ARCH 6330:Social Ecologies and Community

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
This course will examine social, political and economic layers of urban environment that shape, interact, follow or coincide with its form and life. The topics would include ideals and utopias shaped urban environments, public realm and right to the city, equality and social justice, environmental perception and cognition, political forces of urban and suburban environments, economic models and ideals embedded in the urban form, social capital, sense of community, human experience and the flaneur. the course requires a research paper that includes analysis of urban environments identifying physical forms and configurations in relation to the course topics.