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HISTORY 3ST3

STREET LIFE IN CANADA

Undergraduate

Fall 2023 · C01

Topics

  • Introduction: ‘The Street’ and it’s Place in History
  • Dirt, Disease, and Death in the Street
  • Technology and Danger: From Carts to Cars
  • Immigrant Communities and Cultural Preservation
  • Consuming the Street: Capitalism on Main Street
  • Street Animals
  • The Street as Battleground: Criminality, Protest, and Policing
  • Urban Ecologies and Disasters
  • The Street as Spectacle: Parades and Social Identity
  • Sex and the City
  • The Housed and Unhoused
  • Visions for the Future: Streets Underground and Streets in the Sky

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