Director: Brian Godfrey;

Steering Committee: Stephane Andrade (Sociology), Tobias Armborst (Art), Pinar Batur (Sociology), Lisa Brawley^a (Urban Studies), John Elrick (Geography), Brian J. Godfrey (Geography), Maria Hantzopoulos (Education), Timothy Koechlin (International Studies), Osman Nemli^b (Philosophy), Leonard Nevarez^ab (Sociology), Samson Okoth Opondo (Political Science), Jonah Rowen (Art/Urban Studies), Erica Stein (Film);

Participating Faculty: Nancy Bisaha^b (History), Susan Blickstein (Geography), Heesok Chang^b (English), Mita Choudhury^b (History), Mary Ann Cunningham (Geography), Eve D’Ambra^a (Art), Yvonne Elet^b (Art), Amitava Kumar^a (English), Candice M. Lowe Swift (Anthropology), Erin McCloskey (Education), Molly S. McGlennen (English), Lydia Murdoch (History), Molly Nesbit (Art), Barbara A. Olsen^b (Greek and Roman Studies), Hiram Perez (English), Sidney Plotkin^a (Political Science), Ismail O. D. Rashid (History), Louis Römer (Anthropology), Tyrone Simpson II (English), Yu Zhou (Geography).

^a On leave 2025/26, first semester

^b On leave 2025/26, second semester

^ab On leave 2025/26

After declaration of the major or correlate sequence, no NRO work will be permissible or applicable to the major.

Programs

• Urban Studies Major

• Urban Studies Correlate Sequence

Courses

• URBS 100 - Introduction to Urban Studies
• URBS 106 - Philosophy & Contemporary Issues
• URBS 144 - Living in the Ancient City
• URBS 177 - Special Topics

• URBS 200 - Urban Theory
• URBS 202 - Public Policy and Human Environments
• URBS 211 - Rome: The Art of Empire
• URBS 223 - Cinemas and Urbanisms
• URBS 225 - Renaissance Italy
• URBS 227 - Chinatowns
• URBS 229 - Paris and London: Society and Culture in the Early Modern City, 1500-1800
• URBS 230 - Making Cities
• URBS 232 - Pathways for Sustainability
• URBS 234 - Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Crisis, Politics, and Culture in a Modern City
• URBS 237 - Urban Sociology
• URBS 240 - Global History of Modern Architecture and Urbanism I: Race, Capital, and Empire
• URBS 245 - The Ethnographer’s Craft
• URBS 248 - Housing Crises and Activism
• URBS 250 - Urban Geography: Space, Place, Environment
• URBS 252 - Cities of the Global South: Urbanization and Social Change in the Developing World
• URBS 254 - Victorian Britain
• URBS 255 - Race, Representation, and Resistance in U.S. Schools
• URBS 256 - Bilingualism and/in K-12 Public Education
• URBS 257 - Genre and the Postcolonial City
• URBS 258 - Sustainable Landscapes: Bridging Place and Environment in Poughkeepsie
• URBS 264 - The Metropolitan Avant-Gardes
• URBS 265 - Modern Art and the Mass Media: the New Public Sphere
• URBS 268 - After 1968: Sustainable Aesthetics
• URBS 272 - Topics in Architectural History
• URBS 273 - A Mirror Image: The Search for Self, Place & Home in Contemporary Architecture in the World, 1980s+
• URBS 274 - Buildings and Cities in Early Modern Italy
• URBS 275 - Architectural Design I
• URBS 276 - Architectural Design II
• URBS 278 - American Landscapes: History, Politics, & Built Environments
• URBS 280 - Landmarks of New York City
• URBS 282 - American Landscapes: History, Politics, & Built Environments
• URBS 288 - Planning History and Thought
• URBS 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• URBS 298 - Independent Work

• URBS 301 - Senior Thesis
• URBS 303 - Senior Seminar: Advanced Debates in Urban Studies
• URBS 305 - Sculpture II: Space and Place
• URBS 314 - Seminar in Ancient Art
• URBS 316 - Constantinople/Istanbul: 1453
• URBS 326 - Machiavelli and his Contemporaries
• URBS 340 - Advanced Urban and Regional Studies
• URBS 352 - The City in Fragments
• URBS 356 - Environment and Land-Use Planning
• URBS 360 - Reckoning with Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Displacement
• URBS 364 - Seminar in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art
• URBS 367 - Urban Education Reform
• URBS 370 - Seminar in Architectural History
• URBS 372 - Design Workshop
• URBS 375 - Architectural Design III
• URBS 383 - Indigenous New York
• URBS 399 - Senior Independent Work