Essay topic and instruction is attached.
The field essay is to be a short essay (8 to 15 double-spaced pages) addressing a
specific urban issue in a US city of your choosing. Within a week I shall hand out a
sample list of essays. (I developed most for Boston but they can be adapted to other
cities) They include: an analysis and explanation of the locations of a particular type of
store in a particular city; an analysis of homelessness in a particular city, based on
interviews with some homeless people and shelter personnel; the study of the
performance of a particular bus line, with recommendations for improvement, etc. About
a month into the course I shall ask each student to hand in a paragraph in class outlining
his or her topic. If I judge a topic to be inappropriate, I shall let the student know. I can
recall judging a topic to be inappropriate only because it was too broad, had insufficient
economic content, or did not treat a US city.
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