University and Capstone · Boston College
This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both HIST1736 and UNAS1742. What makes urban life possible? We live in an urban world, yet a majority of humans lived outside of urban areas until 2007. To understand this massive transformation in human experience, these courses will examine the social and material processes that make urban life possible, investigating core contradictions of the city a site of economic growth and inequality, political freedom and oppression, environmental justice and disaster. Against interpreting urban growth, infrastructure, an
