The Chronicle: Colloquy: Responses

RESPONSES

Is Los Angeles the proper focal point for the future of urban studies? Has the "L.A. School" of urban studies overtaken the "Chicago School"?

The most recent responses appear first

"The LA model brings a number of critical issues to the forefront..."

: -- Rob Silverman, assistant professor, Wayne State University (posted 10/26, 12:05 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"I welcome this debate on Los Angeles School as the possible harbinger of new urban theory..."

: -- Jouni Häkli, Professor of Regional Studies, University of Tampere, Finland (posted 9/19, 9:15 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Does the LA School provide a better urban growth model? There may be some reinvention going on here..."

: -- Tom Wagner, Research Scientist, University of Michigan (posted 8/28, 9:30 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"The LA School (LAS) model depicts socialized entrepreneurialism as a major dynamic..."

: -- Colette Marie McLaughlin, Freeway Flier: Instructor UCI Social Ecology Summer Session UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture (posted 8/28, 9:10 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"The recent description of a "Los Angeles School" of planning..."

: -- Ned Levine, Director, Ned Levine & Associates, Annandale, VA (posted 8/25, 9:10 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"I am disappointed that Miller failed to make any reference to Mike Davis' recent book..."

: -- John Hartigan Jr., Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of North Texas (posted 8/23, 4:00 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"I find the debate on the post-modern city stimulating and I would like to participate by sending you these three remarks..."

: -- Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, director of research, CNRS (National Scientific Research Center, Paris (posted 8/23, 1:40 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Is this debate about trends in urban studies or just about trends in the study of American cities per se?..."

: -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University (posted 7:00 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"I thought Kellerman's point was a good one..."

: -- Catherine Daly, poet (Adjunct at UCLA Extension) (posted 8/22, 9:10 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"One thing that neither the article nor the comments acknowledge..."

: -- Nathan Landau, AICP, Senior Planner, City of Berkeley (for identification only) (posted 8/22, 8:55 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Never forget mass transit. Without it you get suffocated..."

: -- Beverly, retired (posted 8/21, 11:45 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"'Les vieilles villes ont une histoire, les villes américaines ont une extension sauvage...'"

: -- Michele Sernini, prof. Urban planning, Univ. of Reggio Calabria (posted 8/21, 9:35 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"The LA school seems to be as arrogant as the Chicago school was more than half a century ago..."

: -- Kuniko Fujita, Affiliate Professor, Sociology, Michigan State University (posted 8/21, 9:10 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"The differences between Chicago and LA as urban spatial formations are no doubt highly important..."

: -- Neil Brenner, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Program on Metropolitan Studies, New York University (posted 8/21, 9:00 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"I have agreed with much of Dear's and Soja's work, but this one doesn't sound right..."

: -- Herbert J Gans, R S Lynd Prof. of Sociology (posted 8/18, 2:25 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Mr. Miller's article on 'new urban studies' arrived at a time when I'm hip-deep in a pile of books on urban pattern..."

: -- Tom Wagner, Research Scientist, University of Michigan (posted 8/18, 1:45 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"One must ultimately agree that no concrete entity (Chicago or Los Angeles at some particular point in time) can adequately serve as an abstract concept..."

: -- Jerome Krase, Murray Koppelman Professor and Chair of Sociology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (posted 8/18, 11:45 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Neither Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, nor any other city will serve as a model 'city of the future'..."

: -- Gray Brechin, Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography (posted 8/17, 11:00 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"I find the approach proposed by the LA school rather interesting..."

: -- Carlos H Betancourth, Independent Researcher (posted 8/17, 9:00 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"This is the excerpt of a presentation I recently gave..."

: -- Roger Keil, Assoc. Professor at York University, Toronto (posted 8/16, 3:00 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"I'm a researcher and teacher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil..."

: -- Adauto Lucio Cardoso, Teacher on Urban Planning - IPPUR/UFRJ (posted 8/15, 9:10 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Interestingly enough, Miller's article did not refer to LA as the global capital of visual entertainment..."

: -- Aharon Kellerman, Professor and Vice-President (posted 8/15, 8:50 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Burlington VT (Zip Code: 05401) has a metropolitan population of 125,000..."

: -- Louis Mannie Lionni, Architect and Publisher, "05401" (posted 8/14, 4:40 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Policy makers have reified the old Chicago School model and have ignored the modern city which developed without a central core..."

: -- George H. Conklin, Professor of Sociology, NC Central Univ. (posted 8/14, 3:35 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"I taught Urban Studies at The University of Maryland some years ago, and was dismayed at the Urban Studies curriculum compared to the curriculum for Urban Planning..."

: -- Lois Dean, Urban Planner - HUD (posted 8/14, 3:30 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"As an economic development practitioner I would say the Los Angeles School of urban geography was a lost opportunity..."

: -- David Bergman, Sr. Associate Economics Research Associates (posted 8/14, 2:25 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

"Every city is unique, but social science demands some general principles..."

: -- Terry Nichols Clark, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago (posted 8/14, 1:30 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)