Sumários

The Machine in the Garden. Moving from urbanization to industrialization. Bruce Springsteen and "Rust Belt chic".

23 Abril 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Presentation on Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden and the concept of the pastoral.

Blog post: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2025/04/hw-for-apr-23-leo-marx-intro-to-machine.html
The industrialization core of the US and the depletion of the factories.
Presentation on Youngstown: Bruce Springsteen and "Rust Belt chic".

Midterm feedback. Symbolism and cultural experience of Los Angeles; urbanism and environmental racism.

21 Abril 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Midterm feedback.

Symbolism and cultural experience of Los Angeles.
Urbanism and environmental racism (based on Laura Pulido, "Rethinking Environmental Racism" 2000) - presentation.

Tips about the annotated bibliography. Washignton DC and Identity through presidential portraits.

9 Abril 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Tips about annotated bibliography: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-does-annotated-bibliography-look.html

Washington DC and identity through presidential portraits - invited teacher Diana V. Almeida.

Presenation on New York through the art of Georgia O'Keefe and Agnes Denes. Writing the final paper (reviewing guidelines).

7 Abril 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Presentation on New York through the art of Georgia O'Keefe and Agnes Denes - invited teacher Susana Pomba.

How to go about writing the final paper / documentary review: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-to-go-about-writing-your.html

"New Netherland" (cont.) Documentary "MyBrooklyn" and How to Read Cultural Texts.

2 Abril 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

New Netherland - front door for immigrants (through Emma Lazaru's poem "The New Colossus").

Documentary "MyBrooklyn" by Kelly Anderson (2012).
"How to read cultural texts" based on Marcus Doel (2010)