Representing the Urban

Level: Undergraduate

Division: Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

Department: Urban Studies

Course Number: LURB 2006

Course Format: Seminar

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: Yes

Topics:

• Urban Studies

Description:
This course addresses how different institutions, social groups, cultural intellectuals, and key thinkers represent (and therefore both understand and prescribe) the city, broadly conceived. We will examine these representations from a wide range of sources to understand how representations reflect, produce, contest, or illuminate social realities. We consider the work of urban theorists and thinkers, such as Georg Simmel, as well as authors, artists, and filmmakers, such as Junot Díaz. Students will examine the continuities, overlaps, and divergences of ideas across these sources to analyze how different intellectual histories and perspectives shape and are shaped by each other.

Restrictions:

Level

Open to Undergraduate students.