Cities of the New World
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
Graeme Davison
8 points * 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week * First semester * Clayton * Prohibition: HSY2660 (1993)
A comparative study of urbanising societies in regions newly settled by Europeans during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two cities - Melbourne and Chicago - will be studied in detail. Among the themes to be discussed are the causes of city growth; relationships between the metropolis and the frontier; sources of immigration and patterns of acculturation; the development of urban transport systems and suburbanisation, problems of urban poverty, public health and crime; urban segregation and class relations; urban politics; and movements for urban reform and city planning.
Assessment
Written (5000 words): 80% * Examination (1 hour): 20%
Prescribed texts
Davison G The rise and fall of marvellous Melbourne MUP, 1978
Frost L Australian cities in comparative view Penguin, 1990
Goldfield D and Brownell B Urban America: A history Houghton Mifflin, 1990
Recommended texts
Cannon M Life in the cities Nelson, 1975
Chudacoff H P The evolution of American urban society Prentice-Hall, 1981
Davison G and others (eds) The outcasts of Melbourne Allen and Unwin, 1985
Fitzgerald S Rising damp: Life and work in Sydney 1870-90 OUP, 1987
Jackson K Crabgrass frontier: The suburbanization of the United States OUP, 1985
McCarty J W and Schedvin C B Australian capital cities Sydney UP, 1978
Royko M Boss Richard J Daley of Chicago Signet, 1971