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You may also click to download the course syllabus. The syllabus has been formatted as portable document files (pdfs) for ease when printing. This format necessitates the Adobe Acrobat Reader. (If you encounter any problems viewing the file you will need to download a browser plug-in from the Adobe Acrobat Reader Web site.) Weekly Course Outline and Links to Image Portfolios:
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1. January 23 | Introduction. Planning and Organizing of the Group Projects |
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2. January 30 | Future Visions: The
Design Proposals for the World Trade Center Site and Mayor Bloomberg'Vision
for Lower Manhattan View: Rebuilding. A Study Exhibition of World Trade Center Site Proposals, Commentaries Responses, at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, open Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. [click to view] World Trade Center site design proposals at the Winter Garden, World Financial Center, West Street between Vesey and Liberty Streets, open daily 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Mayor Bloomberg’s “Vision for Lower Manhattan” [click to download] |
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3. February 6 | Planning Lower Manhattan,
1960s Read: Willis, Carol, editor. The Lower Manhattan Plan. The 1966 Vision for Downtown New York. A Reprint of the 1966 Report by the New York City Planning Commission. New York: Princeton Architectural Press/The Skyscraper Museum, 2002. |
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4. February 13 | The Memorial at Ground
Zero Guest: Marian Imperatore, Civic Alliance, Chair, Memorial Working Group. Read: Draft Memorial Mission Statement and Memorial Program. [click to download] Daniel Libeskind, Leon Wieseltier, Sherwin Nuland. Monument and Memory, The Columbia Seminar on Art in Society, September 2002. [click to view video] If you encounter any problems you will need to download a plug-in from the Real Player Web site. |
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5. February 20 | The World Trade Center Read: Gillespie, Angus Kress. Twin Towers. The Life of New York City’s World Trade Center, rev. ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002 (orig. pub. 1999). |
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6. February 27 | Digital Project: Presentation
of Work in Progress |
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7. March 6 | History in the Urban Landscape Read: Boyer, M. Christine. The City of Collective Memory. Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994. Part 2 and Epilogue. Violich, Francis. The Bridge to Dalmatia. A Search for the Meaning of Place. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Chaps. 1 & 7. |
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8. March 13 | Battery Park Guest: Robert Campbell, architectural critic Read: Gordon, David. Battery Park City. Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront. Amsterdam, 1997. Site Visit: Battery Park |
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9. March 27 | Directing Future Growth: Centralize
or Decentralize? Read: Sassen, Saskia. The Global City. New York, London, Tokyo, 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Pres, 2001. Chaps. 2, 5, 10 & Epilogue. Paaswell, Robert. “A Time for Transportation Strategy,” in Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, eds., After the World Trade Center. Rethinking New York City. N.Y.: Routledge, 2002. Chap. 16. Sorkin, Michael. “The Center Cannot Hold,” in After the World Trade Center. Chap. 18. Bender, Thomas. “The New Metropolitanism,” The Unfinished City. New York and the Metropolitan Idea. N.Y.: The New Press, 2002. Chap. 13. |
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10. April 3 | Roosevelt Island Site Visit: Roosevelt Island (Aerial Tramway Station, 2nd Ave. at 59th St.) Read: Ivan Steen, “New Town in the city: Edward J. Logue and His Vision for Roosevelt Island,” minutes of lecture, City Seminar, December 9, 2002. Land Use and the Public Realm in Lower Manhattan Guest: Donald Shillingburg, architect, participant in Public Realm Study for the LMDC Read: Koolhaas, Rem, and Mau, Bruce. “The Generic City,” S, M, L, XL. New York, 1995, pp. 1239-1267. (Avery Reserves) Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. New York: 1977. Chaps. 1 & 13. (Photocopies on shelf) |
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11. April 10 | Times Square Guest: James Traub Read: Reichl, Alexander. Reconstructing Times Square. Politics and Culture in Urban Development. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Chaps. 4-7. Further Reading: Sagalyn, Lynne B. Times Square Roulette. Remaking the City Icon. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 2001. |
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12. April 14, Monday, 7-9PM, Dinner will be served Digital Project: Presentation of Work in Progress |
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April 15, 6-8 PM A New Transportation Center for Lower Manhattan A Public Program with Robert Davidson, chief architect of the Port Authority Bill Wheeler, chief of planning, MTA Arthur Imperatore, New York Waterways |
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13. April 17 No Class |
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14. April 24 Digital Project Workshop |
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15. May 1| Real Estate Dynamics Guest: Philip E. Aarons, Millennium Partners (Please note this class will take place at Columbia in our regular classroom, not at the Ritz-Carlton.) |
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16. May 5, 7-9 PM Digital Project: Final Presentations and Conclusion |
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