106-022 City Cultures: Urban Stories

Formerly available as 106-221/321. Students who have completed 106-221 or 106-321 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Fifty points of first-year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites.

This subject provides an introduction to a variety of ways in which city cultures have defined and articulated postmodern culture. Students will be introduced to contemporary urban narratives of places and spaces through a focus on city cultures, including those of New York and LA. Students will explore and analyse how the city has been represented in architecture, fiction and film, in order to consider how cities have become central to our theoretical understanding of contemporary cultures.

Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words.

A subject reader will be available.