Description

Overview:

This is a seminar course that explores the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, tenements, suburbs, zoos, skyscrapers, department stores, supermarkets, and amusement parks. The course gives students experience in working with primary documentation sources through its selection of readings and class discussions. Students then have the opportunity to apply this experience by researching their own historical questions and writing a term paper.

Subject:

Architecture and Design, U.S. History

Level:

Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division

Material Type:

Full Course

Author:

Robert Fogelson

Provider:

M.I.T.

Provider Set:

M.I.T. OpenCourseWare

Date Added:

01/01/2011