Global Cities

(Cross-listed as STS 20.) Introductory-level urban anthropology class exploring cities as intersections of people, ideas, capital, and the physical environment. Themes include anthropological understandings of space and place-making; utopic and dystopic urban visions of the city; urban mobility; cities as nodes in global environments, economies, and networks of people and production; sensory experience and expressive culture in cities; urban "nature" (e.g., parks); difference and inequality in urban landscapes; the growth of urban populations and megacities; and tensions between the city as planned or conceptualized and the city as a lived experience.