You know the drill…500 words…
Images
Blog Exercise Seven
Hey there, usual rules, but wait until after Thursday’s lecture to try to respond to this one…I will get the last couple graded by the end of this week…
Blog Exercise Six
These are all images of social housing projects in Europe…discuss (both the images and the history, execution and success of such projects)…
Blog Exercise Five
Usual rules; reblog, 500 word commentary, remember to actually reference the images in your response…
Blog Exercise Four
Usual rules…500 words…discuss…
Blog Exercise 3
Transport in US cities, 19th and early 20th centuries – discuss. Usual rules apply…five hundred words, outside sources are fine, but must be cited…
Blog Exercise Two
As last week, please reblog and write at least 500 words about how these representations of the baroque period of European urban development relate to our lectures from this week.
Blog Exercise One
Please reblog this and write 500 words of discussion about what you see and how it relates to the lecture we had on classical and ancient cities last week. Your thoughts should be posted by midnight on Sunday January 26th. Feel free to comment on each others’ posts…
Abandoned mansion in Detroit
This is one of the many houses that have been abandoned in central Detroit as the city lost first its wealthy residents and then suffered an overall population decline as industry left the city during and after the recession of the 1970s and 1980s. Write a line or two in response to this picture as an exercise in working with the blog. If you’re feeling adventurous, reblog it on your own site and make some comments there.
Appropriation of Palestinian land….
This series of maps shows the slow acquisition of Palestinian land by Israel over the last century, while some of those acquisitions are sanctioned by the international community (and are therefore recognized as legal appropriations) many more are the result of expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and the attempts by the Israeli government to protect their illegal settlers and “their” property….
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