Readings for today:
- Michel DeCerteau "Walking in the City," from The Practice of Everyday Life.
- Luis Aponte-Pares, “Casitas Place and Culture: Appropriating Place in Puerto Rican Barrios,” Places, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1997.
- Guide: An overview on space & place (including notes on de Certeau's essay).
- David Harvey, "Space as a Keyword" in Spaces of Capitalism (Verso, 2006)
- Tim Cresswell, "Defining Place," in Place: A Short Introduction (chapter 1).
- David Harvey and Raymond Williams, "Militant Particularism and Global Ambition: The Conceptual Politics of Place, Space, and Environment in the Work of Raymond Williams," Social Text, No. 42, Spring 1995, pp. 69-98.
- Andy Merrifield, "The Dialectics of Dystopia: Disorder and Zero Tolerance in The City," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, June 2000, Vol. 24, Iss. 2; pg. 473-489.
- Andy Merrifield, "The Urbanization of Labor: Living-Wage Activism in the American City," Social Text, March 2000, Vol. 18, Iss. 1; pg. 31-54.
- David Nye, "Introduction" and "Constructing Nature: Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon" in Narratives and Spaces, pp. 1-24.
- Derek Gregory, "Between the book and the lamp: imaginative geographies of Egypt, 1849-50," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 20, Number 1, March 1995 , pp. 29-57.
- Espen Aarseth, "Allegories of Space: The Question of Spatiality in Computer Games." Cybertext Yearbook 2000. Ed. Markku Eskelinen, Raine Koskimaa. Jyväskylä, Finland: University of Jyväskylä, 2000.
