Urban Anthropology

Throughout history cities have been celebrated as spaces of inclusion and diversity, so that it is all too easy to overlook the pervasive reality of exclusion, poverty, and injustice. This class looks at the promise and perils of urbanization in the 20th and the 21st centuries. The approach is anthropological, however the course also draws on materials from geography, urban planning, and political economy to understand the history, development, and everyday experience of urban space