Description
This course is designed to be a survey of contemporary urban social issues in a continuing process of the social historical development of the concept of urbanism and the separation of the phenomenon of urban life from the pllitical concept of a city and the discipline's traditional analysis of the city. A second focal point is developed from the understanding of this social historical process; the examination of the dynamic interplay between what theoretical perceptions postulate about urban life and an analysis of the perception of how "ordinary" individuals veiw urban life. The construct of these two focal points is designed to investigate urban life, urban social interactions, urban patterns, urban isstitutions, and the strategies that people use to create community and the tranformation of such a community into an epi-community-a community that is secondary to another social issue or phenomenon.