Week 1: Introduction (Please view this before April 23)
Week 2 (April 23): Thinking about the Politics of Space
David Harvey, “The Right to the City,” in Rebel Cities (Verso, 2013), 3-25.
Neil Brenner, “What is Critical Urban Theory?” City Vol. 13, No. 2-3 (June-September 2009): 198-207.
Week 3 (April 30): Edo 1
Mark Teeuwen, “Townspeople” and “Lower Townspeople,” Lust, commerce, and corruption: an account of what I have seen and heard, by an Edo Samurai (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 232-308.
Week 4 (May 7): Edo 2
Hidenobu Jinnai, "Cosmology of a city of Water," Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology, trans. Kimiko Nakamura (Univ. of California Press, 1995), 66-119.
Katō Takashi, “Governing Edo,” in Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 194), 41-67.
Week 5 (May 14): Edo-Tokyo
Edward Seidensticker, “The End and the Beginning,” Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983), 1-25.
Tristan R. Grunow, “Paving Power: Western Urban Planning and Imperial Space from the Streets of Meiji Tokyo to Colonial Seoul,” Journal of Urban History 2016, Vol. 42(3): 506-556.
Week 6 (May 21): Meiji 1
James A. Fujii, “Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects,” in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 11, Issue 2 (Summer, 1999): 106-133.
Kafū Nagai, “The River Sumida”, in Edward Seidensticker’s Kafū the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafū, 1879-1959 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965), 181-218.
Week 7 (June 4): Meiji 2
Maeda Ai, “Utopia of the Prisonhouse: A Reading of In Darkest Tokyo,” Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity, 21-64.
Takashi Fujitani, “War Rites and Visual Domination,” Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 121-145.
Week 8 (June 11): Taisho
Andrew Gordon, “The Urban Crowd and Politics, 1905-18,” Labour and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 26-62.
Katja Schmidtpott, “Indifferent Communities: Neighbourhood Associations, class and community consciousness in pre-war Tokyo,” Urban Spaces in Japan, 125-147.
Week 9 (June 18): Showa 1
Miriam Silverberg, “Asakusa Eroticism,” Erotic Grotesque Nonsense, 177-202.
Alisa Freedman, “Shinjuku Station sketches: constructing an icon of modern daily life,” Tokyo in Transit: Japanese culture on the rails and road (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011),
Week 10 (June 25): Showa 2
Ann Waswo, “Housing policy in Early Postwar Japan,” Housing in Postwar Japan: A Social History (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002), 39-61.
Yoshikuni Igarashi, “From the Anti-Security Treaty Movement to the Tokyo Olympics: Transforming the Body, the Metropolis, and Memory,” in Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 131-163.
Week 11 (July 2): Showa 3
Jordan Sand, “Hiroba: The Public Square and the Boundaries of the Commons,” Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), 25-53.
View parts of Adachi Masao’s A.K.A. Serial Killer (1969)
Week 12 (July 9): Heisei 1
Animal Insurrection Committee, “In the Streets We Become Cattle: Towards a Theory of Demonstrations”
View parts of Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Tokyo Sonata (2008)