A short description of the topic and a list of four sources. We discussed these subjects in class. Pick a topic from here for a research paper that will be done later.
Module 2 (8/30 and 9/1): Tenements at the turn of the century [ Hernández’s introduction]
September 6: Labor Day
Module 3 (9/8): Reading Day [ Hernández’s chapters 1 and 2 ]
Module 4 (9/13 and 9/15): Company Towns and Urban Planners [ Hernández’s chapter 3]
Module 5 (9/20 and 9/22): Segregation and Immigration in US Cities [ Hernández’s chapter 4]
Module 6 (9/27 and 9/29): Post-War Urban Growth [Hernández’s chapter 5 and 6]
Module 7: (10/4 and 10/6): City of Inmates, reading discussion [Finish Hernández]
Question 2: how have cities prepared for and responded to disasters?
Module 8 (10/11 and 10/13): San Francisco and the 1906 Earthquake
Module 9 (10/18 and 10/20): Diseases and Epidemics
Module 10 (10/25 and 10/27): Disasters and Environmental Racism
Module 11 (11/1 and 11/3): A Global Perspective
Module 12 (11/8 and 11/10): Mapping environmental conflicts and pollution
