Course Code: CDEV 4500
Academic Year: 2025-2026
This course will explore how we imagine physical space in urban communities. Spatial practices and urban development are not neutral phenomena. Social, political, and economic structures shape patterns of urban development and these structures have important consequences for a range of social issues. In exploring how 'space' is planned, constructed and regulated we can begin to understand the effect of urban development on patterns of poverty, homelessness, crime, and environmental degradation. We will explore the growth of cities; trends in urban development; the nature of city planning; and the role of creativity and sustainability in tomorrow's cities. The written research project in this course will require students to apply their new knowledge to a space with which they are very familiar, and reflect on their own experience of that space.