Urban Ecologies

Undergraduate

This course examines cities as a complex field of cultural, social, linguistic, technological, and architectural objects, activities, relationships, and experiences. Students investigate different ecological models of city life to contemplate tensions between the active and static, material and immaterial, porous and impermeable character of cities. In classroom seminars and research practice, students discuss and debate a range of theoretical models and develop creative strategies to probe the natural, physical, artistic, cultural, acoustic, and medial ecologies of cities. (Open to majors and non-majors.) (Prerequisites: Semester 4 standing.)