URBS 422 - Cities,Democracy and Citizenship

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University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Gaige. This course will examine the intriguing and complicated relationship between cities, democracy, and citizenship. We will study this intellectual kinship in a variety of ways. First we will review its roots in the ancient Greek polis and through the Middle Ages. We will then focus on the city/democracy/citizenship nexus in the United States by exploring such topics as: 1)Urban immigration and political machines; 3) Deurbanization and the rise of the economic underclass; and 4) Social equity and regionalism. We will conclude by looking at the effects on democracy and citizenship of what has been termed the global city. Increasingly, these technology-intensive locales may be diverging from - and even replacing - nations as sites for the emergence of new forms of citizenship. We will explore the positive and negative implications of this development for cities, democracy, and citizenship.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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