Course Catalog - 2007-2008

     

HIST 329 - STREETS AND URBAN LIFE

Long Title: STREETS IN URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This exploration of the street as a focus of urban life in 18th and 19th century. We will look at ways streets functioned as spaces of livelihood, sociability and transgression in cities such as London, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Cairo.