Fall semester 2016 Syllabus+ Week 2 readings

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Please download the course syllabus HERE

WEEK 2/OCT 13TH READING SESSION: CITY AS CULTURAL TEXT

 Donald Richie, Tokyo: A View Of The City, London, England: Reaktion Books, 1999,11-16
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1cegEw


Roland Barthes, “the Eiffel Tower”
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1qXn1W


Walter Benjamin, “Paris, The Capital Of the Nineteenth Century”, 1935
http://pan.baidu.com/s/11M7VU

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