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Class number:
3397
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Title: Learning from Hartford |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 16 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, SH - N128 |
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Instructor(s): Myers, Garth |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
American cities continue to be laboratories for responses to urban crises. Financial austerity, limited governmental autonomy, pervasive poverty, housing affordability, blight, crime and other pressing and intractable urban problems associated with racial, ethnic and economic inequalities and socio-environmental injustice often stem from deindustrialization and post-industrial transitions across distressed cities. Drawing on policy and planning examples from Hartford, in comparison with other post-industrial cities of the Northeast and the Upper Midwest, the course will give students the opportunity to examine, debate and discuss the possibilities and limitations of different strategies that have been employed to reimagine distressed American cities. Overall, this course seeks to identify how post-industrial cities like Hartford can be understood in an era of sustainable urban development. |