Final Exam

The exam will be on Wednesday, 13th December from 14:00 (sharp, no academic time!) to 16:00 in our usual lecture room (Unionikatu 38 F211). You are allowed to bring your own dictionary.

Second chance to make the exam will be on Monday 29th January from 12:00 to 14:00 in Porthania 674. If you decide for thsi second option please sign up in Renvall by the 19th January.

Creative cities

The two seminal works about the concept of 'creative city' are 'creative city. toolkits for urban innovators' by Charles Landry and 'the rise of the creative class' by Richard Florida.

Going back to last week's lecture, I found this blog about the free magazine 'Salford Star', written in and about Salford, you know the place where the Smiths took that picture in front of the Lads Club.
The magazine seems to be an excellent inititiative and should be supported and known all over Europe.

A city of sounds

some websites worth visiting for today's lecture are:
the 24 Hour Party People movie
The 24 Hour Party People official page
a website on Factory Records

Some interesting books about Manchester:
I swear I was there
manchester, england
24-hour party people

More general books about popular music and places:
The sound of the city
Music, Space and Place: Popular Music and Cultural Identity

and next time you go to Manchester don't forget the Morrissey Manchester Tour

London Maps

hello in the next lecture, tomorrow, we will discuss the use of maps for the study of literature, here are some maps of interest:
Dickens' London
Charles Booth's Maps descriptive of London Poverty
Funny maps of the tube
The history of music as London underground map

...and here's the map Pipsa was talking about during the lecture

the city and the others

For German speakers: Fremde Heimat Deutschland (from Die Zeit, 12.10.2006) potrays the life of many Russian-Germans in the huge blocks in the eastern part of Berlin (Marzahn-Hellersdorf). There is also a photo gallery accompanying the article.

Tomorrow's film will be 'Night on earth'. Here you can read an interview with Jarmush about the film.

the image of the city

'The image of the city' is an interesting short film by Evan Mather, inspired by Kevin Lynch's book with the same title
You can watch it here

Background

This short film is an adaptation of the classic urban design tome - "The Image of the City" - by Associate Professor Kevin Lynch (1918-1984) of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been entitled with degrees from Yale University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MIT. Professor Lynch has accordingly read a lot of books and is unquestionably smart. His innovative theories, published in seven books set with delicate typography and dozens of articles with crackerjack diagrams, have transformed the lives and visual environments of people in cities from Boston to Buenos Aries.

Industrial city

You can find some information about the film 'A Taste of Honey' at the Internet Movie database

A pair of industrial novels set in the 'North':
'Hard Times' by Charles Dickens, with the description of the fictional Coketown at the beginning of chapter 5
'Mary Barton' and 'North and South' by Elisabeht Gaskell

An interesting book about industrial landscape and music scenes in Sheffield
Mick Fish 'Industrial evolution'