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 At the Crossroads of Change: the History House in The God of Small Things
Balancing Modernist Ideals with their Jacobian Counterpart: Moving to Kämnärsrätten, Lund
Beyond Global Cities and Cosmopolitanism: The Spatial Politics of Dubai
Chawls, Citizenship, and Colonialism: the Failure of Urban Renewal in the City of Bombay
Concerning the Spiritual in Modernism: The Paradoxical Utopia of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus
Copenhagenizing Boston: Creating a Bike-Friendly Environment in a Car-Centric System
Crisis, Murder, Markets, Marriage, Money, Money, Money: Modernity & Rationalization in Walther Ruttmann’s Berlin, Symphony of a Great City
Ellen Key and her Strand: To Not be Forgotten
Finding Comfort in New Places: Discovering Boston’s North End
Identity-Markers and Alive Spaces: Crafting a Sense of Home at Wellesley College
Public Spaces under Urban Capitalism: The Contradiction of Third Places and Cosmopolitan Canopies

Reading response 1 – sessions 2, 3, and 4
Reading response 2 – sessions 5, 6, 7
Reading response 3 – sessions 8, 9, 10

Reading response: Apartments and Studios: Expats, Queers and Outsiders in Paris and New York
Reading response: Boston Marriages/Bachelor Pads in the City and Suburb: The Anonymous Vernacular
Reading response: David Adjaye and the Urban Wall
Reading response: Domesticity and the Politics of the Plan: Single vs. Hybrid Types
Reading response: Embodied and Other Spaces: Gender, Intersectionality, Sexuality, Trans*
Reading response: Luis Barragan Home and Studio, Mexico City

Reading Response: Michael Maltzan’s Pittman Dowell House: Reconfiguring Queer Domesticity
Reading response: Mid-Century Modernism and the Politics of Surveillance: Queering Categories
Reading response: Surveillance, Performance and Privacy: Social Media and Steganography
Reading response: The Avant-garde in Paris and Utrecht

Rewriting History: Anti-Colonial Sentiments in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Scholarly Monograph – Dubai: An Urban Spectacle by Yasser Elsheshtawy
Small Worlds and Big Ideas: Concerning the Spiritual in Kandinsky’s Kleine Welten IV
Swedish Design: From Modest Novelty to Global Phenomenon
The Art Museum as an Institution and Art History as an Institutional Legitimacy: Kerry James Marshall and African-American Representation at the Harvard Art Museums
The Bicycle: A Tool for Re-Designing, Re-Defining, and Re-Purposing the Modern City
The Dream of a “Modern” Sweden: Social Engineering in the “People’s Home,” 1945–1960
The Politics of Power: Conceptualizing and Appropriating Public Spaces in India
The Power of Design: Obstructing and Constructing Urban Fear and Community
The process of cognitive mapping: Boston as a physical city scape and a social fact
The Subjective Truths and the Politics of Curation: A Critical Analysis of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and its display of East Asian Landscape Painting
The Unrecognized Influence of the Gandharan Bodhisattva: an exploration of the colonialist narratives of the Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA

Understanding Slums and Urban Citizenship: Infrastructural Entanglements within the Political Society of an Indian City
Unpacking the Kånken Backpack
Utopias and Dystopias: Elois and Morlocks in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine
Utopias, Social Democracy, and the Materialization of Folkhemmet: The Gröndal “Star Houses” as a Reflection of Swedish Ideals
Water Crisis: Hydraulic Politics and Urban Citizenship in Mumbai