450S  Urban Space and Spatiality  (1/2 or 1 unit)

Professor Helaine Silverman (Anthropology)     Office 295 Davenport Hall        PH: 333-1315             helaine@uiuc.edu         

Professor David Wilson (Geography)                Office 332 Davenport Hall        PH: 333-0877             dwilson2@uiuc.edu     

This course is a critical examination of the concepts of space and spatiality in cities with major emphasis on theoretical literature and actual case studies.  Among the topics covered are: City Origins; Modern and Postmodern Cities; Space and the Construction of Identities; Tourist Cities; Space and the Political Economy of Cities; Global and Transnational Cities. Ghettoized Enclaves in the Third World (especially Latin America) and the U.S. Experience;Urban Politics and Space; Gender, Race and Politics; Space and Suburbanization.  The professors and students will actively engage in discussions of the literature.  Students are required to write a term paper, an oral synthesis of which will be delivered in class at the end of the term, preparatory to turning in the final written version.