HSOC-202: Perpetual Motion: Moving City

This course will introduce new ways of understanding the modern city as a dynamic rather than static entity, focusing on how cities and regions are conceived, and how they function, thrive, move, and sometimes fail. Early suburban utopias, contemporary edge cities, squatter cities of the south, and the shrinking cities of the north will all be analyzed, always with an emphasis on mobility--or the lack of it. In short, this course will serve as a primer for the problems and challenges associated with the built environment and its integrated and overlapping systems that require great expense to be built, maintained, and changed.