HIST3400 (The Making of the Modern City) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Combines urban history, spatial history, environmental history, and cultural history. Focuses on cities and their inhabitants from the 18th century to the present. Covers topics such as modernization debates, globalization, national capitals and nation-states, women in the city and gendered uses of urban space, contested cities, cities at war, the city and its natural environment, and some of the main challenges facing cities today. Larger themes include urban design and ideology; resistance, rebellions, and social movements in the city; exclusion and inclusion and spatial segregation; violence and the city; the production and contestation of urban heritage; and the production of space.
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