4 September Introduction to the Course
9 September Classical Theories on City and Community
11 September The Chicago School
16 September Urban Policy and the Rise of the Suburb
23 September Constructing the Ghetto
25 September The Persistence of Racial Segregation
30 September Whitness, Poverty, and the Politics of Place
2 October Race and Place in a Post-Racial Era
7 October Crime and Policing , Part One
9 October Crime and Policing, Part 2
16 October Community Responses to Crime
23 October Locating the Local transnationally
28 October Political Economy
30 October Postmodern Urbanism
4 November Making Sense of Gentrification
6 November Gentrification and the Creative Class
11 November Cities and the New Creative Economy
13 November The City as an Entertainment Machine
18 November Sexuality and Place
20 November Inequalities in the Gayborhood
25 November Gender Politics and the Global City
27 November (No Class)