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URBDP 200: Intro to Urbanization - Spring Quarter, I&S

Submitted by Toni Kwong on January 26, 2018 - 1:32pm
URBDP 200: Intro to Urbanization

In 2007 we reached the tipping point: more people now live in cities than in the countryside.

What is going on? Why does it matter? How do cities work? How can they be different—and better—in the future?

URBDP 200: Introduction to Urbanization
Spring 2018
MWF 10:30-11:20
Anderson Hall 223 

URBDP 200 is an introductory general education course for a wide range of undergraduates. It is
for anyone curious about cities. It explores why the world is urbanizing and what consequences that
has for people’s lives. It examines why cities take on different character—dense or sprawling,
segregated or integrated, thriving or stagnant, car or transit oriented, democratic or authoritarian.
It is a 5-credit course is open to all majors, satisfies the I&S requirement, and counts toward the
Urban Planning minor. It a great choice for students considering Geography, Sociology, Political
Science, Anthropology, Comparative History of Ideas, Program on the Environment, or Community
Environment, and Planning.

The professor, Mark Purcell, has twice been nominated for the UW's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Moreover, he has extensive experience and success teaching in large-lecture settings at UW. He
taught Geography 100 (300-600 enrollment) nine times between 2000 and 2003.

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