CMU 51-774 : Texts

Main texts, available in bookstore and on reserve at library:

Tuan, Yi-Fu . 1977. Space and Place-The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

(1/25) Read the whole book, according to guidelines provided.

(3/21) Revisit a chosen theme, according to guidelines provided.

Jackson, John Brinkerhoff . 1984. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale Press.

(2/1) "The Word Itself," pp. 1-8; "A Puritan Looks at Scenery," pp. 57-64; "Concluding with Landscapes," pp. 145-157.

(3/14) "The Movable Dwelling and How it Came to America," pp. 89-102.

Doheny Farina, Stephen. 1996. The Wired Neighborhood. New Haven: Yale Press.

(2/1) Part 1. "Lost in the Solitude of My Virtual Heart." pp. 3-37.

(3/21) Part 4. "The Wired Neighborhood." Especially chapter 9, "The Communitarian Vision," pp. 121-137, but also skim to the end of the book.

Lyndon, Donlyn and Charles W. Moore. 1994. Chambers for a Memory Palace. Cambridge: MIT Press.

(2/15) All chapter prologues.

(3/14) Choose any 4 chapters.

Mitchell, William . 1999. E-Topia. Cambridge: MIT Press.

(2/22) Chapters 1-4, pp. 1-68.

(2/29) One of chapters 5-10, by random assignment .

Wood, Denis . 1992. The Power of Maps. New York: Guilford Press.

(4/4) Chapter 3. "Every Map Shows This...Not That". pp 48-69. Chapter 7. "The Interest the Map Serves can be Yours". pp 182-195.

Supplemental readings, on reserve at library:

Bloomer, Kent., and Charles Moore. 1977. Body, Memory, and Architecture. New Haven: Yale Press. Chapters 1 and 5, pp. 1-14 and 37-44.
Golledge, Reginald. and Robert Stimson. 1997. Spatial Behavior-A Geographic Perspective. New York: Guilford Press. Sections 5.3-5.5. "Spatial Ability". pp 156-164.
Lakoff, George., and M Johnson. 1999. Philosophy in the Flesh. New York: Basic Books. Chapters 1-3. Pp. 3-45.
Lynch, Kevin. 1960. The Image of the City. Cambridge: MIT Press. Chapter III. "The City Image and its Elements." pp. 46-90.

For further reading...

Boyer, Christine. 1994. The City of Collective Memory. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Eilan, Naomi, Rosaleen McCarthy, and Bill Brewer (eds), (ed. 1993. Spatial Representation-Problems in Philosphy and Psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Higuchi, Tadahiko. 1983. The Visual and Spatial Stucture of Landscapes. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Mitchell, William. 1996. City of Bits. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. 1977. Topophilia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.