Introduce: Project #4

 

Discuss remaining weeks of the semester, the News stand and brainstorming on Threats / Routes to Happiness.

 

Lecture: James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere 

 

 

 

In class reading:

"Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot” by Leslie Kaufman and Kate Zernike. 

 

In-class debate: Are individuals free to live as they choose or should decisions about where and how to live be circumscribed by the effects those choices have on society?

 

HW: Read Jane Jacobs, "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" from The Death and Life of American Cities; Emily Badger, "What Makes a Public Space Good for Democracy?” and Richard Sennett, "The Open City”

 

Lecture: Public Space & Happiness

 

Readings: Jacobs, Badger, and Sennett

 

Response # 9: Employing some of Richard Sennett's terms, describe the extent to which the configuration of space in Dublin promotes happiness. You might consider how social capital is affected by the spatial layout of the city. (300 words)

 

HW: Rifle through the News stand and identify topics which you think address the question: what is the greatest threat to happiness?