Hello students:
I will use this space to communicate with you, but I also hope that you all use it as well to post questions, ideas, and links that come up over the course of the quarter.
Here is my TA information for this course:
Andrew Cheyne
Office Hours: 5-6 pm Wednesday at Perkz Cafe and by appointment.
Email: acheyne@ucsd.edu Please allow 24 hours for me to reply to your email, and I do not check email over the weekend.
Here is an example of the kind of posts you might consider for this blog:
As this course is intimately concerned with the connections between economic, urban, and environmental systems, here is a link to an article discussing what we might call the growing 'footprint' of Europe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/world/africa/14fishing.html
And here are links to some additional resources that will be useful to you in this class:
UN Habitat Report: State of the World's Cities 2006/7.
*This is the .pdf version of what we used in last year's class. The information is easy to read, includes a lot of charts and graphs, and really hones in on Professor Romo's points about sub-saharan Africa and Southeast Asia as the crucial sites for contemporary urban development
http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=3397&catid=7&typeid=46&subMenuId=0
Mike Davis, Planet of Slums This is simply an incredible, if gloomy book, about worldwide urbanization as the final buildout of humanity. Remember, this book is from a Marxist perspective, which is not something to chide but it's useful to remember that ALL texts have a position or 'take' on their topic.
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:IdWtFdLoT84J:www.clas.ufl.edu/users/dreznik/Slums.pdf+mike+davis+planet+of+slums&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=15&gl=us&client=firefox-a
So again welcome to the course, and I hope you all begin to share your comments in this space.
Andrew
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