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Urban Anthropology: Multiculture City - ANTH808
For the first time in human history, the majority of the world's population live in urban areas. Yet these cities are vastly different in terms of life opportunities, economic profiles, built environments and political institutions. How might we think about the relationships between the built environment, history, and individual identity? What makes a city liveable? This course introduces students to urban anthropology through focusing on the organization of space, including on architectural forms and urban planning in contemporary cities. It explores how space and its design are intimately connected to particular modernist projects such as nationalism, colonialism, socialism, apartheid etc. Students will also consider a variety of anthropological perspectives that seek to explain the diversity and similarity of urban cultures and their spatial forms, as well as ways that the built environment might both symbolize and generate culture, power and individual or collective identities.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | E2 - Evening; Offered in Session 2, North Ryde |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Chris Houston |
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Admission to MAppAnth or PGDipAppAnth or MDevCult or PGDipDevCult or PGCertDevCult or 4cp in ANTH units at 800 level |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Anthropology Faculty of Arts |
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