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IDSEMUG 2002 - Land and Property

Description
New Yorkers talk about real estate the way most people talk about the weather. We know each others’ mortgage interest rates, rental costs, and amenities. We calculate our affective ties based on neighborhood-to-neighborhood subway travel and make lifelong commitments based on rent stabilization. How did we get to be this way? This course examines the long history of real estate and land use in New York through the lens of the Lower East Side/East Village. We will encounter the work of historians, geographers, sociologists, activists, environmentalists, and journalists to excavate the meaning of land and property in this dense and culturally rich urban neighborhood. As part of our classroom-based research, we will also collaborate with the Cooper Square Community Land Trust, a growing and revolutionary East Village institution, to investigate new ways to re-consider land not only as an exchangeable commodity, but as a social, cultural, and natural urban resource. Readings will include Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850, Janet Abu-Lughod, From Urban Village to East Village, Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier, Amy Starecheski, Ours to Lose, and Miranda Martinez, Power at the Roots.
Recent Professors
Recent Semesters
Spring 2019
Credits
4