T Th 1:00–2:20 p.m.
TBD
We live in a city, don’t we? Can we stop to consider how we got here, or better yet, what was here before us; or how the concrete and glass that surround us came to be assembled in this form; or how the economic values contained in the city reflect its social values? Following this line of questioning, this class will interrogate the relationships between capital and the urban environment, centering on how capitalist political economy is made manifest in modern architectural and urban form. Throughout this course, we will consider what aspects of history are formed and lost in the development of the urban environment, and how to best account for these changes. Thinking alongside scholars from critical geography, cultural studies, production studies, and architectural history, we will determine how notions such as labor, criminality, and collectivity respond to the cities we inhabit