Course Details
Country:
Italy
Institution:
Mason-Led: Florence Semester Experience at FUA
Course Title:
Gentrification: Urban and Social Inequality
Course Number:
GSUSGE300
Course Description:
This course delves deeper into the phenomenon of gentrification, exploring its history, dynamics, causes, and effect. The complex notion of gentrification will be defined with relations to the politics of housing, social justice, and urban developments. The notion will be framed with references to different periods and geographical contexts. Gentrification will be assessed through a variety of social, political, and economic factors such as race, ethnicity, poverty, aesthetics, rurality, organized crime, commodification, Disneyfication, and museumification. In the second half of the course, emphasis will be placed on the gentrifying spaces in Italy, and Florence in particular, and students will be guided to conduct field research to further examine the impacts that gentrification has on urban and social inequalities.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HNRS 131
Attachment Files:
_syllabus_GSUSGE300 Gentrification Urban and Social Inequality.pdf
