A month-long seminar in New York City
Sponsored by the University of Washington Comparative History of Ideas Program
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Exploring
Through field trips, walking tours, meetings with local scholars, planners, archivists, students, and architects, students on this program learn about the numerous ways that New York City has dealt — and continues to grapple with — change over the last century and a half.
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Reading
Students on this program engage with texts by urban scholars and other authors in order to gain a foundational knowledge base and a toolkit for interacting with the city. Authors on our reading list included: Edward Soja, Sharon Zukin, Neil Smith, Richard Florida, Jane Jacobs, Jacob Riis, Betty Smith, Loretta Lees, Ruth Glass, and Teju Cole.
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Researching
Each student on the program is pursuing his or her own individual research project on an aspect, place, or theme in New York City.
