Introduction to Urban Geography: New Orleans Urbanism

Catalog description

SURB 6100 introduces students to urban geography by using greater New Orleans as our study area. We will explore the spatial dimensions of urbanism, investigating the underlying physical geography of cities, why and where they form, how they expand and develop infrastructure, how they transform their environment, and how and where residents settle to form neighborhoods of diverse characteristics. Through illustrated lectures and nine hours of field trips, students will come away with an expanded knowledge and vocabulary of urbanism, urban geography, and of New Orleans.