Cities, Space, Power: Introduction to urban social science

This lecture course provides a broad, multidisciplinary introduction to the study of urbanization in the social sciences. The course surveys a broad range of research traditions from across the social sciences, as well as the work of urban planners, architects, and environmental scientists. Topics include: theoretical conceptualizations of the city and urbanization; methods of urban studies; the politics of urban knowledges; the historical geographies of capitalist urbanization; political strategies to shape and reshape the built and unbuilt environment; cities and planetary ecological transformation; post-1970s patterns and pathways of urban restructuring; and struggles for the right to the city.

ARCH 20506 | CCCT 30506 | CEGU 20506 | CHSS 30506 | CHST 20506 | HIPS 20506 | KNOW 30506 | MAPS 30506 | PLSC 20506 | PLSC 30506 | PPHA 30506 | SOCI 20506 | SOCI 30506