Fall 2006
Revised September 6,
2006
Professor: John I. Gilderbloom
Urban and Public Affairs
Phone: 852-8557 John Gilderbloom
E-mail: John Gilderbloom
jigild01@louisville.edu / jgilde02@sprynet.com
This course outline will be posted and updated on my website: http://www.louisville.edu/org/sun/housing
Class Meeting: mostly every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30
a.m.—with several all day sessions as noted in the course outline--consequently
you will have one Saturday off September (Labor Day), October, and
November! We have found that it simply too
much to ask students to attend class every Saturday. We will usually meet at the
Office Hours:
John Gilderbloom: Thursday 8:00pm to 9:00 p.m.—
Community Housing Policy examines housing from a variety of viewpoints: sociological, psychological, economical, political, historical, design and planning perspectives. You can’t “do housing” from one kind of academic perspective it must be a multiple-perspective.
Course Description and Learning Objectives:
Topics to be covered are as
follows:
1. Housing as a symbol of self.
2. The impact of housing on individuals and groups.
3. How social and political factors structure housing markets inter-city differentials.
4. Sociological evaluation of housing policy on the federal, state, and local level.
5. Housing Design that is affordable and creates community.
6. Housing as an economic engine driving the local and national economies
7. How Mayors can impact housing—good and bad
8. Housing as a catalyst for growth and revitalization—live, work and play
This class is unique and different from what many of the classes you have taken here. This is a graduate seminar with lots of reading, discussion, debate and experiential learning. The class will have a number of guest lectures, walking tours, and slide presentations; learning is also designed to be “experiential” which means seeing, smelling, feeling and interacting with with residents, developers and designers. The class will attempt to understand the dynamics of slums and mansions, sprawl and new urbanism, historic preservation and modernism. We will meet with the key players in the cities development who are also national figures. Housing cannot be understood by just sitting in the classroom. Past student evaluations have given high marks for these out of classroom pedagogical experience. Across the country, most graduate classes on housing have this component. The course will be run as a seminar, so class discussion will be encouraged. We will also draw on my experience with developers, city councils, legislatures, and community organizations. As instructors, we reserve the right to make changes in the organization of the course; this allows the class to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the students and the professors.
The course strives to give a good working overview of housing from political, economic, sociological and planning perspectives. This course should apply to anyone who is interested in the areas of urban design, planning, real estate, banking, public administration and social services. In the past, advisors have been willing to designate this as an elective for a variety of majors including business, architecture, political science, social work, and economics. A number of former students have taken a variety of jobs including with architecture firms, city planning departments, real estate firms, and social service programs for the elderly and disabled community action organizations.
The four areas below are of equal weight and will be averaged out for a final grade:
(1) CLASS PARTICIPATION Since the course is designed as a seminar, it is expected that students come prepared to discuss the assigned readings of the week and if possible introduce relevant current events into class discussion. The first part of class will generally be in a lecture format, followed by a class discussion during the second half of class. We want you to come to all classes. All classes are interesting, important and thought provoking. If you are sick, have a family emergency, a boss that is making you work on a Saturday its OK to miss one session.
(2) MIDTERM—turn in first half of experiential journal Experiential Learning Journal: Reflections on what you
saw, reactions, reflections, analysis
and feelings to field trips, class presentations and assigned readings. Throughout the class I
will pose questions for you to answer in your journals. Students have found these journals to be very
exciting, creative, fun and challenging.
It must be typed. We encourage
students to use their cameras as part of this journal. You will present the experimental journal to
the class on October 8.
(3) FINAL—turn in second half of Experiential Learning Journal. Reflections
on what you saw, reactions, reflections, analysis and feelings to field trips,
class presentations and assigned readings. Throughout the class I will pose
questions for you to answer in your journals.
Students have found these journals to be very exciting, creative, fun
and challenging. It must be typed. We encourage students to use their cameras as
part of this journal. You will present
the experimental journal to the class
(4) PROJECT—This requirement must relate to the issues discussed in this class. The project can be a paper, a slide show, an architectural tour of housing or any creative endeavor one could think of utilizing. The project may either be an individual or two-student effort. Students must turn in a one-page proposal to the instructors by and have my approval in writing by September 30, 2005. Since you worked so hard on this project, a class presentation will also be expected on the last day of class on December 2 and December 9, 2005.
The following books and
reports are required reading:
1.
Redesigning
the American Dream. The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life by Dolores Hayden.
2.
The New
Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to
3. Promise and Betrayal: Universities and the
4. Suburban
Nation by Andres Duany,
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck
5.
6. House As a Mirror of Self : Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home by Clare Cooper Marcus
7.
Housing
Policy in the
Bacon, Edmund N. Design of Cities.
Bullard, Robert D. Dumping
in
Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis.
Capek, Stella and John Gilderbloom, Community versus
Commodity: Tenants and the
Cooper-Marcus, Clare,
Housing as a Mirror of Self,
Berkeley: Conari Press 1997 (Focuses on the psychology of housing using
Freud and a whole lot of C. J. Jung)
Dramstad, Wenche E., James D. Olson, and Richard T. T.
Forman. (Eds.) Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use
Planning.
Gilderbloom, John
Harker, Donald F. and Elizabeth Ungar Natter. Where
We Live.
Hiss, Tony. Experience of Place.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Live of Great American Cities.
Books, 1961. (An excellent view of city building by a
non-design professional.)
Jones, Tom, William Bettus, AIA, Michael Pyatok, FAIA. Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing.
Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Toward Architecture of Community. San
Francisco: McGraw-Hill, 1994. (An extremely important reference on
neo-traditional design.)
Kidder, Tracy. House.
Kelbaugh, Douglas. Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and
Regional Design.
Langdon, Philip.
Lynch, Kevin. The Theory of
Newman, Oscar. Defensible Space.
Newman, Oscar. Community of Interest. Garden City, NY:
Anchor Press, 1980. (The "bible" on gated communities.)
Olgyay, Victor. Design with Climate.
Rybczynski, Witold. Home: A Short History of and Idea.
Simonds, John Ormsbee.
Garden Cities 21.
Spirn, Anne Winston. The
Trulove, James,
Sustainable Homes: 26Designs that Respect the Earth
Van der Ryne and Peter Calthorpe. Sustainable
Communities.
Walter, Bob, et al. (Eds.) Sustainable Cities. Los Angles: Eco-Home Media, 1992. (Concepts and
strategies.)
Wekerle, Gerda R. and Carolyn Whitzman. Safe
Cities.
Wright,
Rodney, Sydney Wright, Bob Selby, Larry Dieckmann. The
Hawkweed Passive Solar House Book.
Introduction to the course; and outline of who we are. Feedback is asked from students in terms of course content, requirements, times and dates, and so on.
Research Tools: Please bring in your drawing of your childhood home so we can talk about its meaning and the impact of the exercise on your mental state.
After this symposium you are invited to my
neighborhood, Original Highlands Art and Music Festival is on Saturday
September 9 from 1:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. on the 900 block of
Session Three 09/16
http://www.countyclerk.jefferson.ky.us
go to the site see a picture of County Clerk Bobby Holsclaw, scroll down and it is the second box of the bottom of the screen on line records, click on that, brings up another page tells us what we have. Property is described in metes and bounds (this is old English law, this is not a typo) has the land been developed with subdivision plot and lot number. These records go back 1984 and images with records go back to June 1982.
Another internet site is property valuation site: http://www.pvalouky.org
Meaning of Home Symposium: Meeting of the minds between the
Session Four and Five 9/17 Architects House Tour noon until 6:00 pm
This tour is done on your own and you can bring a friend
with you. The homes are located
throughout the City. We recommend bringing
a camera. At 4:30 p.m. we will meet at my house or O’Shea’s to discuss what we
saw. Bring your spouse or significant other to this one! At 12 noon. The SUPA Family Picnic will be
held at
AIA (American Institute of Architects)/Central
Kentucky Chapter is pleased to announce 7 houses to be featured in this year's AIA
House Tour to Benefit Habitat for Humanity. All homes on the
tour are recently completed projects by local architects. The self-guided
tour will take place on Sunday, September 17, 2006
between the hours of 1:00 and 6:00pm. A $15 ticket gains you access to
all 7 houses and may be purchased at any of homes on the tour. Please
contact Sarah Mascarich to purchase tickets in advance or for more
information: sarah.m.mascarich@lrl02.usace.army.mil
or 502-315-6227. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to experience the
cutting edge of residential design in
This year’s tour includes an exciting mix of downtown multi unit condos, downtown & suburban single family homes, and river road single family homes. They are as follows:
2006 AIA HOUSE TOUR:
2. Butchertown houses
Architect: Michael Huston
Architect: Mark Isaacs, AIA/
Isaacs Associates Architects
4. Morris House Addition
1314
Architect: Mary Jackson, AIA
7107 River Road
Architect: Michael Barry
6. Keefe Residence
6902
Architect: Anne Del Prince, AIA
7. Shah Residence
Architects: Gary Watrous, AIA
Bonus Class —September 19 Tuesday
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Marriott Downtown
Hotel Donovan Rypkema on Second /
Visit to: Russell revitalization area, where students and faculty worked to rebuild a neighborhood.
Invited Guests
Gilderbloom’s
Session Seven 09/30—Downtown Loft Housing
Tour 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
For information: http://www.downtownhousingtour.com
502-583-1671
Present Proposed Final Projects—one to 2 page write up
John
Gilderbloom will discuss Chapters 3 and 4 of
Midterm
Exam and experiential journals must be turned in on or before October 3 in my
box!
Session Eight 10/07 No Class because extended all day tours AIA architectural tour September 10 and City Loft Tour, September 30
Make-up Films
Housing
Policy in the