With housing developments bordering dairy farms, office parks adjoining urban centers, and New Urbanism projects flanking strip malls, it is difficult to demarcate suburban, urban, and rural. In their article, "Divided We Sprawl," Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley suggest that we shed these divides and imagine ourselves as part of a metropolitan whole.

How are global cities formed? This seminar examines the conflicting architectures of global cities formed through processes linked to war (territorialization), trade (capitalism) and desire (the human psyche). We will examine current trends and forecasts for cities within a global context mired in historical conflicts as well as new uncertainties and risks.

In this course we critically interrogate a number of theoretical frameworks that allow us to understand how urban spaces are constituted by political, economic, and social processes operating at multiple and interconnected scales from global to local.

It has been said that Sigmund Freud sought privacy on the Ringstrasse; that is, not in the quiet of his consulting room but on the street, place of "incident and accident." We trace the social history of psychoanalysis against, and in parallel with, the respective histories of two psychoanalytic cities: fin-de-sicle Vienna and Delirious New York. This turn in sensibility from a leisurely all-seer to a person who suffers from "reminiscences," from a flaneur to a hysteric, has been produced, not insignificantly, by shifts in urban experience.

This course examines the multifaceted problem of urban homelessness through service learning, offering students the opportunity to conduct and think about on-site field experiences of working with homeless service and advocacy organizations in New York City within an academic framework.