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Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities" Chapter 16 "Gradual money and Cataclysmic Money" As this assigned reading is quite lengthy it has been broken into 4 parts: Part 1: Chapter 13 "Self-Destruction of Diversity" (pages 240-256) [Dadcast S4E6] Part 2: Chapter 14 "The Curse of Border Vacuums" (pages 257-269) [Dadcast S4E7] Part 3: Chapter 15 "Unslumming and Slumming" (pages 270-2...

Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities" Chapter 15 "Unslumming and Slumming" As this assigned reading is quite lengthy it has been broken into 4 parts: Part 1: Chapter 13 "Self-Destruction of Diversity" (pages 240-256) [Dadcast S4E6] Part 2: Chapter 14 "The Curse of Border Vacuums" (pages 257-269) [Dadcast S4E7] Part 3: Chapter 15 "Unslumming and Slumming" (pages 270-290) [Dadcast...

Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities" Chapter 14 "The Curse of Border Vacuums" As this assigned reading is quite lengthy it has been broken into 4 parts: Part 1: Chapter 13 "Self-Destruction of Diversity" (pages 240-256) [Dadcast S4E6] Part 2: Chapter 14 "The Curse of Border Vacuums" (pages 257-269) [Dadcast S4E7] Part 3: Chapter 15 "Unslumming and Slumming" (pages 270-290) [Dad...

Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities" Chapter 13 "Self-Destruction of Diversity" As this assigned reading is quite lengthy it has been broken into 4 parts: Part 1: Chapter 13 "Self-Destruction of Diversity" (pages 240-256) [Dadcast S4E6] Part 2: Chapter 14 "The Curse of Border Vacuums" (pages 257-269) [Dadcast S4E7] Part 3: Chapter 15 "Unslumming and Slumming" (pages 270-290) [D...

William H. Whyte The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces Chapter 1 "Life of Plazas" Chapter 2 "Sitting Spaces"

Donovan's Compassionate City Chapter 4 "Nurturing or Neglectful"

Freedom to Build, dweller control of the housing proces s John F C Turner & Robert Fichter, eds Collier Macmillan, New York, 1972 Chapter 7 "Housing as a Verb"

Jan Gehl. Life Between Building . "Spaces for Walking, Places for Staying: Detail Planning"

Contemporary World History (7th Edition) William J. Duiker Chapter 2 "White Man's Burden, Black Man's Sorrow" "Tragedy at Caffard Cove" "To Resist or Not to Resist"

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Ch 22 Personal Variation (p420-427, 430-431) Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Ch 21 Social Variation (p386-415) Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Ch 21 Social Variation (p386-415) Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Part V Using English (p299) Ch 19 Varieties of Discourse (p300, 304-307, 309, 316, 317) Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Ch 18 The Writing Systems (p268-276, 284-287) Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Part IV Spoken and Written English (p249) Ch 17 The Sound System (p248-251, 254-255, 258-260) Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Ch 15 Word Classes (p218-225) Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press English Part III: Grammar (p201) Chapter 13: Grammatical Myths (p202-209) Chapter 14: The Structure of Words (p210-217) Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Venturi, Robert, Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form , MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1977, 192p. P64-109 13th printing, 1994 P86-163

Rem Koolhaas "Delirious New York" Part 2

Note this episode contains some explicit language. Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Additional resources can be found at  ⁠⁠cambridge.org/crystal

Howard Saalman Haussmann: Paris Transformed "The Rebuilding of Paris"

Rem Koolhaas "Delerious New York" Part 1

Selected readings from : Crystal, D. (2019).  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (3rd Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Additional resources can be found at  ⁠cambridge.org/crystal