Geographers, and others, are interested in urbanism: the ways we live in cities as individuals, and in groups. This course provides an overview of urban theory, and in particular the concept of 'urbanism'. It considers how urbanism is studied and theorised, over time and in different disciplines. During the quantitative revolution the study of urbanism declined; it then re-emerged with the 'cultural turn' in human geography and other disciplines and now includes the benefits of, for example, a postcolonial perspective.

The course is designed for human geographers, urban sociologists, urban/town planners, architects and anyone interested in theorisations of 'the city'.