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Benjamin Flowers, Ph.D.
College of Architecture
Architecture 8822: Race, Space, and Architecture in the United States
This course examines the intersections of space and architecture with race. That is to say, students are encouraged to explore the ways in which notions of race inform the production of space and architecture, and the fashion in which that act of production can and does reinscribe relations of power, hierarchies of race, and positions of privilege. At the same time, the course explores how and why unions and divisions founded upon racial ideologies have in the past and continue today to shape our built landscape. As we move through the urban landscape, how do our perceptions of space change when the everyday is complicated via historical knowledge? How has architecture, as a discipline and practice, challenged or elided these divisions? How have architects-as a social group, as a labor market, and as arbiters of distinction-embraced or resisted integration in the 20th century?
Jennifer Clark, Ph.D.
School of Public Policy
PUBP 6604: Urban and Regional Policy Analysis and Practice
This course applies analytical techniques and practices of public policy and planning to urban issues in case studies of policy issues of city-regions. The course uses both international and U.S. cases and data sources to demonstrate to students the complex and evolving spatial challenges of managing policies in growing cities and regions.
PUBP 6602/CP 6422: Economic Development Analysis and Practice
This course examines strategy development, methods of analysis, and approaches to practice for urban and regional economic development policy and planning. The course will combine lectures, guest presentations from methodological experts and development practitioners, assignments, and a project.
Georgia State UniversityMatthew Lasner, Ph.D.
History Department
HIST 4220: This course explores the history of the American city from the first colonial ports in the East to the rise of the Sunbelt cities of the South and West in the late twentieth century. Topics include the evolution of architectural form and urban design; the city as a venue for social conflict; cultural life in, and cultural representations of, the city; cities as engines for socio-economic and cultural change; the role of anti-urbanism in Anglo-American culture; innovations in building and transportation technology; and the idea of the city as a problem and the emergence of urban planning.
HIST 8635: Since the mid-nineteenth century the picturesque suburb has been the type metropolitan environment most Americans prefer to live in, and since 1980 the U.S. has been a predominantly suburban nation. This course surveys the history of the suburb as an idea and as a physical, social, and political community, using literature from architectural and urban history, cultural landscape studies, and urban anthropology and sociology. It explores the history and meaning of suburbia as traditionally defined (white, affluent, residential) as well as the emergence of other types of suburban landscapes, including working-class, African-American, industrial, and multifamily.
Matthew Gordon Lasner studies the history and theory of the built environment, with primary focus on the late nineteenth- and twentieth century U.S. He has taught at Harvard and New York University and is currently preparing his dissertation, “No Lawn to Mow: Co-ops, Condominiums, and the Revolution in Collective Homeownership in Metropolitan America, 1881-1973” for publication as a book. He earned his PhD in Architecture at Harvard and joined the History faculty at Georgia State University as an assistant professor in 2007. He teaches courses on the history American cities and buildings. Publications include a series of essays in Robert Moses and the Modern City, edited by Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson.
Ruth Stanford
Welch School of Art & Design
Spring 2008: Installation Art
This course will focus on site-specific works in downtown Atlanta. Inspired by lectures, events, and research exploring the past, present, and future of Atlanta, students will produce a diversity of contemporary conceptual art that may include interventions, sculptural objects, in situ photo essays, video projections. multi-media installations and performance. The focus will be on producing work off campus, but in the neighborhood.
Ruth Stanford received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Her art practice revolves around installation and site-specific sculpture with particular media chosen in service to concept. Her work draws from and expands on personal reflection to create broader metaphors relevant to the world at large, exploring history and notions of presence/absence, permanence/impermanence, fiction/reality, conscious/unconscious. She views each element of her projects as an individual data point referencing a complex phylogeny of personal and collective experience.
Auburn University MLA Studio Spring 2008
Michael Spinello
Beltline Linear Park System
This is a Master of Landscape Architecture studio that will focus on the development of a linear park system adjacent to The Atlanta Beltline. Students will propose schematic designs for the various proposed parks outlined in The Beltline Emerald Necklace plan. A priority of the studio is the engagement of existing social, physical and environmental conditions and the promotion of hybrid programmatic elements within the larger urban context. The ultimate goal of this effort is the refined development of a comprehensive linear park system as an integral piece of Atlanta’s evolving urban fabric.
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