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HIST W3535 '''History of the City of New York''', taught by [[Kenneth Jackson]], is one of the most famous classes at Columbia.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2006/08/29/Orientation2006/Eight.Reasons.To.ReRegister-2250482.shtml Columbia Spectator: What You Must Take in Your Four Years Here]</ref> It is particularly well-known for its all-night bike tour of the city, led by Professor Jackson.
  
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"The all-night biking tour of New York alone makes this class worth it. The professor, [[Kenneth Jackson]], can be an uneven lecturer, but the topic is so interesting and the workload so manageable (homework is going on walking tours) that it would be a shame to miss."<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2006/08/29/Orientation2006/Eight.Reasons.To.ReRegister-2250482.shtml Columbia Spectator: What You Must Take in Your Four Years Here]</ref>
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== Requirements ==
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* Lectures
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* Readings - Empire City by Prof Jackson, plus a few other books
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* Total of 8 discussion sections throughout semester, with 300-500 word responses due for each section
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* 15-20 page walking tour of an assigned neighborhood, written in groups of three
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* Seven walking tours of the city (+1/3 of a grade if you go on twelve, +2/3 if you go on eighteen)
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* Midterm (20%) and final (40%)
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* Optional all-night bicycle tour of the city
  
 
== Syllabus ==
 
== Syllabus ==

Revision as of 14:07, 20 September 2007

HIST W3535 History of the City of New York, taught by Kenneth Jackson, is one of the most famous classes at Columbia.[1] It is particularly well-known for its all-night bike tour of the city, led by Professor Jackson.

Requirements

  • Lectures
  • Readings - Empire City by Prof Jackson, plus a few other books
  • Total of 8 discussion sections throughout semester, with 300-500 word responses due for each section
  • 15-20 page walking tour of an assigned neighborhood, written in groups of three
  • Seven walking tours of the city (+1/3 of a grade if you go on twelve, +2/3 if you go on eighteen)
  • Midterm (20%) and final (40%)
  • Optional all-night bicycle tour of the city

Syllabus

  1. Course introduction
  2. History as destiny: the case of NYC
  3. Dutch outpost; English prize
  4. Revolutionary battlefield
  5. The rise to North American dominance
  6. Making the city livable: fire and water
  7. Epidemics and sanitation
  8. City people: new ways of living in the metropolis
  9. Police, prostitution, and public order
  10. City boss and ward boss: the legacy of Tammany Hall
  11. Making the city livable: cemeteries, parks, and open space
  12. New York City and the transportation revolution
  13. The draft riots: immigration and race in New York
  14. The Brooklyn Bridge and the consolidation of greater New York
  15. Tenements and tenement house reform
  16. The making of a world city: 1880-1930
  17. Black New York
  18. Skyscraper city
  19. Popular culture
  20. Capital of the world: high culture and performing arts
  21. NYC in depression and decline: 1930-1977
  22. The world that Robert Moses made
  23. Conflict and compromise: the city as refuge and haven for dissent
  24. If Jane Jacobs returned to New York
  25. The return of a giant: NYC Reemergent

References

  1. ↑ Columbia Spectator: What You Must Take in Your Four Years Here
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