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11.139 The City in Film | Urban Studies and Planning

Using film as a lens to explore and interpret various aspects of the urban experience in both the U.S. and abroad, this course presents a survey of important developments in urbanism from 1900 to the present day, including changes in technology, bureaucracy, and industrialization; immigration and national identity; race, class, gender, and economic inequality; politics, conformity, and urban anomie; and planning, development, private property, displacement, sprawl, environmental degradation, and suburbanization.

Keywords:: immigration, blade runner, development, do the right thing, Urban Planning, cities, race, metropolis, play time, the crowd, technology, the naked city, planning, bureaucracy, urban, private property, night on earth, sprawl, politics, suburbanization, urbanism, gender, ladri di biciclette, urban experience, west side story, london, national identity, urban anomie, midnight cowboy, class, conformity, economic inequality, environmental degradation, Urban Studies, berlin symphony of a great city, displacement, modern times, Film and Video, industrialization, bicycle thieves

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Author:: Unknown (Know the author?)
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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Language:: English
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