SOC 266 - Cities and Regions

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years

Examines how cities and regions are shaped and the social, political, economic, historical, technological, ecological and other forces that help shape them. Focuses on the spatial dimension of evolving societies. Topics include: the development of the U.S. North and South; the plantation complex; the emergence of the industrial Northern metropolis; suburbanization and post-suburbanization; the “crisis of the cities” and policy responses (such as urban renewal); gentrification; deindustrialization; and the debate over the future of cities and regions.Cintron.