Post-Colonial Culture, Architecture, and Urbanism

3 credits · Graduate

The course investigates post-colonial culture and politics of knowledge, raising questions of social engagement and political economy in architecture and urbanism. Topics include power and control in the colonial city; orientalism and the construction of race; relations between global forces and the locale; infrastructures as contested spaces; humanitarianism and neoliberal urbanism. RESTRICTIONS: Graduate students in Architecture and Planning; or permission of instructor FORMATS: Seminar