Coming Weeks

Dear All,

Below is a schedule of Discussants (beginning with Johannesburg - before that we had Marissa and Carolina leading discussions - check for your discussion session). We have two sessions without discussants. I'd like one of you to sign up for those. This week on Oct 11th (tomorrow), let us recap the discussions of Johannesburg (Caitlyn) and Graham (Elyse). On the 13th, we should meet in the Sheila Johnson Gallery (2 W. 13th Street) and listen to Victoria Marshall and Brian McGrath on mega-cities and climate change - this is a very very important emerging field so it would be good to incorporate this in our discussions. On 18th and 20th we have films scheduled and on the 25th and the 27th we have 2 more discussion sessions - for those sessions, we will combine the following:

October 25th: Varnelis, the two Gandy pieces, Keller Easterling and the first Simone piece (people as infrastructure - the second Simone piece will be a recommended reading) & Oct 27: Weizman and Rao

November 1 and 3 will be as per the syllabus. November 8 and 10 - presentations. A separate note on Fieldwork and other assignments.

Assignment #2: Turn it in anytime in the next two weeks (last date - October 18th).

Fieldwork - You should be prepared for a brief discussion tomorrow (October 11) on your fieldwork - field sites and methodology. So far I have the following groups:

1. East River Fishing/Bronx - Elias and Daniella

2. Urban Farms - Caitlyn, Marissa and ???

3. Occupy Wall Street - Oscar, Norhan and Carolina

4. Keri - The Scrapyard

5. Arkady - The Hole?

6. Sophia, Elyse, Zoe and Dimitry - I do no have you down for anything (Sophia and Zoe, if I missed you in class apologies, just let me know tomorrow what your project is).

We'll recap on the fieldwork project tomorrow. We've had a lot of discussion on what is infrastructure etc. Now its time to go out and do the research. Remember you have roughly 4 weeks left for your presentations.

Best,

Vyjayanthi

Discussant Lists:

1. Johannesburg discussion - Caitlyn

2. Graham, Disrupted Cities Discussion - Elyse

3. Simone Discussion - Oscar

4. Varnelis Discussion - Marissa

5. Matthew Gandy - Cyborg Urbanization Discussion - no discussant

6. Keller Easterling + Simone Discussion - Sophia

7. Gandy - Rethinking Urban Metabolism - Elyse

8. Weizman and Rao - Norhan

9. Simone City Life - Elias

10. Graham - The City Economy - Carolina

11. Wilson - Bangkok - Marissa

& Nainan on Mumbai - Keri

12. Neuwirth, Davis and Perleman - Norhan and Zoe

13. Ghanam on Cairo - no discussant

14. Appadurai and Bayat - Elias and Sophia

15. Hansen and Verkaaik - no discussant

16. Balibar, Graham and Smith - Arkady and Daniella