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AMST 1146 - FWS: The American Suburb 2.0


     
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

First-Year Writing Seminar.

P. Wissoker.

America’s suburbs aren’t what they used to be. After being built out all through the 2000s, the past decade has seen suburbs remade by foreclosures, lifestyle centers, first-ring poverty, local governments shrinking from declining tax revenues, and a generation of millennials who have forsaken them for gentrified downtowns and transit-oriented developments. Drawing on readings from the popular press and the academy, and using the lenses of political economy and American Studies, students will rediscover today’s suburbs, and how they came to be this way. In class and through written assignments, students will analyze, explain, and debate the new urban geography of U.S. cities, all the while learning the writing skills they’ll need at Cornell and in the wider world.



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