There has never been a more important time to study cities. With the cost of urban housing soaring, climate change wreaking havoc on urban infrastructure, President-Elect Trump threatening a showdown between local and federal government in America’s immigrant sanctuaries, and entire cities being obliterated in war-wracked regions, it is vital for all literate, critical thinkers to understand how cities got to this juncture - and whether, how and in what condition they might survive such harrowing odds on a planet where most of the human population now resides within them.

This online, asynchronous, zero-cost course allows you to work at your own pace, around your own schedule, and satisfies the Flexible Core: World Cultures and Global Issues requirement of the Gen Ed program.

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