HN 350 - Comparative Urbanism in The 20th Century

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Monroe College-New Rochelle

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3 credits This interdisciplinary advanced honors course challenges the student to understand the dynamic relationship of spatial organization and the built environment to politics, economics, cultures, demographics, technology, and societies. Students study the changing forms of the city over time and analyze the variety of ways through which people have recreated urban life through time and across cultures. Each academic year, the cities studied will vary, but will include three that developed under differing circumstances. For 2008-2009, the course focuses on three cities: New York, Washington, D.C., and Providence, Rhode Island. The period of study begins with the age of the "city beautiful" movement,popularized by the classical elements of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and concludes in the era of the re-emergence of the city as a location of choice in the last decades of the century. Students may pursue detailed research in realms such as planning, architecture, urban social and economic relations, political influences on housing and urban development, interactions between tourism and the economy, influence of changing populations, history, and environmental issues. PREREQUISITE: HN-150 and Junior Standing.

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3.00

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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