NYC Reader

The Reader to help everyone prep for and to understand New York City is posted on Moodle, accessible only to students registered in the class with the special ‘add code’ that was email out. Please contact your professors if you can not access the information. All students are responsible for reading and understanding the articles regardless of whether they attend the NYC Field Trip.

1. Facts
Corner, James. “The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention,” (in Cosgrove, Denis, ed. Mappings, Reaktion Books, London, 1999)
Tschumi, Bernard. Manhattan Transcripts, excerpt (AD Editions, London, 1994)
Le Corbusier. When the Cathedrals were White, excerpt (McGraw Hill, New York 1947)
Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York, excerpts (Oxford, New York 1978)
Giedion, Sigfried. Space, Time and Architecture, excerpt (Harvard, Cambridge 1967)
Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City, excerpt (Columbia, New York, 1990)
Moses, Robert. “Mr. Moses dissects the ‘long-haired planners’” (in Ockman, Joan, ed. Architecture Culture 1943-1968, Columbia, New York, 1993)
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, excerpt (Modern Library, New York 1961)
Sorkin, Michael. “Ciao Manhattan,” in Exquisite Corpse (Verso, New York 1991)

2. Fictions
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence (1920), excerpt
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), excerpt
Auster, Paul. “City of Glass,” excerpt from The New York Trilogy (Penguin, New York 1985)
Spiegelman, Art. In the Shadow of No Towers, excerpt (Pantheon, New York 2004)