All readings available via university library or open access unless noted. @arcktip sources are primary practitioner readings drawn from Patrick's professional experience.
Hoffman, Patrick T., Technology, Space & Society — Course Introduction (2026) — @arcktip framing essay
Winner, Langdon, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Daedalus 109, no. 1 (1980): 121–36 — foundational & accessible
Petroski, Henry, The Evolution of Useful Things, Ch. 1 (1992) — how objects embed decisions
Spigel, Lynn, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America, Introduction & Ch. 1 (1992) — the core text — essential
Spigel, Lynn, "Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948–1955" (1988)
Hayden, Dolores, The Grand Domestic Revolution, Ch. 1 (1981) — domestic space before television
Latour, Bruno, We Have Never Been Modern, Ch. 1 (1993) — most approachable Latour entry point
Silverstone, Roger & Hirsch, Eric (eds.), Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces, Introduction (1992)
Pinch, Trevor J. & Bijker, Wiebe E., "The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts," Social Studies of Science 14, no. 3 (1984): 399–441 — SCOT framework
Hayden, Dolores, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000, Ch. 1 & 5 (2003)
Kunstler, James Howard, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, Ch. 4–5 (1993)
Shoup, Donald, The High Cost of Free Parking, Ch. 1 (2005) — the parking minimum argument
Fischer, Claude S., America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940, Ch. 1 & 5 (1992)
Goffman, Erving, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Introduction (1959) — front/backstage framework
Schwartz Cowan, Ruth, More Work for Mother, Introduction (1983)
Turkle, Sherry, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Introduction & Ch. 1 (1984)
Wajcman, Judy, Feminism Confronts Technology, Ch. 4 (1991)
Nilles, Jack, The Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff (1976) — the original telecommuting concept
No assigned reading — preparation week. Students present research proposals.
Oldenburg, Ray, The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, Introduction & Ch. 2 (1989)
Turkle, Sherry, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Introduction (2011)
Carr, Nicholas, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2010)
Srnicek, Nick, Platform Capitalism, Ch. 1–2 (2017) — concise — essential framing
Wachsmuth, David & Weisler, Alexander, "Airbnb and the Rent Gap: Gentrification Through the Sharing Economy," Environment and Planning A 50, no. 6 (2018)
Davis, Mike, Planet of Slums, Introduction (2006)
Hoffman, Patrick T., Dockless: What We Learned Building the Bike That Became JUMP (forthcoming) — @arcktip — primary practitioner source
NACTO, Urban Street Design Guide (selected chapters) (2013) — professional design standards
Sheller, Mimi, Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes, Ch. 1 (2018)
Zuboff, Shoshana, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Introduction (2019)
Mattern, Shannon, "A City Is Not a Computer," Places Journal (February 2017) — open access
Sadowski, Jathan, Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World, Introduction (2020)
Sennett, Richard, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Ch. 1 (2018)
Saval, Nikil, Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace, Introduction (2014)
Florida, Richard, The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, Introduction (2012)
Graff, Gerald & Birkenstein, Cathy, They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Ch. 1–2 (2006)
Silvia, Paul, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing, Ch. 1 (2007)
Brand, Stewart, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, Introduction & Ch. 1 (1994)
Duany, Andrés, Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth & Speck, Jeff, The Smart Growth Manual, Part I (2010)
Aureli, Pier Vittorio, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Introduction (2011)
No assigned reading — final presentations week.
Hoffman, Patrick T., Technology, Space & Society — Course Introduction (2026) — @arcktip framing essay
Winner, Langdon, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Daedalus 109, no. 1 (1980): 121–36
MacKenzie, Donald & Wajcman, Judy (eds.), The Social Shaping of Technology, Introduction (1985) — foundational STS anthology
Bijker, Wiebe E., Hughes, Thomas P. & Pinch, Trevor (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems, Preface (1987) — SCOT framework origins
Petroski, Henry, The Evolution of Useful Things, Ch. 1 (1992)
Mumford, Lewis, Technics and Civilization, Ch. 1 (1934) — canonical long arc
Jasanoff, Sheila, The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, Introduction (2016) — technology and democratic governance
Spigel, Lynn, Make Room for TV, Introduction & Ch. 1–2 (1992) — full scholarly apparatus
Spigel, Lynn, Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs, Ch. 1–2 (2001)
Boddy, William, Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics, Ch. 1 (1990)
Hayden, Dolores, The Grand Domestic Revolution, Ch. 1–2 (1981)
Spigel, Lynn, "Installing the Television Set" (1988)
McCarthy, Anna, Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space, Introduction (2001)
Latour, Bruno, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Introduction & Part I (2005) — ANT primary text — dense, required
Callon, Michel, "Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay" (1984/1986) — the 'scallops' paper
Silverstone, Roger & Hirsch, Eric (eds.), Consuming Technologies, Introduction & Ch. 1 (1992)
Pinch, Trevor J. & Bijker, Wiebe E., "The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts," Social Studies of Science 14, no. 3 (1984)
Law, John, "Notes on the Theory of the Actor-Network: Ordering, Strategy, and Heterogeneity," Systems Practice 5, no. 4 (1992)
Woolgar, Steve, "Configuring the User: The Case of Usability Trials," in A Sociology of Monsters, ed. Law (1991)
Hayden, Dolores, Building Suburbia, Ch. 1, 4–6 (2003)
Jackson, Kenneth T., Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Ch. 11–12 (1985) — definitive U.S. suburban history — FHA, highways
Kunstler, James Howard, The Geography of Nowhere, Ch. 4–6 (1993)
Shoup, Donald, The High Cost of Free Parking, Ch. 1–2 (2005)
Rome, Adam, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, Ch. 1 (2001)
Fogelson, Robert M., Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950, Introduction (2001) — Harvard UP
Fischer, Claude S., America Calling, Ch. 1, 4–5 (1992)
Goffman, Erving, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Introduction & Ch. 1 (1959)
Schwartz Cowan, Ruth, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave, Ch. 1–2 (1983)
Marvin, Carolyn, When Old Technologies Were New, Ch. 1 (1988) — Oxford UP — historical perspective on communication technology
Aronson, Sidney H., "The Sociology of the Telephone," International Journal of Comparative Sociology 12, no. 3 (1971)
Hochschild, Arlie, The Second Shift, Introduction (1989) — labor and domestic technology
Turkle, Sherry, The Second Self, Introduction & Ch. 1–2 (1984)
Wajcman, Judy, Feminism Confronts Technology, Ch. 3–4 (1991)
Ceruzzi, Paul, A History of Modern Computing, Ch. 8–9 (2003) — PC's emergence as a consumer product
Nilles, Jack, The Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff (1976)
Schwartz Cowan, Ruth, "The Consumption Junction: A Proposal for Research Strategies in the Sociology of Technology," in The Social Construction of Technological Systems (1987)
Hochschild, Arlie, The Second Shift, Ch. 1–2 (1989)
No assigned reading — proposal presentation week. Students present proposals + annotated bibliographies.
Eco, Umberto, How to Write a Thesis, Ch. 3–4 (1977/2015) — optional — MIT Press translation
Oldenburg, Ray, The Great Good Place, Introduction & Ch. 2–3 (1989)
Turkle, Sherry, Alone Together, Introduction & Part II (2011)
Wellman, Barry, "Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism," in Digital Cities II (2002)
Carr, Nicholas, The Shallows, Introduction & Ch. 1–2 (2010)
Hampton, Keith, "Neighborhoods in the Network Society: The e-Neighbors Study," Information, Communication & Society (2007)
Ito, Mizuko et al., Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, Introduction (2010) — MIT Press
Srnicek, Nick, Platform Capitalism, Ch. 1–3 (2017)
Wachsmuth, David & Weisler, Alexander, "Airbnb and the Rent Gap," Environment and Planning A 50, no. 6 (2018)
Zuboff, Shoshana, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2019) — platform logic as surveillance
Davis, Mike, Planet of Slums, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2006)
Rosenblat, Alex, Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, Introduction (2018)
Graham, Stephen & Marvin, Simon, Splintering Urbanism, Introduction (2001) — networked infrastructure and urban fragmentation
Hoffman, Patrick T., Dockless: What We Learned Building the Bike That Became JUMP (forthcoming) — @arcktip — primary practitioner source
NACTO, Urban Street Design Guide (selected chapters) (2013)
Furness, Zack, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility, Introduction (2010)
Sheller, Mimi, Mobility Justice, Ch. 1–2 (2018)
Pucher, John & Buehler, Ralph (eds.), City Cycling, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2012) — MIT Press — comparative infrastructure politics
Adkins, Arlie et al., "Bicycle Commuting and Its Relationship to Infrastructure," Transportation Research Record (2012)
Zuboff, Shoshana, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Introduction & Ch. 1–2 (2019)
Mattern, Shannon, "A City Is Not a Computer," Places Journal (February 2017)
Mattern, Shannon, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt, Introduction (2017) — infrastructure and urban intelligence
Sadowski, Jathan, Too Smart, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2020)
Andrejevic, Mark & Burdon, Mark, "Defining the Sensor Society," Television & New Media 16, no. 1 (2015)
Rosenblat, Alex, Uberland, Ch. 3–4 (2018) — algorithmic management as spatial control
Sennett, Richard, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Ch. 1–2 (2018)
Saval, Nikil, Cubed, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2014)
Florida, Richard, The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, Introduction (2012)
Glaeser, Edward, Triumph of the City, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2011) — density as innovation engine
Wajcman, Judy, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2015) — Chicago
Hoffman, Patrick T., @arcktip Practitioner Essay: Remote Work and the Future of Urban Density (2026) — @arcktip
Graff, Gerald & Birkenstein, Cathy, They Say / I Say, Ch. 1–3 (2006)
Sword, Helen, Stylish Academic Writing, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2012) — Harvard — scholarly voice
Hayot, Eric, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities, Introduction & Ch. 1 (2014) — Columbia UP
Silvia, Paul, How to Write a Lot, Ch. 1 (2007)
Brand, Stewart, How Buildings Learn, Introduction & Ch. 1–2 (1994)
Duany, Andrés, Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth & Speck, Jeff, The Smart Growth Manual, Parts I–II (2010)
Hoffman, Patrick T., @arcktip Practitioner Essay: Design at the Intersection of Technology and Space (2026) — @arcktip
Aureli, Pier Vittorio, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Introduction (2011)
Koolhaas, Rem, S,M,L,XL, "Generic City" essay (1995) — architecture's response to technological urbanism
Picon, Antoine, Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence, Introduction (2015) — Wiley
No assigned reading — final presentations and external critic responses.