Social Housing and Segregation

Week 15 Social Housing and Segregation

Curated by Andrew Ashbury and Michael Nugent

October 23, 2020

Required readings

Lipsitz, George. “The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape.” Landscape Journal 26, no. 1 (2007): 10–23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43323751?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Bristol, Katharine G. “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-) 44, no. 3 (1991): 163-71. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1425266?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Further readings

Coates, Ta-Hehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic. June 2014. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

Hooks, Bell. “Again – Segregation must End.” In Belonging: A Culture of Place, 69-88,  New York: Routledge, 2009. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203888018/chapters/10.4324/9780203888018-8

Walks, Alan R. & Bourne, Larry S. “Ghettos in Canada’s Cities? Racial segregations, ethnic enclaves and poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas.” The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien 50, no. 3 (2006): 273-297. http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Walks-Bourne-2006-Ghettos-in-Canadas-Cities1.pdf

Phillips, Rhys. “Modern Living.” The Canadian Architect, March 1,  2001.  https://www.canadianarchitect.com/modern-living/

Published by Race | Space on October 21, 2020 at 5:40 pm under Week 15.

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