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This new class offers an exciting variation on the 'individual project' studio format. Students work as a team to propose a single consensus solution to a real-world design challenge. This collaborative studio experience more closely reflects the creative process in the design and planning professions where a group of individuals works together to brainstorm, shape, develop, and illustrate a community design solution. There are a number of benefits to this team-oriented approach: it is a more nurturing environment for students that do not have design backgrounds, it allows for more peer-to-peer learning, and it takes best advantage of varied student skill sets. But perhaps the greatest benefit is that a team of students working together on a common project will be able to develop a more comprehensive solution than any one student working alone. This means that the class "deliverable" at the end of quarter could be detailed enough to be of significant value to a stakeholder or client group from the larger community. This studio class, working under the guidance of an experienced instructor, functions like a design firm in providing professional-grade deliverables to real-world community design "clients'.

This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern history- class conflict, industrialization, imperialism, war, and occupation. It will also explore why Paris became the major world destination for intellectuals, artists and writers. Sources will include films, paintings, architecture, novels, travel journals, and memoirs.

This course is an introduction to the urban history of Detroit and a mobilization of that history as a lens through which to study intersections of race, capital, and urban space in the American city. Readings will deal with a set of themes and concepts that open onto explorations of both the specificity of Detroit and larger American urban dynamics.nnThe course will provide students with a basic background in urban studies and, more specifically, with concepts, terms, and language with which to understand and explore relations between race, capitalism, property, and development in urban space; the spatialization of inequality and exclusion; the refraction of urban life and experience by race, ethnicity, and class; the ¿decline¿ and ¿renewal¿ of U.S. cities; and modes of contesting and expanding the right to the city. Most broadly, the course will offer students tools to critically interpret narratives of the American city, U.S. urban policy, and projects attempting to engage, respond to, or solve urban problems.

Creativity is one of the defining values of our time, embraced by corporate CEOs, kindergarten teachers, and starving artists alike. Yet it not always clear what creativity means. This course will explore how the capacious concept of creativity has shaped contemporary ideals of work, art, technology, human nature, and the good society. Using a mix of popular texts, contemporary scholarship, and classics of social thought, we will look at what kinds of products, places, and people count as 'creative' in public conversation, and why. Particular attention will be paid to how different overlapping notions of creativity have guided arts policy, business practices, and urban economic strategy over the last few decades of capitalist development. Using Stanford itself as a case study, students will conduct field work to discover how the concept of creativity operates across and between the various departments, disciplines, and centers on campus, from the fine arts to psychology to business. This research will culminate in the final group project: a multimedia archive and digital concept map of creativity discourse at Stanford. Students will come away from the class with concrete research skills and theoretical tools that will enable them to critically engage with any big ideas in the public sphere, as well as a better understanding of recent economic and cultural history underpinning our everyday assumptions and widely held values.

In this course, students will contribute to ongoing community-based research projects focused on housing justice in the Bay Area. Students will work directly with local community organizations working in advocacy, legal aid, and community research. Projects may include interviews, historical research, surveys, case studies, participant observation, media analysis, and writing op-eds. Students will have the opportunity to select from research projects developed by the community partners and instructors. Students that want to engage in an alternative project should consult with the instructors. Students are encouraged to enroll for multiple quarters to develop more substantial projects and deeper relationships with community partners.

This Urban Studies pop-up class will introduce students to the unique architecture and urbanism of San Francisco. A series of three guided walking tours will provide an insider's perspective on the City's most interesting neighborhoods and will also explore core themes and topics in the field of urban design. An informal 90 minute on-campus discussion and slideshow of student-generated imagery (on the Thursday evening following each tour) will allow for an expanded conversation about the urban environment. This course is intended for freshmen and sophomores considering the Urban Studies major. Instructor permission is required to enroll, please contact Danno Glanz , dehanglanz@gmail.com.

Project-based course open to undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines. Seminar topics will cover theories and practices of urban sustainability, community planning and engagement strategies, practices of cross-cultural collaboration, delivery of urban infrastructure and services, and achieving equitable sustainability outcomes in underserved communities. Students will also engage in a real-world urban sustainability projects in collaboration with multi-sector professionals. Students who enroll in the course for 5 units will participate in an off-campus field trip during Spring Break. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor

Workshop. Contemporary practice of urban design and planning, community development, urban education, public service law, and related fields. Topics depend partly on student interests. Bay Area professionals lecture and respond to questions concerning their day-to-day work, impressions of their field, and the academic background recommended for their work.

For Urban Studies majors only. Students organize an internship in an office of a government agency, a community organization, or a private firm directly relevant to the major. Reading supplements internship. Paper summarizes internship experience and related readings.