Cities and Suburbs

• Class number: 12728
• Term: Fall 2006
• Instructor: Terry J. Tondro

Cities and Suburbs is a course about urban form, and the laws local, state, and federal (including the U.S. Constitution) that affect that form. After beginning with a quick survey of the legal powers of local governments, we fill focus on various proposals for dealing with the problems associated with having many governmental units in a metropolitan area. For at least 50 years, our laws governing urban development have been based on a now obsolete pattern of metropolitan areas, in which central business districts are surrounded by residential suburbs. We still think on this grand scale of 1950s style urban renewal when we create something like Adriaen's Landing in order to solve Hartford's urban problems, or when we consider proposals for regional government even though most thoughtful urban critics are embracing some form of localism. We will consider the laws underlying the regionalist models of Portland, Or. and Minneapolis-St. Paul, as well as localist models such as Jane Jacobs' path-breaking paean on neighborhood life in Greenwich Village, New Urbanism neighborhoods, Community Development Corporations, and Business Improvement Districts. Running throughout the course will be concerns about the morality of racial and economic segregation of neighborhoods, the utility of federal intervention in municipal development patterns, the meaning and alleged harm of sprawl, and the significance of the so-called neighborhood school.

Course Schedule

• Date: Wednesday 09:00-12:00AM
• Location: KT 205

Course Information

• Catalog number-Section number: 708-01
• Course Type: Seminar
• Prerequisites: May Satisfy Writing Req.
• Credits (min/max): 3/3
• Subjects:
  • Property

Enrollment

• Enrollment status: Closed
• Current enrollment/capacity: 17/18
• Reserve population/capacity: 0/0
• Waitlist enrollment/capacity: 1/50

Grading

• Grade basis: Graded
• Satisifies Writing Requirement: UCWR
• Exam type: NO EXAM