W1     Jan 11         -course intro-

W2    Jan 18        Territorialize + Urbanize + Nationalize
+Mark Pimlott, Without and Within (Rotterdam: Episode Publishers, 2007), 59-109
+ Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (NY: Verso, 1983), 1-36

W3    Jan 25        Assemblages of Territory, a Background
+Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority and Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006) 3-23; 378-398
+ Achille Mbembe “At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa” in Globalization ed. Arjun Appadurai (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001) 22-51
+ Philippe Rekacewicz “Mapping Concepts” in Globalization ed. Arjun Appadurai (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001) 52-55.

W4    Feb 01        Trans-
+Michael Peter Smith, Transnational Urbanism (Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), 1-47.
+Arjen Mulder, “Transurbanism”  Introduction in Transurbanism, Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder, eds. (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2002) 3-15
+Arjun Appadurai, “The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination” in in Transurbanism, Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder, eds. (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2002) 32-47

W5    Feb 08        Flatten
+Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat 3rd Edition (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007) 51-199

W6    Feb 15        ReMap and ReRepresent
+ David Pinder, ”Subverting cartography: the situationists and maps of the city”, in Environment and Planning A, 28, 1996 pp. 405-427.
+Charles Waldheim, “Aerial Representation and the Recovery of Landscape” in Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture James Corner, ed. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999) 120-139

W7    Feb 29        Embrace the Information Age
+Michael Kubo and Jaime Salazar, A Brief History of the Information Age” in Verb Matters, Barcelona, Actar: 2005) 2-17
+Bob Hanke, “McLuhan, Virilio and Electric Speed in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” in Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), 121-156
+[extra]+Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority and Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006) 328-377

W8    March 07    Make Exceptions
+ Keller Easterling, Enduring Innocence Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 1-14; 135-159; 185-196.
+ [extra]+ Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (Chicago: Stanford University Press, 2005), 1-31.

W9    March 14    Contaminate
+Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Case for Contamination”, The New York Times, January 1, 2006, sec 6, 30-37, 52.
+Log Journal issue 10, Summer/Fall 2007 [pick 2 articles and compare/contrast]

W11    March 28    ReTerritorialize XL
+K. Olds, “Globalization and the production of new urban spaces: Pacific Rim megaprojects in the late 20th century,” Environment and Planning A, vol. 27 (1995) 1713-1743.

W12    April 04         ReTerritorialize L
+Lars Spuybroek, “The Structure of Vagueness” in Transurbanism, Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder, eds. (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2002) 65-77
+Edward Soja, “Restructuring the industrial Capitalist City” in Transurbanism, Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder, eds. (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2002) 88-101
+Mark Wigley, “Resisting the City” in Transurbanism, Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder, eds. (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2002) 102-121

W13    April 11        ReTerritorialize M-S
+Alex Wall, Programming the Urban Surface” in Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture James Corner, ed. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999) 232-249
+Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ashley Schafer,  ‘On the Surface” in Praxis 9, 2007
+Andrew Payne, “Surfacing the New Sensorium” in Praxis 9, 2007, p5-13