Description
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This course introduces students to the social organization of modern cities, as constituted by interrelated elements like: individuals and groups, neighborhoods and other territorial communities, public and private spaces, natural and built environments, municipal governments, and political coalitions for local activism. As a body of empirical research, urban sociology has always been in dialogue with evolving scholarly-policy evaluations of urban conditions and global contexts: modernity, poverty and prosperity, immigration, racial-ethnic conflict and cosmopolitanism, economic growth and decline, capitalism and its contradictions. |
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| The course focuses on scholarship and debates in the United States, where urban sociology has found its most influential formulations. The first half of the semester covers key works and essential theories from the 20th century. The second half of the semester examines important new directions and contemporary debates in urban sociology. | |||
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Learning objectives
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