AP/SOSC 3745 3.00

Urban Governance: Politics And Policies

The course examines urban issues currently in play in Canadian cities. Themes may include forces shaping the postindustrial city, urban planning in the multicultural city, the redevelopment of brownfield sites, gentrification in city downtowns, environmental dilemmas of suburban sprawl, the impacts of immigration on cities, the role of the arts and culture industries in cities today or other topics that are current in the weeks that the course meets. Considerable time is given to small-group and class discussion.