Urban Studies

The global South is urbanizing at roughly twice the rate of the global North, yet dominant narratives of 'the city' continue to privilege London, Los Angeles, and Paris over Lagos, Johannesburg, and Mumbai. This course explores how cities of the global South are generating new bodies of theory, new forms of social life, and new imaginaries. It does this through novels, films, and other textual and visual representations of everyday urbanism, drawing on contemporary theory from the global South to help make sense of these discourses. Assessment: assignments (50%), final exam (50%).

This course introduces basic concepts of landscape design as it relates to urban forestry. It discusses the states of design, from site analysis, to conceptual drawings, design drawings, and some basic aspects of construction drawings. This course explores the history of landscape design and how it relates to the discipline of urban forestry.