4 semester hoursUndergraduateLecturerepeatable for credit
Focuses on the character of space, place, and culture of a contemporary world (global) city. Explores the material transformations of the city and how people understand and imagine the places, spaces, times, and environments they inhabit. Addresses issues of global geographies of cultural change, especially the relationship between the local and the global; questions of place, identity, and landscape, especially at the local level; the significance of place and space in the invention of modern traditions, including places of memory (memorials, museums); the nature of public space and its relations to citizenship; gentrification and the role of art in the city and nature-society relations as expressed in urban parks. Includes a combination of lectures and guided and self-directed field trips in the selected global city. May be repeated without limit.