GENTRIFICATION AND URBAN RESTRUCTURING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the development of gentrification from its origin as an urban anomaly in the eastern seaboard and rustbelt region during a period of “crisis-generated restructuring” to a “global urban strategy” of urban development. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze the complicated urban processes behind gentrification and the forces and actors that work to create them. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Evaluate important concepts in urban planning theory through questions regarding development and the negative consequences associated with the process of gentrification. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand the role of urban planning in the gentrification process and the forms of resistance/mediation communities have used to challenge gentrification. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply and strengthen research skills through written, oral, and graphic communication with written reflections, formal essays, and in-class engagement around the material as well as a final project that asks students to operationalize the concept of gentrification. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply urban theory to an original research project on gentrification for the final project. Audience: Graduate 7. Analyze the primary theoretical approaches to gentrification and urban restructuring through particular and additional focus on relevant theory-based scholarly articles. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the development of gentrification from its origin as an urban anomaly in the eastern seaboard and rustbelt region during a period of “crisis-generated restructuring” to a “global urban strategy” of urban development. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze the complicated urban processes behind gentrification and the forces and actors that work to create them. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Evaluate important concepts in urban planning theory through questions regarding development and the negative consequences associated with the process of gentrification. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand the role of urban planning in the gentrification process and the forms of resistance/mediation communities have used to challenge gentrification. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply and strengthen research skills through written, oral, and graphic communication with written reflections, formal essays, and in-class engagement around the material as well as a final project that asks students to operationalize the concept of gentrification. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply urban theory to an original research project on gentrification for the final project. Audience: Graduate 7. Analyze the primary theoretical approaches to gentrification and urban restructuring through particular and additional focus on relevant theory-based scholarly articles. Audience: Graduate