HON 201E. Global Cities: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Understanding Urbanization

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This course takes the city as a point of departure from which to explore the human experience in a trans-disciplinary manner. Students will read from art history, history, urban planners, cinema studies, fiction writers and urban artist. We will explore how and why cities came to be; the promises and pitfalls of urban living, with an emphasis on the cultural representation of global cities. The emphasis is on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries although we explore other eras.