Course Description
This course introduces classic and contemporary urban sociology while inviting you to study Minneapolis and nearby regions as living laboratories. We move from the “foundations” (Simmel, Wirth; Park & Burgess) through political economy and critical geography (Harvey, Logan & Molotch, Smith, Zukin), to globalization and networks (Friedmann, Sassen, Wellman), and then to cultural infrastructures and digital platforms that now mediate urban life. Along the way, you will conduct an urban walk, a short city report, and a collaborative social-mapping project that pairs qualitative fieldwork with public-facing visualization