SOC-UA 139 - The American Ghetto

Institution:

New York University

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Description:

Provides an orientation to classic and contemporary questions about cities. Examines four fundamental frameworks for explaining and interpreting different levels of urban life: experiential and psychological; Department of Sociology social and communal; ecological and spatial; and political and economic. Integrates these approaches into a study of evolving forms of urban inequality; the contested meaning of localism; the production and consumption of urban culture; the process of immigration; segregation and ghettoization; suburbanization, fragmentation, and sprawl; the problem of environmental injustice; the spread of insecurity related to disasters and perceived health crises; and the challenge of unchecked metropolitan growth.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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