HISTORY OF ART 283: The Modern City



HISTORY OF ART 283: The Modern City SCHEDULE

Prof. David B. Brownlee and Mr. Peter Clericuzio Fall 2007

OFFICE HRS: Brownlee (Wednesdays, 3-5, in Jaffe 106; please make appointments in advance at dept. office) Clericuzio (Thursdays, 1-2)

EMAIL: dbrownle@sas.upenn.edu

clericuz@sas.upenn.edu

Lecture Section for the Week

S 5 Introduction none

7 The ancient and medieval city

* 10 The Renaissance and Baroque ideal city Philadelphia:

12 Philadelphia: The Green Country Town medieval and Enlightenment

14 Philadelphia; the First Capital

17 Philadelphia: The age of Furness Philadelphia:

19 Philadelphia: Suburban tales river to river

21 ---

* 24 London: 17th and 18th centuries The suburb

26 London: John Nash

28 (Research workshop)

O 1 London: Victoria's Capital The home

3 London: Commerce and Transportation

5 London: Urban and suburban homes

8 London: The Garden City Ebenezer Howard

* 10 St. Petersburg: Founding

12 ---

15 --- (fall break) St. Petersburg film/

17 St. Petersburg: Neoclassicism review session

19 St. Petersburg: 19th-century patterns

22 MID-TERM EXAMINATION none

24 Paris: 17th century

26 Paris: 18th century and C.-N. Ledoux

29 Paris: Revolution and Empire Paris film

31 Paris: Restoration and July Monarchy

N 2 Paris: Second Empire

5 --- Term paper progress reports

7 Washington: Politics and Planning

9 Washington: The Capitol and White House

12 Washington: 19th-century growth Capital of the 19th century

14 The City Beautiful

16 Vienna: The Ringstrasse

19 Vienna: Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte none

21 Vienna: Freudian Themes

23 --- (Thanksgiving)

26 Boston: Beginnings, Bulfinch, and Beacon Hill Sitte and Freud

28 Boston: Greek Granite

30 ---

3 Boston: Back Bay Puritan Boston and

* 5 Boston: H. H. Richardson Quaker Philadelphia

7 Boston: The Emerald Necklace

Final Exam: December 13, 2007, 9-11 AM

* Papers due on these dates; see separate assignment sheets.

Attendance at discussion sections is REQUIRED.

Weighting: proposal 15%, mid term exam 25%, term paper 30%, final exam 30%

ALL assigned work must be completed to receive a passing grade in the course.

HISTORY OF ART 283: The Modern City Writing and WATU

Prof. David B. Brownlee and Mr. Peter Clericuzio Fall 2007

As an undergraduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences you are required to fulfill the Writing Requirement. Students who began their studies before the fall of 2005 may satisfy the Writing requireemtn of the College of Arts and Sciences by taking two WATU  (“Writing Across the University”) courses. This class can be used to fulfill half of that requirement. (See for more detailed  explanation.)

WATU students will submit drafts of the two writing assignments two weeks in advance of their deadline. They and the TA (Peter Clericuzio) will have individual conferences during the following  week to discuss their papers, and the TA will make suggestions for  revisions.

While non-WATU students are encouraged to submit drafts, this is not  required, and the same amount of help in making revisions cannot be  guaranteed. If you want or need extra writing attention, please sign  up as a WATU student, to ensure enough time with the TA.

WRITING RESOURCES AT PENN

The Writing Center is located at 3808 Walnut Street. 215-573-2729



There are three ways to get help from the Writing Center:

1. Schedule an Appointment

Writing Consultants, who are graduate students from various departments and schools, are available by appointment to review and  discuss papers.

2. Visit during Drop-in Hours

Writing Advisors located at Kelly Writers House, 38th & Locust Walk (7-10 pm Sunday through Thursday, no appointment necessary). Writing Advisors are undergraduates specially trained to advise peers about writing.

3. On-Line Advice

Students can submit up to 1250 words (approx 4 pages of text) on-line and receive comments from undergraduate writing advisors generally within 24 hours.

RESEARCH AND PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism in all forms will not be tolerated in this class. The Code of Academic Integrity is very clear and punishment for violators is very strict (see upenn.edu/osl/acadint.html for University Policy).

The proper citation of resources and other aspects of research will be discussed in section throughout the semester. Please contact Professor Brownlee (dbrownle@sas.upenn.edu) or Mr. Clericuzio (clericuz@sas.upenn.edu) with any questions. The Fine Arts Library’s reference librarians are also eager to assist students. The Specialist Liaison for Art History is Dr. William Keller (wkeller@pobox.upenn.edu).

HISTORY OF ART 283 READING LIST

Prof. David B. Brownlee Fall 20057

All books on reserve at the Fisher Fine Arts Library. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are available for purchase at the Pennsylvania Book Center, 130 South 34th Street. This is NOT the Penn Bookstore on Walnut Street.

*E. Digby Baltzell. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class, Authority, and Leadership. New York: Free Press, 1979. F 73.3 B33

Walter Benjamin. “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century” [1939] in The Arcades Project. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1999. pp. 15-26. photocopy on reserve

Allan Braham. The Architecture of the French Enlightenment. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California

Press, 1980. NA 1046 B75

* Wolfgang Braunfels. Urban Design in Western Europe: Regime and Architecture, 900-1900. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Museum NA9183 B7213 1988

* William Croft Brumfield. A History of Russian Architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

NA 1181 B72 1993

Iurii A. Egorov. The Architectural Planning of St. Petersburg. Tr. Eric Dhulosch. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1969. NA 9211 E413 (for reference only)

*Sigmund Freud. On Dreams. [1901] New York: W.W. Norton 1990.

*Ebenezer Howard. Garden Cities of Tomorrow. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965. HT 161 H6 1965

*Kenneth T. Jackson. The Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the UnitedtStates. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. HT U5 J33 1985

*Donald J. Olsen. The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

NA 970 O47 1986

David H. Pinkney. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. DC 733

P59

John W. Reps. Monumental Washington: The Planning and Development of the Capital City. Princeton: Princeton

University Press, 1967. NA 9127 W2 R4

*Carl E. Schorske. Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. New York: Knopf, 1980. DB 851 S42 1980

* Camillo Sitte. City Planning According to Artistic Principles. Tr. George and Christine Collins. New York: Random House, 1965. NA 9030 S613 1965

*John Summerson. Georgian London. 3d. edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978. NA 970 S8 1978

George Tatum. Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture. 2d. edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961. NA 735 P5 T3 1961

*Walter Muir Whitehill. Boston: A Topographical History. 2d. edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,

1968. F 73.3 W57 1968

*Gwendolyn Wright. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. New York: Random House,

1981. HD 7293 W74

HISTORY OF ART 283 READINGS

Prof. David B. Brownlee Fall 2007

To be read before the Mid-term Examination

INTRODUCTORY:

Olsen chapts. 1-2, 15-18.

Braunfels pp. 276-278, 294-339

PHILADELPHIA:

Tatum pp. 17-127, 151-202.

LONDON:

Summerson chapts. 1-7, 12-17, 19-21, epilogue.

Olsen chapts. 3 and 12.

Howard pp. 7-28, 41-69, 89-159.

ST. PETERSBURG:

Brumfield chapts 9, 10, 12 (only pp. 348-370), 13 (only pp. 393-405).

SUBURBS SECTION: Jackson chapts. 1-7.

THE HOUSE SECTION:

Olsen chapts 7-11.

Wright introduction and chapts. 2-8.

To be read before the Final Examination

PARIS:

Braham pp. 158-209.

Pinkney pp. 3-104, 127-221.

Olsen chapts. 4 and 13.

Benjamin complete.

WASHINGTON:

Reps pp. 1-69, 94-138.

VIENNA:

Schorske pp. xvii-xxx, 3-115, 181-278.

Olsen chapts. 5, 6, 14.

Sitte pp. ix-xvii, 3-38, 47-53, 83-164.

Freud complete.

BOSTON:

Whitehill pp. 1-173.

Baltzell chapts. 1-3, 7-10, 14 (optional), 16

HISTORY OF ART 283 TERM PAPER ASSIGNMENT

Prof. David B. Brownlee Fall 2007

DEADLINES:

TOPIC SELECTION IS DUE AT 11 A.M. ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

• PROPOSALS ARE DUE AT 11 A.M., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10

• FINAL PAPERS ARE DUE AT 11 A.M., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5

Note that this is a three-part assignment, requiring topic selection, a research proposal, and a research paper.

TOPIC SELECTION. In order to assign each student a unique topic and to insure the timely commencement of research, you must identify three cities on which you would like to conduct research. You may rank your preferences (1, 2, 3). Select your cities from the attached list of suggestions, or seek prior approval for other cities. You should exploit your command of foreign languages to the greatest extent possible.

RESEARCH PROPOSAL. This must identify one or a small number of salient themes associated with your selected city between ca. 1750 and 1914, which you intend to explore in your research paper. It must identify the research resources. The proposal should take the form of a three-page essay and an annotated bibliography.

RESEARCH PAPER. The length of your paper should be 15-20 pages. You should focus your discussion on one or a small number of the themes that you identified in your research proposal. Do not attempt to survey all aspects of your city's development.

Plagiarism is a very serious offense against the standards of an academic community, and it will be treated very severely. Make sure you understand how to make proper acknowledgements of the research of others. Of course, the sources of all quotations, obscure facts, and interpretations other than your own must be footnoted, and a complete bibliography of works consulted is required.

Good writing is an essential part of your work. WATU and non-WATU students alike are encouraged to submit outlines and rough drafts of work for review by the instructors.

Extensions may only be granted by Prof. Brownlee, and they must be requested in person.

HISTORY OF ART 283 TERM PAPER TOPICS

Prof. David B. Brownlee Fall 2007

FRANCE

Bordeaux

Le Havre

Lille

Lyons

Marseilles

Nancy

Rennes

Rouen

Strasbourg

Toulouse

UNITED KINGDOM

Belfast

Birmingham

Bournemouth

Cardiff

Derby

Durham

Edinburgh

Exeter

Glasgow

Leeds

Manchester

Nottingham

Port Sunlight

Swindon

Truro

York

SCANDINAVIA

Copenhagen

Oslo

Reykjavik

Stockholm

GERMANY

Aachen

Braunschweig

Bremen

Düsseldorf

Frankfurt

Hamburg

Hannover

Stuttgart

ITALY

Bologna

Genoa

Milan

Naples

Palermo

Turin

Venice

OTHER EUROPE

Amsterdam

Athens

Basel

Bilbao

Brussels

Budapest

Cork

Dublin

Galway

Gdansk (Danzig)

Geneva

Lisbon

Lvov

Madrid

Moscow

Prague

Rotterdam

Santiago

Sebastopol

Valencia

Warsaw

ASIA

Ahmedabad

Beijing

Hyderabad (India)

Istanbul

Karachi

Kyoto

Jerusalem

Lahore

Manila

Saigon

Shanghai

Singapore

Tehran

Yokohama

AFRICA

Abuja

Alexandria

Cape Town

Durban

Harare

Kinshasa

Lagos

Monrovia

Rabat

Tunis

AUSTRALIA

Adelaide

Darwin

Perth

Sydney

LATIN AMERICA

Bogotà

Caracas

Guadalajara

Havana

Lima

Montevideo

Quito

San Juan

São Paolo

CANADA

Calgary

Edmonton

Ottawa

Québec

Regina

Vancouver

Winnipeg

USA

Albuquerque

Alexandria, VA

Austin

Buffalo

Charlotte

Chicago

Columbus, OH

Dallas

Denver

Durham, NC

El Paso

Indianapolis

Jacksonville

Las Vegas

Louisville

Memphis

Miami

Minneapolis

Milwaukee

Norfolk

Oklahoma City

Omaha

Orlando

Phoenix

Portland, OR

Raleigh

Sacramento

Salt Lake City

San Antonio

San Diego

Santa Fé

Seattle

Spokane

Tampa

Tucson

HISTORY OF ART 283 REFERENCE WORKS FOR TERM PAPERS

Prof. David B. Brownlee Fall 2007

All books are either on reserve or in the reference section of the Fine Arts Library.

Erwin Gutkind. International History of City Development. 8 vols. New York: Free Press, 1964-1972. (1: Central Europe; 2: Alpine and Scandinavian Countries; 3: Spain and Portugal; 4: Italy and Greece; 5: France and Belgium; 6: Netherlands and Great Britain; 7: Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary; 8: Bulgaria, Romania, and the USSR.) HT 111 G8

Pierre Lavedan. Histoire de l'urbanisme, vol. 2, Renaissance et temps modernes. Paris: H. Laurens, 1959. NA 9030 L3 vol. 2

________. Histoire de l'urbanisme, vol. 3, Epoque contemporaine. Paris: H. Laurens, 1952. NA 9030 L3 vol. 3

John W. Reps. Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. HT 123.5 A17 R46

________. The Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning in the American West before 1890. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1981. HT 123 R44 1981

________. The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. NA 9105 R45

________. Tidewater Towns: City Making in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1972. HT 167.5 V8 R46

_______. Town Planning in Frontier America. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1980. NA 9106 R46 1980

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