GENTRIFICATION AND URBAN RESTRUCTURING

URBRPL 375

Exploration of special issues or problems in urban planning.

URBRPL 945

The social, economic, and political setting of urban blight and the current measures, including urban renewal and model cities programs, to cope with the condition. Attention to social change, concept of neighborhood, and cross-cultural perspectives to renewal and community development.

GEOG/URBRPL 305

Investigates urbanization as a general process, as well as the resulting contemporary physical, social, cultural and political- economic forms of cities. Emphasis will be placed on the history and current forms of spatial and social segregation of cities by race, class, ethnicity, and gender. The myriad ways that cities have addressed the tensions emerging from this history of spatial and social segregation will be highlighted. Further, emphasis will be placed on understanding the experiences of those most-affected by historical and continuing segregation.

REALEST/URBRPL 720

Analysis of spatial relationships in the urban economy, including urban land, labor and housing markets; urban transport; city governance and finance; and regional models. Historical and applied focus. Interdisciplinary approach emphasizing economics, geography, and planning.

GEOG/URBRPL 505

Various urban empirical regularities and theories which explain them.