Struggles to Shape the City: Comparative Urbanism and the Politics of Place.

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This course examines struggles to shape urban space and create rights to access public space as major issues in both American cities and cities in the Global South, with a particular focus on cities in Africa and cities with African diasporic populations. We analyze rights to access the spaces of the city and how they have been intricately tied to specifically located struggles, trajectories of development, and socio-spatial relations. Overall, we consider struggles to remain in the city across contexts and focus on the centrality of the local politics of place.