SBP 606E - Culture and Urban Space

Course Objectives

The course is designed to obtain a comprehensive understanding of space as a cultural phenomenon and to focus on the anthropological view of production and experience of space with specific reference to social relations and cultural constructions of built forms, place making and urban form.

Course Description

This course brings together social and cultural theories and research on social spaces and spatializations, everyday rhythms and cultural topologies at the interface of urban geography, sociology, cultural studies, studies of time-space, architectural theory, ethnography, media and urban studies.

The focus is on social spaces, construction and production of space, gender, everyday life, and geographies of cultural representation.