-26.
Boarnet, Marlon and Bogart, William. 1996. “Enterprise Zones and Employment: Evidence from New Jersey.”
Journal of Urban Economics 40 2:198-215
**Hansen, Susan B. Chapter 1. Comparing Enterprise Zones to Other Economic Development Techniques. In
Roy E. Green Ed. Enterprise Zones: New Directions in Economic Development. Newbury Park: Sage Publications. Pp7-26.
**Brintnall, Michael and Roy E. Green. Chapter 5. Framework for a Comparative Analysis of State-Administered
Enterprise Zone Programs. In Roy E. Green Ed. Enterprise Zones: New Directions in Economic Development. Newbury
Park: Sage Publications. Pp75-88
**Gittell, Marilyn, Kathe Newman, Janice Bockmeyer, and Robert Lindsay. 1998. “Expanding Community
Participation: The Federal Urban Empowerment Zones.” Urban Affairs Review. V33 n4:530-558.
View
• Main Street Highland Park HTTP://www.mainstreethp.org/
• Downtown New Brunswick http://www.newbrunswick.com/
November 8. Gentrification
Immergluck, Dan. 2009. “Large Redevelopment Initiatives,Housing Values and Gentrification: The Case of the
Atlanta Beltline.” Urban Studies. 46:1723-1745.
Lees, Loretta, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly. 2007. Gentrification. New York: Routledge. Chapters 2 & 3
*Smith, Neil. 1996. Chapters 1 and 2. In The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. New York:
Routledge. Pp 3-47.
**Smith, Neil. 2006. “Gentrification Generalized.” in Frontiers of Capital.
**Mele, Christopher. 2000. Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
**Wyly, Elvin and Daniel J. Hammel. 2001. “Gentrification, Housing Policy, and the New Context of Urban
Redevelopment” in Kevin Fox Gotham. Ed. Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. New York: JAI. 211-276.
THIRD REFLECTION PAPER DUE
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November 15. Creative
11:30 Guest Speaker: Juan Rivero, EJB Doctoral Student
Lugosi, Peter, Bell, David, Lugosi, Krisztina. 2010. “Hospitality, Culture and Regeneration: Urban Decay,
Entrepreneurship and the ‘Ruin’ Bars of Budapest.” Urban Studies 47:3079-3101.
Indergaard, Michael. 2009. “What to Make of New York’s New Economy? The Politics of the Creative Field.”
Urban Studies. 46:1063-1093.
Peck, Jamie. 2005. “Struggling with the Creative Class.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 29
4:740-770. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00620.x/full
*Giles, David. 2011. Growth by Design. New York City: Center for an Urban Future.
http://www.nycfuture.org/content/articles/article_view.cfm?article_id=1286&article_type=0
*La Gorce, Tammy. 2010. “An Arts District Takes Root in Orange.” New Jersey Monthly. February 8.
http://njmonthly.com/articles/lifestyle/an-arts-distrcit-takes-root-in-orange.html
**Chapple, Karen and Jackson, Shannon. 2010. “Commentary: Arts, Neighborhoods, and Social Practices:
Towards an Integrated Epistemology of Community Arts.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 29 4:478-490.
*Markusen, Ann and King, David. The Artistic Dividend: The Arts’ Hidden Contributions to Regional Development. Minneapolis: Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2001.
*Adams, Don and Goldbard, Arlene. Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development. New York:
Rockefeller Foundation, 2001.
View
• The Change You want to See http://thechangeyouwanttosee.com/
• Valley Arts District http://www.valleyartsdistrict.org/
• Collaborative Arts movement http://www.colab-arts.org/about/collaborative-arts
• Albus Cavus http://www.albuscav.us/about.html
November 22. THURSDAY CLASSES
November 29. Going Green: Open Space, Development, Food, Waste, Health
11:30 Guest Speaker: Invited Stephanie Greenwood, Newark Sustainability Officer
McGeehan, Patrick. 2011. “The HighLine Isn’t Just a Sight to See; It’s Also an Economic Dynamo.” The New
York Times. June 6. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/nyregion/with-next-phase-ready-area-around-highline-is-flourishing.html?emc=eta1
Born, Branden and Purcell, Mark. 2006. “Avoiding the Local Trap: Scale and Food Systems in Planning
Research.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. 26: 195-207.
deMause, Neil. 2010. “Farmers’ Markets, CSAs Struggle to Get Food Stamp Customers.” City Limits. July 28.
http://www.citylimits.org/news/articles/4116/farmers-markets-csas-struggle-to-get-food-stamp-customers
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Campbell, Marcia. 2004. “Building a common table: The role for planning in community food systems.” Journal of
Planning Education and Research 23: 341.
*Raja, Samina, Ma, Changxing, and Yadav, Pavan. 2008. “Beyond food deserts - measuring and mapping racial
disparities in neighborhood food environments.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 27: 469-482.
**Walker, Richard. 2007. The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. Seattle: The University of
Washington Press.
**Re-regionalizing the Food System Special Issue. 2010 Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society. 3
(2) July http://cjres.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/3/2/295
**Raja, Samina, Yin, Li, Roemmich, James, Ma, Changxing, Epstein, Leonard, Yadav, Pavan, and Ticoalu, Alex
Brian. 2010. “Food Environment, Built Environment, and Women’s BMI: Evidence from Erie County, New
York.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. 29 4:444-460.
**Wekerle, Gerda R. 2004. “Food justice movements: Policy, planning, and networks.” Journal of Planning Education
and Research 23: 378-386.
**Johnson, Josee and Lauren Baker. 2005. Eating Outside the Box: FoodShare’s good food box and the challenge
of scale. Agriculture and Human Values 22: 313-325.
**Hamm, Michael W., and Anne C. Bellows. 2002. U.S.-based community food security: Influences, practice,
debate. Journal for the Study of Food and Society 6, (1): 31.
**Pothukuchi, Kameshwari. 2004. Community food assessment - A first step in planning for community food
security. Journal of Planning Education and Research 23, (4): 356-77.
View
• Plugging the Grocery Gap in Auburn Gresham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wdD9vvTr0&feature=fvsr
• Healthy Communities: New York City Exploring the Intersection of Community Development and Health. Conference. Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
• New York City Department of City Planning. 2010. Going to Market: New York City’s Neighborhood Grocery Store and
Supermarket Shortage http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/supermarket/index.shtml
FOURTH REFLECTION PAPER DUE
December 6. Foreclosure
Immergluck, Dan. 2008. “Community Response to the Foreclosure Crisis.” Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta:
Community Affairs Discussion Paper. No. 01-08 October 10. http://www.frbatlanta.org/filelegacydocs/
dp_0108.pdf
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2010. Report to Congress on the Root Causes of
the Foreclosure Crisis. http://www.huduser.org/portal/publications/hsgfin/foreclosure_09.html
This American Life. The Giant Pool of Money. NPR. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/
episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money
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December 13. Tourism, Sports, and Mega Developments
InitedDamon Rich. Newark Passaic Riverfront Revival http://newarksriver.wordpress.com/
about/
Governor’s Island, New York City. July 2010 (Newman)
Raco, Mike and Tunney, Emma. 2010. “Visibilities and Invisibilities in Urban Development: Small Business
Communities and the London Olympics 2012.” Urban Studies 47:2069-2091.
Fox Gotham, Kevin. 2010.”Resisting Urban Spectacle: The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and the
Contradictions of Mega Events.” Urban Studies. 48:197-214. http://usj.sagepub.com/content/48/1/197.full.pdf
Eeckhout, Bart. 2001. “The “Disneyfication” of Times Square: Back to the Future?” in Kevin Fox Gotham. Ed.
Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. New York: JAI. 379-428.
Gross, Courtney. 2009. “Waiting to Wade.” Gotham Gazette. August 10 http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/
issueoftheweek/20090810/200/2983
**Eisinger, Peter. 2000. The Politics of Bread and Circuses: Building the City for the Visitor Class. Urban Affairs
Review 35 (3):316-333
Strom, Elizabeth. 2002. “Converting Pork into Porcelain: Cultural Institutions and Downtown Development.”
Urban Affairs Review 38 1:3-21.
**Lloyd, Richard and Clark, Terry Nichols. 2001. “The City as an Entertainment Machine.” in Kevin Fox
Gotham. Ed. Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. New York: JAI 357-378.
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**Smith. Terry. 2006. The Bilbao Affect: Culture as Industry in The Architecture of Aftermath. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press. pp19-34.
**Judd, Dennis. 2002. Chapter 13. Promoting Tourism in US Cities. In Fainstein, Susan and Scott Campbell, eds.
2002. Readings in Urban Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
**Fox Gotham, Kevin. 2002. “Marketing Mardi Gras: Commodification, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of
Tourism in New Orleans.” Urban Studies 39 1: 1735-1756.
View
• Central New Jersey Convention and Visitors Bureau http://www.gocentraljersey.com/
• New York City Department of City Planning. Vision 2020. NYC Comprehensive Waterfront Plan http://
www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/cwp/index.shtml
• Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Waterfront Agenda http://www.waterwire.net/
• NYC Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy http://www.nycedc.com/ProjectsOpportunities/CurrentProjects/Citywide/
WaterfrontVisionAndEnhancementStrategy/Pages/WaterfrontVisionandEnhancementStrategy.aspx
FOURTH REFLECTION PAPER DUE
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