GOVT 6293 - Comparative Urbanization

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with CRP 6090 .

M. Jones-Correa, N. Kudva.

Cities are political assemblages in which institutions of governance are re-shaped as cities morph over time.  Each period of city-building responds to challenges ranging from changing migration patterns and large-scale population movements to changes in geo-political power and the technologies of infrastructure, communication and manufacturing.

This graduate seminar draws on the experience of cities at two moments in history to examine processes of institutionalization and governance.  In particular we focus on industrialization and colonization in the 19th century in Europe and the United States, and the current moment of late global capitalism in the context of a resurgent Asia.