City & Society
Sociology-Anthropology 222

Syllabus -- Spring 2001

News Items of potential interest:

Anybody know anything regarding the new technology buzz/hype about the mysterious new invention that will supposedly change the nature of cities?

Dot.com gentrification and the backlash in San Francisco. Read more on the tension between those live in the Mission district and the "dot.commers." Click here.

See also an interesting net essay, "How the Internet ruined san Francisco"

Dot-conflicted

Antigentrification propaganda

Interested in Urban Music? Here is an online journal entitled Urban Rhythms: a journal on music and culture.
Reinventing Cities?

One of my interests is in how urban farming might change our cities. The International Development Research Centre in Canada has been a leader in looking at this issue.

Might also check out this working paper from the University of Wisconsin