ARCH&UD 133
Spatial Justice and the City
Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 12 hours. Limited to Architectural Studies majors or with consent of instructor. Global cities today, and American cities in particular, are shaped by infrastructure, property, public space, residential and commercial development, preservation, and territoriality. These are the material artifacts not only of construction technologies, but processes like segregation, suburbanization, colonization, reservation, and regulation. Consideration of questions of equity and power in the apparent and repressed histories of places, in contemporary everyday life experiences in cities, and in possible urban futures. Letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0