URBS 100 Introduction to Urban Studies
This course is an introduction to the history of urban planning, emphasizing the ways that urban thinkers and practitioners have tried to achieve their various objectives and analyzing the consequences of those actions for current and future dwellers. The course examines how people and organizations of both the past and present act to shape the built environment, crafting policies, drawing up plans, and struggling through implementation. Major themes include the political and economic circumstances shaping industrial expansion, public health, infrastructural developments, sustainability, and historic preservation. Lecture.