Thanks to Peter and Lisa for pointing out some shortcomings and inconsistencies in the walking assignments. In this email I am listing all the walks and clarifying some problems. In [ ] I am listing the most important features of the walks where this was not stated. (But there is certainly a lot of other stuff going on!) Another clue to notable things on walks is your AIA Guide. While I do not particularly stress architecture, it is a guide to class and age and the book gives lots of other miscellaneous info that bears on history/geography. The list of questions that I posed for field observation (part of the opening syllabus) should also suggest how to look at the cityscape.
I am hoping that three things happen regarding these walks (including the student led walks on Saturdays)
1. You will review the walk, discovering more examples of principles taught
in the course.
2. Some of you will discover the joys of urban exploration..
3. You get some exercise.
In the following list below the line, note particularly these clarifications:
1. There were two walks numbered "14" . The Queens Blvd walk has been
renumbered 13A.
2. Chose between walks (9, 10, 11). 12 is OPTIONAL.
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0. East Harlem/Upper East Side [The walk I led- I said it all!]
1. Fordham Road/Bronx OR
3. Jamaica/Queens OR
5. Lower Manhattan Waterfront
6. Brooklyn Waterfront
7. Long Island City/Queens OR
9. Bayside by LIRR OR
12. Franklin Ave. Shuttle/Brooklyn OPTIONAL.
13. Grand Concourse&CrossBronx/Bronx OR
14. Queensboro Plaza to 33rd Street/Queens (Queensboro Bridge walk is
optional)
15. Triboro Bridge (N Train to Astoria)/Queens is OPTIONAL
16. Gowanus Canal (F/G to Smith/9th)/Brooklyn is OPTIONAL
Readings
www.forgotten-ny.com/trolleys
(articles on Tower Sq., Jackson Tracks, Ridgewood Relic)
Class schedule changes
No Class 11/7, 11/14
2. Tremont Ave./Bronx
[Up and down- what's on the the hilltops; what's in the valleys; transit]
4. Kingston to
Nostrand/Brooklyn
[Down the glacial moraine- whats' up/down. Whats on different arterials.
other side of LIRR. 3. Ethnic change 4. Class change]
[Martiime influences and vestiges,
redevelopment, new residential, recreation, landfill use]
[Maritime influences and vestiges, Xway
construction, use of the high land, pending park from old piers]
8. Mott Haven to Bruckner/Bronx
[Particularly concentration of rail transport what that replaced and what
replaces that;
trends in reuse of older buildings. Scarcity of people. Ask why all this
here?]
10. New Dorp by
Ferry&SIRT
[9,10 Busy village commerce @ RR stop; old houses, cemeteries attest to
origin in RR age] OR
11. Park Slope to 5thAve/Brooklyn
[Density
of housing,shops typical of major trolley/elevated route; age, height, style
of buildings, gentrification at North end.]
[If you don't go, you might
find some of the virtual tours of the BMT interesting
http//www.nycsubway.org/bmt/]
13A QueensBlvd&LIE/Queens
www.forgotten-ny.com/subways: Third Ave El, Ninth Ave. El, Franklin Ave. Shuttle, The Old NY W&B, Walt
Whitman's LIRR, Rockaway Line
American Metro Evolution Article by John Borchert
Abu-Lughod, Janet (chapters 2,3,4 and 7)
Caro, Robert (9,17,18,20,36-40)
www.nycroads.com/roads/
(read parkways and expressways - history)
All day field trips 11/4 11/18 (Saturdays)
Rescheduled class 11/16 (Thurs.)
Additional class - Tentatively 12/7 (Thurs)
Lengthened class Tentatively 11/28 (For a Walk in Times Square and a "Beer")