September 1 Introductory Lecture September 8 Early Classics

Saunders, Peter 1981: The urban as a cultural form. = Chapter 3 in: Saunders: Social Theory and the Urban Question. London: Hutchinson, pp. 80-109. 

Simmel, Georg 1903/1908: The Metropolis and Mental Life. Reprinted in: Lin, Jan & Mele, Christopher (eds.): Urban Sociology Reader. New York:
Routledge, 2005, pp. 23-31. Here printed from the internet edition.

Wirth, Louis 1938: Urbanism as a Way of Life. The Journal of American Sociology (44)1: 1-24.

September 15 Phenomenological-Critical Approaches: Inspirations from the Fringes of the Frankfurt School

Kracauer, Siegfried 1925-1933: Excerpts from: The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1995. “Two Planes”
(pp. 37-40); “Analysis of a City Map” (pp. 41-46); “The Hotel Lobby” (s. 173-188); “Farewell to the Linden Arcade” (pp. 337-244).

Benjamin, Walter [1937-1940]: Paris: The Capital of the Nineteenth Century. In: Benjamin: Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High
Capitalism. London: Verso 1992, pp. 155-176

September 22 Urban Worries: The Forbidden City

Bauman, Zygmunt 1995: The Stranger Revisited - and Revisiting. In Bauman, Z.: Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality. Oxford: Blackwell,
127-138. 

Bauman, Zygmunt 1993: Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral. In Bauman, Z.: Postmodern Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell, 145-185. 

Bauman, Zygmunt 1997: The Making and Unmaking of Strangers. In Bauman, Z.: Postmodernity and its Discontents. Cambridge: Polity, 17-34. Bauman
Zygmunt 2000: Time/Space (excerpts). In Bauman, Z.: Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity, 90-109.

Bech, Henning 2007: Bauman’s Call. In: Jacobsen, M. et al: Bauman Beyond Postmodernity. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 369-374.

Amin, Ash & Thrift, Nigel 2002: The Democratic City. In: Amin, A. & Thrift, N: Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Cambridge: Polity, pp. 131-159.

September 29 Interactions in Worlds of Strangers

Sennett, Richard 1977: The Fall of Public Man, London: Penguin, 259-269; 313-340.

Cox, H. G. 1977: Introduction. Sociology and the Meaning of History. In: R. Sennett: The Fall of Public Man, London: Penguin, xv-xxi.

Lofland, Lyn 1973: The Problematic World of Strangers. In: Lofland, L.: A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space. New York: Basic
Books, 3-23 + noter 181-185.

Lofland, Lyn 1973: Using the City: The Adventures of Skilled Urbanites. In: Lofland, L.: A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space.
New York: Basic Books, pp. 159-181 + notes pp. 197-198.

Lofland, Lyn 1998: The Public Realm: Exploring the City’s Quintessential Social Territory. Hawthorne, New York.: Aldine de Gruyter. Uddrag: s. 5-15, 20-
21; 25-34, 47-49, 51-63, 72-74, 77-79; 87-98.

6 October Flaneurs, Surfaces and Sexuality

Wilson, Elizabeth 1992: The Invisible Flâneur. New Left Review I/191, January-February 1992. Here from the internet version.

Bech, Henning 1998: CITYSEX: Representing Lust in Public. Theory, Culture & Society 15(3/4), pp.215-41.

Bech, Henning 1997. Surfaces. In: Bech: When Men Meet. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, pp. 164-171 + notes p. 265.

13. October Building a Cosmopolitan City?

Sennett, Richard 2002: Cosmopolitanism and the Social Experience of Cities. In: Vertovec, S. & Cohen, R. (eds.) Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory,
Context, and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 41-47. (7 s.)

Sennett, Richard 2000: Street and Office: Two Sources of Identity. In: Hutton, R. & Giddens, A. (eds.): On the Edge: Living with Global Capitalism.
London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 175-190.

Sennett, Richard 1999: The Spaces of Democracy. In: Beauregard, R. & Body-Gendrot, S. (eds.): The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late-
20th-Century City. London: Sage; 273-285.

Sandercock, Leonie 2003: City Songlines: A Planning Imagination for the 21st Century. In: Sandercock, L.: Cosmopolis II: Mongrel Cities in the 21st
Century. London: Continuum, pp. 207-228 +noter p. 239.

Bech, Henning 2008: How (not) to do critical social science: Some notes on space, wormholes and the telecity; plus a cosmopolitan draft. Sosiologisk
Årbok / Yearbook of Sociology 1, pp. 85-96.

Marginalization Sociology